Issue - meetings

A verbal presentation was given by the Assistant Community Engagement Officer on behalf of The Letchworth Centre for Healthy Living regarding their grant application.

Audio Recording: 26:40

A verbal presentation was given by the Assistant Community Engagement Officer on behalf of The Letchworth Centre for Healthy Living regarding their grant application, this included:

·        The Letchworth Centre for Healthy Living provide wellbeing classes for all ages; a counselling service, therapy clinic, addressing mental health and wellbeing for young people and teachers with Mindfulness programmes, a wellbeing programme aimed at older people with mobility problems and more;

·        Seeking funding for a disability ramp to provide access to their classroom building;

·        Rail will benefit anyone who has difficulty mounting steps, people with mobility problems, wheelchair users and mothers with pushchairs;

·        Planning on seeking the remaining funding for their own users and from fundraising events; from local supermarkets which have generously funded them in the past and from several grant making trusts that fund small capital projects such as this one.

Councillor David Levett commented that he used to run an engineering company that provided handrails. The projected cost is far higher than what it should be. All the components required to do this together with fitting the handrail come to about £980.

Councillor Amy Allen suggested that, in light of the comments by Councillor Levett, the committee should offer a deferment on this application, to allow the applicants to check their figures and get a better quote.