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Approved the proposed changes to the applicant categories, grant funding levels and eligibility criteria to be incorporated in a revised version of the Council’s Discretionary Grant Fund policy; and delegated authority to the Strategic Director to finalise the revised Discretionary Grant Fund policy and processes, approve updates and oversee application assessment and grant distribution for the final period of the grant scheme
Decision type: Key
Reason Key: Expenditure > £300,000;
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Notice of proposed decision first published: 10/08/2020
Decision due: Before 5 Oct 2020 by Executive Councillor for Transformation
Contact: Fiona Bryant, Programme Director – Major Regeneration Email: Fiona.Bryant@cambridge.gov.uk.
Background Information: In early June 2020, the Executive Councillor agreed a local policy for distributing government-funded discretionary grants to businesses, charities and not-for-profit organisations which were not eligible for earlier Covid-19 government funds and were struggling to survive the lockdown. This has enabled the Council to distribute just over half (£573,000) of the £1.1 million available by late July, but applications have now slowed down significantly. The proposed revisions to the grant policy which require a decision are set out in section 3 of the attached report.
