Agenda item

Review of the Central Grants Programme

Report of the Chief Grants Officer.

N.B. Appendix 2 is in the non-public section of the agenda.

Minutes:

Members considered a report of the Chief Grants Officer regarding a review of the Central Grants Programme (CGP) and noted that it had been considered and approved by the Resource Allocation Sub-Committee earlier that day.

 

RESOLVED, that Members,

 

·         Agree that the CGP is implemented on a permanent basis with effect from 1 April 2018.

 

·         Agree that the City’s Cash contribution available to the Central Grants Unit (CGU) for distribution in grants should be uplifted to £250,000 on an ongoing basis, being an uplift of £91,000 for 2018/19.

 

·         Note the uplift of £10,000 applied to operating costs of the CGU for 2018/19 and agree that the CGU continue to charge a proportionate management fee to charities that fall under the programme.

 

·         Agree to delegate authority to the Town Clerk, in consultation with the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Finance Committee, to approve that any underspends on other grant budgets held within City’s Cash be considered for transfer to the CGU for equal allocation to the three City’s Cash funding themes or to be allocated for specific charitable purposes elsewhere.

 

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