Case studies: Real-life examples of government activity

The Goods Yard in Stoke-on-Trent, a former industrial site, has fallen into disrepair in recent years. The nineteenth century warehouse will be transformed using a £16 million award from the Levelling Up Fund.

The Countryman’s Community Group in Hunton Village has now purchased their local pub with an allocation of £230,000 from the Community Ownership Fund.

£185,000 Community Ownership Funding will support a range of improvements to Clayton Community Centre in Accrington, Lancashire.

Derbyshire has been provisionally allocated nearly £50 million for significant transport improvements in round 1 of the Levelling Up Fund.

The Levelling Up Fund has awarded £3.5 million to support a new transport hub in Porth, Rhondda Cynon Taf. The new hub will be an integrated bus and rail interchange, located in the railway station.

£20 million of funding from the Levelling Up Fund will help build the Newark Southern Link Road.

£6.5 million from round one of the Levelling Up Fund will boost Colne town centre and the local community. The package of projects will help Colne recover from the pandemic.

Aberystwyth was allocated almost £11 million from the Levelling Up Fund for several projects across the town and seafront.

£20 million from the Levelling Up Fund will upgrade several of Rotherham’s attractions.

Carmarthenshire County Council was allocated almost £17 million from the Levelling Up Fund. The investment will support new sections of the Tywi Valley Path for walking and cycling, adding to the existing path.

Ashton was allocated almost £20 million from the Levelling Up Fund. Plans for the allocation include the restoration of Ashton Town Hall.

Post pandemic, Bromsgrove Town Centre needed a boost. With a £14 million award from the Levelling Up Fund, the town can recover.

Lewes District Council secured over £12.5 million from the Levelling Up Fund to regenerate Newhaven.

Horizon Scanning in the MHRA Innovation Accelerator includes a focus on the identification of Actionable Horizon Scanning Signals, but what are these, and how and why do we identify them?

£20 million from the Levelling Up Fund will help to transform the Locomotion tourist attraction in Shildon, reopen Whorlton Bridge and improve the A68 at Toft Hill.

A project to redevelop the Grade A listed Pollok Country Park Stables and Sawmill in Glasgow received an allocation of £13 million from the Levelling Up Fund.

£20 million from the Levelling Up Fund will help create a new City Learning Quarter in Wolverhampton. It will bring together people of all ages and backgrounds into a space to learn in the heart of the city centre.

Stoke-on-Trent was awarded £20 million from the Levelling Up Fund to repurpose several key heritage buildings.

An award of over £18.6 million from the Levelling Up Fund will help to transform Doncaster city centre’s retail, leisure and cultural offer.

Kidderminster was allocated £17.9 million from the Levelling Up Fund.

Located on the edge of Northern Ireland with a population of 3,000 people, Castlederg is a rural town in County Tyrone. In recent years the town has fallen behind its more urban neighbours.

Over £7 million from the Levelling Up Fund will improve the A312 and Kensington Road corridors in West London.

Over £12 million was allocated to Calderdale from the Levelling Up Fund to develop a new leisure centre in Halifax.

£18 million from the Levelling Up Fund is being invested in Nottingham. The funding will support three projects focused on streets and neighbourhoods across the city.

Residents of Carmarthen and Pembroke will benefit from an investment of over £19 million from the Levelling Up Fund. The investment will create two new community hubs in the town centres.

The first orbital satellite launch from the UK was attempted in January 2023.

SimCentric’s virtual reality training technology, SAF-TAC, is helping armed forces personnel improve key skills in a realistic and immersive environment

Learn how ACE helped radiologists within the NHS find a solution to diagnose and improve patient outcomes using artificial intelligence.

DfE’s benchmarking tools help governors, trustees, headteachers, business professionals and local authorities understand their data and how to use the results.

Horizon scanning at the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), and collaboration with other medical device regulators, leads to the development of guiding principles that can help inform the development …

The UK Space Agency is part of the SWOT mission, which is a global satellite survey of the Earth's surface water.

Horizon scanning at the MHRA leads to external funding being secured, helping our scientists work in a new area of standardisation that will support developers and manufacturers of AAV gene therapies

The mission to map the Universe.

A user experience evaluation conducted by the Home Test Service in collaboration with the Royal National Institute of Blind People, the Macular Society, the Thomas Pocklington Trust, Visionary and the Torch Trust.

A user experience evaluation conducted by the PCR Home Test Service in collaboration with the Royal National Institute of Blind People, the Macular Society, Visionary and the Thomas Pocklington Trust.

Describes the obstacles experienced by Hackney Council and its public health team in supporting testing, and the local responses implemented to overcome challenges.

Amy provides an insight into her training contract within the Government Legal Department

Using dashboards to monitor experience, provide data insights and validate assumptions.

Using data science pipelines to efficiently value pension scheme liabilities.

One of Dstl’s leading urban warfare experts travelled to the United States to participate in and help run a specialist training course.

Emily's role as a scientist at Dstl has included opportunities to work on real world projects that make a huge difference to UK and wider defence.

The UK is playing an important role in NASA's Artemis programme to return humans to the Moon and beyond.

The first phase of the SONIC Labs Programme (SONIC 1) created an independent telecoms laboratory delivered by Digital Catapult working with Ofcom

This project by the Growth Gateway explores green business opportunities between the UK and Africa, and how they could advance development impact.

Horizon scanning at the MHRA leads to a proposed new framework to enable the supply and increase in the availability of innovative new medicinal products made at the point of care to patients.

Europe's two-part mission to Mars

InSight is investigating the interior structure and composition of Mars, uncovering how a rocky body forms and evolves to become a planet.

Lessons learned from the CMA’s latest resale price maintenance investigation in which Dar Lighting broke competition law by dictating minimum resale prices and preventing customer discounts online.

James provides an insight into his commercial law training contract within the Government Legal Department

Ella provides an insight into her training contract within the National Crime Agency