Neighbourhood Management Pathfinder Programme

The Neighbourhood Management Pathfinder Programme was a co-operative programme in England between residents and stakeholders such as the local authority, businesses etc., aimed at improving specific deprived neighbourhoods.

The programme was sponsored, and part funded, by the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit of the Department for Communities and Local Government who are responsible for overseeing the UK Government's neighbourhood renewal strategy in England.

The programme was started in July 2001 when twenty schemes were announced. Fifteen further programmes started in December 2002. All schemes received revenue grants over a seven-year period to pump prime the renewal initiatives. After seven years, the schemes continued to operate within existing funding provisions. It was cancelled abruptly in 2011, leaving considerable dereliction in many Midland and Northern cities.

• Housing Market Renewal Initiative
• Neighbourhood Renewal Fund

• Neighbourhood Management Pathfinder Programme: Guidance on Building Partnerships, Developing a Strategy and Producing a Delivery Plan 2001, Neighbourhood Renewal Unit.
• Research Report 31 - Joining up for Safer Neighbourhoods: A Theme Report from the Neighbourhood Management Pathfinder Programme National Evaluation, August 2006, Department for Communities and Local Government.
• Neighbourhood Management Pathfinders: Final Evaluation Report, October 2008, Department for Communities and Local Government.