Tracking Local Growth Funding in the UK

In a new collaborative project started in summer 2019 with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, ODI Leeds will be working to create a visual 'dashboard' that can summarise local growth funding across the UK and aid analysis of the future needs of projects. By looking at current and historical spending periods, we can calculate how much local growth funding would need to be a part of future spending reviews. We will also explore where the UK sits internationally in terms of local/regional funding, comparing it with other OECD countries.

• Project GitHub

  Source page for the project, open for contributions and suggestions.

• Open Session 1 *ended*

  15 August 2019
  The first open session where people could contribute to data sources, ideas, etc.

• Blog - project launch

  Kick-off blog post about the project, summary of data sources and research so far.

• Blog - the end of phase 1

  Lessons learned from the first phase of the project, leading up to a release of a data-driven tool.

• Blog - New tools launched to explore UK spending

  Three new tools available for people to use and explore the complicated world of public funding in the UK.

• Open collab doc

  A Google Doc open to everyone for contributions, questions, etc

• UK past spending tool

  A tool to explore UK public spending since 2000 by broad function (transport, education, etc...).

• UK detailed past spending tool (beta)

  A tool to explore UK public spending since 2000 by subfunction (rail, road, primary school, secondary school, etc...).

• EU past spending tool

  A tool to explore EU-funded spending since 2000 by program.