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Mobile Warden Scheme Grant Funding 2019/20

Meeting: 06/03/2019 - Weekly Bulletin (Item 10.)

Mobile Warden Scheme Grant Funding 2019/20

The Lead Cabinet Member for Finance AGREED to award the Mobile Warden Schemes the grant funding for 2019/20 as per table 1 below.

 

To support a valuable community led service within each of these wards/villages in keeping with the Council’s aims and objectives.

 

The decision to award the grants as per Table 1 was made taking into consideration:

a)    the amount of grant requested,

b)    the fees charged by each scheme to the client,

c)    the number of clients supported in the previous year,

d)    income and expenditure for the previous year,

e)    the schemes finances, and

f)     the amount of reserved and unreserved funding.

 

Scheme

Grant Awarded 2019/20 (£)

Amount Awarded 2018/19 (£)

Reason(s)

Histon & Impington (Age UK)

2,520

2,520

Increase from 2018/19 due to additional new schemes.

Swavesey (Age UK)

1,240

1,240

Small Villages (Age UK)

3,040

3,040

Teversham (Age UK)

1,600

1,600

Waterbeach (Age UK)

1,300

n/a

Linton (Age UK)

2,500

2,500

Stapleford (Age UK)

1,000

n/a

Cottenham

1,800

1,200

Uplift to reflect low reserves and increased client charge.

Harston

1,250

1,250

 

Haslingfield

250

250

 

Melbourn

2,200

2,200

 

Milton

2,155

2,155

 

The Mordens & Litlington

2,155

2,155

 

Great Shelford

1,000

n/a

Great Shelford has not applied every year.  They last applied in 2016/17.

TOTAL

23,410

20,110

 

 


Meeting: 22/02/2019 - Grants Advisory Committee (Item 5)

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Minutes:

Councillor Jose Hales declared a pecuniary interest in this item because his wife is paid as Manager of the scheme in Melbourn. He left the room during its consideration, took no part in the debate, and did not vote. Councillor Hales is himself is a trustee of that Scheme.

 

Councillor Clare Delderfield took the Chair for this item.

 

The Grants Advisory Committee considered a report seeking its recommendation as to the level of grant funding to be awarded to local Mobile and Community Warden Schemes, subject to budget approval, as part of the Council’s scheme of grants to the voluntary sector for 2019-20.

 

In response to a question from Councillor Dr. Claire Daunton, the Head of Sustainable Communities and Wellbeing undertook to investigate the cost implications of South Cambridgeshire District Council helping to ensure the payment to wardens of a living wage. In response to a question from Councillor Peter McDonald, the Head of Sustainable Communities and Wellbeing confirmed that officers were exploring the potential for maintaining a contingency fund.

 

Members endorsed paragraph 15 of the report from the Director of Housing, Health and Environmental Services, and indicated a preference for Option (b) in paragraph 17.

 

The Grants Advisory Committee recommended that

 

1.    subject to Council approval of the Budget, the Lead Cabinet Member for Finance fund local mobile and community warden schemes in 2019-20 as follows:

 

Scheme

Grant Awarded 2019/20 (£)

Amount Awarded 2018/19 (£)

Reason(s)

Histon & Impington (Age UK)

2,520

2,520

Increase from 2018/19 due to additional new schemes.

Swavesey (Age UK)

1,240

1,240

Small Villages (Age UK)

3,040

3,040

Teversham (Age UK)

1,600

1,600

Waterbeach (Age UK)

1,300

n/a

Linton (Age UK)

2,500

2,500

Stapleford (Age UK)

1,000

n/a

Cottenham

1,800

1,200

Uplift to reflect low reserves and increased client charge.

Harston

1,250

1,250

 

Haslingfield

250

250

 

Melbourn

2,200

2,200

 

Milton

2,155

2,155

 

The Mordens & Litlington

2,155

2,155

 

Great Shelford

1,000

n/a

Great Shelford has not applied every year.  They last applied in 2016/17.

TOTAL

23,410

20,110

 

 

2.    the Mobile and Community Wardens Scheme be reviewed in six months’ time.