 Y dyn ni'n falch i'w have. Mae gennym nhw'n yn un ar gyfer y cyfan Lord, mae'n unrhyw yng ngyfnion. Yhewn, mae'n gydag yn dal yn cyflawn. Mae ni'n rawdorol, ond ond, mae'n ddiwethaf mewn cyflawn. Mae'n cyfrifio rydym wedi'u rhain. Mae'n amdag i ei wneud y ddeall. A wnaen nhw'n gofrifio ar gyfer y gendru. Mae hwn yn ymgeisiau gwell iaeth i'r llwyddon Rachel Bollofan. Oethe ni'n ogystech chi'n gwybod gyda'r cynllun i ymlaen, ond oeddu hi'n iawn i'r rhwng. Diolch fitn byddai'r hyde, oherwydd i chi'n gwaith o disgwt. Maen nhw'n gwybod i chi'n ddweud y Sewellington yn ddБdolol, ac mae'r ddechrau ar gyfer mewn brydlu arall. Nid oed, dyweddiol. Mae'r drwy'n meddwl am ysgol, oedd mae nhw'n ddechrau am wychraffai a bod ni'r adrodd mewn amddaint. That's not to know. And the agenda item number three is the minute in the previous meeting. So I'm going to go through the usual process of page one. Just sing out if you have anything. And page two. Page three is just the one line. I take it as everything okay by everybody and I can sign them off. That's lovely, thank you very much. The next one is the guest speaker. I did not write number four, so Emma are you going to introduce Rachel and the anything for us. Thank you very much. I am introducing Rachel Wolletham from Sheddit who received grant funding last financial year, I think it was last March for her projects which she is going to talk about. I'm going to share the slides for Rachel's behalf. Rachel, if you just let me know when you want me to go to the next slides, I will do that for you. Hi, good morning. So I'm from Shed-It in Swayzee, and I just wanted to say thank you for the community chest grants we've had too from you, and tell you a little bit about what we've been doing with the money that we've received. The first slide is, there are some window stickers that I made, I'm a creative artist. So I went into the primary school and gave a talk and started a project with the children there, encouraging them to create wildlife gardens and increase biodiversity within their own gardens. And they could win these window stickers, which we had made with some of the money from yourselves. So Emma, if you mind going to the next slide please. Thank you very much. This and the next slide are some leaflets that I designed. We had a big festival in the summer, two summers ago, to kind of launch our group. And we had members from all over the village, people in different farming communities, and the church, and different organisations, kind of showcasing different steps they're making to become more sustainable in whatever their practices are. So would you mind going to the next slide please Emma, thanks. So this was a map that I made of the different areas, which was a key to the previous descriptions, just because it was so spread out in the village. And then on the next slide there's some photos from the weekend. It kind of spanned the weekend, we were lucky with the weather. So we had soil scientists with a big pit with a digger, and we had soil scientists explaining to children and adults, what the different soils were, that they were finding and what it meant. And the kids had a fantastic time playing with the clay that they dug out and things. And they had a local historian giving a talk about the enclosure act in the Fenlands. And we had a vegan farm where, and bug hotels, and we had live beekeeping talk, which was really fascinating. And I think on the next page or show, on the next slide or show, some of the indoor activities, we had a repair cafe, which was great. And this is the rescued farm pig at the vegan farm. We had a clothes swap, and there are some volunteers with the cakes and things like that. So it was really nice and it was just to announce our intentions of being very inclusive and community minded. And, you know, as much about creating a big community feeling as anything else, really. You know, very important for us to just be very inclusive in what we're doing, make everyone feel welcome. And then I think the next slide is... Yeah, so there were, what were the donations? Everything was free, apart from the cakes at these events. But we did, people did like to give donations, especially if they've been to the repair cafe. So we had enough money left over from the grant and the donations. We held another Christmas event, which was Christmas that doesn't cost the earth. So we had present making, which was these gardens. You can see the kids, absolutely the local eco committee from the primary school came and they absolutely loved making these little miniature indoor gardens as gifts for the people, all using entirely recycled material and natural materials. And we had people booked in to see Father Christmas, who gave out personalised gifts, all made from natural resources. Yeah, it was a lovely atmosphere. I think the next slide also shows some more photos from the day. So we actually had a flag printed, which the local member of the Royal British Legion agreed to fly for us because he thought it was a worthwhile cause. And there's a lady who was doing sewing repairs, very proudly showing one of the very, very old, well-loved rabbit toy that she repaired. And as you can see, it was very well attended. Yeah, so it was really big success. We then went on and applied for a second grant. Oh, I think, sorry, I think there was one more slide just with more examples on the day. Yeah, so you can see it's old and young and everyone in between. It was just a lot of fun. The girl on the bottom