Contact: Frances Martin, Community Strategy Officer Ext: 5122

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1. Summary

1.1 This report makes recommendations in respect of a number of applications for funding from various LSPs across the County, which have either been approved by the Chief Executive; are subject to approval by the Executive Member for Community Development and Regeneration; or which require referral to the Leader for approval.

2. Background

2.1 A budget for supporting projects derived from the County Council's statutory duty to prepare a community strategy has been set up and this includes a budget for pump priming the Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs) and to develop further community strategies.

2.2 Each of the 11 LSP's are encouraged to bid for money from this budget to support the development of their LSPs and for the pump priming of projects.

2.3 The budget is also available for the development and implementation of the Hampshire Strategic Partnership.

2.4 The Chief Executive can approve amounts of less than £2000. The Executive Member for Community Development and Regeneration can approve amounts between £2000 and £5000. Amounts exceeding £5000 must be approved by the Executive Member and referred, with a recommendation to the Leader for decision.

2.5 Appendix B sets out the funding criteria for which bids will be approved. They are intended as guidelines and not prescriptive rules.

3. Current bids

3.1 As approved by the Chief Executive, the following bids have been received:

3.1.2 The sum of £1,000 from the Havant Local Strategic Partnership for a contribution towards the catering costs for a partnership forum event on the 13^th February. A recognised weakness of the existing LSP structure is the limited ability to engage the wider community, it is hoped that the partnership forum, through focusing on the community will address this weakness in the implementation of the Community Strategy.

3.1.3 The sum of £1,350 from the Hart Community Partnership for a contribution towards holding an event to consult with young people on the draft Community Strategy for Hart. The money will be used for:

· Consultation conference at Pine Ridge Bowling Alley for 50 young people £400 for bowling and £250 for coach hire

· Consultation during lessons at 7 local schools, which will cost £700 for printing, travelling expenses, incentives and additional staffing costs

3.1.4 The sum of £1,000 from Networkfareham for a contribution towards the cost of designing and printing Fareham's Community Strategy. The total cost of for designing and printing is estimated to be £5,000 and other contributions are from Fareham Borough Council, Fareham and Gosport PCT and National Air Traffic Services.

3.1.5 The sum of £1,000 from the East Hampshire Community Partnership as a contribution towards the associated costs of hosting the wider partnership conference held on the 4^th November.

3.2 The following bids are for consideration by the Executive Member for Community Development and Regeneration:

3.2.1 The sum of £2,000 from the Hampshire Strategic Partnership for a contribution towards a HIOWA Community Planning event on the 28^th January 2004. The one day event is for LSP members and those staff who support them across all of the 12 LSPs in Hampshire. The day will focus on both cross LSP working and the specifics of two tier working as well as addressing training needs in the context of Community Planning

3.2.2 The sum of £2,500 from the Hart Community Partnership for a contribution to the printing, launch and publicity arrangements for the consultation document produced by the partnership. Contributions have also been secured from Hart District Council, The Parish Council, Voluntary Sector and the environment group.

3.3 The following bid is recommended to the Leader for approval:

3.3.1 The sum of £50,000 from the Hampshire Strategic Partnership to support a project aimed at reducing the emergency admissions of older people to acute hospital beds in the county. The County Council, in partnership with PCTs and the Strategic Health Authority has been working as part of the Innovation Forum to develop this project, which brings together front line social care staff and GPs to identify the most vulnerable older people and to anticipate their needs and put in place services to try and prevent the need for hospitalisation.

3.3.2 The £50,000 will aim to pump prime the administration and management elements of the project including the employment on a contract basis of a project manager, contribution towards the costs of a Senior Practitioner in social care and the development of the monitoring and evaluation systems.

3.3.3 The project has received £10,000 from the NHS Change Agency Team and additional resources are to be allocated by the PCTs involved to provide co-ordinators at the local level.

3.3.4 The project aims to promote greater independence of older people and prevent accidents in the home, which directly supports the issues identified in the Strong and Safe Communities and Health and Wellbeing themes in the Community Strategy for Hampshire.

3.3.5. The unspent funds from 2002/03 (£119,252) has been agreed to be carried over to the budget for this financial year (2003/04). Added together this gives a total of £309,252. Following the above approved bids the total spend in relation to the budget is £251,489 leaving £57,763 (see attached appendix A).

Recommendations

The following recommendations are sought:

1. To approve the allocation of £2,000 for the Hampshire Strategic Partnership as a contribution towards a HIOWA Community Planning event on the 28^th January 2004.

2. To approve the allocation of £2,500 for the Hart Community Partnership as a contribution to the printing, launch and publicity arrangements for the consultation document produced by the partnership.

2. To recommend to the Leader for decision an allocation of £50,000 for the

Hampshire Strategic Partnership, to support a project aimed at reducing the emergency admissions of older people to acute hospital beds in the county.

Section 100 D - Local Government Act 1972 - background papers

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