Agenda item

Funds received from the DEFRA Hardship Fund

Decision:

The Executive RESOLVED that

 

(i)            £29,000 be awarded to Camberley Besom; and

(ii)          £11,922 be awarded to the Woking Foodbank

 

from the DEFRA Hardship funding received by the Council.

 

Minutes:

The Executive was informed that the Council had received a grant of £40,922 from Government’s DEFRA Hardship fund of a Local Authority Emergency Assistance Grant for Food. The grant could not be used fund services internally, nor for any food provisions funded during lockdown.

 

Members were reminded that the Council had fully supported Surrey Heath Prepared and its foodbank service this year.  It was forecast that the demand for food parcels would increase over the next year from either a secondCoronavirus wave, or through the downturn in the economy and increase in unemployment from the fallout from the Pandemic. It was proposed to award the full funding received, to be split between the Camberley Besom and the Woking Foodbank, which incorporated provision for the whole of Surrey Heath.

 

RESOLVED that

 

(i)        £29,000 be awarded to Camberley Besom; and

(ii)      £11,922 be awarded to the Woking Foodbank

 

from the DEFRA Hardship funding received by the Council.

 

Note: It was noted for the record that Councillor Rodney Bates declared that both he and another member of his family were involved in Camberley Besom and he indicated that he would not participate in the discussions on this item.

 

 

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