Issue - decisions

Agreed that:

1. approval be given for the extension of the existing Grant Aid Strategy (2017-20) for 12 further months from 1st April 2021 to 31st March 2022 as outlined in the report.

2. approval be given to the Grant Aid budget for the extension period of £1.437m for the financial year 2021-2022, as detailed within the report.

3. approval be given to the individual grant awards, as detailed within the report, and delegated authority be granted to the Head of Communities to enter into any such funding agreements, where no such authority exists under the Leaders Scheme of Delegations (LSOD).

4. approval be given to the re-launch of the Tackling Inequality Fund for applications, in line with the report.   Where no such authority exists under the LSOD, delegated authority be granted to the Head of Communities, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Neighbourhoods and Community Safety to award and manage such grant awards in line with the report.

5. approval be given for the extension of the Lunch Club fund for a 12 month period for 2021/22, and where no authority exists under the LSOD, delegated authority be granted to the Head of Communities to agree such changes to the use the grant by the recipient, to support changes to their activity due to the impact of Covid 19.

6. approval be given to the support for the development of a Sheffield Voluntary Sector Strategy in line with the report.

7. where no existing authority exists under the LSOD, delegated authority be granted to the Head of Communities authority to:

(i)  agree the amounts, purposes and recipients of any individual grants awarded in year from the Grant Funds including any additional sums received, returned or unpaid and to carry out such management and award and withdrawal of such funding as necessary and in line with this report.

(ii) allocate any other additional sums that may be received in year from other parts of the Council or other partners as part of the Voluntary Sector Grant Aid process to fund local voluntary sector activity.

(iii) move the budgets between the stated grant streams if an underspend is identified during the financial year or to respond to needs during Covid Recovery.

(iv) make any necessary changes to the ‘outcomes and delivery’ of grants for 2021/22, in line with the objectives of the report.