Decision details

To allocate community pride grants

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Decision Maker: Leader

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Decision:

To allocate community pride grants as follows:

Organisation	Project	amount agreed
Building Circles	Friends and communities - reducing social isolation in adults with learning disabilities through allotments and cookery	£1800
Men In Sheds	Work Away Tool Set for use when away from the base.	£890
Cheltenham West End Partnership	Lower High Street Area Fun Day - celebrating Cheltenham's diversity	£1500
Indian Association Cheltenham	The Hindu Community Centre Kitchen Refurbishment project	£2500
Pride in Gloucestershire	Pride in Gloucestershire Cheltenham Picnic in the Park 2020	£1000
Cheltenham Trust (Wilson Arts Collective)	Alternative Art & Performance for Young People aged 13 - 19 years.	£3000
Prestbury Parish Council	New Prestbury Community Open Space - community seating and tree protectors.	£1000
SPACE (St Pauls Activities, Community & Events)	Summer Activities - for children in the summer holidays.	£1400
University of Gloucestershire	Discover Cheltenham’s Wildlife	£940
Cheltenham Neighbourhood Watch Association	New CNHWA website: improvement in availability and content	£1500
Friends of Hatherley Park	Pitch Perfect - a boules pitch with notice board and benches	£2500
Goals Beyond Grass	Goals Beyond Grass Outreach Program - Cheltenham, taking powerchair football to care homes, adult opportunity centres and SEN schools.	£2400
Holst Birthplace Trust	Holst on the move - creation of 2 loans boxes for outreach sessions	£2000
Midsummer Fiesta	Midsummer Fiesta 2020	£2000
G Café	G Café - development of arden and Green Gym	£3000
St Pauls Residents Association	St Paul’s Parties and Parades - a street party, and Advent Lantern Parade and craft workshops.	£1725
Hesters Way Partnership	Creative West - Easter and Summer holiday scheme for 2010 for 5 - 16 year olds to learn practical skills and produce creative work across a range of venues.	£3100
		£32,255

To allocate community building grants as follows:

Organisation	Project	amount agreed
Benhall Residents Association	Benhall Playing Out - closure of Bisley Road to allow children to play out safely on 13 July 2019.	£225
Oakley Residents Association	Oakley Fun Day - to launch new scooter park.	£300
Vision 21	Sewing Circles - to encourage repairing and reuse of materials	£300
Friends of Hatherley Park	Celebrate 80 in the Park! An event to mark Hatherley Park's 80th anniversary.	£300
Hesters Way Neighbourhood Project	Springbank Summer Fair	£300
St Pauls Residents Association	St Paul’s Road Area residents’ association (SPRA) & St Paul’s NCG meetings and dissemination of information.	£300
Holocaust Memorial Day Act of Remembrance Committee	Act of Remembrance 27 January 2020 to mark National Holocaust Memorial Day and 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.	£300
		£2025

Reasons for the decision:

The council’s Community Pride scheme is now in its 13^th year and has allocated over £520,000 to match fund over 300 community based projects. The focus of the scheme has traditionally been on improving and enhancing the public realm, but in the last 2 years there has been more emphasis on supporting the ambitions of the place vision.

There were two pots of funding; up to £30,000 via community pride grants, to match fund projects up to the value of £5000, and up to £4000 for small scale projects, events and activities up to the value of £300.

The grant schemes were open for applications from Friday 12^th April to Friday 7^th June 2019, allowing 8 weeks for organisations to apply. The schemes were publicised through a media release, information on the council’s website and social media and Gloucestershire Rural Community Council.

An assessment panel met on 19 June 2019 to assess the 28 community pride and 7 community building applications received and to make recommendations to the Leader of the Council. The panel comprised the Leader of the Council; Angela Gilbert from Gloucestershire Rural Community Council and Richard Gibson, Louise Forey and Helen Down from the People and Change Division.

Reasons for the recommendations

The community pride applications received were for a total of over £92,500 from a budget of £30,000. The applications were assessed against the criteria in the application guidelines:

· Projects led by any parish council, constituted voluntary sector, community or neighbourhood based organisation.

· The project’s contribution to our place vision and ambitions;

· The project’s value for money in terms of its community benefits versus the amount of grant requested;

· That the project will meet an identifiable need or build on an opportunity;

· What will the project achieve;

· What the longer-term legacy of this project will be;

· Accessibility at no cost to the general public;

· Match funding of 50% of the project cost in place.

The panel identified 17 community pride applications and 7 community building applications that met the majority of the criteria and recommended these for approval. The total sum awarded was £32,255 for community pride grants and £2025 for community building grants.

It is proposed that the additional allocation of £2255 over the £30,000 available for community pride grants be made up from historical grants which were never claimed.

Alternative options considered:

None.

Other reasons / organisations consulted

N/A

Consultees

None.

Contact: Helen Down, Team Leader - Participation and Engagement 01242 264272 Email: [email protected].

Publication date: 05/08/2019

Date of decision: 05/08/2019

Effective from: 14/08/2019

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