Agenda item

The Committee considered a report of the Chief Grants officer which recommended that sixteen grant applications from the Working with Londoners programme be rejected for the reason identified in the schedule attached to the report.

A Member raised concerns over the rejection of an organisation for reasons that seemed to mirror the reasons given for other grants that had been approved. Officers advised that the organisation had been rejected for reasons beyond those given that could not be listed in public papers without seeming punitive.

It was discussed that for organisations that were requesting grants up to £50,000 a different due diligence form could be developed to make the level of required information proportionate to the size of request.  This might be especially helpful for smaller organisations which may not have the same administrative capacity as larger ones.