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    Strategic Grants and Service Level Agreement (00-20-25)

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    Decision Maker: Cabinet

    Decision status: For Determination

    Is Key decision?: No

    Is subject to call in?: Yes

    Decisions:

    Following a report of the Director of Place, the Community Policy Development Group was recommending to Cabinet that:

     

    1.    The total Strategic Grants budget to remain at £138,500 for a period of 2 years, and that individual awards to Strategic Partners to remain at the 2020-2021 levels for this period.

     

    2.    The level of grant awards to individual partners for 2022-23 and 2023-24 were therefore recommended as:

    Organisation

    Award

    2021-2022 (£)

    Award

    2022-2023 (£)

    Award

    2023-2024 (£)

    CHAT

    12,500

    12,500

    12,500

    Citizen's Advice

    15,500

    15,500

    15,500

    INVOLVE

    12,000

    12,000

    12,000

    Mid Devon Mobility

    22,000

    22,000

    22,000

    Grand Western Canal

    45,000

    45,000

    45,000

    Tiverton Museum

    27,500

    27,500

    27,500

    TIS

    4,000

    4,000

    4,000

    Total

    £138,500

    £138,500

    £138,500

     

     

    The Cabinet Member for Community Well-Being outlined the contents of the report stating that the budget allocation for strategic grants for the 2021/22 financial year was £138,500 and that the funding available for the 2022/23 and subsequent years was dependant on the Council’s budget setting process.  The allocation of grants provided support to external agencies (as set out above) delivering services that advanced the Council’s Homes, Community and Economic priorities.

     

    He detailed the work of the working group that had considered the grants and the findings that had been reported.

     

    Consideration was given to:

     

    ·         The good news that levels of grant funding remained the same; and

    ·         Whether capital grants should be considered

    ·         In response to the latter point, the meeting was informed that the organisations usually linked into other funding streams for capital funding and that the grants provided by the Local Authority were for revenue expenditure.

     

    RESOLVED that the above recommendation of the Policy Development Group be approved.

     

    (Proposed by Cllr D J Knowles and seconded by Cllr C R Slade)

     

    Reason for the decision – There was a need to agree the grant funding prior to the approval of the budget for 2022/23

     

    Note:  *Report previously circulated, copy attached to minutes.

    Report author: John Bodley-Scott

    Publication date: 07/01/2022

    Date of decision: 04/01/2022

    Decided at meeting: 04/01/2022 - Cabinet

    Effective from: 12/01/2022

    Accompanying Documents:

    • Strategic Grants Review 2021 Recommendations, 20/12/2021 Community Policy Development Group pdf icon PDF 249 KB
    • Strategic Grants Review Guidelines, 20/12/2021 Community Policy Development Group pdf icon PDF 147 KB