 Fy rhan i dda ni, o'r unrhyw o'r parlyg, sydd wedi cyfnod ar y Myllgor Cymru, a byddwch ar y myllgor Cymru, a rwy'n bryd eu myllgor gyda'u gyda'u byrddog y Chymru. Ieddwn ni'n dechrau 31 cwrddol, 2022, yma, ac mae myllgor Cymru yn ymylfaith ni'n golygu, felly ti'n cwrddien na'r rhan o'r hyn o'r cynllun i'r rhaearóa wled. Felly sefydli chanwys, yn ei llefnod o'n cyfriffyrd yn yr hynw. Ieithio. My name is Councillor Joe's Hales, and I'm the Chair of the Grants Advisor Committee. For the information, members of the public, the role of our committee is to consider and make any recommendations to the lead member for finance, which is Councillor John Williams, who is viewing in remotely. On applications made under the council of grants scheme, Councillor Williams then makes his decision, taking into account our recommendations. Okay, so on the agenda of the day, agenda item 1, the Polities for Abstance, please. Mae'r ddechrau. Mae'n rwyf yn digwydd y cyfnodd ar y bydd ymlaen, mae'r hyn yn gweithio'r hyffordd, mae'n gallu'n bwysig am ychydigol. Rhaid i chi'n cael ei gynweddol. Mae'n cael ei wneud ar y bydd yma, i'n cyflwyno'r hirthfaedd. Mae'n gweithio'r cyflwyno'r pethau. Mae'n gweithio'r cyflwyno'r cyflwyno. Mae'n gweithio'r cyflwyno ar y bydd ac yn ei ddweynt. Mae'n gweithio'r cyflwyno. yn cymdeithasol ysgol. Rydyn ni yw Emmer Dyer, rydyn ni'n cymdeithasol ym ysgol. Rydyn ni'n Cathryn Hawkes, yr unrhyw oedd yn y cwmniadau. Rydyn ni wedi cymdeithasol ysgol, rydyn ni'n cymdeithasol ym Mhwyllfa i ddweud, ac rydyn ni wedi'n Llesin Macphalen, ddweud rydyn ni'n cymdeithasol o'r cwmniadau ar y sylwyr ar y sylwyr ymgynghwyl.eddwn i ddim oedd ychydig i ni'n ddweud o fy ymateb olyw yng Nghaerffordd ar y rymlu. Yn cael ei ddalun o'r oedd y peoliadau mewn gweld gan glir. Yn ddweud o gael gael ei gael'r gweithretoedd? I'm Claire Daunton, and I'm one of the members for the Fendit and Foreboard Award. Thank you very much. Okay, just to confirm we're caught at that right, Aaron. Thank you very much. Declarations of interest for members. None. And we'll go to the minutes of the last meeting. Please do the usual process, page one, two, three and four, etc. So page one, everybody's happy, might I take that? I've been able to sign those off. Thank you absolutely. Yes, Aaron. Okey-dokey. So now we're going to agenda item number four, which is the Community Chest Funding Applications. And is that you, Emma? That's correct. Thank you. Would you mind leading on that name? Thank you. Absolutely. Okay, so on page seven of the agenda pack we have Sing Papworth. So Sing Papworth are a community choir founded in 2013 with approximately 35 members. The choir is open to anyone, regardless of their musical ability. Each member pays a subscription fee of £27.50 per term, which includes venue hire, insurance and music. But with costs rising, for example, room hire, music purchasing and insurance, they are seeking funding totaling £595. Of this, they would like £420 to allow transportation of disabled choir members to events outside the village. This being six return journey trips, sorry, £70 per trip over the next 24 months possibly longer. And £175 for a digital piano amplifier to enable them to hold outdoor events and rehearsals. So a bit of the background to Sing Papworth. The Sing Papworth digital piano was funded by the Community Chest Fund a few years ago. But unfortunately, without an amplifier, it is not loud enough to accompany the choirs at outdoor, sorry indoor concerts such as local churches or outdoor situations such as the Papworth Village Fates or outdoor rehearsals, particularly in 2021. The previous music director of Sing Papworth did have an amplifier, but he has now moved on. And as already mentioned, the choir also has disabled members and they usually fund the cost of a taxi to get them to concerts outside of the village, usually two to three times a year. They also try to hold at least one concert in Papworth, but as the village hall is the only suitable venue in the village, they often hold them in nearby villages too. So the funding would mean disabled members would not be excluded from these additional events. The quote of £70 per trip is based on the cost of a return taxi fare from Papworth to Eltersley in December 2021. The parish council are very supportive of the choir. In the past, they have funded the concert venue fees equating to the value of £130, allowing the choir to rehearse and hold concerts in larger venues but also keep the ticket prices low or free to the local community. They also fund the annual carols around the Christmas tree events. So due to these financial contributions and the fact that taxi fares are to allow members to get to concerts outside of the parish to benefit others in the district, they don't want to ask for any match funding. Councillor Mark Howell supports this application and he also supported their recent caroling events, carols around the Christmas tree, and he's attended their concerts in the past and publicly thanked the choir on Facebook for running events in the community. So £595 for Sing Papworth. Many questions. Thank you. Colleagues, and I've got your questions. I just want to understand the funds for the taxi fares that will be short