Contact: Jo White, Policy Officer (Community Strategy) Ext: 5004

e-mail: [email protected]

1. Summary

1.1 This report makes recommendations in respect of a number of applications for funding from various LSPs across the County, which are subject to approval by the Executive Member for Community Development and Regeneration.

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 of £208,000 in 2004/5 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 £10,000. Amounts exceeding £10,000 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.

2.6 The relevant local Member's views are taken into account through the LSP mechanism.

2.7 These decisions support Aim 4 of the Corporate Strategy (Building Strong and Safe Communities) by working together with local people to build strong and safe communities for everyone. In addition these decisions support the themes of the Community Strategy for Hampshire.

3. Current bids

3.1 The following bid has been approved by the Chief Executive.

3.1.1 A bid for £1,000 from the Hampshire Economic Partnership has been approved under delegated authority to support the cost of a series of breakfast consultations with businesses on the South East Plan. This contributes towards Priority 2 of the HSP Development Plan "Promoting a common understanding of Hampshire's development needs".

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

3.2.1 Hart LSP - £3,000 (Attached funding form 1 refers).

3.2.2 Hampshire Strategic Partnership - £5,000 (Attached funding form 2 refers)

3.2.3 Hampshire Strategic Partnership - £10,000 (Attached funding form 3 refers)

3.3 The following bids are recommended to the Leader for approval:

3.3.1 Rushmoor LSP - £12,000 for the first year of this post. (Attached funding form 4 refers). Funding has been committed in principle for two years initially with the option to reapply on an annual basis thereafter.

3.3.2 Hampshire Strategic Partnership - £50,000 (Attached funding form 5 refers)

3.3.3 Hampshire Strategic Partnership - £25,000 (Attached funding form 6 refers)

3.4 The unspent funds from 2003/04 (£33,470) were carried over into this financial year. Added together this gave a total of £241,470. The total of the above bids will result in the 2004/05 budget being fully committed with £16,578 committed forward from the 2005/6 budget.

(See attached appendix A).

Recommendations

1. To approve the following allocations:

· The sum of £3,000 for the Hart Community Partnership.

· The sums of £5,000 and £10,000 for the Hampshire Strategic Partnership

2. To recommend to the Leader for decision the following bids:

· The sum of £12,000 for the Rushmoor Local Strategic Partnership

· The sums of £50,000 and £25,000 for the Hampshire Strategic Partnership.

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