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The report of the Head of Stronger Communities 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 for 2020/21.

(Report attached) 

The report of the Head of Stronger Communities 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 Budget for 2020/21.

Members were informed of the follow points:

·  Paragraph 18 showed the remaining balance of £33,029.01 for the Wellbeing Fund. A full breakdown of the projects was listed in Table 1;

·  Members were requested to consider the following application were set out at paragraphs 21 – 23 of the submitted report and also within the supplementary information which had been circulated to Members.

o  Burley Foodbank Distribution Centre (part of Leeds N&W

Foodbank) for £1,064

o  Crafting Corner – Women’s crafting group for £1,110

o  Bramley Community Christmas Comedy & Variety Show for £1,350

o  Inner West Youth Community Committee for £870 (£290 per ward)

o  A Midsummer Night’s Showcase in Bramley Park for £500

o  Breeze Saturday Night Project Christmas Activity Box Amount applied for was set in 3 options dependent on what was to be provided

§  Option 1: £3,160.00

§  Option 2: £4,385.00

§  Option 3: £5,120.00

·  Table 2 provided a breakdown of payments by ward for Covid payments;

·  Table 3 showed the wellbeing projects that had been funded but had not started yet due to Covid restrictions. It was noted that some organisations were still hoping to provide some of the activities before the end of the financial year. Members made the suggestion that money put aside for VE and VJ Day, be put into a separate pot for use on another project;

·  Monitoring information had been provided by Barca in relation to the Young people-led participative research / social action project;

·   A total of £30,926.04 has been allocated to projects for the Youth Activity Fund, as listed in Table 4 with a remaining balance of £19,132.35;

·  Table 5 and 6 presented the small grants and skips provided;

·  Table 7 gave a breakdown of the capital budget projects;

·  Table 8 showed the remaining CIL budget after the latest injection into the CIL Budget.

Cllr McKenna requested an update in relation to funding for use on the Victoria Parks. It was noted that no update had been received, but this would be chased up and reported back to Members.

RESOLVED – To note the following:

a. Details of the Wellbeing Budget position (Table 1)

b. Wellbeing & Capital proposals for consideration and approval (paragraph 21-23)

c. Details of Payments from Covid-19 Wellbeing Budget (Table 2)

d. Details of Projects funded by the committee that have not yet started (Table 3)

e. Monitoring information of its funded projects (paragraph 28-30)

f. Details of the Youth Activities Fund (YAF) position (Table 4)

g. Details of the Small Grants Budget (Table 5)

h. Details of the Community Skips Budget (Table 6)

i. Details of the Capital Budget (Table 7)

j. Details of the Community Infrastructure Levy Budget (Table 8)

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The Members also approved the following applications:

1.  Burley Foodbank Distribution Centre (part of Leeds N&W

Foodbank) - St Matts Leeds for £1,064

2. Crafting Corner – Women’s crafting group. Community Links and Leeds City Council for £1,110

3. Bramley Community Christmas Comedy & Variety Show. Bramley Community Centre (managed by BEA) for £1,350

4. Inner West Youth Community Committee Leeds Youth Service for £870 (£290 per ward)

5. A Midsummer Night’s Showcase in Bramley Park Front Room Productions for £500

Members requested further information in relation to Breeze Saturday Night Project Christmas Activity Box.