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PARTNERSHIP FUNDING AND SUPPORT IN RECREATION AND HERITAGE - CONSULTATION PROPOSALS
1. The Recreation and Heritage Services of the County Council currently provide support to a wide range of organisations and individuals in Hampshire through grants and other indirect means. The total value of this support is approximately £2.3m which in 2003/04 helped 180 organisations and 70 individuals, this often levers in further support upto as much as 1:9. The current pattern of partnership funding and support originates from the different strands of activity within the Recreation and Heritage Department and has developed over time. Each has its own processes for receiving, assessing and approving grant applications and subsequently administering, monitoring and evaluating grant awards.
2. With the formation of the Recreation and Heritage Department it was felt appropriate to re-assess these arrangements in terms of their contribution to corporate, departmental and service objectives and in the light of the findings of the corporate best value review of support for the voluntary and community sector. A small officer team was formed last year to carry out a review of Recreation and Heritage partnership support. The team has now completed a mapping and analysis exercise to establish the range and value of the partnership funding and support provided by Recreation and Heritage, current policies and policy objectives for all partnership funding schemes and the different application, award, administration, monitoring and evaluation processes in place.
3. On 24th February the Recreation and Heritage Policy Review Committee together with the Executive Member discussed the outcome of this review and the next stage of the process is to agree a set of key proposals as the basis of a wider consultation with partners, other stakeholders and members of the public. One of the main conclusions of the review was that the partnership funding and support arrangements in the Recreation and Heritage services should be brought in line with the principles of the "Hampshire Compact" (the framework for the relationship between the County Council and the voluntary and community sector).
4. The Recreation and Heritage Policy Review Committee has endorsed and the Executive Member has approved the consultation document as the basis for a formal public consultation with the consultation period ending in September and the final proposals to be considered by the Policy Review Committee and the Executive Member in November, 2004.