Agenda item

Report of the Town Clerk.

The Committee considered a report of the Town Clerk which advised Members of the eight charities which were proposed by the Chairman and Commissioner to receive grants from the Police Property Act Fund (the Fund) for 2016/17.

Members noted that, if grants continued to be made at the current rate, there would only be sufficient budget within the Fund to make grants for the next two years. Members discussed whether it may be appropriate to reduce the amount of grants which were made from the Fund, or to place a cap on the amount of any single donation. Members noted that some of these organisations may have begun to assume that they would continue to receive grant funding on an annual basis in perpetuity.

Following the discussion, Members agreed that donations should continue to be made at the current rate, but all recipients of grants should be advised that the Fund had a reducing amount of money available and should not rely on receiving further grants from the Fund.

RESOLVED – That the Committee:

a)    Note the contents of the report; and

b)    Consider a one-off grant payment to the charities below:

                      i.        City of London Police Charity for Children (£2,500)

                    ii.        Royal Humane Society (£2,500)

                   iii.        Care of Police Survivors (£2,500)

                   iv.        First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (£1,500)

                    v.        Sheriffs’ Recorder’s Fund (£1,000)

                   vi.        Housing the Homeless Central Fund (£1,000)

                  vii.        JAN Trust (£1,000)

                viii.        Children’s Society (£1,000)