term. I think it's for the next two years or maybe longer. Okay, so I suppose my question, I'm very much in favour of this is music, but my question is what do we do after that? Have they got any long term sustainability plans for funding taxi fares? Not that they put on their application though, I'm not aware of that. Thank you. Anybody else? Bill? I don't really have anything to add, I'm in favour. I'm very much in favour and I think it's good all round, not only they're singing, entertaining people but also because they're disabled showing that they can do this and the amount what it does for their mental health as well. I think it's a win-win whatever you're doing. Thank you very much. Colle. Yeah, as I said before, I'm very supportive of this but I just wondered if they could, if they'd been in touch with any other organisations to support disability and whether they would be able to find additional funds for taxi fares in the future and whether we can point them in the direction of other funds. Absolutely, I can put them in contact of people that I'm aware of to help that. It might be an idea bearing in mind what Clarissa said Emma, it perhaps put them in contact with the local community transport schemes because they're considerably cheaper than the 70 quid round trip so if you book it well enough in advance they will use the system we also fund. I'm taken from comments that we're all in favour so John this is over to you, we're in favour here for this one so that would be our recommendation unless you are very much against this. I'm very happy with this application, I don't have any issues with it. Thank you and I stated Councillor Howell, Mark Howell from Papworth, a member from Papworth is very very supportive in an email. I think some of you may have already got that but I don't know who I certainly do so. Thank you. Okay Emma, check him on please. Okay so on page eight of the agenda pack we have Histon Bowls Club. So Histon Bowls Club is a lawn bowls club situated on the Histon and Impington recreation ground. It was formed in 1910 and consists of 56 members. Membership is open to all. Most members are retired members of the community. The club is clearly advertised to all on a large banner at the entrance to the wreck as well as in the quarterly village newspaper on notice boards and on websites. The club offers social engagement, team camaraderie, team spirits, team competitions and social bowling plus visits to opposition clubs within a 20 mile radius across the summer months. For away games players are often picked up from their own homes and the club also has a well attended annual dinner event in late summer. The club are requesting £520 in funding for the purchase of eight new bowls gatherers and these are lightweight metal frames fit with rollers which glide over the green taking them with them a number of bowls at the same time. So one gatherer is needed for each end when four rinks are in play. So just a bit of further information. Bowling matches usually last just over two hours. Players are on their feet bowling and walking up and down during this time. The existing bowls pusher and gatherers are about 25 years old and not easy for some members to use. So the new ones are sturdier, have larger wheels and coasters enabling easier movement. They are better balanced and need less effort to manipulate and push when gathering the 16 to 18 bowls up after each end is completed. Games usually comprise of 18 ends and the bowls gatherers will help minimise trip hazards and enable more players to participate. The bowling green is managed and maintained by the parish council and they rent it out to the club between April and September every year. Annual rent is about £3,000 payable in a rears in October. The club has not approached the parish council for funding assistance as they have already significantly reduced the annual rent for the past two COVID affected seasons. This equates to a saving of around £2,300. In 2020 all league games were cancelled, heavily impacting club income. In 2021 league games were reduced as several teams did not take part, again reducing club income. So again £520. Any questions? Thank you Emma. Colleagues? Yes I feel this is one we should support, a good COVID recovery activity. I'm very happy to support it I think. It's a good activity for elderly people and I can well understand 18 ends moving all those bowls from one end to the other and things is our work. Clare? You're okay. Okay then that's the recommendation for support majority unanimous rather sorry over to you John for that one, thank you very much. Okay that's it isn't it Emma? Thank you very much indeed and as I said earlier welcome back even though you haven't gone for long. Right agenda item number five now if we may and this is going to be the children and young people's grant funding applications. Which one of you two ladies Catherine or Leslie are going to be presenting this up Leslie? Okay in that case Leslie over to you please. Just sort of at my mute. So yeah this is the children and young people's grant funding that we brought to grants advisory advisory committee in December but at that time committee members felt that there wasn't enough information on