Decision details

The Executive RESOLVED that

(i)            the Community Fund Grant Scheme be retained, the application process be simplified, and new applications continue to be accepted twice a year;

(ii)           a further £50,000 be allocated from the Community Fund Grant Scheme to be used to provide as an emergency food poverty grant scheme to extend this until 31 March 2022;

(iii)         a review of the Council’s range of Community Grant schemes to ensure local needs and priorities continue to be met beyond the pandemic be carried out by November 2021;

(iv)         the Poverty Working Group Terms of Reference, as set out Annex B to the agenda report, be adopted; and

(v)          the outcome from the consultation event in December 2020, as set out Annex B to the agenda report, be noted.