Agenda item

Grant applications

Report of the Chamberlain (copy attached).

Minutes:

The Sub Committee considered a report of the Chamberlain outlining applications for Finance committee assistance received since the last meeting.

 

RESOLVED – That: -

 

i)              The following applications be agreed to and that they be funded from the City Educational Trust Fund:-

 

City of London Symphonia

A one-off grant of £5000 towards the costs of a project with young children in Tower Hamlets. 

 

Wilton’s Music Hall

A one-off grant of £25,000 towards the capital costs for a major refurbishment and renovation project.  This grant should be subject to Wilton’s being successful in their bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund.

 

ii)             The following applications be not agreed to: -

 

Christ Church Spitalfields

That no contribution be awarded to meet the costs of twelve free monthly lunchtime concerts as this was not considered to be the most appropriate use of funds.

 

City Year

That no contribution be awarded towards the costs of volunteers to provide citizen services in London for one year as this was not considered to be the most appropriate use of funds.

 

Providence Row

That no capital grant contribution be awarded towards a new garden as this was not considered to be the most appropriate use of funds.

 

Barbican Centre Trust

That no contribution be made towards the cost of the ‘On the doorstep: The EC1 Neighbourhood Songwriting Project’. However, the Sub Committee were supportive of the Barbican's commitment to undertake intensive work with its immediate neighbours and strengthen and consolidate relations with them.  The Sub-Committee agreed to ask the Barbican Centre Trust how they might direct some of its current funding from the City of London towards work with the schools and community organisations described in the application.