which that they could make an informed decision. So we hopefully have addressed that and since then we've also been very fortunate enough to receive an additional £40,000 towards this grant funding from the county council. So that's taken the initial pot from 38,000 up to 78,000 and this has really enabled us to pretty much if you in agreement with yourselves fund most of the applications in full which met the criteria. So our recommendations are summarised in Appendix A and I've detailed the information which was requested at the last grants advisory committee in Appendix D and what I've done with the suggestion of JOS is that they're listed in the same order. So we can go through them one by one if you wish but I'm happy to be guided by you or you could just focus on perhaps some of those applications that you have queries on but again I'll leave that to you how you wish to run through it. Thank you Leslie. Right colleagues I've read through, I've compared it to the original to this one as well. Now as Leslie said I spoke with Leslie and Catherine about this and made a couple of requests which they've done which is fantastic. What would your feelings like to be? I personally would not want to go through every single one. If you have ones that stick out like a sore thumb in your heads then should we go to those ones for any kind of chat about it but essentially the officers have done what we've asked and they have categorised and gone through the the system of being a qualification if you like so we are where we are on this one so obviously you would like to go first. Bill please. I agree with you chair that we I don't feel we need to go through everyone individually we did cover them in some detail didn't we in was it November and perhaps we should just um look at the ones that are near the near the line that maybe that's where we really need to go. 61 and the 45 perhaps the brakes in there. Yeah okay well the 45 doesn't qualify by looks for anyway so it's just the the 66 and the 61 those that be the kite trust and the Cambridge acorn jazz so that we are you're asking to do. So on the on the sheet is where we've got the 78,000 that literally said we've got 77,920 and 33 pre-total so we're just under the 78 and if you said about the ones with the lowest scoring I hope you that would be the 61 and the 66 score which are the two mental health ones that's the kite trust and the Cambridge acorn jazz they're the two with the lowest score so if you wanted to have a I don't think Claire will no doubt um I personally mental health is incredibly important um I I'm not really going to cover to be honest. Thank you Claire Sue would you have any Claire? Yeah so we had quite a discussion last time and the two that I remember being concerned about were unique feet and blue smile so could we just look again at those and I think Sue there were a couple that you had a concern over weren't there so maybe if we could just look again at unique feet and blue smile. So the unique feet application they had applied for £8,000 the majority of that or a large portion of that was on funding events and day trips so we we know that if we didn't give them the full amount of funding they would still be able to proceed with that project so for instance on that one they have requested £8,000 and we are awarding them £7,500. Thank you Leslie and the other one which is blue. Blue smile so yeah they were the it's a local charity that it's a school-based kind of arts therapy project for children at Histon and Impington school. I think that your query last time perhaps was over the reach of of that programme so it targets I think they target 20 individual one-on-one sessions with children that have been identified as having difficulties but they also provide group sessions as well and they work with the school to provide a kind of a more holistic approach to mental well-being so it's not just the 20 children actually the whole school it would seem benefit from the input plus the school also part fund this so that they match fund per term for £3,666 which is quite a generous amount. Okay thank you and could I just make a general point as well and and that is that on all of these will we be getting some kind of feedback to the committee on on the success of this yeah thank you. Furious nodding I saw that so that's good. Okay and Sue do you have any point? Yeah I just wondered why the County Council have given us an extra 40,000. Did we ask the right questions or ask the right people because it clearly has helped us through organising this whole grant and I think that's really great but just wonder why. I think before you answer there's the other part is the fact that this committee is stonking and there's the other part but I'll let Leslie tell you the official version. The official version is that the County Council had some COVID recovery money to the tune of £50,000 that they wanted help from the district councils to help so when Gareth mentioned this that they had this large sum of money and what is there is there a way that we could create kind of immediate impact it just seemed to me to make sense that we have these amazing organisations doing amazing things with the young children and that there were