Issue - decisions

Community Chest Grant Funding (2) (2016/2017)

09/12/2015 - Recommendations from the Grant Working Party: 16 November 2015 - Consideration of Community Chest Funding 2016/2017

RESOLVED:

That:

 

(1)     the allocation of Community Chest funding for 2016/2017, as detailed in Report No: GWP/SE/15/004, be approved, namely:

 

(a)     Hopton Day Care Centre:

£5,000

(b)     Bury St Edmunds Volunteer Centre:

£6,586

 

 

 

(2)     Subject to the provision of a presentation on the work of the organisation prior to consideration of an allocation of funding for 2017/2018 and beyond, Community Chest funding for Suffolk West Citizens Advice Bureau of £182,500 for 2016/2017, be approved;

 

 (3)    subject to the budget setting process for 2017/2018, and subject to the satisfactory submission of evidence-based reports detailing the benefits and success of each individual project in 2016/2017, the allocation of Community Chest funding for 2016/2017 and 2017/2018, be approved, namely:

 

 

2016/17

 

2017/18

(a)     The Voluntary Network (Befriending Connect Service):

 

£9,860

£10,238

(b)     The Voluntary Network (Community Car Service):

 

£5,310

£4,434

(c)     Relate Norfolk and Suffolk

£5,000

£5,000

 

(d)     REACH Community Projects

£5,000

£5,000

 

(e)     Gatehouse Caring in East Anglia

 

£5,000

£5,000

(f)      HomeStart  

£13,250

£9,800

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(4)     Due to not being considered to be appropriate for Community Chest funding but with the intention of signposting to alternative funding sources available, Community Chest funding for 2016/2017 not be awarded to:

 

(a)     Coffee Caravan;               

(b)     Eastgate Amateur Boxing Club;              

(c)     Rojo Art Projects;                      

(d)     St Edmundsbury Sailing and Canoeing Association; and

(e)     Suffolk Mind.

 

(5)     No Community Chest funding for 2016/2017 be awarded to:

 

(a)     YMCA Suffolk;               

(b)     Young People of the Year - Befriending;              

(c)     Fresh Start – New Beginnings; and                   

(d)     Suffolk Young People’s Health Project (4YP).

 

(6)     No allocation of Community Chest funding for 2018/2019 be approved at this present time.

 

Decisions emanating from Addendum to Report No: CAB/SE/15/081:

 

(7)    

(a)     an allocation of £9,000 Community Chest funding to Mentis Tree for 2016/2017, be approved;

 

(b)     no Community Chest funding for 2016/2017 be awarded to Sue Ryder; and

 

(c)     following further discussions with the Families and Communities Team, a revised application from Suffolk Rape Crisis be submitted to the Grant Working Party for consideration in January 2016 with a view to making a recommendation to Cabinet on 9 February 2016.