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Councillors are reminded that they will need to declare any interest they may have in budget applications, and/or indicate that Section 106 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 applies to them.

Steve Letten, Members Support Officer, will give an update on the latest position with the Community Meeting budget.  The latest budget statement is attached.

The following applications for grants have been submitted for consideration:

Application 1          

Applicant:       St Margaret’s Church Leicester City Council

Amount:          £4,284

Proposal:       Renewing the Central Heating Boiler in the Vestry Hall

Summary:       The central heating boiler that serves the Vestry Hall has failed and a new boiler was urgently required.  The Hall is used bythe church for social occasions (i:e coffee mornings, choir rehearsals, and in January 2011 as a refuge for 8 homeless men once a week).  It also has toilets and these are heated by the same system.  The Vestry Hall is used nearly every day, as it’s the kitchen, which is also part of the hall.  The failure of the existing heating boiler has caused a lot of problems, especially in the cold weather we have been experiencing.

Application 2

Applicant:       UR Choice Young People’s Project

Amount:          £4,843

Proposal:       UR Choice Young People’s Project Start-Up in Abbey

Summary:

We are looking for funds to support us in setting up a new youth lead project within the Leicester North west area.  we have already started work over the summer with support from the Beaumont leys ward and would like to ask for some support to start delivering services within the Mowmacre hill, stocking farm and abbey rise areas. We want to start with carrying out a community profile (including identifying current priority issues through statistics, mapping provision currently available and consulting with young people themselves). As well as working with local young people to develop ideas and run activities and sessions throughout the year. (we intend to use detached and outreach as our main methods, working closely with the city detached youth work team and stocking farm youth centre).

The money would be spent on establishing our selves as a project we need to extend our insurance, support young volunteers with training opportunities and expenses (travel and child care for young parents), to get internet and phone connection for the project along with other resources to support the project local room hire, printing, copying and stationery and sessional workers where needed (the majority of workers involved in the project work voluntary).  Along with new and up to date CRB’s and id. As well as a leaflet produced after the community profile and consultation with young people to advertise the project and get young people involved, promote understanding of young people and their issues, and promote other facilities for young people and services they can be supported by.

The project will be aimed at local young people 13 to 19 (up to 25 with support needs) we will start engaging with young people to develop new projects and funding applications based on their ideas. We will aim to consult and engage with 200 young people in the first 6 months, with at least 2 young people lead funding applications for local programmes that address local issues and young people’s interests.