Decision details

Grants to Voluntary Sector: Service Support Grants 2019/20-2021/22

Decision Maker: Lead Cabinet member for Resources

Decision status: For Determination

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

On 13 December 2018 the Grants Advisory Committee considered a report containing officer recommendations for awards from the Service Support Grant Fund for 2019-2022, with reasons for recommendations, background and considerations. All 17 applications received were outlined in an appendix to the report.

Following consideration, the Committee recommended to the Finance Portfolio Holder that the following awards be made, subject to agreement by Council on budget, and subject to annual funding agreements with the organisations concerned:

Applicants	Applied for pa £k	Year 1 £k	Year 2 £k	Year 3 £k	Total £k
Community Transport
Cambridge Dial-a-Ride	11.666	-	-	-	-
Care Network	7.616	7	7	7	21
Royston & District Community Transport	10	6	6	6	18
The Voluntary Network	7.288	3	3	3	9
Fit to Learn
Home-Start Royston & S Cambs/H-S Cambs	4	4	4	4	12
Independent Living
Arts & Minds	3	2.5	2.5	2.5	7.5
Camsight	8.063	-	-	-	-
Care Network	7.616	7.7	7.7	7.7	23.1
Cambridge Older People’s Enterprise	5	2	2	2	6
Disability Cambridgeshire*	16.833	-	-	-	-
Disability Information Service Hunts (DISH)*	5.675	3	3	3	9
Headway*	20	-	-	-	-
Support for Parishes and Communities
Cambridge Council for Voluntary Service	10	10	10	10	30
Care Network	3.808	3.8	3.8	3.8	11.4
Welfare Advice – General
Consortium of Citizens Advice Bureaux**	80	80	80	80	240
Reach	10	-	-	-	-
Welfare Advice – Specialist
Consortium of Citizens Advice Bureaux**	5	5	5	5	15
Housing-related
Cambridge Cyrenians	1.78	1.78	1.78	1.78	5.34
Cambridge Re-Use	1.8	1.8	1.8	1.8	5.4
Cambridge Women’s Aid	8.5	8.5	8.5	8.5	25.5

Totals	227.645	146.08	146.08	146.08	438.24

Decision:

To accept the recommendations of the Grants Advisory Committee (see above).

Reasons for the decision:

The Grants Advisory Committee considered the report in detail and were satisfied that the recommendations had been made on the basis of a thorough, fair and transparent process.

Alternative options considered:

· To award an alternative amount of funding to any of the applicant organisations, including zero funding, or

· To defer a decision if further information is required from grant applicants.

Publication date: 19/12/2018

Date of decision: 19/12/2018

Effective from: 01/01/2019

Accompanying Documents:

Grants Decision