Agenda and minutes

Grants Advisory Committee - Friday, 31 January 2020 10.00 a.m.

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Items
No. Item

1.

Apologies for Absence

Minutes:

Councillors Clare Delderfield and Peter McDonald sent Apologies for Absence.

2.

Declarations of Interest

Minutes:

There were no declarations of interest.

3.

Minutes of Previous Meeting pdf icon PDF 140 KB

To authorise the Chairman to sign the Minutes of the meeting held on 16 December 2019 as a correct record.

Minutes:

The Grants Advisory Committee authorised the Chairman to sign, as a correct record, the minutes of the meetings held on both 16 December 2019 and 20 December 2019.

4.

Community Chest: Funding Applications pdf icon PDF 248 KB

Additional documents:

Minutes:

 

Applicant

Village(s) affected

Description

Total applied for (£)

Total recomm

ended (£)

Additional conditions/ comments

 

1

 

Elsworth Pre School

 

Elsworth and nearby villages

 

To replace a fridge with one that is more energy efficient

 

 

317.00

 

 

 

317.00

 

 

 

2

 

Parkrun UK

 

Cambourne and surrounding villages

 

 

To set-up a Cambourne Junior Parkrun

 

1000.00

 

 

 

 

725.00

 

 

Grants Advisory Committee are not prepared to increase their grant to £1000.00.

 

3

 

Gamlingay Community Centre

 

Gamlingay

 

To purchase a newer second-hand bowls carpet and winder

 

780.79

 

780.79

 

 

 

4

 

Fowlmere Fundraisers

 

Fowlmere and surrounding villages

 

 

Set-up costs to hold village events including a pantomime in the local village

 

 

1000.00

 

 

 1000.00

 

 

 

5

 

Cambridge Past, Present and Future

 

Wandlebury

 

To purchase plants and pond dipping equipment for the Wandlebury Pond project

 

996.00

 

996.00

 

 

 

6

 

Abington Allotment and Leisure Gardeners’ Association

 

Great Abington and Little Abington

 

 

To purchase a petrol-engine shredder

 

899.00

 

 

 

899.00

 

 

 

 

7

 

Fowlmere Recreation Ground and Village Hall

 

Fowlmere and the surrounding villages

 

 

To re-level and re-gravel the village hall car park as part of an overall project to improve the car park and changing rooms

 

1000.00

 

1000.00

 

 

 

 

5.

Mobile Warden Schemes - Lesley McFarlane pdf icon PDF 400 KB

Minutes:

The Grants Advisory Committee had an extensive discussion surrounding the three separate options for the distribution of the £200k budget with regard to the Mobile Warden Schemes.

 

Councillor Claire Daunton identified an issue of putting too much burden on some Parish Councils to run such schemes, particularly those that may not be as well resourced.

 

Councillor Daunton also highlighted that the Council needed to be confident that the schemes were being well managed across the district, particularly since the Council’s name would be attached to the project.

 

The Group agreed to recommend option 3.

 

It was agreed that a forecast would be brought back to the Grants Committee in January 2021, to identify how much the Council may need to contribute to help sustain the mobile warden schemes that had been set-up.

 

It was agreed to recommend to the Lead Member for Finance that £140k for to be assigned for procured projects and £60k to be assigned for an individual grant fund.

 

It was agreed that Aaron Clarke would distribute a doodle poll to identify an appropriate day for Members of the Committee to attend the Grants committee that was not a Friday.

 

6.

Date of next meeting

Friday 28 February 2020, starting at 10:00am.

Minutes:

The Grants Advisory Committee noted that its next meeting would be on 28 February 2020, starting at 10:00am.