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

e-mail: [email protected]

1. Summary

1.1 This report makes recommendation in respect of a number of applications for funding from the LSPs, which are subject to approval by the Executive Member for Community Development and External Affairs.

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 £213,000 in 2005/06 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 External Affairs can approve amounts between £2000 and £10,000. Amounts exceeding £10,000 must be referred by the Executive Member to the Leader for decision with a recommendation.

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 they support the themes of the Community Strategy for Hampshire.

3. Current bids

3.1 The following bids have been approved by the Chief Executive:

3.1.2 The sum of £2000 to meet the costs incurred from the Corporate Information Centres for the work involved in designing a training plan, team building event, furniture and equipment and catering costs for the Hart Neighbourhood Centre.

3.1.3 The sum of £2,000 to produce a video of the play `Voluntary Vera so that it can be used as a training tool to raise awareness of and instruct in the application of the One Compact for Hampshire.

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

Havant LSP- £10,000 (funding form 1 refers)

Winchester LSP- £9,500 (funding form 2 refers)

East Hampshire LSP- £8,000 (funding form 3 refers)

East Hampshire LSP - £3,000 (funding form 4 refers)

3.3 The budget for this financial year 2005/2006 has been agreed at £213,000,less efficiency saving of £2400. This together with the agreed carry forward of £145,000 gives a total of £355,600. These bids will be met in 2006/07.

(See attached appendix A).

Recommendation

To approve the following allocations:

The sum of £10,,000 for the Havant LSP

The sum of £9,500 for the Winchester LSP

The sum of £8,000 for the East Hampshire LSP

The sum of £3,000 for the East Hampshire LSP

Section 100 D - Local Government Act 1972 - background papers

The following documents disclose facts or matters on which this report, or an important part of it, is based and has been relied upon to a material extent in the preparation of this report.

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2. Documents which disclose exempt or confidential information as defined in the Act.

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