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 £217,600 in 2006/07 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 bid has been approved by the Leader at his decision day on the 6^th April:

3.2 A request for funding to support project work of the Youth Interfaith Forum and the Faith and Communities Network. Hampshire SACRE has made a bid to support a proposal to develop a Youth Interfaith Forum in the county, the success of the bid is dependent on support from the County Council.

3.3 In addition a Faith and Communities Network is being developed involving adults from a range of faith groups across the county, the first meeting was held on January and over 60 people from a range of faith groups attended.

3.4 Financial support is needed to support these two networks and the decision was taken by the Leader to approve £5k from the Community Strategy Budget, which has the support from Cllr Perry.

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

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

Hampshire Strategic Partnership £10,000 (funding form 2 refers)

3.1.2 The budget for this financial year 2006/07 has been agreed at £217,600. This together with the agreed carry forward of £90,000 gives a total of £307,600. The sum of £30,500 was agreed at the decision day in February for LSP bids against the 2006/07 budget. In addition the £30,000 previously agreed for the Rowner feasibility study was included in the carry forward amount of £90,000.

If the bids listed above are approved against the 2006/07 budget, the total allocated, is £200,700 leaving £106,900. (See attached appendix A).

Recommendation

To approve the following allocations:

The sum of £10,000 for the Gosport LSP

The sum of £10,000 for the Hampshire Strategic Partnership

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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