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Tackling Inequalities in the city through investing in Grants to the Voluntary and Community Sector 2022-2023

15/02/2022 - Tackling Inequalities in the city through investing in Grants to the Voluntary and Community Sector 2022-2023

That the Leader of the Council:

 

1. Approve the extension of the existing Grant Aid Strategy (2017-20) for 12 further months from 1st April 2022 to 31st March 2023 as outlined in the report;

 

2. Approve the Grant Aid budget for the extension period of £1.437m for the financial year 2022-2023 as detailed within the report;

 

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

 

4. Approve that the Tackling Inequality Fund be allocated, in line with the report.   Where no such authority exists under the LSOD, delegate authority to Head of Communities in consultation with the Co-operative Executive Member for Community Engagement and Governance to award and manage such grant awards in line with the report;

 

5. Approve the extension of the Lunch Club fund for a 12 month period for 2022/23, and where no authority exists under the LSOD delegate authority 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 impact of Covid 19; and

 

6. Where no existing authority exists under the LSOD delegate 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 the 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; and

 

(iv)          Make any necessary changes to the ‘outcomes and delivery’ of grants for 2022/23 in line with the objectives of the report.