Issue - meetings

Allocation of Community Grants

Meeting: 26/10/2015 - Cabinet Member for Communities (Item 37)

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To consider the allocation of grants to community and voluntary organisations.

Decision:

That approval be given for the Community Grants listed to be awarded, declined or deferred as indicated.

 

Minutes:

The Cabinet Member for Communities considered a report on the allocation of community grants.

 

Cheshire East Council had received various applications for community grants to be considered in line with the Council’s Policy for the Allocation of Community Grants. Each grant application was outlined in the report, as was the reason for the recommendation in respect of that application.

 

At the meeting, the officers reported that Holmes Chapel Partnership required funding for their project which focussed on the bond between grandparents and grandchildren, and improving their heart health. The Partnership had received contributions from other sources and it was recommended that a grant of £1,000 be awarded. In addition, Tatton Singers were celebrating their 40th season and required funding to hire an orchestra for their upcoming concert. The choir would receive income from ticket and programme sales as well as donations. It was recommended that a grant of £300 be awarded subject to conditions.

 

With the additional grant applications reported at the meeting, the total amount to be awarded in this round was £42,089. All of the proposed grants could be funded from within existing budgets approved as part of the Council’s Budget for 2015/16.

 

RESOLVED

 

That the Community Grants listed below be awarded, declined or deferred as indicated:

 

Events

 

Beartown Patchwork and Quilters

Awarded £100

Poynton Parish Plan Monitoring Group

Awarded £1,000

The Women’s Community Forum

Tatton Singers

Declined

Awarded £300

 

Activities

14th Macclesfield, St John’s Guides

Declined

Alderley and Wilmslow Musical Theatre Company

Awarded £1,000

Cheshire Schools Football Association

Awarded £150

Crewe Arabic Centre

Awarded £1,000

HIP in Cheshire

Awarded £350

Holmes Chapel Partnership

Awarded £1,000

Knutsford Heritage Centre

Awarded £1,000

Macclesfield Tennis Club

Declined

 

Facilities

1st Alsager Scout Group

Deferred

1st Goostrey Scout Group

Awarded £5,000

Aston and District Cricket Club

Awarded £2,000

Barnswood Management Committee

Awarded £1,000

Cheshire Streetwise CIC

Declined

Church Minshull Village Hall

Declined

EDGE Inclusion Partners

Declined

Egerton Youth Zone

Awarded £5,000

Elim Christian Life Centre

Awarded £3,500

Hurdsfield Community Group

Deferred

Just Drop In Youth Information and Advice

Awarded £940

Langley Cricket Club

Awarded £1,500

Reach Out and Recover

Awarded £5,000

Rode Heath Village Hall

Awarded £3,000

St Chad’s Handforth

Awarded £3,500

Wilmslow Cricket Club

Awarded £1,800

Wrenbury Bowling Club

Awarded £3,949