Agenda item

Report of the BHE Chief Funding Director

The Committee considered a report of the Chief Funding Director requesting funding of £864,283 over three and a half years be awarded to the Smallwood Trust to establish the Women’s London Resilience Fund, a collaborative place-based grants programme to tackle the root causes of gendered poverty, identify approaches that can be scaled and help foster resilient community networks to transform social and economic outcomes for women. The Chief Funding Director introduced the report and presented the proposal to the Committee, noting that it would be referred to the next meeting of the BHE Board if endorsed.

RESOLVED - That the Grants Committee of the BHE Board, in the discharge of functions for the City Corporation as Trustee of BHE and solely in the charity’s best interests:

i)              Endorse a grant of £864,283, as an Alliance Partnership, for onward approval by the BHE Board, to the Smallwood Trust [charity no: 205798] for onward grant making as part of the London Women’s Resilience Fund.