Overview
A range of activity is being taken forward through IiC at a regional and sub-regional level. Some of this activity is new (as described below), the remainder relates to existing activity which is being used to inform and guide the development of the main programme.
Regional IiC Programmes
Market Towns Asset Development Programme IiC has launched a pioneering new programme to help Market Towns Partnerships move away from a reliance on short-term funding and grant support.

Social Enterprise IiC is supporting Social Enterprise East of England (SEEE) to take forward one of the key recommendations identified within the Regional Social Enterprise Strategy - for a regional vehicle to provide the impetus and added value in taking the strategy from an agreed framework of actions to its delivery stage.
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Sub-regional IiC Activity
The vast majority of investment for tackling inequality and deprivation through IiC will be made at a local level. Nine sub-regional partnerships are taking this action forward, pulling together the evidence and priorites for action at a local level.
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Building on Existing Regeneration Programmes
These are former regeneration programmes and EEDA initiatives now merged into IiC
EEDA's Rural Renaissance Programme Rural investment activity is in the process of being integrated into EEDA's four core products, which includes IiC.

Countryside Agency Projects Since 1st April 2005, EEDA became responsible for managing three funding programmes which were formerly the responsibility of the Countryside Agency; the Vital Villages Programme, Market Town Health Checks and Rural Transport Partnership Programme.

Breckland Community Economic Regeneration Programme This programme of funding will deliver three key projects for the Breckland area.

Single Regeneration Budget (SRB) SRB was launched 1994/5 as a national programme which brought together over 20 existing regeneration programmes. It targets resources at the most deprived communties in the East of England, and aims to reduce the differential which exists between these communities and those in other areas. The programme has created over 7,000 new jobs in the region and 3,800 new businesses.
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