right, she's Freya. She does her own refill stall and she runs it every Saturday from her front garden, but she comes along and it's really good space for her to promote what she's doing. Yeah, so that was the first lot of funding. And then the second lot of funding on the next slide. So in the drought last year, there was an area which you can see on the left that really stood out locally. A lot of people really noticed it. It looked really wild, but unlike everywhere else, it wasn't dead. It was really flourishing. So I got in touch with the person who created it. He's a local gardener and kind of using the second lot of money and involving lots of local groups like the Eco Committee and the Scouts and just generally members of the public getting involved. And the parish council, we've prepared some areas, some large areas and tried to just in the process of scaling up what was done there to try and make biodiverse areas a fairly drought resistant, hopefully. You're going to need a bit of local watering from volunteers and watering it for the first year or two, but then it should be fairly self-sustaining. They're just plants that naturally thrive in the soils that we have in Swavy. So you can see it, it's too small to see really, but there's a little map I drew there, but if you could go down to the next slide, please. You'll see that also the previous slide shows. So you can see the plants are all very small at the moment, but we've got a path and we've got some interactive areas and we've got herb area and the people are just bringing along plants that kind of spread and thrive in their garden naturally and we've bought compost just to seal in the moisture on top and actually, since that photo was taken, I've spread bark chippings over as well to help seal in the moisture. So watch this space, hopefully this is going to look like a lovely flourishing wildlife garden soon. And then on the next slide, you can see we were lucky enough to, for someone from the BBC to come and do a little interview with someone from the Soil Association talking about worms and wormwatch. So we got some local kids to involved looking for worms and learning about how they're part of a healthy ecosystem within the soil, which was really good fun and that's going to be ongoing. Our contact with them, they've given us some seeds and we're going to keep them in touch with how the bed gets on. And then the next slide is we've actually, tomorrow we've got our next event, which is kind of focusing, this is another sort of festival type thing like the last two, but this one's asking people to bring along plants from their garden which just thrive and they have too many of anyway. We've got a gardener and ecologist helping sort them and give us advice and give them to the public advice. So that there will be put into the beds as well. And in return, we're giving out wildlife seeds which were paid for by the Parched Council and some trees and shrubs, small ones that people can, that are wildlife friendly and native and that they can put in their gardens. And then on the next slide you can see there will be, so that was the Parched Council logo for the ESFIS to celebrate the coronation. And that was the flyer for it. Finding it much better to spend the money on less carbon intensive means so much more simple flyers, there's no need to print fancy flyers and things. No money can be better spent elsewhere. So on the next slide we've got, one of the activities the kids can do are make little signs for their own wildlife gardens if they're going to, maybe try and inspire them to do that area of their garden. So some of the school children have been just letting some areas go wild or planting them with wildlife friendly plants or creating ponds, some of them have done, some of them have made hedgehog areas or have been composting, that kind of thing. And then the next slide you can see we're also doing something called an imaginarium which is just asking people to think about the things that we do in our daily lives divided into four categories. So energy, food, travel and stuff, things that we buy. We've got lots and lots of art equipment and volunteers and it's a big chance to get creative and imaginative and just have fun building stuff and maybe imagining different ways that we could live and do these different things day to day. And then finally my last slide is this was just a study someone certainly recently from Anthropocene which is an online journal for science and sustainability and they say it's the biggest comprehensive study today on what is effective in getting people to change their practices to be more sustainable and what they found was that the most effective way was financial incentives but also the tendency to look around at what our neighbours are doing and adhere to social norms which I just thought I'd share with you because I think that this grant that you give makes that kind of thing possible to do something on a really local level really small but that it can actually be potentially really effective. So thank you very much. It was an absolutely terrific presentation that really was. I'm looking around the room of my colleagues and they're all nodding exactly the same. Thank you so much Rachel. I'd like to if I may before I come to the room here go to Councillor Ellington online and she's the local member if she has anything to say first. Over to you Sue. Thank you. I wish that was absolutely brilliant Rachel. Thank you so much. I've been praising you to the sky for some little while and obviously they took the hint and invited you to come. I'm so delighted. But I think this links in with something else that's going on at the council and that is that we're trying to do a task and finish group about children and young people and how we can make the council relevant to them as well as to the adults if you see what I mean. So I think there's mileage in there somewhere that I need to pick out and try and promote forward. