Agenda item

A report of the Director Housing and Wellbeing.

Key Decision

Considered, a report of the Director Housing and Wellbeing to consider applications received for funding in round two of the Community Facilities and Community Grants programme for 2023/24 (item 6 on the agenda filed with these minutes).

RESOLVED

1.         that the following Community Facilities Grants be awarded:

•           £9,291 to 1st Nanpantan Scout Group towards completion of internal and external new build works;

•           £3,600 to Bishop Beveridge Club towards installation of solar panels;

•           £8,250 to Shepshed Cricket Club towards improving the toilet facilities and disability access;

2.         that the following Community Grants be awarded:

•           £2,000 to Age UK - Men & Women in Sheds (Charnwood Shed) towards general running costs. Awarded from Loughborough Grant;

•           £2,888 to B-Buddies towards purchase of outdoor ramps for cycling activities;

•           £1,128 to Communities Food and Wellbeing Hub towards providing Health & Wellbeing Events. Awarded from Loughborough Grant;

•           £3,750 to Falcon Support Services E.M. Ltd towards the Charnwood Drop-In Service. Awarded from Loughborough Grant;

•           £970 to Friends of Mountsorrel Castle Gardens towards improvements to the Castle Park in Mountsorrel;

•           £1,750 to Golf in Society towards purchase two golf buggies to enable wider access to the golfing facilities;

•           £1,000 to Grow Give Live towards street side planters for edible and flowering plants providing free of charge access to fresh produce to people in Syston;

•           £1,425 to Leslie Edwards Trust towards lipreading & communication skills classes in Loughborough & Birstall;

•           £2,044 to Menphys towards the start-up of Saturday Clubs in Charnwood £1,022 awarded through Community Grants and £1,022 from Loughborough Grant;

•           £1,500 to Modern Painters New Decorators towards work with disadvantaged communities in Charnwood through art, £500 awarded through Community Grants and £1,000 from Loughborough Grant;

•           £1,545 to Sileby Tennis and Pickleball Club towards the repurpose of a tennis court to create three dedicated Pickleball and kids mini tennis courts;

•           £1,500 to Without Walls towards to general running costs of Singing Cafes in Shepshed & Loughborough;

3.         The following application be declined as it did not score high enough:

•           Starlight Youth Theatre request for 6 headset microphones;

The following applications were ineligible and did not meet the grants criteria:

•           Ice Age Insights did not meet our criteria for wider-community benefit;

•           Leicester Childrens Holidays did not provide sufficient information;

•           Rotary Club of Loughborough Beacon did not meet our criteria for financial need for a grant;

•           Spectrum Sensory Sports did not provide sufficient evidence of need;

4.         that the Director of Housing and Wellbeing be given delegated authority to finalise the terms and conditions of the awarded Community Grants.

Reasons

1.         To provide financial support to organisations which meet the criteria of the Community Facilities Grants programme.

2.         To provide financial support to organisations which meet the criteria of the Community Grants programme.

3.         To decline to provide financial support to organisations which did not score high enough or not meet the criteria for the award of a grant under the Community Grants programme.

4.         To enable the grants awarded to be finalised and appropriate information to be supplied to the Council about the outcomes of the project.

Councillor Blackshaw returned to the meeting.