{"id":65788,"date":"2025-05-15T12:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T12:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/?p=65788"},"modified":"2025-05-15T12:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T12:15:13","slug":"sheffield-business-campaigning-for-funding-in-outer-city-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/15\/sheffield-business-campaigning-for-funding-in-outer-city-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield business campaigning for funding in outer city areas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Simon Crace has run local business MB Advertising and Marketing for 25 years, yet he claims they have never received any funding from the council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This comes after the Sheffield City Council announced the Heart of the City plan, prioritising funding for businesses in the city centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Simon is amongst many senior businessmen campaigning for more funding for small and medium-sized enterprises in Sheffield. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He believes the council are chasing an impossible dream of returning the city centre to what it once was, and that time would be better spent prioritising other areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The council currently has no plans to prioritise funding for businesses outside of the city centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Real Sheffield Businesses\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/06W2zfQUoLE?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local businesses in outer city regions are campaigning for an increase in funding from the council<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":676,"featured_media":65793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[415,85,103],"tags":[264,38,141],"class_list":["post-65788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-top-story-2","category-watch","tag-business","tag-sheffield","tag-sheffield-city-council"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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