Issue - meetings

To consider an application received from Grove Lane Baptist Church Day Centre for a grant of £1,000 from the Ward Flexibility Fund towards the cost of replacement kitchen furniture.

Megan Benton attended the meeting and submitted an application on behalf of Grove Lane Baptist Church Day Centre for a grant of £700 from the ward flexibility budget towards the cost of replacement kitchen furniture.

A representative of the Deputy Chief Executive reported that the Cheadle Area Committee had given approval to a grant of £300 to the Day Centre at their meeting on Tuesday, 29 January 2019.

Members commented that the Day Centre provided an invaluable community service. It was noted that should the area committee be minded to give approval to the grant as applied for, there would still remain a significant shortfall in the funding secured for this project that would need to be otherwise diverted from the general funding available to the Day Centre and that may impact on their core activities.  As such, the area committee noted that the guidance on the use of the ward flexibility fund states that awards of over £1,000 will not ordinarily be made, but considered that in all the circumstances of the case it was appropriate to deviate from the guidance in this instance.

RESOLVED - That approval be given to the award of a grant of £1,100 from the Ward Flexibility Budget (£200 from each of the Bramhall North and Bramhall South & Woodford ward allocations and £700 from the Cheadle Hulme South ward allocation) to the Grove Lane Baptist Church Day Centre towards the cost of replacement kitchen furniture.

To consider an application received from Grove Lane Baptist Church Day Centre for Ward Flexibility Funding towards the cost of replacement kitchen furniture.

A representative of Grove Lane Baptist Church Day Centre attended the meeting to present an application for Ward Flexibility Funding towards the cost of replacement kitchen furniture.

RESOLVED – That approval be given to the application for Ward Flexibility Funding from Grove Lane Baptist Church for £300 towards the cost of kitchen furniture, to be funded as follows:-

Cheadle and Gatley Ward - £80

Cheadle Hulme North Ward - £170

Heald Green Ward - £50