Decision details

The Cabinet will be asked to consider the final report and recommendations of the Grants to External Organisations Review Group following its investigations into how West Suffolk Council should award discretionary grants and rate reliefs in the future, in the form of draft schemes or amendments to existing schemes.

RESOLVED:

That:-

1.    A framework setting out West Suffolk’s approach to grant funding and rate reliefs, attached as Appendix A to Report No: CAB/WS/19/042, be approved;

2.    The changes to future criteria and applications to grant funding and rate reliefs, as set out at paragraphs 2.4 to 2.6 of Report No: CAB/WS/19/042 and at Appendices B and C, be approved; and

3.    The changes made to the allocation of funding to each grant, as set out at paragraphs 2.7 to 2.8 of Report No: CAB/WS/19/042 be approved.