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1. Summary

1.1 This report makes a recommendation in respect of an application for funding from the Hampshire Strategic Partnership, which is subject to approval by the Executive Member for Community Development and External Affairs.

1.2 This decision relates to all three of the Corporate Strategy priorities: Hampshire safer & more secure for all, Maximising wellbeing and Enhancing our quality of place. The report provides an analysis of conditions across Hampshire relating to each of these and the Community Strategy themes, using a range of quality of life indicators.

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 up to £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 This decision relates to all three of the Corporate Strategy priorities: Hampshire safer & more secure for all, Maximising wellbeing and Enhancing our quality of place. The report provides an analysis of conditions across Hampshire relating to each of these and the Community Strategy themes, using a range of quality of life indicators.

3. Current bids

3.1 The following bids have been approved under delegated powers:

3.1.2 A bid from Hart District Council for £1,000 to part fund their Annual Review event

3.1.3 A bid from Hampshire Strategic Partnership for £500 to become a member of the Futures national LSP network (This money was fully recovered from the capacity building programme)

3.1.4 A bid from Hampshire Strategic Partnership for £350 to fund an LSP practitioners table at the Results Based Accountability event to be held at the Rose Bowl

3.2 The following bid is for consideration by the Executive Member for Community Development and External Affairs:

Hampshire Strategic Partnership - £4,000 (funding form 1 refers)

3.2.2 The budget for this financial year 2006/07 has been agreed at £307,600, which includes a carry forward of £90,000.

3.2.3 If the bids listed above are approved against the 2006/07 budget, the total allocated, is £245,819 leaving £61,781. (See attached appendix A).

Recommendation

To approve the following allocation:

Hampshire Strategic Partnership - £4,000 (funding form 1 refers)

Section 100 D - Local Government Act 1972 - background documents

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

NB: the list excludes:

1. Published works

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

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