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Crisis and Resilience Fund 2026/27: how £858 million is allocated across English local authorities

SupportFund analysis of the official 2026/27 Crisis and Resilience Fund grant determination, covering 316 local authority allocations in England. Allocation is a government funding decision — it is not council spending, household entitlement or a measure of council generosity.

Published 12 August 2026 · Updated 12 August 2026 · SupportFund analysis of Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government data · First edition · Last reviewed 12 August 2026

Executive summary

  • The published England total for the Crisis and Resilience Fund in 2026/27 is £858,004,578.
  • 316 local authority allocations are published in Annex A of the grant determination.
  • Published allocations range from £42,087 (Melton) to £28,665,861 (Birmingham).
  • The ten largest published allocations together account for £161,720,381, or 18.8% of the imported allocation rows.
  • Different authority tiers receive different components of the fund, so allocations are not directly comparable between tiers.

Key findings

  • The published England total is £858,004,578 for 2026/27

    The published England total does not include the allocation for the Isles of Scilly (£19,855). The Isles of Scilly receives its Crisis and Resilience Fund funding through a separate single un-ringfenced Section 31 grant, which also covers the Homelessness, Rough Sleeping and Domestic Abuse Grant and the Children, Families and Youth Grant.

  • 316 authority allocations are published in the determination

    The imported rows sum to £858,004,587. SupportFund publishes both the official England total and the sum of the rows it holds, rather than presenting one as the other.

  • Allocations vary by more than two orders of magnitude

    The median published allocation across the imported rows is £289,224. This spread mostly reflects authority tier and population, not local policy choices.

  • Funding is concentrated in a small number of large authorities

    Birmingham (£28.7m), Kent (£20.2m), Lancashire (£17.7m), Essex (£16.9m), Manchester (£14.5m), Norfolk (£14.3m), Leeds (£12.9m), Bradford (£12.7m), Liverpool (£12.1m), Lincolnshire (£11.7m).

  • Authority tier determines which components an authority receives

    Unitary authority: 62 authorities, £240.9m total; Metropolitan district: 36 authorities, £237.7m total; London borough: 33 authorities, £146.6m total; County council: 21 authorities, £206.9m total; District council: 164 authorities, £25.8m total.

Analysis

The Crisis and Resilience Fund is the 2026/27 government grant that funds local crisis and resilience activity in England. The grant determination sets out, in Annex A, the amount allocated to each local authority for the year. SupportFund has imported those published rows and analysed how the money is distributed, without altering a single allocation value.

The single most important caveat is definitional. An allocation is what central government has determined an authority will receive. It is not what the authority will spend, it is not a pot that residents can claim from directly, and a larger allocation does not mean a more generous local scheme. These are published allocations, not measures of council performance or generosity. Authority responsibilities and populations differ.

Distribution is heavily shaped by authority tier. Unitary authorities, metropolitan districts and London boroughs receive crisis and resilience activity funding, Housing Payments and relevant administration funding. County councils receive crisis and resilience funding, while district councils receive Housing Payment and administration funding only. Comparing a district council's allocation with a metropolitan district's therefore compares two different bundles of responsibility.

Within the imported rows, allocations fall into clear size bands: 147 authorities in the under £250,000 band, 21 authorities in the £250,000 to £999,999 band, 19 authorities in the £1m to £2.49m band, 62 authorities in the £2.5m to £4.99m band, 67 authorities in the £5m and over band. The long tail of small allocations is made up largely of district councils receiving the Housing Payment component.

For journalists, the most defensible local story is usually not "which council gets the most", but what an authority publishes about how residents can actually access help. SupportFund's separate council scheme directory tracks that published local information, and its frozen research snapshot analyses the first 45 verified and partially verified council records.

Charts

Largest published Crisis and Resilience Fund allocations 2026/27

England · 2026/27 · Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Published 2026/27 allocation (£)Birmingham (Metropolitan district)Birmingham (Metropolitan district): £28,665,861£28,665,861Kent (County council)Kent (County council): £20,169,772£20,169,772Lancashire (County council)Lancashire (County council): £17,693,881£17,693,881Essex (County council)Essex (County council): £16,866,968£16,866,968Manchester (Metropolitan district)Manchester (Metropolitan district): £14,534,015£14,534,015Norfolk (County council)Norfolk (County council): £14,309,555£14,309,555Leeds (Metropolitan district)Leeds (Metropolitan district): £12,937,865£12,937,865Bradford (Metropolitan district)Bradford (Metropolitan district): £12,723,567£12,723,567Liverpool (Metropolitan district)Liverpool (Metropolitan district): £12,071,972£12,071,972Lincolnshire (County council)Lincolnshire (County council): £11,746,925£11,746,925Chart: SupportFund. Source data: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. England, 2026/27.

