Agenda item

Progress Report

Report of the Chief Grants Officer.

Minutes:

The Committee received the regular progress report of the Chief Grants Officer and discussed the updates provided.

 

Development of the Strategic Review Implementation Delivery Plan

 

The CGO reported that a cross-team staff group had been established in order to develop the delivery plan for the Strategic Review 2018-2023, Bridging Divides and overseeing its implementation. Regular updates would be provided to the Committee.

In addition, a cross departmental ‘task and finish’ group would be established to consider how the City of London Corporation could be the most effective trustee of Bridge House Estates, and to consider the ways in which its assets could be used to support CBT to implement its next strategy.

 

The Divide event at The Charterhouse

 

The Committee was advised that on the 24th July 2017 a joint event with Trust for London was held at The Charterhouse (a recently refurbished historic building in the City for which the CBT had provided funding towards disability access works.

 

The event was an opportunity for both the Trust and Trust for London to thank

those that had been involved in their respective Strategic Reviews and

introduce their Funding Strategies for the next five years.

 

Stepping Stones Fund

 

The CGO reported that representatives from City Bridge Trust and UBS had met on 8September to review funding proposals for the fourth round of the Stepping Stones Fund.

 

 

Bridge to Work official launch

 

The CGO was pleased to confirm that a date had been set for an event to mark the official launch of the £3.3m Bridge to Work programme – supporting disabled young Londoners into and in employment.

 

The launch would be held on Thursday 19October between 12 noon and

1.30pm and thanks to the consultant project manager, James Lee, it would be held in the State Rooms of The Speaker’s House in Westminster and The Speaker was expected to be present for part of the event.

 

 

London Emergencies Trust (LET)

 

LET continued to operate for the Grenfell Tower Disaster. So far from the £4.8m they had received for distribution £2m had been paid out with the remainder earmarked for payment to cases they expected to emerge over the next weeks and months.

 

Trusts and Foundations update (GOLD Command).

Grenfell GOLD Command had been working closely with the Royal Borough

of Kensington and Chelsea over the past few months to agree which services

would transition back to the local authority for on-going management. The work

strand that coordinated the work of the various trusts and foundations would

continue to be overseen by the Chief Grants Officer until 2018 to ensure

consistency of approach and to ensure that the necessary expertise and

experience was in place.

 

Members away day

 

Members were reminded that the CBT Committee Members’ half day away (morning) would be taking place on 31October 2017 and would focus on the implementation of the ‘Bridging Divides’ strategy, the agenda for which would be issued closer to the time.

 

Central Grants Programme (CGP)

 

The CGO advised that in order to increase the strategic impact of grant-making across the City of London Corporation, and ensure that the grants were managed more efficiently and effectively, the CGP had been set up to manage all grant applications, monitoring and evaluation processes and Committee reporting procedures.

 

Human Resources

 

Members received the current CBT staff organogram and noted the following:

 

· Hannah Davey, Social Investment Fund Associate was now in post

· Lily Brandhorst, Grants Administrator, was now in post

· Nadia Large, the CBT Apprentice was now in post.

· Fiona Rawes, The Head of Philanthropy Strategy would be in post as of mid

October 2017.

 

 

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