16 SUPPORTING COMMUNITIES FUND REVIEW PDF 635 KB
Report by Chief Executive
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Minutes:
The Council considered a report which highlighted changes to the Council’s Supporting Communities Fund to improve the process for communities which included clearer criteria for applications and an extension to the period to time awarded funds are able to be use by groups.
Decision
1.
The Council agreed the four main
criteria for applications, as set out in 4.2 of the report, being:
· Fairer Communities – tackling
poverty by sharing opportunities.
· Resilient
Communities –
rebuilding and repairing from a pandemic;
noting that this is only in the
case of the group being
unable to access other specific funds for this, e.g. Scottish Government funding.
· Greener,
cleaner communities – climate
change mitigation
· Creative
Communities -
Creativity for Health and Wellbeing
2. Agreed
that all applicants awarded funding have 18 months to complete their project.
3. Agree
that all applicants awarded funding are to display the Council logo in
communications and promotions of their funded project.
4. Agree
that improvements are made to the application and end of monitoring report to
support the evaluation of the fund’s impact on reducing inequalities.
5. Agree
a fast track application process, as outlined in 4.6, be explored for financial
year 2022-23.
6. Agree
that the fund for 2021/22 opens for applications on 11 January 2021 and closes
on 20 March 2021.
(Ref: Report by Chief Executive dated 3 November 2020, submitted)
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