Agenda item

Delegated Powers

To consider the recommendation to award delegated powers to the CEM for small grants of up to £100, in consultation with the Chairman.

 

Community Area Grant Scheme

To consider four applications for funding, as detailed in the report, and listed below:

 

Applicant	Amount requested
Applicant: Coombe Bissett Parish Council Project Title: Speed Indicator Device for Coombe Bissett and Homington. View full application	£800.00
Applicant: River Bourne Community Farm Project Title: River Bourne Community Farm - Long Barn Renovation View full application	£4500.00
Applicant: Alabare Christian Care and Support Project Title: Old Sarum Development Centre Cafe Kitchen View full application	£4000.00
Applicant: Nomansland Community Events Project Title: Portable Floodlights View full application	£648.00

 

 

Youth Funding

To consider a bid for funding, as detailed in the report, and listed below:

 

Application	Grant Amount
Applicant: The Bridge Youth Project Project Title: The Bridge Youth Project Mentoring Scheme	£3260.00

 

 

Health & Wellbeing Funding

To consider 2 bids for funding, as detailed in the report, and listed below:

 

·       Carers Support Wiltshire – Make a Friend, Be a friend - £2256

·        Salisbury Pride UK – Salisbury Pride UK Festival - £5000

 

 

Officer: Karen Linaker, Community Engagement Manager

The Board considered the applications for funding and the proposal to award delegated powers to the CEM, as detailed in the agenda pack.

 

Delegated Decisions

The Board considered the recommendation to award delegated decision powers to the CEM in consultation with the Chairman, for small grant applications of up to £100. Applicants would still be required to complete an application in line with current criteria.

 

Decision

The Southern Wiltshire Area Board agreed to award delegated powers to the Community Engagement Manager in consultation with the Chairman, for small grant applications of up to £100, with the condition that any such delegated funding decisions would be reported back to the Board at the next scheduled meeting as part of the Funding Item.

 

Community Area Grant Scheme

The Board considered four applications for funding, as detailed in the agenda.

 

Coombe Bissett Parish Council requested £800 towards a Speed Indicator Device (SID) for use in Coombe Bissett and Homington.

 

Decision

Coombe Bissett PC was awarded £800 towards the purchase of a SID for Coombe Bissett & Homington.

Reason

The application met the Community Area Transport Grants Criteria for 2019/20.

 

River Bourne Community Farm (RBCF) requested £4500 towards the Long Barn Renovation.

 

Questions:

·       Is there a PC contribution? Answer: Yes £900 confirmed.

·       Your reserves are substantial, you are only contributing £300 to this project. Answer: Part of this was also funded by the Princes Charitable trust. The balance is covered from the RBCF.

·       What is the total amount involved? Answer: The contribution from RBCF is actually £1500

·       Is the Chicken hatchery area a free-range set up? Answer: Yes. This is a small-scale project that the secondary children will be directly involved in, small quantities of rare breeds.

 

Decision

River Bourne Community Farm was awarded £4500 towards the Long Barn Renovation.

Reason

The application met the Community Area Grants Criteria for 2019/20.

 

Alabare Christian Care and Support requested £4000 towards the Café Kitchen project at the Old Sarum Development Centre.

 

Questions:

·       Have the PC contributed? – Answer: Yes £1000 confirmed

·       Total cost is £37,700, there seems a shortfall of £9k. Answer: There was a shortfall of £9850, so that’s now £8950, we will do a further application to the Clothworkers Foundation.

·       Where do your clients come from? Answer: That depends on current needs and clients moving in to our areas.

·       Why have you opted for shipping containers instead of portacabins?

Answer: They are recycled and replaceable and can be moved to different locations.

·       This will provide isolated people with an everyday place that people can go to.

·       There would need to be a condition on the funding being given subject to the other funding being secured.

 

Decision

Alabare Christian Care and Supportwas awarded £4,000 towards the Café Kitchen project at the Old Sarum Development Centre, with the following condition:

• the funding is awarded subject to the other funding being secured.

 

Reason

The application met the Community Area Grants Criteria for 2019/20.

 

Nomansland Community Events requested £648 towards Portable Floodlights.

 

The Parish council will fund 50%, and the kit could be used as a community asset for other events.

 

Questions:

·       There are only 3 street lights in the village, which makes the village quite dark.

 

·       Would this be shared with the sports association? – they don’t exist at the moment. The members stepped aside.

 

Decision

Nomansland Community Events was awarded £648 towards portable floodlights.

Reason

The application met the Community Area Grants Criteria for 2019/20.

 

Youth Funding

The Board considered one bid to the Youth Funding budget.

 

The Bridge Youth Project requested £3260 towards the Mentoring Scheme to implement measures to promote positive mental health for young people.

 

Questions:

·       What will this buy? Answer: All the money purely funds the mentor coordinator.

·       Why is this not a Health & Wellbeing (HW) grant? Answer: Because it supports young people

·       This project was a good counterbalance to the youth activities.

·       Cllr McLennan - We usually put these projects to the young people, this time you have not done that, it would have been better for there to be a recommendation from the young people, and so it would have been better coming from the HW budget for that reason. Answer: That is a valid point, we will consider this moving forward.

 

Decision

The Youth Project was awarded £3260 of Youth Funding, towards the Bridge Mentoring Scheme.

 

Health & Wellbeing Funding

The Board considered two applications for funding as detailed in the agenda.

 

Carers Support Wiltshire requested £2256 towards the ‘Make a Friend, Be a Friend’ initiative.

 

Questions:

·       Over what period will the monitoring take place? Answer: 12 months.

·       Will we see a result after 12 months? Answer: Yes and I can provide updates along the way too.

·       There are little facilities in the village, this could reach some of the elderly members in the village.

 

Decision

Carers Support Wiltshire was awarded £2256 towards the ‘Make a Friend, Be a Friend’ initiative.

 

Salisbury Pride UK requested £5000 towards the Salisbury Pride UK Festival in 2020. There was no one in attendance to answer questions on the application.

 

Decision

Salisbury Pride UK was deferred until the applicant can be in attendance