Issue - meetings
Voluntary and Community Sector Grants Programme - Funding Recommendations
Meeting: 12/01/2016 - Executive (Item 74)
74 Voluntary and Community Sector Grants Programme - Funding Recommendations 
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To consider funding recommendations for the Voluntary and Community Sector Grants Programme 2016/17.
(Notes from the meeting of the Grants Panel attached)
Additional documents:
- Grants Panel - major grants - scores recommended for approval and comments table, item 74
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Minutes:
Members considered the Notes and recommendations of the Grants Panel Meetings held on 14th and 15th December 2015 for the award of major grants to voluntary sector organisations for 2016/17. Officers highlighted an error in recommendation 2 of the Notes, the second figure of which in relation to the ‘Help me to live my life independently’ theme should have read £2,200 and not £2,000.
The Panel had considered a total of 44 applications from a variety of organisations. Each application had been scored in accordance with the Council’s Grants Programme requirements, with recommendations then made to either approve or reject the applications. There had been some minor underspends across three of the themes, the unallocated budgets for which it was suggested be re-advertised alongside the Stronger Communities Grant applications in January 2016.
RESOLVED that
1) the following grants for 2016/17 be awarded:
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Organisation |
Project Name |
Amount |
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Help Me to be Financially Independent - £75K |
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Bromsgrove and District Citizens Advice Bureau |
Citizens Advice Redditch – Financial/Debt and Problem Solving Advice |
£75,000.00 |
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Help Me to be Financially Independent - £10K |
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Jestaminute Community Theatre CIC |
“Money Talks” |
£5,000.00 |
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Help Me to Live My Life Independently - £35K |
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Redditch Play Council |
Redditch Play Council |
£35,000.00 |
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Help Me to Live My Life Independently - £30k |
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NewStarts |
Skills for a New Start |
£4,000.00 |
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Compass Community and Education Group Ltd |
Work Club and Employability Skills Programme |
£5,820.00 |
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Redditch Mental Health Action Group |
Coaching for all |
£6,000.00 |
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Bromsgrove and Redditch Network |
Volunteering and Employability |
£5,978.24 |
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Inspire Community Training CIC |
Inspiring Journey |
£6,000.00 |
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Provide Me with Good Things to Do, See and Visit - £6K |
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Redditch Wheels Project |
Accessible Activities |
£3,000.00 |
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REACH (Redditch East Aspiring Communities Hub) CIC |
REACH Positive Activity Days Out |
£2,665.00 |
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Keep My Place Safe and Looking Good - £15K |
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The Ditch Youth Project |
The Ditch Youth Project |
£3,000.00 |
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Sandycroft |
DV Support Group |
£5,000.00 |
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Connectar Training and Biodiversity Trust |
Connectar Training Centre – trainers salary |
£5,000.00 |
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Help Me Run a Successful Voluntary Sector Business - £50K |
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Touchstones Support CIC |
Supporting Bereaved Children |
£10,000.00 |
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Carers Careline |
Carers Telephone Support Service |
£9,306.92 |
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Where Next Association |
Where Next |
£10,000.00 |
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Bromsgrove and Redditch Network |
The Volunteer Centre |
£9,867.10 |
|
Sandycroft |
Sandycroft Support Services |
£10,000.00 |
and
2) the following unallocated sums be retained and their availability be re-advertised in parallel with the Stronger Communities Grants applications in January 2016:
|
Theme |
Unallocated sum |
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Help me to be financially independent |
£5,000 |
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Help me to live my life independently |
£2,200 |
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Keep my place safe and looking good |
£2,000 |