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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.

There will be an update on the Community Meeting Budget. Please find summaries of applications received for consideration below. Full application

forms can be accessed by contacting Democratic Support on 0116 2298814 or by visiting the Council’s website at www.cabinet.leicester.gov.uk. An overview of the Community Meeting spend between 2008-11 is also attached for residents information.

The following budget application has been received:

Application 1

Applicant: Cornerstone PCC (Church of England) with Churches together in North West Leicester. Organiser: Trevor Hesselwood

Amount: £1,000

Proposal: Community Picnic

Summary:

Saturday 10^th September 2011, 1:30pm to 4:30pm.

Venue – Grounds of Alderman Richard Hallam School. Avebury Avenue.

The event aims to build on the events held over the previous four years. This year we aim for more community involvement, to reintroduce major attractions to encourage the 11 to 15 year olds to return. The event is free – no charge will be made for those who attend except for refreshments.

Application 2

Applicant: Maya Group

Amount: £3,052

Proposal: Maya Group Well-Being Project

Summary:

The project is based at the Aapaka centre in Pool Road, The project is to sustain health and well-being of the elderly women who attend the project by providing innovative, manageable exercises like Bollywood dance and Kathak dance, armchair exercises, tai chi. These exercise are specifically designed to help women build stronger muscles, give more flexibility, help to improve cardio-vascular health and their mobility. The group also is an arena for members to socialise and befriend each other and helps to lessen the isolation, depression that some of our Members have.

The funding will be used to pay specialist tutors who will be teaching the exercise, the rent for the room and volunteer expenses. We intend to run the project over six months starting from August 2011.

The beneficiaries of this project are elderly aged 50+ who are from the local community and further afield. A majority of the members are suffering from mobility, health problems – diabetes, arthritis, heart disease, depression and often isolated.

In order to measure the impact and success of the project, we will keep an attendance list, use feedback forms, observation to measure the success and improvement of our members health. We will provide exercise sheets with diagrams so that the women can do them in their own home when the project ends.

Fast tracked Application

The following application has been approved through the fast track process by the Members as it is £500 or less.

·         Circus Skills Workshop “Have a go Circus”, Fosse Library, £250.

Jerry Connolly, Members Support Officer presented the Community Meeting budget.

Jerry reported that the Community Meeting had access to £15,000. Residents were informed that last year’s budget had been divided into three different areas including an extra £2,000 for community cohesion. However this year there would just be one general budget and a decision on community cohesion funding was yet to be made. Residents were informed that Members were able to approve £500 or less between meetings.

The following applications were submitted for consideration:

·         Community Picnic, Cornerstone PCC (Church of England) with Churches together in North West Leicester - £1,000.

It was explained that the application was for a community picnic, which would be taking place on Saturday 10^th September 2011, 1:30pm in the grounds of Alderman Richard Hallam School, Avebury Avenue.

Members agreed to contribute £500 towards the application as they felt 50% of attendees would be from the Fosse ward.

RESOLVED

that the application be supported and £500 be allocated subject to final approval from the relevant Cabinet Lead.

·         Maya Group Well-Being Project, Maya Group - £3,052

It was explained that the application was to sustain health and well-being of the elderly women who attended project through innovative manageable exercises such as Bollywood dance, Kathak dance, armchair exercises and tai chi. The events would take place at the Aapaka Centre in Pool Road. Members agreed to fund £1,000 towards the project and requested a feedback report on the project. Jerry commented that further funding could possibly be applied for through the community cohesion fund.

It was reported that the following application had been approved by Members through the fast track process:

·         Circus Skills Workshop “Have a go Circus, Fosse Library, £250.