Agenda item

To consider the report of West North West Area Leader to provide the Community Committee with an update on the budget position for 2016/17, detailing the current position of the Wellbeing revenue fund, the Small Grants and Skips pots, and the Capital pot. This report also provides an update on the Youth Activity Fund. 

(Report attached)

The report of the West North West Area Leader provided the Community Committee with an update on the budget position for 2016/17, detailing the current position of the Wellbeing revenue fund, the Small Grants and Skips pots, and the Capital pot. The report also provided an update on the Youth Activity Fund.

Members’ attention was drawn to point 6 of the submitted report which advised them that the Community Committee had £49,109 of funding available for allocation. It was noted that this did not include the Youth Activity Fund, small grants or skips budgets still available to spend.

Members were informed that table 1 of the submitted report included details per ward of the total revenue available for allocation in 2016/17, including any carry forward from previous years, and the amount of Wellbeing currently available to spend per ward.

Members considered and discussed the following new projects as set out in the submitted report:

·  Aireborough Support Activity Scheme 2017/18

·  Site based Gardener 2017/18

·  OPAL – Welcome In roof repairs

·  Target Hardening 2017/18

·  Rawdon Community Library Bookshelves

It was noted that the remaining balance of the Youth Activity Fund is £5,041.

Members were advised of an under spend on a completed project for the delivery of basketball taster sessions by Bradford Dragons Basketball Club. The under spend of £1,152 had been paid back into the Youth Activity Fund. 

Members noted the amount of Capital available to spend per ward as set out at Table 6 of the submitted report.

RESOLVED – That the Community Committee:

·  Note the current budget position for the Wellbeing Fund for 2016/17 (Table 1of submitted report) and attached at appendix 1

·  Consider the new Wellbeing large grant application detailed at sections 9 – 13 of the submitted report.

·  Note the current budget position for the Youth Activity Fund detailed at sections 14 to 17 of the submitted report and considered the new Youth Activity Fund application at section 16 of the submitted report

·  Note the small grants that have been approved since the last meeting (Table 2) of submitted report and the remaining small grants budget (Table 3) of the submitted report

·  Note the skips that have been approved since the last meeting (Table 4) of the submitted report and the remaining skips budget (Table 5) of the submitted report

·  Note the current budget position for the Capital Wellbeing Fund for 2016/17 (Table 6) of the submitted report.