Decision details

At its meeting of 18th October 2023, Council approved the council's
Community Grants Policy and Priorities. The council's 2024/25 budget approved by Council on 28th February 2024 included an allocation of £40,000 for community grants in 2024/25.
Following a call for bids which saw the £40,000 pot being oversubscribed, assessment of the bids using the published scoring criteria has led to 15 successful applications which will share in the £40,000 available.
The Head of Housing and Health is making this decision under authority delegated at paragraph 10.16.28 of the council’s Constitution to ‘devise and administer arrangements for distributing grants to improve the health and wellbeing of local people’. The Executive Member for Communities has been consulted as part of the decision-making process.

Award of £40,000 of community grants to the following recipients:
* 2nd Bengeo Scout Troop - £3000
* Age Concern Bishop’s Stortford - £3000
* Buntingford Senior Citizens Club - £400
* Generation Circus - £3000
* Great Amwell Scouts - £3000
* Grove Cottage (Mencap) - £2,673.73
* Love Bengeo Community Garden Project - £3000
* Mudlarks -£1,448.27
* Ore Projects - £3000
* Phoenix Charity - £2500
* Retune Wellbeing - £3000
* Sawbridgeworth Memorial Trust Hall - £3000
* Sporting Inspirations CIC - £2,978
* Walkern Parish Council - £3000
* Wellbeing Works Partnership CIC – £3000

Option 1 - Fund the initiatives as described. RECOMMENDED.
Option 2 - Not fund all or some of the works. NOT RECOMMENDED because Council made available £40,000 in 2024/25 for the purpose of furthering the community health and wellbeing, arts and cultural and sustainability priorities in the approved Community Grants Policy.