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The Humber:

European Structural Funds Programmes 2000-2006 are providing grants totalling about £550m to help create wealth and jobs in many parts of The Humber, North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire.  The Humber sub region is smaller in area than North Yorkshire yet more populous.  Its key physical and economic feature is the Humber estuary, which has determined the significance of the City of Hull and its port, plus the ports and towns of Grimsby, Immingham and Goole. 

The town of Scunthorpe, a major steel centre once based on local ironstone reserves, draws its raw materials via the estuary’s ports and wharfs.  Delivery of the Programme is taking place against a backdrop of rapid technological, social and economic change.  However, whilst unemployment is falling, business survival rates improving and GDP is rising at a faster rate than the UK average, not all communities in the Structural Funds Areas are benefiting.  Parts of The Humber have areas that place them within the most deprived districts in England.  

The Programme areas cover urban, market and industrial centres in the Humber Trade Zone (Hull, Grimsby, East Riding of Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire); the benefit of which will be to make them better places to work, live and visit.