About Us
What is Pride in Place?
The Pride in Place Programme is a UK government regeneration initiative committing up to £5.8 billion across nearly 284 disadvantaged communities. Selected areas receive up to £20 million over 10 years, directed by local Neighbourhood Boards to improve high streets, green spaces, and civic infrastructure.
With Pride in Place, residents, businesses, and community groups will deliver real improvements that matter to local people. This is led by local people and backed by the UK government.
Stronger Communities
Rebuilding local social fabric, trust, and cooperative networks.
Core Objectives
Thriving Places
Revitalising high streets, fixing public spaces, and supporting local facilities.
Taking Back Control
Shifting long-term decision-making power directly to local residents.Â
Pride in Place: Who decides where the funding goes? Â
The Pride in Place Programme gives power to local people and partnerships, bringing together residents, the local MP, the council, businesses and community organisations to decide how they would like to shape their area.
You can see what will be funded and how decisions are reached. You can also have your say, and we will show how that feedback is considered in our decisions.
St Ann’s East
In St Ann’s East, the programme will bring residents, community organisations, local groups and partners together to identify local priorities and turn ideas into action.Â
A Neighbourhood Board of local residents that decides on spending based on wider community input has been set up, and key hubs have now been identified.
Nadia Whittome
Member of ParliamentÂ
Nadia Whittome has served as Member of Parliament for Nottingham East since 2019. Born and raised in Nottingham, she has consistently advocated on issues including housing, healthcare, the cost of living and workers' rights.
Her strong local roots and national parliamentary role enable her to connect the priorities of St Ann's residents with decision-making in Westminster.
Rick Harrington
Chair
Rick serves as Chair of the St Ann’s East Pride in Place Board. He brings experience of leading charities, developing community services, and working alongside people facing disadvantage.
His focus is on ensuring residents help decide how investment is used, with clear decisions and improvements people can see in their neighbourhood. Rick serves in a personal capacity and does not represent his employer on the Board.
Michael Henry
Vice-ChairÂ
Michael serves as Vice-Chair of the St Ann’s East Pride in Place Board. He has lived in St Ann’s for 38 years and brings almost 40 years’ experience in Nottingham’s voluntary and community sector.
His work has focused on community engagement, equality, and cohesion, helping organisations work together and build relationships with residents. Michael serves in a personal capacity and does not represent his employer on the Board.
Natalie Perminas
Board Member
Natalie is a St Ann’s resident and member of the St Ann’s East Pride in Place Board. She brings frontline experience in welfare rights and mental health support, with a practical understanding of the pressures residents face.
She wants local people to have a say in decisions affecting the area, and young people to be listened to and offered support before difficulties reach crisis point. Natalie serves in a personal capacity and does not represent her employers on the Board.
Jerome Edwards
Board Member
Jerome is a member of the St Ann’s East Pride in Place Board. He brings experience of founding a charity and establishing a local collaboration that brings community organisations, public services and local leaders together to coordinate work in St Ann’s.
He has built relationships across the neighbourhood, helping organisations work together on shared local priorities. Jerome serves in a personal capacity and does not represent any organisation he works with on the Board.
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Nic Williams
Board Member
Nic is a member of the St Ann’s East Pride in Place Board. He brings experience of community development across St Ann’s and wider Nottingham, managing projects and working with community organisations, the NHS, and local authorities to bring investment, activities, and services into the area.
His contribution to the Board draws on practical delivery experience, local knowledge, and established relationships across the community. Nic serves in a personal capacity and does not represent his employer on the Board.
Anwar Khan
Board Member
Councillor Anwar Khan is a local ward councillor for St Ann's and a long-standing resident of the area.
He brings detailed knowledge of the neighbourhood, local government and the day-to-day issues affecting residents, alongside experience of representing the ward on Nottingham City Council and the Nottinghamshire and City of Nottingham Fire Authority
Devontay Okure
Board Member
Councillor Devontay Okure is a St Ann's ward councillor.
Alongside his council role, he has a background in equality, diversity, and community development, with experience in both the public and private sectors.
He brings knowledge of local government, community engagement and the challenges facing St Ann's residents, helping ensure local voices are reflected in decision-making.
Michelle Robinson
Board Member
Michelle Robinson is a lifelong St Ann's East resident who is motivated to act as a voice for the community. She brings strong links to local hubs, schools, businesses, and voluntary groups, alongside first-hand knowledge of the neighbourhood and the experiences of local people. Her focus is on inclusion, transparency, meaningful community engagement, and rebuilding pride in St Ann's East, helping ensure residents' voices remain central to the Board's decisions.
10 YEAR PROGRAMME • 1 OF 284 NEIGHBOURHOODS • RESIDENT-LED BOARD • £5.8BN INVESTED ACROSS THE UK • UP TO £20M FOR ST ANN’S EAST •
The programme
Pride in Place
Pride in Place is the government’s £5.8 billion, ten-year programme investing in 284 neighbourhoods across the UK. St Ann’s East is one of them, with up to £20 million to spend on what matters most to the people who live here.
Who decides
A Resident-Led Board
Decisions are made locally by the St Ann’s East Pride in Place Board. More than half of its members live or work in the neighbourhood, and it sits alongside our MP and ward councillors under an independent Chair.
The plan
A Ten-Year Vision
The Board is co-creating a Pride in Place Plan with the community: a ten-year vision for the area, built through deep, broad and sustained engagement with residents, with a focus on those least likely to be heard.
Beyond the Postcard View
Three Aims of the Programme
Stronger Communities
Bringing people together and rebuilding the places and activities that make a neighbourhood feel like home – community spaces, local groups, events and support that reach the people least likely to be heard.
Thriving Places
Investing in the fabric of St Ann’s East – high streets, parks, green spaces and local facilities – so the area is safer, better looked after and somewhere people are proud to live.
Taking Back Control
Putting decisions about the neighbourhood in local hands. A resident-led Board decides how the funding is spent, communities gain new powers to take on local spaces, and the programme moves to a fully community-led model within its first three years.