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you Councillor Ellington. Colleagues, anyone? I think you did a brilliant job there. And is money well spent? Grant money well spent? I just have a question. How was your vegan food received? Oh, yeah, thanks. I was really pleased with it and we want to scale it up but it's kind of tricky with the insurance and things. It was really well received. We had a really international approach because there's so much fantastic vegan food from all over the world. And so we had, I think we had Israeli food and Bangladeshi food. I can't think off the top of my head what else but it went down really well. People really astonished how delicious it was with different flavours and things like that. It's something I'd love to do more of but it's just tricky because of the heat cooking and health and safety and heating things up and things like that. So I'd love to do more in the future but we haven't as of yet. Thank you. Thank you. That was an excellent presentation as others have already said. I particularly liked your reimagined Christmas because as a mother or three children I'm desperate to get away from the wish list of XYZ and I want all these new things. I suppose my question is did that spark a change in the way people viewed it and tried to get away from the commercial side of the event? It's a really tricky one isn't it because I can't honestly say hand on heart that if my eight year old is in love with the latest transformer which you have to buy new I'm not going to get it for him but I think and I don't know if it would it's very hard to quantify isn't it but what I can say is that there was a genuinely really nice atmosphere there which I was so pleased about and people just loved the kids the parents loved watching the kids making things out of recycled things and being creative of Christmas so I would hope that it would have some impact about maybe thinking about doing things a little bit differently and being a little bit more cautious about buying new things and it's certainly one we'd like to do every year so we could definitely work on perhaps getting some feedback from people about how it did impact them and if they did do things a little bit differently you know think about expanding it yeah yeah I thought the plants looked brilliant thank you it was great thanks thanks Councillor Henry I'd like to echo the thanks of the other councillers for their excellent presentation I'm just wondering whether or not you'd be agreeable perhaps to have a little thing a bit of an article in the South Cams magazine coming would you be prepared to take part in that yeah we'd love to do that thank you very much the one for the summer is going to print soon so it won't be that one but we'll be preparing for the autumn edition in the next few weeks really that would be great I think hopefully then we'd have something to show from our wildlife garden to be looking a little bit more that's great thank you thank you Rachel it was it's a fabulous project Sue's been on about it for ages and she keeps on going on about it so we thought as she said we'd better come in and have a chat thank you very much oh John thank you sorry I forgot about you can I also add that very impressive and as Bill has said I think we should add and Sue John you've gone back into mute for some reason apologies I'm having a bit of some technical problems this morning we can use this somehow to show other groups in the district the potential and opportunities to use the community chess money to promote good practice and to help with tackling climate change locally so if we can use it for the magazine and for other purposes such as the task and finish group that would be great so thank you very much very impressive presentation thank you thank you very much John John is the lead member for finance Rachel so he was the one who essentially signed off the cheque so we've got to be nice to him anyway thank you once again thank you for taking the time out this morning and if it's okay with you we've got a full agenda so we'll crack on but thank you very much for taking the time lovely okay gender item number 5 I believe is the the electric charging point is that going to be Luke hello morning Luke over to you good morning thank you very much I'll share my screen just for a visual aid if that's all right I've got the application summary that's within your packs but I thought it might help just to share that so that you've got it in front of you there we go hopefully that's on the screens so good morning everybody this is an application to our community electric vehicle charge point grant scheme which as you'll recall was set up late last year we had an application already from Steeple Morden parish council in the winter and their charger is now up and running which is good so this next application is from Shepworth parish council so the application is from the parish council and hopefully you can see on the screen the proposed location which is the car park for the recreation field and