Issue - meetings

REPORT OF THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TEAM LEADER

To advise the Committee on the current expenditure and balances of the Committee Grant budgets.

To bring to the Committee’s attention details of recent requests received for Committee grant funding, made by community groups and local organisations. This will include presentations from:

·         Samantha Hough – Imajica Theatre Company CIC

·         Agata Anna Kisicka – Nova Wellness CIC

·         Robert Bentley – Hitchin and Letchworth Sea Cadets

To advise the Committee of the activities and schemes with which the Community Engagement officers have been involved in.

The Community Engagement Team Leader presented the report entitled Grant Applications and Community Update as published in the supplementary agenda “GRANTS AND COMMUNITY UPDATE” along with the addendum to that supplement.

RESOLVED: That the report of the Community Engagement Team Leader be noted.

Audio Recording – 27:27

The Community Engagement Team Leader presented the report entitled Grant Applications and Community Update as published in the supplementary agenda “GRANTS AND COMMUNITY UPDATE” along with the addendum to that supplement and highlighted the following:

·                If the committee was minded to approve the grants requested at this meeting it would disburse £4450, leaving a £8410 remaining budget for the civic year;

·                The Hitchin Committee had given £1000 of grant funding to the Hitchin and Letchworth Sea Cadets towards the same project, as it was a joint organisation that served members from both towns and Baldock;

·                There was a Councillor Surgery upcoming;

·                There would be a town talk via Zoom on the coming Wednesday.

RESOLVED: That the report of the Community Engagement Team Leader be noted.