Issue - meetings

Report No: CAB/FH/15/053

Portfolio Holder: Robin Millar          Lead Officer: Davina Howes

RESOLVED:

That the allocation of funding from the Community Chest be as approved follows:

1.           Unit Twenty Three: £5,000

2.           Suffolk West Citizens Advice Bureau: £23,286 (in two phases)

3.           Sharing Parenting: £23,214 (in two phases)

4.           Suffolk Digital Cinema Network: £5,500

(Report No CAB/FH/15/053)

Councillor Robin Millar, Portfolio Holder for Families and Communities, presented this report which updated the Cabinet following the review of applications for Community Chest funding in the transitional year (2015-2016) and recommended the approval of funding allocations.

The Community Chest Fund had only been established this year, therefore, funding for existing Service Level Agreements (SLA) had been moved into the Community Chest.  All previous agreements had been honoured, all of which finished at the end of March 2016.  As such, the remaining Community Chest funds available for allocation in 2015/2016 is £57,000.

Five applications, totalling £58,874.50 had been received and each application had been assessed by the Portfolio Holder against the agreed Community Chest criteria and the detail of these applications were set out in paragraph 1.7 of the report.

The Portfolio Holder also explained that the Community Chest budget for 2016/2017 was £185,240.  The closing date for applications had been 30 September 2015 and he would be making recommendations relating to this funding at the Cabinet meeting on 22 December 2015.  This would ensure that organisations would be aware of funding arrangements well in advance of the next financial year.

Whilst considering this report, the Cabinet also noted that it was being proposed that no Community Chest funding for 2015/2016 be awarded to Catch 22, Suffolk Positive Futures, but that Officers would work with them to seek alternative, external funding sources.

With the vote being unanimous, it was

RESOLVED:

That the allocation of funding from the Community Chest be approved, as follows:

(a)     Unit Twenty Three: £5,000.

(b)         Suffolk West Citizens Advice Bureau: £23,286 (in two phases).

(c)         Sharing Parenting: £23,214 (in two phases).

(d)        Suffolk Digital Cinema Network: £5,500.