Agenda item

The Executive RESOLVED that

             (i)         subject to the conditions set out in the agenda report the following grants be awarded from the Council’s Community Fund Grant Scheme:

a.    £3,000 to W.C. Lee Alms-Houses to convert a bedsit to a 1 bedroomed property;

b.    £3,000 to Camberley Alzheimer Café to run the man with a pan course in June 2020;

c.    £480 to St Francis Church Hall to purchase a new cooker; and

            (ii)        a decision on the award of a grant to Valley End Cricket Club for new carpeting and flooring for the pavilion be delegated to the Executive Head of Transformation in consultation with the Support & Safeguarding Portfolio Holder, to a maximum of £5,000 and subject to a review of the organisation’s latest accounts.

The Executive considered 4 grant applications to the Council’s Community Fund Grant Scheme.

Members considered each application, noting the impact that each project would have and, where relevant, comparable funding provided by other authorities and fundraising obtained by the applicant.

It was agreed to defer the decision on whether to award a grant to Valley End Cricket Club for new carpeting and flooring for the pavilion and delegate it to the Executive Head of Transformation in consultation with the Support & Safeguarding Portfolio Holder. Any decision would be subject to a review of the organisation’s latest accounts and would be to a maximum of £5,000.

RESOLVED that

                         (i)        subject to the conditions set out in the agenda report, the following grants be awarded from the Council’s Community Fund Grant Scheme:

a.    £3,000 to W.C. Lee Alms-Houses to convert a bedsit to a 1 bedroom property;

b.    £3,000 to Camberley Alzheimer Café to run the Man With a Pan Course in June 2020;

c.    £480 to St Francis Church Hall to purchase a new cooker; and

                        (ii)        a decision on the award of a grant to Valley End Cricket Club for new carpeting and flooring for the pavilion be delegated to the Executive Head of Transformation in consultation with the Support & Safeguarding Portfolio Holder, to a maximum of £5,000 and subject to a review of the organisation’s latest accounts.

Note 1: The following declarations of interest were made:

(i)            Councillor Vivienne Chapman declared that she was involved with the Alzheimer Café; and

(ii)          in accordance with the Members’ Code of Conduct, Councillor Emma-Jane McGrath declared a non-pecuniary interest as she was a trustee of W.C. Lees’s Resthouses.