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WALLASEY 'LOVE WHERE YOU LIVE' FUND (2018/19)

Meeting: 12/03/2019 - Constituency Committee - Wallasey (Item 24)

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Minutes:

The Constituency Manager introduced a report of the Director of Strategy and Partnerships that provided an update on the Wallasey ‘Love where you live’ Fund.  Appendix 1 to the report contained the WLWYL Fund 2018 -19 Summary and Scoring and Appendix 2 to the report contained the WLWYL Fund 2018 -19 Ranking and Recommendations for Funding.

 

Further to Wallasey Constituency Committee on 26 September 2018 (minute 14 refers), Wallasey ‘Love Where You Live’ Fund had been launched on 3 October 2018. This small grants programme had invited applications for no more than £500 from voluntary, community and faith sector groups to make environmental improvements to any outdoor areas to which the general public had access.  £18,000 had been set aside by the Committee for this Fund.

 

The Wallasey Constituency Manager informed the Committee that the Fund had closed for applications at noon on Monday 3 December 2018 and 17 bids had been received, seeking a total of £8,442.54.  The recommended awarding of grants would leave £9,557.46 from this Fund as an uncommitted underspend.  Councillor Anita Leech provided details of a late bid which would be eligible and scored well and asked the Committee for approval as any underspend would not be carried over.  A member of the public requested that any available funding be spent on starting a fishing club at Central Park, Wallasey and informed Members that he had spent 2 months as a volunteer cleaning the debris from the lake area and he had been informed there was no funding for improvement to this neglected area of the Borough. On behalf of the Committee the Chair thanked the member of the public for all the work he had done and indicated that she would speak to Darran Marquiss, (Wallasey Park, Allotment & Countryside Manager) about this matter and would meet with the member of the public following this Constituency Committee meeting.

 

Resolved – That the recommendations for funding in Appendix 2 of the report be approved, plus the late bid by Leasowe Community Allotments for the sum of £491.36.