Issue - meetings

Community Chest Grant Funding (1)

Meeting: 20/10/2015 - St Edmundsbury Cabinet (Item 129)

129 Recommendations from the Grant Working Party - 16 September 2015: Community Chest Funding - Transitional Year (2015/2016) PDF 247 KB

Report No: CAB/SE/15/066

Cabinet Member: Robert Everitt Lead Officer: Davina Howes

Decision:

RESOLVED:

That:

(1) the allocation of Community Chest funding for 2015/2016, as detailed in Report No: GWP/SE/15/003, be approved, namely:

(a) Home Start: £5,000;

(b) Suffolk Accident and Rescue Service: £1,500;

(d) Catch 22, Suffolk Positive Futures: £8,902.50; and

(2) no Community Chest funding for 2015/2016 be awarded to Unit Twenty Three.

Minutes:

The Cabinet considered Report No: CAB/SE/15/066 (previously circulated), which presented the recommendations of the Grant Working Party emanating from its meeting on 16 September 2015.

Councillor Robert Everitt, Portfolio Holder for Families and Communities, drew relevant issues to the attention of the Cabinet including that the Grant Working Party had considered a number of applications for Community Chest funding in this 2015/2016 transitional year.

The Community Chest fund had only been established this year, therefore funding for existing Service Level Agreements (SLAs) totalling £199,770 had moved into the Community Chest. All previous agreements had been honoured and these would finish at the end of March 2016. As such the remaining Community Chest funds available for the 2015/2016 transitional phase amounted to £56,850.

Five applications totalling £44,728.50 had been presented to the Grant Working Party and following due consideration, recommendations for total funding of £32,902.50 had been put forward to the Cabinet for the reasons provided in the report.