Issue - meetings
GRANTS AND COMMUNITY UPDATES
Meeting: 21/09/2022 - Letchworth Committee (Item 70)
70 GRANTS AND COMMUNITY UPDATE 
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REPORT OF THE POLICY AND COMMUNITIES MANAGER
To advise the Members on the current expenditure and balances of the Committee Grant budgets.
To bring to the Members’ attention to recent requests received for Committee grant funding, made by community groups and local organisations.
To advise of the activities and schemes with which the Community Engagement officers have been involved in.
To bring to the Members’ attention some important community-based activities that will take place during the next few months.
Additional documents:
Decision:
RESOLVED: That the Committee endorses the actions taken by the Community Engagement team to promote greater community capacity and well-being for Letchworth.
Minutes:
Audio Recording: 50:55
The Assistant Community Engagement Officer presented the report entitled Grants and Community Update and highlighted the following key points:
· The 2022/23 base budget was £11,000 with £956 carried forward from the last year’s budget;
· £2050 was granted at the last meeting, leaving a budget of £9906;
· Following from the grants provided today, the budget sits at £6146 for the remainder of the civic year;
· Have resurrected a couple of network groups; which had moved online due to COVID; this works well as we are able to do these network groups in the morning; the Jackmans Network Group and the Grange Network Group are along those resurrected;
· Recently had an Arts & Culture Network Group which was very well attended; Stuart Sapsford was invited to present on their new Culture Strategy;
· Also been asked to be part of a webinar for North Herts CVS on a short online presentation to highlight local support available for Ukrainian refugees, available from 27th September;
· Team are developing youth democracy activities for Primary School Children to celebrate Local Democracy Week.
Councillor Ian Mantle proposed and Councillor Tom Plater seconded and, following a vote, it was:
RESOLVED: That the Committee endorses the actions taken by the Community Engagement team to promote greater community capacity and well-being for Letchworth.