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Agenda item
Proposed Large Grant Programme
- Meeting of Charity Committee, Monday, 16th March, 2020 6.00 pm (Item 61.)
- View the background to item 61.
Minutes:
Ian Sycamore, External Funding Manager, presented the report to propose the themes, criteria, governance and process of assessment for the Foreshore Trust Large Grants Programme for discussion and agreement.
The report also asks the Committee to allocate as part of the Foreshore Trust Charity’s budget an amount of approximately £16,000 - £19,000 per year to resource the administration of this programme (along with the current small and events grant programme), to be provided by a new 0.5 FTE post.
If approved the programme will launch in June with the expectation of having projects to start in April 2021 to run for three years but contracted on an annual basis.
The Assistant Director, Financial Services and Revenues confirmed that the budget would have to amended to reflect the cost of the 0.5 FTE post.
It was confirmed that the Grants Advisory Panel were advised on the new programme and this was discussed at the GAP AGM.
The Chief Legal Officer informed the Committee that the Foreshore Trust charitable scheme had been amended by the Charity Commission to increase the membership of the Grants Advisory Panel by 2 to take account of the additional work load.
Councillor Batsford proposed approval of the recommendation, seconded by Councillor Rogers.
RESOLVED (unanimously):
1. Charity Committee to agree the themes, criteria, governance and process for implementation of a proposed Foreshore Trust Large Grants Programme.
2. To allocate grant amounts available for the 2021–2024 periods as part of the Foreshore Trust Charity’s budget setting process; with the proposed total grant funding available for the five core themes being approximately £161,000 per year with an additional £20,000 per year in both years 2 and 3 to address the ‘Golden Thread’ mental health and wellbeing theme.
3. To allocate as part of the Foreshore Trust Charity’s budget setting process an amount of approximately £19,000 per year to resource the administration of this programme (along with the current small and events grant programme), to be provided by HBC.
Reasons:
The Foreshore Trust Charity Committee agreed in March 2019 to develop a large grants programme alongside its combined small and events programme. It also agreed that the large grants programme would support third sector organisations to deliver Hastings wide community support services within a number of activity themes. This report discusses this proposal in detail for subsequent approval for implementation to meet the proposed launch date of summer 2020. The Foreshore Trust budget also needs to allocate the proposed funding for the programme including the administration costs.
Supporting documents:
- Foreshore Trust Proposed Large Grant Programme, item 61. PDF 159 KB
- Appendix 1A - homelessness, item 61. PDF 81 KB
- Appendix 1B - domestic violence, item 61. PDF 88 KB
- Appendix 1C - advice service, item 61. PDF 86 KB
- Appendix 1D - migration intervention, item 61. PDF 97 KB
- Appendix 1E - community infrastructure support, item 61. PDF 89 KB
- Appendix 2: Proposed programme guidance, item 61. PDF 136 KB
- Appendix 3: Conflict of interest assessment, item 61. PDF 69 KB
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