Blackpool Pride of Place Partnership

Blackpool Pride of Place Partnership calls on Government to further its support to regenerate the Town. The Partnership is part of Business in the Community (BITC), The Prince’s Responsible Business Network. It has released a fourth edition of its Blackpool Town Prospectus to help respond to the current and future needs of Blackpool, by building on its strategic partnership with the UK Government formed in 2022. The Blackpool Pride of Place Partnership, founded in 2017 by BITC, is a partnership of the private, public, and voluntary sectors working together to create long-term transformational change in Blackpool.

BITC has been working in Blackpool since 2017 and has set out a blueprint to address some of Blackpool’s social challenges and develop its opportunities, the aim being to deliver long-term transformational change. In Blackpool, the 2030 objectives focus on creating and safeguarding at least 10,000 jobs and growing the economy by £1BN. This work also includes tackling the concentration of deprivation in the inner areas (the worst in England) raising it out of the bottom decile and creating 3,000 new quality homes.

The Blackpool Pride of Place Partnership is a unique collaboration between the private, public and voluntary sectors, including Blackpool Council, set up to drive change for the people living and working in the town. This Prospectus continues the ambition set out in the 2018 Prospectus, which included work to get a Town Deal from the government. As a result of this work, in 2021, Blackpool was awarded the largest single Town Deal of £40 million, and in 2022, Blackpool agreed a strategic Levelling Up Partnership with the government which has resulted in over £140M of Levelling Up Funding and a £90M commitment to help tackle housing in the town.