Issue - meetings

Report number:     CAB/WS/24/025

Portfolio holder: Cllr Donna Higgins

Lead officer: Jill Korwin

Resolved:

That:-

1.           The proposals, as outlined in Section 3 of Report number CAB/WS/24/025, be agreed.

2.           The role of the Grant Working Party be retained for consideration of the Thriving Communities Fund, making recommendations to Cabinet, be agreed.

(Report number CAB/WS/24/025)

The Cabinet considered this report which set out proposals to launch the ‘Thriving Communities Funding’ in July 2024, as a successor to the Community Chest fund.

The proposed changes to the scheme were outlined within Section 3 of Report number CAB/WS/24/025,this being that:

·         The funding of Citizens Advice West Suffolk be through a three-year grant agreement (to be agreed) to the total of £200,000 funding per year.

·         The remaining £266,733 to be allocated through a ‘Thriving Communities’ grant scheme, with two levels of funding available for smaller and larger projects.

·         To continue to administer £179,220 to West Suffolk communities via Locality budgets.

The report also referred to the role of the Council’s Grant Working Party in the consideration of applications and making recommendations to the Cabinet.  It provided a useful checking process and ensured wider engagement in the allocation of funding.  The Working Party also assisted with the monitoring of outcomes that could include support for monitoring the Citizens Advice Grant Agreement.  Therefore, it was also being proposed for the process through the Grant Working Party to be retained for the new Thriving Communities Fund.

Resolved:

That:-

1.           The proposals, as outlined in Section 3 of Report number CAB/WS/24/025, be agreed.

2.           The role of the Grant Working Party be retained for consideration of the Thriving Communities Fund, making recommendations to Cabinet, be agreed.