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Small and Events Grants recommendations
Meeting: 16/03/2020 - Charity Committee (Item 60)
60 Small and Events Grants recommendations PDF 129 KB
Additional documents:
- Appendix 1 GAP Small and Events Grant Round 2 2020 - 2021 Recommendations, item 60 PDF 116 KB
- Appendix A GAP Small and Events Grant Round 2 2020 - 2021 Recommendations, item 60 PDF 97 KB
- Appendix 2 SE Grants evaluation data, item 60 PDF 108 KB
Minutes:
Ian Sycamore, External Funding Manager, presented the report setting out the recommendations of the Grants Advisory Panel (GAP) in respect of applications for the Small and Events Grants Pilot Round 2 2020-21.
The Foreshore Trust Small and Events Grants Pilot is a small and events grants scheme for voluntary and community groups offering a service or running an event within Hastings & St. Leonards.
The report details from Paragraph 11 recommendations which have been put forward following an evaluation of the pilot.
A total of 79 enquiries were received and by the closing date, 42 applications were received. One application was ineligible meaning that 41 applications with a total amount requested of £180,144.99 were assessed. The GAP met on 21st and 29th January 2020 to review and score the applications. As in previous years the GAP members were paired up for the initial assessments and these was then jointly reviewed at the meeting.
Of the 41 applications considered, GAP recommends to the Charity Committee that 14 of these be approved for funding at various levels, with some subject to conditions. All the projects are to be delivered within a year of approval of the grant.
The Grants Advisory Panel’s recommendations are outlined in Appendix A.
Ian Sycamore noted that there are 5 events planned up to June which may possibly not go ahead as scheduled due to the coronavirus crisis. One of the grants is to support the Mayday biker event. Kevin Boorman, Marketing and Major Projects Manager, confirmed that if the Mayday run is cancelled there may still be bikers attending and there will need to be infrastructure in place to deal with that.
The Chair noted that Karen Hopkins, Senior Compliance Monitoring Officer, was leaving the council at the end of the month and thanked for her hard work dealing with the grant programme over the years.
Councillor Rogers proposed approval of the recommendation, seconded by Councillor Batsford.
RESOLVED (unanimously):
That the meeting:
1. Consider for approval the Small and Events Grants Pilot Round 2 2020-21 recommendations of the GAP as set out in Appendix 1
2. Recommend the continuation of the combined Small and Events Grants programme following the evaluation of the pilot
3. Recommend the changes proposed at item 11, following the questionnaire feedback on the pilot programme, including any necessary provision within the Foreshore Trust business planReasons:
The Grant Advisory Panel has appraised the merits of the applications received for Small and Event Grant support and has made a number of recommendations for grant awards that can be funded from the available 2020-21 budget. The pilot was to run for two rounds (one year) and with the second call now closed it has been evaluated.
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