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Decision details
Community Partnership Funding Main Grants Programme
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Recommendations Approved (subject to call-in)
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: No
Purpose:
Approval of Community Partnership Funding Main Grants Programme 2015/17.
Decisions:
The Head of Regeneration and Planning Policy presented a report to update Members on the process in respect of the Community Partnership Funding (CPF) grants for 2015-16 and 2016-17. The application process was nearing completion and the report included recommendations on the services and organisations that should receive grant support.
The council’s corporate priorities provided the framework for CPF, grouped around the key thematic areas of job creation and employment, advice services, safer communities, active involvement of residents and digital inclusion. The CPF programme had also worked with the Department for Works and Pensions to jointly commission projects, where there was an overlap in priorities.
A two-stage application process had been adopted, and a Grants Appraisal Panel established to consider the funding requests received. Eighteen applicants had been invited to submit more detailed proposals for the final stage of the process, twelve of which had been recommended for funding by the Grant Appraisal Panel. Any grant offers approved would remain conditional until the council had completed its budget setting process for 2015-16 and 2016-17.
It was also proposed that the Town Centre Management team be supported in 2015-16 and 2016-17 with funds from the CPF budget.
Councillor Forward moved approval of the recommendations to the report, which was seconded by Councillor Cartwright.
RESOLVED (unanimously) that the Grants Appraisal Panel’s recommendations (excluding those organisations and projects which Members had previously declared a prejudicial interest in) as set out in the Head of Regeneration and Planning Policy’s report be approved subject to the decisions of the Budget Cabinet meeting in February 2015.
Councillors Birch, Forward and Hodges, having declared a prejudicial interest in three of the applicant organisations, left the chamber while those grants were considered. Councillor Chowney took the chair for the remainder of this item.
RESOLVED (by 4 for, 0 against) that the recommendations of the Grants Appraisal panel in respect of Education Futures Trust, Let’s Do Business (South East) Group Ltd and Town Centre Management Team be approved subject to the decisions of the Budget Cabinet meeting in February 2015, and;
2) Delegation is given to the Director of Regeneration in consultation with the Lead Member for Community Services to agree final contractual outputs, outcomes and grants.
The reason for this decision was:
The proposed allocations are based on the indicative CPF budget for the next two years, and follow the completion of a two-stage application process to determine which applications for grant most closely meet the council’s CPF priorities and offer the best value for money.
Report author: Monica Adams-Acton
Publication date: 03/12/2014
Date of decision: 01/12/2014
Decided at meeting: 01/12/2014 - Cabinet
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