Issue - meetings

This report sets out the current position on delivering the LSP's Performance Reward Grant Main Fund valued at £1M. This - together with the associated small grants fund - forms the Local Strategic Partnership's £1.3M component of the Council’s £2m Community Enablement Fund, the arrangements for which were agreed by Cabinet in March 2011.  The LSP is charged with the management of this fund, and there is an understanding with lead LSP partners about this, but the technical release of the funding relies on Cabinet and any delegation arrangements it creates.

Councillor Paul Crossley moved the recommendations.  He explained that the reward money which had become available because the Council and its partners had successfully delivered the Local Area Agreement would, after evaluation, be allocated to projects with community support.  The Local Strategic Partnership Board was due to make its recommendations in April.

Councillor Nathan Hartley seconded the proposal and said that he had been delighted to win this reward funding from government.  He emphasised that this money was to be allocated at the local community level.

On a motion from Councillor Paul Crossley, seconded by Councillor Nathan Hartley, it was

RESOLVED (unanimously)

(1) To ENDORSE the recommendations of the Local Strategic Partnership Board in relation to next steps for the Performance Reward Grant Main Fund;

(2) To ASK for a further report and recommendations at its April meeting relating to funding for specific projects and to establish monitoring arrangements;

(3) To NOTE the progress made on other elements of the Community Enablement Fund; and

(4) To ASK for a further report at its February meeting relating to the element of the Fund designed to help disadvantaged communities, regeneration and localism projects.