the village hall and hopefully you can see that red blob in the middle that my mouse is kind of orbiting so that's the proposed location for the charges there within the car park the charges there will be two of them or the proposed to be two of them they'll be rated at 22kW so there on the faster side charge times can vary but as I say they're quite fast and they can typically charge an electric vehicle in less than two hours up to around the 80% charge I'll just scroll down you can just see a photograph there of that location behind the village hall in that area of the car park alongside that sort of wood fence I think it is there so as I said the location is a good one being pretty close to a number of amenities and attractions and facilities I suppose within the village that people can either use whilst they're charging up or that could attract people whilst they were visiting the nearby attractions so for instance obviously Sheppard with Wildlife Park which is just to the north across the recreation ground within walking distance likewise the train station to the north west and so there's also a number of businesses as well pretty close by around the train station area and obviously within the village as well and that kind of faster charge would work quite well given the nature of these surrounding businesses and attractions where people might be there for a couple of hours for a quicker charge and then want to be on their way however there are also nearby properties that don't have their own private off-street parking so nearby residences that could actually also make use of the charger too and again within walking distance again within five minutes walking distance so that they wouldn't be too far away from the charger for it to be useful so just scrolling down the total project cost that you can hopefully see there it's about £12,500 the applicant to the parish council are applying for the full grant amount of £5,000 towards the cost of purchasing and installing the chargers with the parish council they're meeting the cost of around sort of remaining £7,500 or so they've also provided a sort of approximate timeline there based on the sort of lead times that were provided by an installer and they've sought sought quotes project finances have been provided as you can see at the time scale and they've also committed to keep the charger in working order and providers or the district council to provide usage information and gain the written support of both the district councillors and also the nearby businesses so the train station and the wildlife park have also endorsed a charger at the location so therefore all things considered I believe the application is a good one and it meets the grant criteria so yeah that's sort of a brief introduction but I'm happy to take any further questions thank you I'll just stop sharing as well there we go colleagues any questions for Luke just a reminder so go ahead yes I just wanted to know if there is some remuneration for the hall or somewhere for having the charger there will they get anything from the number of people that use it or is it just that they have to maintain it and look after it so they can they can set the tariff so basically they can set how much people are charged so usually that's obviously the cost of the electricity and possibly a bit more to cover any other ongoing costs and then if there's any additional money that they want to charge beyond that they can set that tariff to include that there's obviously a balance to be struck I suppose because you don't want to set it too high and discourage people but obviously you want to cover costs at the least but there's freedom to set that tariff and then to change it if costs go up or down seems like a very good project to me and nicely placed so yes thank you Councillor Lenton just to say this helps to get towards net zero carbon in a small way seems like a good idea especially since there isn't yet nationally any programme for on street charging if you have to park your car on the street so yes I do approve it Councillor Henley thank you for a clear report it's bang on with our business you know the council the council's objectives so to agree to our call and I would be very supportive Councillor Haranche for the same reasons I supported it thank you very much in that case then on page seven of the agenda the first page of the agenda itself the recommendations is recommended that the grants advisory committee A reviews the application to SCDC's 2324 set out in table one of appendix to this report and B agrees the recommendation to the lead cabinet member for finance for allocating the requested funding with reference to the application criteria guidance set out in appendix B so we're all in agreement here I think that we're looking to recommend this to Councillor Williams for approval thumbs up for there so thank you very much Luke hopefully we can a few more thank you there's a few more in the pipeline so fingers crossed brilliant thank you very much indeed thank you agenda item six is that you Emma thank you very much this is the children and young people's grant scheme this paper is provided for information only it's the one year update for the projects that we've funded so back in January 2022 we've provided £78,000 to provide some financial support to children and young people's organisations in the district applicants can apply for £4,000 to £8,000 we funded 13 projects an appendix A on page 21 provides some summaries of the achievements