Introducing Nicola Sage, Community Youth Officer for South West Wiltshire.
The Board will consider the following recommendations:
Recommendations
1. That in respect of urgent matters that may arise from time to time between meetings, the Community Area Manager, in consultation with the Community Youth Officer and the Chairman of the Area Board, be granted delegated authority to approve expenditure not exceeding £1000 from the youth budget for projects in relation to positive activities for young people. A report explaining any such decision and the reasons why it was considered to be urgent shall be reported to the next ordinary meeting of the Area Board.
2. That authority be delegated to the Community Area Manager to manage an annual budget of up to £500 to cover expenditure related to the management of the LYN and its activities. A report giving details of any expenditure incurred will be reported to the next ordinary meeting of the South West Wiltshire Area Board.
Minutes:
Nic Sage introduced herself as the new Community Youth Officer for Mere, Tisbury and Wilton. Work had been underway to develop a Local Youth Network (LYN) for each of the community areas and a LYN Management Group. Nic would be making sure that young people would be central to the planning of how the Youth funds would be allocated.
Nic would be focusing on mapping the provision of what was already available across the areas, increasing volunteer numbers and providing support to organisations applying for funding.
Youth groups still had the use of the Wiltshire Council minibuses and Urby van in the area.
The Wilton youth centre was well up and running, with support from the Town Council and the Wilton Educational Trust. There would be two open sessions a week.
In Tisbury the St John’s organisation was running two sessions a month, working with Seeds for Success Nic was hoping to get more sessions up and running.
A new Cadet detachment was starting up in Tisbury, they were hoping to be ready to march in March 2015.
The Tisbury Community Campus would be opening in a year’s time; young people had been involved with the planning stage of that.
In Mere, the parish council owned the youth centre; they were waiting for the building to be made straight and in good running order, with the help of Seeds for Success, so that sessions could be held there soon.
Comments and questions were then received, these included:
· Tisbury parish council allocates £2,500 a year from the precept to youth, other parishes could do the same and allocate some funding towards youth facilities.
· Wilton Town Council had taken on the lease of the youth centre, but the facility was used by other villages not just young people in Wilton. We could ask the villages if they would be willing to give some funding towards it. Answer: Asking outlaying villages to contribute to the funding may prevent the young people from attending; this is not what we are working towards.
The Board considered the recommendations detailed in the agenda
Decision
The South West Wiltshire area Board agreed the following:
1. That in respect of urgent matters that may arise from time to time between meetings, the Community Area Manager, in consultation with the Community Youth Officer the Chairman of the Area Board and the local Member, be granted delegated authority to approve expenditure not exceeding £1000 from the youth budget for projects in relation to positive activities for young people. A report explaining any such decision and the reasons why it was considered to be urgent shall be reported to the next ordinary meeting of the Area Board.
2. That authority be delegated to the Community Area Manager to manage an annual budget of up to £500 to cover expenditure related to the management of the LYN and its activities. A report giving details of any expenditure incurred will be reported to the next ordinary meeting of the South West Wiltshire Area Board.
3. The LYN Management Group would be chaired by Cllr Bridget Wayman.