Issue - meetings

The Committee received a report from the Community Funding and Development Manager. 

The Community Funding and Development Manager and the Committee thanked all mutual aid, voluntary and community groups for all their assistance and support they had and continued to provide during the pandemic this was greatly appreciated.

The Community Funding and Development Manager provided the following responses to member questions:

i.               Noted that bid N10 Sin Cru was an unclear bid, there was a lack of financial information and lack of clarity regarding beneficiaries. The Council was cautious to provide funding to groups which could receive funding from an alternative source.

ii.             There was no deadline for applications to come forward for the remaining grant funding which had not been allocated. Applications would be taken as they came forward. Grants would be reviewed in October, but the process was very flexible.

iii.            If there were groups coming forward who needed help to apply for grants asked that these were directed to the Grants Team. Some groups may work or continue to work together and may wish to apply for funding for a project. Officers had spent a lot of time re-assessing applications over the past year.

iv.           Groups could apply for funding each year, they were not prevented from applying if they had received funding in the past.

Following discussion, Members resolved (unanimously):

To approve projects as set out in recommendation 2.2 of the Officer’s report.