Decision details

Positive Activities 2018

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Decision Maker: Cabinet Member for Safety and Communities

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Decision:

To allocate the positive activities grants as set out below :

Organisation	Project	Amount approved
Community Mentoring and Support CiC (CMAS)	Hesters Way and Springbank Detached Project	£5,662.72
The Cheltenham Trust in partnership with YST (Prospects), Wiggly Worm, CBH	#FuelThursdays	£10,000
		£15,662.72

Reasons for the decision:

To support a collective ambition to reduce the vulnerability of young people living in Hesters Way/Springbank and Oakley, Cheltenham Borough Council and Cheltenham Borough Homes agreed to commission some specific youth work with a working budget of £10,000 for each community, £20,000 in total.

The opportunity to bid for the funding was discussed at a meeting of potential providers on 21^st May. The application guidelines and application form were then issued on 24^th May with a closing date of 15^th June.

The assessment panel met on 20^th June to consider the three applications but felt that each of the applications needed strengthening. Applicants were then given until Friday 13^th July to re-submit their applications.

The assessment panel met again on 26^th July to consider the two applications (one provider having withdrawn from the process). The panel is now recommending that the grants are awarded.

Contact: Richard Gibson, Head of Communities, Wellbeing and Partnerships Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected].

Publication date: 07/08/2018

Date of decision: 03/08/2018

Effective from: 15/08/2018

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