Issue - meetings

Report of the Cabinet Member Healthy Lifestyles

RESOLVED THAT

1.     the allocation of the Health Inequalities Fund and Positive Activities Fund as set out in appendix 2 be agreed.

2.     Authority be delegated to the Strategy and Engagement Manager, in consultation with the Cabinet Member Healthy Lifestyles, to award any remaining funds via a second grants round that will go live at the end of November.

The Cabinet Member Healthy Lifestyles introduced the report which outlined the funding allocations under the Health Inequalities Fund and Positive Activities Fund 2014. 

The Cabinet Member Healthy Lifestyles explained that last year the Health Inequalities Fund had been allocated via the Cheltenham partnership structure. This year a grants round went live on 18 August and 17 applications had been received totalling £71 000 for a total of £40 000 of funding. Not all bids were successful and this was outlined in Appendix 2 of the report.  A number of these bids had other funding streams and some had been requested to resubmit their bids for the remaining £19 786. The successful projects covered both the young, elderly, socially isolated and mental health. All of these projects were likely to become sustainable in the future.

The Cabinet Member reported that the three Positive Activities Funding projects had come back due to further information being sought. The Panel wanted to be sure that the Naunton Park Pavillion project funding could be used for outreach work should the refurbishment take place in the next year. In terms of the County Community Projects youth café the Panel had met with the contact and then requested further information but this had not been received from the applicant. It was therefore recommended that this application was not approved at this time. The Hesters Way Neighbourhood Project proposal to deliver youth work activities in Springbank was recommended for approval of £5000 funding further to monitoring information being received by the Panel.

Members welcomed the proposals and highlighted the innovative ways in which some of the funding was proposed to be used. The Leader added that whilst the funding was modest the projects played an important role locally.

RESOLVED THAT

1.    the allocation of the Health Inequalities Fund and Positive Activities Fund as set out in appendix 2 be agreed.

2.    Authority be delegated to the Strategy and Engagement Manager, in consultation with the Cabinet Member Healthy Lifestyles, to award any remaining funds via a second grants round that will go live at the end of November.