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 for 2023/24.

This report updated the Community Committee on the budget position for the

Wellbeing Fund, Youth Activity Fund, Capital Budget, as well as the Community

Infrastructure Levy Budget for 2023/24.

The Locality Officer presented the report highlighting the following points:

·  Paragraph 10 in relation to the Subsidy Control Act 2022, was highlighted for information. It was noted that a briefing session would be provided for Members.

·  Members were informed of a 15% cut in funding for Wellbeing and Youth Activity Fund for 2024/25.

·  The Wellbeing Fund had a remaining balance of £18,794.70 A full breakdown of the projects was listed in Table 1

·  Members were requested to give consideration on applications for the Wellbeing Fund and the Youth Activities Fund as set out at Paragraph 22 of the submitted report.

·  It was noted that since the last meeting on 21^st November 2023, there had been 1 project approved by delegated decision notice for:

o  Armley Leisure Centre Youth Space - £7,945.00

·  No projects had been declined since the last meeting.

·  Monitoring information had been provided at Paragraphs 26-30 of the report, in relation to YMCA’s project “Community Youth Worker” which had been funded by the Community Committee.

·  The Youth Activity Fund has a remaining balance of £12,191.03. A breakdown of projects was listed in Table 2.

·  Information on projects in relation to Small Grants was set out in Table 3 and community skips provided by the Community Committee were shown in Table 4.

·  The Inner West Community Committee has a capital budget of £4,892.83 available to spend. Information was summarised for Members in Table 5.

·  The Community Committee currently has £69,498.13 available to spend. A list of projects funded to date was set out at Table 6.

At this point in the meeting Cllr Rontree declared an interest as he is a member of the Kirkstall Festival Committee. He provided some information when requested by Members but took no part in the decision making on this application.

Members discussions included:

·  Request for the Wellbeing figures to be checked that had been submitted in the report.

·  It was acknowledged that Bramley and Stanningley and Kirkstall had applied for large amounts of CIL money towards projects in the wards. It was suggested that Armley should also apply for CIL money for a large project which they had suggested at the November meeting.

·  Ring-fenced funding was proposed to be approximately £7,000 per ward. This could be used for applications in relation to Christmas Lights and Trees. Applications for these would be brought to the June meeting.

·  It was suggested that the General Advice Worker funded by Kirkstall be invited to a future meeting for an update of the work they were involved in.

·  A lengthy discussion took place in relation to the funding of Kirkstall Festival, which was proposed to receive funding from all three wards.

o  It was suggested that communication in relation to the event should be delivered to all three wards, so the whole Inner West community were aware of the event.

o  Data was to be capture in relation to how many people attended from each ward.

o  The event should look to change its model and become more self-sufficient for future years.

o  It was noted that initially Bramley and Stanningley and Armley Ward Councillors had not been in favour of providing funding for this event. However, after hearing more information and that the Kirkstall Festival Committee would take on board the suggestions made by Members. All Armley, Bramley and Stanningley Members were of the view that funding should be given, with the exception of Cllr Mckenna who remained of the view that this should not be funded by Armley Ward.

·  It was suggested by Members that Interplay Theatre Trust should be invited to a future meeting, to provide more information including data for attendance from each of the wards.

·  More details were requested in relation to the application for Wellbeing in Nature including action days and location of events.

·  Dates for the Breeze events were requested.

RESOLVED – That:

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

b. Wellbeing proposals for consideration and approval (paragraph 22)

Determination of applications:

c. Details of the projects approved via Delegated Decision (paragraph 23) be noted.

d. Monitoring information of its funded projects (paragraph 27) be noted.

e. Details of the Youth Activities Fund (YAF) position (Table 2) be noted.

f. Details of the Small Grants & Skips budget Budget (Tables 3 & 4) be noted.

g. Details of the Capital Budget (Table 5) be noted.

h. Details of the Community Infrastructure Levy Budget (Table 6) be noted.