Agenda item

The report of the Head of Locality Partnerships provides the Community Committee with an update on the budget position for the Wellbeing Fund, Youth Activity Fund, Capital Budget, as well as the Community Infrastructure Levy Budget 2021/22.

(Report attached)

The report of the Head of Locality Partnerships provided the Community Committee with an update on the budget position for the Wellbeing Fund, Youth Activity Fund, Capital Budget, as well as the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) Budget for 2021/22.

Members were advised that the following projects had been considered and approved since the Inner East Community Committee held on 15^th December 2021:

·  Knee Rail – Cromwell Street, Lincoln Green – 16/12/21

·  Educational Trip for low income Families – 16/12/21

·  SCOT Projects – 16/12/21

·  Nowell Mount Community Centre, Activity the Space – 16/12/21

·  Burmantofts & Richmond Hill Community Anchor – 16/12/21

·  Playbox & Friends – 27/10/21

·  CCTV – Temporary Ashton Street – 18/01/22

·  Let’s Read (Nowell Mount After School Club) – 28/01/22

Members were invited to consider the following projects:

Members received the following information:

• The current remaining balance of the Wellbeing Budget is £104,693.97. Table 1 provided a list of the projects funded so far 2021/22.
• Two projects had been declined since the last Community Committee on the 15^th December 2021 and members were provided with the rationale for those decisions:
  • Burmantofts & Richmond Hill Football Coaching Programme
  • International Women’s Day
• Project monitoring information provided by the BSA Welcome Back Party delivered in the Burmantofts & Richmond Hill ward
• The remaining balance for the Youth Activity Fund is £51,361.14. The projects which had been supported were listed at Table 2.
• Table 3 listed the Small Grants and skips which have been requested. The remaining balances were noted as: Burmantofts and Richmond Hill £2,454.17, Gipton and Harehills £3,761.17 and Killingbeck and Seacroft £5,466.67. (a total of £11,682.01)
• The Tasking Budget showed a balance of £5,252.44 remaining
• Table 5 detailed the Capital projects with a remaining budget available of £85,659.69 with a ward breakdown as; Burmantofts and Richmond Hill - £27,031.76, Gipton and Harehills - £39,450.60, and Killingbeck and Seacroft - £19,177.33.
• Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) was detailed in Table 6. A remaining balance of £75,673.07 was available with the ward breakdown as follows; Burmantofts and Richmond Hill - £19,145.71, Gipton and Harehills - £33,511.65, and Killingbeck and Seacroft - £23,015.71.

RECOMMENDATION –

a)  To note details of the Wellbeing Budget (Table 1); 

b)  To recommend approval to the Wellbeing funding proposals outlined above and detailed in Paragraph 20 – 37 of the report;

c)  To note details of Delegated Decision Notice (Paragraph 38);

d)  To note details of Declined Projects (Paragraph 39);

e)  To note details of Monitoring Information (Paragraph 40);

f)  To note details of the Youth Activities Fund (Table 2) Paragraph 43);

g)  To note details of the Small Grants & Skips Budget (Table 3) Paragraph 44);

h)  To note details of the Tasking Budget (Table 4) Paragraph 45);

i)  To note details of the Capital Budget (Table 5) Paragraph 46);

j)  To note details of the Community Infrastructure Levy Budget (Table 6) Paragraph 47).