The Pride in Place Explorer for Wales is a stripped-down version of OCSI’s data platform, Local Insight. Here you can explore community need and deprivation data for neighbourhoods that will receive Pride in Place funding.
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The Pride in Place Explorer includes the Wales Community Assets Index and the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2019. These were the core measures used to identify the priority neighbourhoods for Phase 2 (announced September 2025).
Please note: An update to the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation was published on 11 December 2025. However, we are displaying the 2019 data on the Explorer, as this was the iteration used for the Pride in Place funding. We have another Welsh Local Insight Explorer that has 2025 data for you to view.
We are the co-creators of the Wales Community Assets Index alongside the Building Communities Trust, but we have not had any input into how the data was used as part of the Pride in Place strategy. Therefore, we cannot offer any insight or advice into how Pride in Place neighbourhoods were identified.
You can, however, read the technical methodology paper to better understand how this dataset was constructed.
The 5 Welsh neighbourhoods identified in Phase 1 are available to explore on the Pride in Place Explorer.
Phase 1 was first launched as a £1.5 billion programme to invest up to £20 million in 75 different areas over the next decade – a long-term strategy to fix the foundations of those places most left behind.
The place selection methodology was developed and carried out under the previous Conservative government, and named the Long-Term Plan for Towns (LTPT). The government then changed the approach but took the decision to commit to deliver the funding to the 75 locations and renamed the programme as the Plan for Neighbourhoods to reflect the new approach.
Lower-tier local authorities were ranked according to their Levelling Up Need. The most deprived built up area (BUA) within each of these local authorities was then selected using the rankings of the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation.
The 75 Phase 1 places were selected in two parts. An initial 55 places in ‘Part A’ in October 2023, followed by a further 20 places in ‘Part B’ in March 2024.
For more information, refer to the Phase 1 place selection methodology note.
The 9 Welsh neighbourhoods for Phase 2 have not yet been publicly announced. The 9 Welsh local authorities that these neighbourhoods will be located in are available on the Pride in Place Explorer.
Phase 2 funds an additional 169 neighbourhoods across Great Britain with their own £20 million over 10 years.
Phase 2 neighbourhoods are identified using a composite measure of deprivation (the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2019 (WIMD)) and community need (Wales Community Assets Index (WCAI)).
For more information, refer to the Phase 2 methodology note.
All 22 local authorities in Wales will receive funding. All local authorities are available on the Pride In Place Explorer.
The Pride in Place Impact Fund (PiPIF) is a capital programme to be delivered over two years (2025/26 and 2026/27) across 95 local places in GB (£1.5 million each). These 95 places were identified using a combination of ‘need’ metrics such as deprivation, community infrastructure and Community Life Survey evidence relating to ‘pride’ or satisfaction in a place.
For more information, refer to the Pride in Place Impact Fund methodology note.
The Welsh neighbourhoods have not been publicly announced, but the 2 Welsh local authorities these will be situated in are available on the Pride in Place Explorer.
In June 2025, the government announced 25 trailblazer neighbourhoods that will each receive up to £20 million over the next decade.
For more information, refer to the Policy Paper on “trailblazer neighbourhoods”.
Our Local Insight platform brings together 1,500+ local place-based datasets to give comprehensive insight into any neighbourhoods you work with, through interactive maps, reports and dashboards.
You can also bring in your own datasets to get a more rounded picture of service provision and needs. If this sounds like something that could be useful for your work, book a demo with our team.
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