Issue - meetings

Grants to Voluntary Bodies Awarding of Grants

Meeting: 17/03/2026 - Executive (Item 123)

123 Grants to Voluntary Bodies Awarding of Grants PDF 264 KB

Additional documents:

Appendix 1 higher grant applications for approval 2026 Exec Report March 26, item 123 PDF 200 KB
Appendix 2 VCS Grants Policy 2026-29 with amendment Exec Committee Feb 26, item 123 PDF 221 KB
Appendix 3 EXEMPT , View reasons restricted (123/4)

Minutes:

The Assistant Director for Community and Housing Services presented the Grants to Voluntary Bodies Awarding of Grants report.

The purpose of the report was to outline the applications that had been received and the grants to be awarded to voluntary sector organisations as determined by the Grants Panel. It was noted that during their consideration of the applications, the Grants Panel had expressed a desire to improve the scoring criteria in future rounds to give greater priority to local Redditch organisations whose projects were based within the Borough.

The Portfolio Holder for Community Spaces and Voluntary Sector thanked the Assistant Director and the Grants Panel for their work in scrutinising the large number of applications received.

RESOLVED that

1) grants be awarded to voluntary sector organisations as set out below:

Organisation	FundingRecommended	Project
Acorns	£10,000	Specialist palliative care for children from Redditch
Astwood Bank Community CIC	£10,000	Astwood Bank Carnival
Carers Careline	£10,000	Carers Careline support for unpaid carers
P&E Sports CIC	£10,000	Matchborough Positive Activities for Young People
Primrose hospice	£9,225	Volunteer and Befrienders Wellbeing
Redditch Nightstop	£10,000	Safe Accommodation & Support Project
Where Next	£10,000	Where Next Redditch Core Costs
YMCA	£9,184	Church Hill Youth Wellbeing & Mentoring Support
New Starts	£5000	Local People Helping Local People
Oasis	£5000	Christians Against Poverty Debt Centre
Total	£88,409

2) the additional wording in bold set out below, be added to paragraph 9.5 of the Voluntary and Community Sector Grants Policy in order to allow scoring to support smaller and local charitable organisations:

“There will be no pre-determined demographic allocation of funds but priority will be given to local Redditch organisations whose projects are based in Redditch and funding will be used only for the benefit of Redditch residents, this is compared to larger national charities”