These are published allocations, not measures of council performance or generosity. Authority responsibilities and populations differ, and different authority types receive different components of the fund in 2026/27.

Chart: SupportFund. Source data: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Crisis and Resilience Fund Grant Determination 2026 to 2027 (Annex A). Last checked 12 August 2026. View original source

Crisis and Resilience Fund allocations by English region 2026/27

England (regions) · 2026/27 · Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Sum of published 2026/27 allocations (£)London (33)London (33): £146.6m£146.6mNorth West (36)North West (36): £133.7m£133.7mSouth East (70)South East (70): £105.2m£105.2mWest Midlands (33)West Midlands (33): £101.5m£101.5mYorkshire and The Humber (15)Yorkshire and The Humber (15): £94.0m£94.0mEast of England (50)East of England (50): £83.4m£83.4mSouth West (28)South West (28): £73.7m£73.7mEast Midlands (39)East Midlands (39): £69.4m£69.4mNorth East (12)North East (12): £50.6m£50.6mChart: SupportFund. Source data: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. England (regions), 2026/27.

Regional totals are sums of published Annex A rows, not a distribution of the England total. Rows where the region could not be matched from official reference data are excluded rather than guessed.

Chart: SupportFund. Source data: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Crisis and Resilience Fund Grant Determination 2026 to 2027 (Annex A). Last checked 12 August 2026. View original source

Distribution of Crisis and Resilience Fund allocations 2026/27

England · 2026/27 · Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Number of local authoritiesUnder £250,000Under £250,000: 147 authorities147 authorities£250,000 to £999,999£250,000 to £999,999: 21 authorities21 authorities£1m to £2.49m£1m to £2.49m: 19 authorities19 authorities£2.5m to £4.99m£2.5m to £4.99m: 62 authorities62 authorities£5m and over£5m and over: 67 authorities67 authoritiesChart: SupportFund. Source data: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. England, 2026/27.

Counts of the 316 local authority rows published in Annex A. Bands are presentational only; the underlying allocations are unchanged. Largest published allocation: £28.7m.

Chart: SupportFund. Source data: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Crisis and Resilience Fund Grant Determination 2026 to 2027 (Annex A). Last checked 12 August 2026. View original source

Regional findings

  • London: £146,632,028 across 33 authorities in the imported rows.
  • North West: £133,667,309 across 36 authorities in the imported rows.
  • South East: £105,175,983 across 70 authorities in the imported rows.
  • West Midlands: £101,459,853 across 33 authorities in the imported rows.
  • Yorkshire and The Humber: £93,987,653 across 15 authorities in the imported rows.
  • East of England: £83,402,082 across 50 authorities in the imported rows.
  • South West: £73,660,150 across 28 authorities in the imported rows.
  • East Midlands: £69,389,049 across 39 authorities in the imported rows.
  • North East: £50,630,480 across 12 authorities in the imported rows.

Methodology

  • Source: Crisis and Resilience Fund Grant Determination 2026 to 2027 (Annex A), published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government on 2026-05-08. Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0.
  • All 316 allocation rows held by SupportFund are transcribed directly from Annex A. No allocation is estimated, apportioned or modelled.
  • Regional and authority-type totals are computed at page-load time from the imported rows. They are sums of published allocations, never a distribution of a national total down to areas.
  • Where an authority's ONS code, type or region could not be matched reliably from official reference data, the field is left empty and the row is excluded from that particular aggregation rather than guessed.
  • The published England total is quoted from the determination and is not recalculated by SupportFund. The sum of the imported rows is reported separately.
  • Last checked against the source: 2026-08-12.

Limitations

  • Allocation is not spending. Authorities decide how to deploy the funding locally within the terms of the determination.
  • Allocation is not household entitlement. No figure here indicates what an individual household can receive.
  • Allocation is not a measure of generosity or performance.
  • Authority tiers receive different components, so cross-tier comparison is not like-for-like.
  • The Isles of Scilly is funded through a separate combined grant and is excluded from the published England total.
  • In-year changes to the determination would not be reflected until SupportFund re-checks the source.

Sources

Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government — Crisis and Resilience Fund Grant Determination 2026 to 2027 (Annex A)

Last checked: 12 August 2026

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