basically the up and ready projects for them to for us to distribute that money to some really worthy causes to which Gareth agreed and so we were able to secure and of course John Williams to secure the additional £40,000. All I can say is thank you very much. I know I've frustrated you or the committee frustrated the move forward on this at the last meeting and I felt quite bad about it but it's nice to have good outcomes. That was the silver mine. There, do you have anything else to say? Me, the other one that I just wanted to draw attention to was the Cambridge joint play schemes a local charity which provides holiday play schemes. Do we know again what the reach of that is? It mentions 30 families, is that district wide? They are within the district yes so that was one of the criteria for organisations to be able to apply would be that the funding would reach children specifically within the district. I think Catherine you've worked with this organisation in the past as well haven't you? Yes, I've worked with them. They've been around for a long time and I've funded them in this role through Southcamps but also in previous roles that I've had in the voluntary sector. Can I just make another comment chair? Because it seems to me that they do such good work. I mean we know from talking to residents just how important Saturday clubs and half-term activities are and I just wondered if, I mean we are giving them this money but it's a one-off. I'm just wondering whether we might be able to fund them in future as well. I think when we had the last workshop for the service support grants we had discussed having a specific fund for children and young people moving forward so I understand from Catherine as well that we are planning another workshop where we can review the kinds of projects that we would be looking forward to support in the future. This scheme was meant to be a pilot for what we might include in that funding stream next time so it will indeed help us to work that out. Good. Thank you. I'm happy about that. Thanks. Okay thank you. Catherine. I just wanted to say that there are also drawing attention to the two that we are recommending were probably more appropriate to be funded through the community chest so there are two the details of which are on page 52 I think of your agenda pack. The North Stowe Scouts and Trumpington Scouts applying for 4,105,924 respectively but actually what they're asking for is the sort of purchase that we would normally fund through the community chest and we just felt that they were more appropriate for that fund and could probably go through with support for the maximum amount but from that pot rather than this one. Well the pot's gone up as well isn't it so it makes a much bigger difference now. Okay thank you. Would we be confident in saying that either you, Leslie or Catherine, sorry Catherine, Leslie or Emma would contact these two scout troops and give them that information when you tell people whether they've got their funding or not? I'm assuming you will yeah. Yeah are you making a decision today then to agree to fund them to the full amount? I'm just about to ask that. John? Yes just to confirm I would be more than happy if you did that. I'm quite happy to give both of these the maximum community grant £2,000. Great thank you. Thank you. Great stuff so Leslie is that your bit complete? Thank you very much. Okay members we've asked our questions are we all happy with this arrangement? The others have done for us. I'd just like to say thank you very much. I suppose this is what we're here for is to ask questions and make sure we're happy so as long as we haven't upset you um if we have we apologise but um it probably done for a very good reason and but we are I'm looking around the room we are unanimously in favour uh for this recommendation to go through to John so thank you very much again ladies that was brilliant much obliged. Thank you. I'll just check are we back on the Christmas card this John? Bill said yeah. You've got another 10 months yet. And thank thank thank thank you all the officers for really good reports thanks. You're welcome thank you. I was just going to say that I actually found it really helpful to have the cost breakdown it really helped me make up my mind about that you know just the additional detail because actually the grant's quite large and so I felt it was important as a member to agree to it that I had the further detail so thank you. Okay right that's business concluded on that one then John you've got a riffing from us is anything you need us to know John um or are you happy and content? I'm happy I'm happy to yeah thank you very much for your decisions yeah super okay um in that case then that concludes business for the day thank you very much indeed members and officers so the date of the next meeting will be Friday 25th of February of this year so thank you very much indeed for coming. At 2pm? Ah what what time Aaron would what time are members like? I would like to too please. Clear you're a 10 by looks a bit Bill tell me what Aaron we'll come back to you via email but essentially it's going to be on a Friday the 25th at some point all right so thank you very much indeed and goodbye.