Issue - meetings

REPORT OF THE POLICY AND COMMUNITIES MANAGER

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

RESOLVED: That the Committee endorses the actions taken by the Community Engagement team to promote greater community capacity and well-being for Royston.

Audio Recording – 10 minutes 20 seconds

The Community Engagement Officer presented the report entitled Grants & Community Update and highlighted the following key points:

·        Having just awarded £500 to Make Lunch Royston the remaining budget of the Area Committee for the civic year stands at £6,632;

·        Two projects are in the pipeline and may come to a future meeting for a grant application. Those organisations being the Royston Choral Society and Royston Community First Responders;

·        8.3.1 and 8.3.4 detail two S106 funding updates for 4 sets of new goals for the Youth Football Club and resurfacing the BMX track from Royston Rockets;

·        Work is ongoing with the Royston Museum, the Town Council and the Community Centre to find funding for upcoming projects;

·        8.3.19 provides an update on the pathway between Green Drift and Ivy Lane, which has had work on the horizon for a few years now.

In response to a question from Councillor Gerald Morris the Community Engagement Officer advised that, should the Committee agree to use £1500 of their budget towards the ‘Free after 3pm’ parking initiative, the Committee will have a budget remaining of £5130 to allocate at the last two meetings.

Councillor Tony Hunter as Chairman proposed and Councillor Ruth Brown 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 Royston.