Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Corporate Director for Corporate and Support Services.

This report provide an update on delivery of Stockport Local Fund (SLF), setting out how more than £500k Council investment in the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Sector has been used to catalyse and develop innovative projects within the third sector supporting more than 100 groups to improve outcomes for local people.

The report also set out the learning to date and direction of travel and next steps for the fund delivery in 2020 and beyond.

The Scrutiny Committee is recommended to comment on and note the report.

Officer contact: Holly Rae on 0161 474 3014 or email: holly.rae@stockport.gov.uk

The Corporate Director for Place Management & Regeneration submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) providing an update on the delivery of Stockport Local Fund, setting out how more than £500k Council investment in the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Sector had been used to catalyse and develop innovative projects within the third sector supporting more than 100 groups to improve outcomes for local people.

The Cabinet Member for Inclusive Neighbourhoods (Councillor Amanda Peers) attended the meeting to respond to questions from the Scrutiny Committee.

The following comments were made/ issues raised:-

·         It was queried whether any work had been undertaken to understand the costs associated with administering the Fund and whether there was an opportunity to move some of the responsibility for that to the third sector.

·         The work by the council to bring together and co-ordinate the various support groups and organisations that emerged at the onset of lockdown measures as a response to the coronavirus pandemic was congratulated.

·         The sharing of best practice through organisations such as Sector3 was welcomed.

·         It was requested that further reports be brought back to the Scrutiny Committee in relation to the work of the council and its partners in ensuring that the various third sector organisations were being assisted to become self-sustaining.

RESOLVED – That the report be noted.