Agenda item - Finance Report

Finance Report

Meeting of Inner North West Community Committee, Thursday, 14th March, 2019 7.00 pm (Item 41.)

To receive and consider the attached report of the Area Leader

Minutes:

The report of the Area Leader provided Members with an update on the budget position for the Wellbeing Fund and Youth Activity Fund for 2018/19 and the current position of the small grants and skips pots.

It also outlined the recommendations from the Members Funding Workshop for the allocation of the Wellbeing, Capital and YAF funding for 2019/20 and the Committee was asked to consider these recommendations for approval.

Jenna Robinson, Localities Officer presented the report.

Members’ attention was brought to the remaining balances in the Wellbeing, Youth Activities and Capital budgets. Small grants approved since the last meeting were also highlighted.

An appendix outlining the Wellbeing, Youth Activites Fund and Capital funding applications was submitted. These had been considered by the Committee’s funding workshop and details of the recommendations for funding were highlighted in the report.

RESOLVED –

(1) That the current budget position for the Wellbeing Fund be noted.

(2) That the current budget position for the Youth Activity Fund be noted.

(3) That the current budget for the Small Grants and Skips be noted.

(4) That the following projects be approved from the Wellbeing allocation for 2019/20

Project Name	Organisation	Amount requested	Amount approved
Small Grants and skips	Communities Team	£6,000	£6,000
Communications budget	Communities Team	£1,500	£1,500
Festive lights	Leeds Lights	£13,788	£13,788
Irish Arts in Headingley and Hyde Park	Irish Arts Foundation	£850	£500 (small grant)
Women’s Health Group	Behno Group	£7,608	£3,800
Little London Community Fun Day	Housing Leeds	£2,000	£2,000
Hyde Park Unity Day	Hyde Park Unity Day	£5,000	£5,000
Student Robberies	WYPS crime reduction	£6,405	£4,028
Leave Leeds Tidy	Leeds University Union	£9,367	£9,367
Woodhouse Connected	Oblong Ltd	£23,366	£1,815
Everfit	The Cardigan Centre	£5,750	£2,875
Headingley Lit Fest	Poetry workshops in schools	£2,100	£2,100
Steps2work	Right Choices Project	£3,598	£3,598
Eatwell Café	CALLS	£10,056	£10,056
Homework session – helping hands	Bahar Group	£3,958	£3,958
Additional Staff for Woodhouse Moor	Safer Leeds	£12,750	£10,000
Hyde Park Community Mural Project	University of Leeds Sustainability Team	£2,670	£2,670
The LAW group	Little London Arab Women’s Group	£5,000	£5,000
Community Volunteering project	Caring Together in Woodhouse and Little London	£8,003	£8,003
Nursery 40^th Birthday Celebrations	North Leeds Community Nursery	£1,050	£500 (small grant)
Tackling noise nuisance from properties	LASBT	£6,000	£4,000
High school youth worker support	The Cardigan Centre	£8,280	£8,280
Holiday Projects	The Youth Service	£4,345	£4,345
Targeted holiday diversionary activities	Youth Justice Service and Youth Service	£2,200	£2,200

(5) That the following projects be approved from the Youth Activities Fund allocation for 2019/20

Project	Organisation	Amount requested	Amount approved
Global Mash up	Geraldine Connor Foundation	£6,900	£6,900
Meanwood Street Wise Project	Meanwood Junior Play Schemes	£2,817	£2,817
Weetwood Youth Project	Leeds Youth Service	£1,875	£1,875
Mini Breeze	Breeze projects and events team	£7,200	£7,200
Welcome In Youth Group	The Cardigan Centre	£8,625	£8,625

(6) That the following projects be approved from the Capital Fund allocation for 2019/20

Project	Organisation	Amount requested	Amount approved
Stepping up for Melville Place	Woodhouse Ridge Action Group	£15,000	£15,000
Ireland Wood Community Garden	Ireland Wood Residents group	£5,000	£5,000

Supporting documents: