Issue - meetings

To make a decision in relation to two awards and agree to review the grant funding criteria for 2024/25.

The Committee considered a report from the Strategic Lead of Leisure and Community Development on delayed decisions for community grants.

The Committee considered community grant applications at their meeting in January 2023. Since agreement, two further applications had been identified as submitted during the funding window, but were missed as they were not submitted correctly. The two applications related to a salary costs for an individual, and the grants panel recommended that both applications be rejected as they felt the grant funding budget should not be used to provide salary costs for chief executives of charitable organisations. The panel also suggested that for clarification in future that factor should be incorporated in future funding criteria.

The Committee resolved to:

1)    Approve the cross-party grant panel recommendations in relation to the funding bids from Stanwell Events and Stanwell Foodbank.

2)    Review the Council’s annual grant funding criteria and to stipulate that the basis for their Grant Funding Panel’s recommendation should be incorporated into the funding criteria in future.