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Decision details

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

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

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