Decision details

The Cabinet will be asked to consider recommendations of the Grant Working Party in respect of applications for Community Chest funding for the 2017/2018 year.

RESOLVED

That:

 

(1)     the allocation of Community Chest funding for 2017/2018, as previously approved in 2016/2017 as part of two-year funding agreements, be noted, namely:

 

(a)     Gatehouse Caring in East Anglia

                   (home furnishings): £5,000

 

(borough wide): £9,800

 

(c)     REACH Community Projects: £5,000

 

(d)     Relate Norfolk and Suffolk: £5,000

 

(e)     The Voluntary Network (Befriending Scheme): £10,800

 

(f)      The Voluntary Network (Community Cars): £4,434

 

(g)     Suffolk Rape Crisis: £4,800

 

 

(2)     the allocation of Community Chest funding for 2017/2018, as detailed in Report No: GWP/SE/16/003, be approved, namely:

 

(a)     Gatehouse Caring in East Anglia (towards Dementia Hub): £10,000

 

(b)     Millennium Farm Trust: £10,000

 

(c)     Upbeat Heart Support: £7,875

 

(d)     Suffolk Cruse Bereavement Care: £9,458

 

(e)     Survivors in Transition (SiT): £11,560

 

(f)      Bury St Edmunds Women’s Aid Centre Ltd: £5,400

 

(g)     HomeStart (Mildenhall Road Estate): £10,767

 

(h)     HomeStart (Acorn House): £7,454

 

(i)      HomeStart (Coupals Court): £7,454

 

(j)      Our Special Friends: £6,000

 

(k)     Suffolk West Citizens Advice Bureau (Operations): £182,000

 

 (3)    subject to the budget setting process for 2018/2019, and subject to the satisfactory submission of evidence-based reports detailing the benefits and success of each individual project in 2017/2018, the allocation of Community Chest funding for 2017/2018 and 2018/2019, be approved, namely:

 

(a)     Suffolk Accident Rescue Service (SARS):

2017/18               2018/19

£2,000                  £2,000

 

          (b)     Theatre Royal (Bury St Edmunds):

2017/18               2018/19

£5,000                  £5,000

 

(4)     No Community Chest funding for 2017/2018 be awarded to:

 

(a)     ActivLives;               

(b)     Cancer Campaign in Suffolk;              

(c)     Rural Coffee Caravan;                  

(d)     Suffolk Academy;

(e)     FamilyCarersNet;

(f)      Suffolk West Citizens Advice Bureau (Health);

(g)     AMP and DECK;

(h)     Unit Twenty Three (Bury Youth Forum);

(i)      YOPEY Befriender;      

(j)      Spinning Wheel;

(k)     COMPASSION;

(l)      Fresh Start New Beginnings;

(m)    Junction 10;

(n)     Community Action Suffolk (Volunteering);

(o)     Community Action Suffolk (Locality);

(p)     Suffolk Coalition of Disabled People (SCODP);

(q)     Suffolk West Citizens Advice Bureau (MoneySmart);

(r)      The Matthew Project;

(s)     Multicultural Women’s Group Bury St Edmunds;

(t)      Creative Arts East (Rural Touring Scheme);

(u)     Creative Arts East (Our Day Out); and

(v)     Haverhill Community Trust.

 

(5)     No allocation of Community Chest funding for 2019/2020 be approved at this present time.

 

(6)     As further details and information is required from the following four organisations, the granting of appropriate levels (if any) of Community Chest funding for 2017/2018 be deferred and recommended to Cabinet on 7 February 2017 for approval:

 

          (a)     Suffolk Mind;                                               

(b)     Catch 22, Suffolk Positive Futures;     

          (c)     HomeStart (Honington); and                       

(d)     Unit Twenty Three (‘Freefall’ production).