Agenda item

Community Area Grants

The Board will consider applications for funding from the Community Area Grant Scheme as detailed in the report attached to the agenda.

Health & Wellbeing Bids

The Board will consider bids to the Health & Wellbeing budget for 2019/20, as detailed in the report attached to the agenda.

Officer: Karen Linaker, Community Engagement Manager

The Board considered 3 applications for funding from the Community Area Grant Scheme, as detailed in the agenda pack and circulated at the meeting.

Woodford Valley Primary Academy – requested £500

To hold a Salisbury Schools Mini Marathon, which would be a fun 2300 metre mini marathon for children from over 30 primary school and parents organised by a handful of local primary schools. Hosted on the Laverstock downs on Saturday 18th May.

Rebecca Head teacher – worked to provide mini marathon for last 30 years on Laverstock Down. 1300 children run from 30 schools across Salisbury. We have had sponsors from Waitrose and Salisbury Journal.

Questions:

As this was a repeat event were things like H&S in place? Answer: Yes, we complete a risk assessment and sent to the LA. Salisbury Journal had withdrawn some aspects of support, which was why we needed to look for some top up funding. Other Area Boards were also being asked to contribute.

Cllr McLennan noted that this was a brilliantly handled event. The use of P&R was well handled. He moved the motion of awarding the full amount requested of £500.

Decision

The Southern Wiltshire awarded £500 to Woodford Valley Primary Academy towards the mini marathon event to be held in Laverstock.

Reason

The application met the Community Area Grant Criteria for 2018/19

Downton Green Group – requested £150

To hold a wildlife friendly day at the Moot in Downton on the 19th May 2019. To support the great activities which would take place we need to hire a portaloo.

Cllr Clewer supported the project and moved the project be supported to the requested amount of £150, from the HWB fund.

Decision

The Southern Wiltshire awarded £150 to Downton Green Group towards the Wildlife Friendly Day in May 2019, from the Health & Wellbeing Budget.

Collaboration of Landford, Downton, Alderbury and Redlynch Parish Councils

To carry out bus shelter improvements works.

This matter had been deferred until a future meeting to enable further investigation on this project.

Laverstock Memory Group – requested £3000

The Group provides on-going support for up to 15 people with dementia and for their family carers who meet in a separate room. Additional support is given when members or their carers need it, especially for people with dementia who live alone. Members and carers also continue to help create dementia friendly communities in our area.

Cllr Clewer noted that the provision sounded very useful, however the Board had a limited amount of HWB funding available. We need to consider the small number of people benefitting from this amount of funding, and that this is the third year you have approached us for funding.

Cllr Devine - If the NHS was able to cover this area of work it would be covered, it is not being covered. There are people here in need of this help.

Cllr McLennan - This is in my patch, but the relevance is that it is in the Southern Area. There was support for 15 people living with dementia and their carers. There were two groups of people being supported here.

Cllr Britton - of the £3k we are being asked for, only £1k is additional provision, to enable expansion, the £2k was for ongoing costs. This would not usually qualify under our general policy guidelines, on the other hand, we have a strong argument of the worthwhile work, and to look at building on this.

Decision

The Southern Wiltshire awarded £3000 towards the Laverstock Memory Group Project.