Agenda item

a. Community Grants Scheme

 

Councillors will consider nine applications seeking 2010/2011 Community Area Grant Funding:

 

·        Seend Parochial Church Council (£1556) towards a new printer for the Spotlight community magazine.

 

·        Seend Trust & Community Centre (£959) for good quality projection equipment.

 

·        Broughton Gifford Friendship Club (£877) for trips for isolated older people.

 

·        West Wilts Interfaith Group (£400) to hire an Indian artists and storyteller for the Melksham Festival of Food. 

 

·        The Keevil Society (£999) to purchase a marquee for use in the community. 

 

·        Atworth Parish Council (£900) towards redoing the stone kerbing on the village green to prevent erosion. 

 

·        Poulshot Village Hall (£2490) towards the upgrading of the kitchen to facilitate meal preparation and cleaning. 

 

·        Melksham Without PC (£467) towards the purchase of a large screen for viewing of plans. 

 

·        Bowerhill Residents Action Group (£500) towards an information board and details of circular walks in the new picnic area. 

 

 

Copies of the completed application forms and grant application packs for the Community Area Grants Scheme are available from the Community Area Manager or electronically at

 

http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/areaboardscommunitygrantsscheme.htm

 

 

b. Councillor Initiated Projects

 

·        Cllr Seed: £3000 towards the creation of a lay-by near the canal, Spout Lane, Seend.

 

·        Cllr Hubbard, £1800 to run three positive parenting courses.

 

 

Community Area Grant Scheme.

 

The Wiltshire Councillors considered nineapplications seeking 2010/2011 Community Area Grant Funding:

 

Seend Parochial Church Council awarded £750 towards a new printer for the Spotlight community magazine.

 

Note: That the full amount of funding requested was not awarded, councillors felt that the printer the applicant was intending to purchase was too expensive for the task that it was required for.

 

Reason

This application demonstrates a link to the Melksham community plan in terms of ‘coordinating information for local people’.

 

 

 

Seend Trust & Community Centre awarded £959 for good quality projection equipment.

 

Reason

The project would open opportunities for many more people to participate in community activities in an enhanced village venue.  Also, the Community Centre, which is a charity, relies on income from hiring out its facilities, so having more to offer to potential hirers will benefit all users of the Centre in the long term

 

 

Broughton Gifford Friendship Club awarded £877 for trips for isolated older people.

 

Reason

The application demonstrates a link to the Community Plan: reducing disadvantage and inequalities.

 

 

West Wilts Interfaith Group awarded £200 to hire an Indian artist and storyteller for the Melksham Festival of Food. 

 

Note: That the full amount of funding requested was not awarded, councillors felt that the amount requested was too much for one day’s entertainment.

 

Reason

This application demonstrates equality and inclusion issues: raising awareness of different faiths and cultures that exist in Melksham.

 

 

The Keevil Society awarded £999 to purchase a marquee for use in the community.  The grant was awarded with the condition that the Keevil Society makes a £10 hire charge per marquee when hiring out.

 

 

Reason

This project  improves activities by the many local organisations in the open air by providing a robust, weatherproof marquee.  These events attract people of all ages from Keevil and surrounding villages.   The marquee would be used regularly and throughout the year.

 

 

Atworth Parish Council awarded £900 towards redoing the stone kerbing on the village green to prevent erosion. 

 

Reason

This application will be a useful contribution to easing the consequences such as erosion of the green. The Green is used as the evacuation point for Churchfields primary school, and it also well used by parishioners as a resting point and a nearby nursery school.

 

 

Poulshot Village Hall awarded £2490 towards the upgrading of the kitchen to facilitate meal preparation and cleaning. 

 

Reason

This project would improve the facilities of the village hall kitchen to facilitate meal preparation and cleaning up.

 

 

Note: Cllr Steve Petty leaves the room.

 

 

Melksham Without PC awarded £467 towards the purchase of a large screen for viewing of plans with the condition that this would not set a precedent for other parishes looking to apply for similar funding, and that funding would only be granted after the Community Area Manager had enquired as to whether Wiltshire Council had a surplus screen that may be suitable for this project.

 

This application demonstrates a link to the Community Plan: enabling everyone to have equal access to local decision making.

 

 

Note: Cllr Steve Petty returns to the room.

 

 

Bowerhill Residents Action Group awarded £500 towards an information board and details of circular walks in the new picnic area. 

 

Reason

This application demonstrates a link to the Community Plan: increase the numbers of people walking and providing information to canal users.

 

 

 

Councillor Initiated Projects.

 

The Wiltshire Councillors considered twoCouncillor initiated projects.

 

 

 

Cllr Seed: £3000 towards the creation of a lay-by near the canal, Spout Lane, Seend.

 

The work, to pipe and fill in a ditch at the side of the road, make a lay-by for car parking and allow free flow of traffic along Spout Lane, Sells Green, Seendhad been carried out by the Highways Drainage Team and had now been completed.

 

Wiltshire Council had used its own drainage gangs for this work at agreed matrix costs for plant machinery and materials. These costs were significantly less than Mouchel, the Council’s preferred contractors’ matrix costs which made the project feasible but meant that the work had to be carried out before it could go to the Area Board for approval.

 

Decision

 

• Agreed in retrospect, because of the nature of the application and the opportunity to get the work carried out at a reduced cost, but with the condition that there would be no further retrospective projects submitted.

 

 

 

Cllr Hubbard, £1800 to run three positive parenting courses.

 

To fund three parenting programmes delivered by the Parent Support Advisors for up to sixteen parents in each course (maximum total of 48 parents) of children at school in the Melksham cluster of schools.

 

Decision

 

• Agreed.