Agenda item
Area Board Funding
To consider bids to the Area Board funding schemes:
Remaining budgets for 2019/20:
· Community Area Grants - £7,900 remaining
· Health & Wellbeing - £280 remaining
· Youth Budget - £6,400 remaining
Community Area Grants
The Board members will consider 5 applications for funding from the Community Area Grants Scheme.
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Applicant |
Amount requested |
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Applicant: Ebbesbourne Wake Parish Council |
£400.00 |
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Applicant: Barford St Martin
Village Defibrillator Fundraising Activities Group |
£1464.20 |
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Applicant: Able Hands Together
CIC |
£5000.00 |
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Applicant: East Knoyle Village Hall |
£5000.00 |
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Applicant: Teffont Parish Council |
£145.00 |
Youth Funding
To consider one bid for a top up of £172 for the Monday night Youth Sessions at the Nadder Centre – Seeds4Success.
Area Board Project – Cllr Tony Deane
Real Madrid – Football Coaching – Proposal to allocate up to £4,000 to this project.
Note: Report to be circulated at the meeting.
Minutes:
Ebbesbourne Wake Parish Council – Fingerpost replacement – requested £400
Decision
The Board awarded £400 to Ebbesbourne Wake Parish Council towards the Fingerpost replacement.
Reason
The application met the Community Area Grant Criteria for 2019/20.
Barford St Martin Defib Group – Village Defibrillator – requested £1464.20
The applicant noted that they had raised enough funds to purchase three defibs. The grant request was now for training and sustainability.
Cllr Wayman noted that the Board had previous run training sessions as part of an initiative. It was proposed that this type of initiative should be investigated with the view of running a second round, to be offered out to all parishes to put people forward.
The Board would work with the CEM to form a proposal for a training session.
Decision
The Board refused the application and instead agreed to investigate funding a training session which would be made available to all parishes.
Able Hands Together CIC – Barn Project – requested £5000
Additional financial information had been requested by the Councillors and had been circulated by email.
The applicant gave an overview of the service, which would run from the barn.
The work gave young people with learning needs the skills they needed to get jobs. It was confirmed that this was a charity and not a business.
Cllr Church had visited the current location. It was clarified that the application was to fund the new barn which was required due to moving sites to a farm where the landowner was giving up some land. It was also confirmed that Wiltshire Council used the charity for its commissioning service for adults.
Cllr Church moved the motion to award the full amount of £5000. This was seconded by Cllr Wayman. The motion was not carried.
The Chairman noted that the applicant had also approached Salisbury Board and Amesbury Board for funding, and that Salisbury had awarded 80% to match the reported 80% of users coming from Salisbury area.
Cllr Jeans supported the project, however felt that it should have been funded centrally from Trowbridge. He moved the motion of a reduced award of £3000. This was seconded by Cllr Deane.
Before voting, the Chairman took comments from the floor:
· I have listened to those young people this evening. There is a need to support people like this. This is coming to our area and a much-needed service. We should balance this against the capita – this should be supported.
· We should think ourselves lucky that the applicant wants to move this to our part of Wiltshire, it is so far reaching in its ideas.
The Chairman suggested an amendment to the motion to award £3000 now and to invite the applicant to return in the new financial year to apply for the remainder once the scheme was up and running and could present evidence of the benefits to the people of this community area.
It was noted that until the barn was funded, it could not be built, and therefore the service could not operate. This grant was to fund the barn.
The Chairman allowed further input from the public.
· I relate to the comments regarding this being funded from central Trowbridge, however it was initially incorrectly put forward, as the applicant had put her own financial investment in, and it is a charity not a business. She has two children with autism. This is in our area and accessible for us in our village so would be an asset.
· I work for the Youth Service, I know young people from this area who have to travel an hour to get to a placement. There are no facilities in this area.
Cllr Jeans withdrew his motion.
Cllr Church moved the motion of £4999. This was seconded by Cllr Wayman.
The Board voted on the motion.
Decision
The Board awarded £4999 to Able Hands Together CIC towards the Barn project.
Reason
The application met the Community Area Grant Criteria for 2019/20.
East Knoyle VH – Toilet refurb project – requested £5000
Decision
The Board awarded £5000 to East Knoyle Village Hall towards the Toilet refurb project.
Reason
The application met the Community Area Grant Criteria for 2019/20.
Teffont Parish Council – Fingerpost restoration – requested £145
Decision
The Board awarded £145 to Teffont Parish Council towards the Fingerpost restoration.
Reason
The application met the Community Area Grant Criteria for 2019/20.
Youth Funding
The Board considered a bid from Seeds4Success for £172 to top up the previously awarded funding for Monday Night Youth sessions at the Nadder Centre.
Decision
The Board allocated £172 to Seeds4Success
Area Board Projects
The Board considered a bid from Cllr Tony Deane, for up to £4000 to be ringfenced, for the Real Madrid Soccer Camp initiative at the Nadder Centre.
Karen noted that there was only £7,900 in the Community Area Grants budget remaining for 2019/20 and suggested that £2,000 of the ringfenced money in the SID budget be used to make up the shortfall following the decisions to award the Able Hands grant and East Knoyle Village Hall Grant which totalled £9,999.
The Board discussed this option and agreed that if required the SID budget would be released back into the main funding pot to accommodate the shortfall.
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