and some of the challenges as well and I won't go into detail for all of them unless you want me to but I just wanted to say that they've all achieved their objectives apart from three organisations who have requested extensions to their one year deadline they've provided reasons for this and those are orchard park community council on page 21 or well eco youth council on page 25 and friends of histon in Pinto community which is known as high friends on page 31 if you would want perhaps if they were granted an extension we could bring this to a third paper to grant advisory committee summaring the final outcomes of these three projects there was a mention in the paper for orchard park community council that there would be a verbal update in this meeting we have chased for this and the only update we've had since this report is that there's a meeting scheduled between the community council and romsie mill on the 9th of May so at the moment there's no more information that I can provide other than what's in the report and then obviously we've got Sam Orwell eco youth council histon in Pinto histon in Pinto they have spent £2,210 to date and there's some unspent money of 1,980 and they're also asking if this unspent money can be used for the following identified priorities so basically that they would like to provide some additional practical training on how to be a mental health champion they would like to allow them to use the funding for cheetah group or assembly presentations for regular group supervision to occur monthly and a forum in the next month so that's pretty much the summary if you want me to go into more detail cam Thanks Emma Okay, Councillor Williams we're going to have to come to you on this one because this is well if you go for the last one first with histon in Pinto they have some grant money left and they've made that request I'm okay with that unless you can persuade me otherwise I don't have a problem with that I think I'm looking at my colleagues in the room and I think we're all in the same agreement that what they've laid out to use that money for is pretty worthwhile anyway so it's just an extension we're happy here as well with that one thank you very much so the other two Emma one was the all well e-code yes they had a three month delay before the recruitment of a youth worker so that was kind of a little bit beyond their control because it's nothing that they could sort of help as such so they couldn't actually start until June 2022 they have actually achieved their main objectives but they have said that their completion date is likely to be July 23 so well again John do you have an issue I don't have an issue with that and the final one then John will be the altered park community council where it's not on track at the moment you could remind us on that Emma it's about the so this one it didn't get underway until March 2022 and it won't be they have said that it won't be completed until March just gone this year but like I said I haven't got an update to give you on that one so it could well be that they have completed most of their objectives so that's pretty much it for that one really on my feeling John on that last one the altered park is to assume that they can have a short extension like everybody else but with the provisor we get our report for next a next grant yeah I think that's I would ask that you review it at the next meeting yeah well I think oh sorry Councillor Henry I will get them to send you some details because you need them otherwise I'll tell them that they need it for proving the funds sorry about that I didn't know this you're not to be held to blame but thank you anyway it's brilliant yeah it's super okay in that case then that's that one out in here so thank you so if you're okay with that John that's what we'll mean it then okay so a gender right we're going to ask for a report a brief report on all of those that are outstanding or behind at the next meeting is that is that what we're saying no it's just it's just the altered park they're the ones who haven't provided the update I think that's right Emma yeah so we're just chasing up and the others have got their grant extensions et cetera et cetera okay so now we go to agenda item number seven which is the community chest which is again your good self Emma thank you very much over to you thank you so this month we've had eight applications three of these are biodiversity applications just to note before I start if they're all funded today we would go into the deficit into this new financial year of 10,445 pounds and 59 pence just to be aware of for that one but straight on to the first one on page 43 we have Gertin bowls club this they have said that their existing bowl collectors were purchased ten years ago but now they're mostly unusable and irreparable so 12 new bowls collectors are required for the new season which is already started total costs are 865 pounds all of which are being requested from the community chest so that's the 12 bowls collectors and delivery the old collectors have been dismantled and the metal taken to recycling centre thank you colleagues I personally can't see any problem with this it's always ten years is a fair structure and they're obviously very well used to wear them out so thank you for your support that's a total support here Emma I've no real problem with that if Emma could share her screen then I can talk as well as see what I'm talking about at the moment I'm dashing between applications and can't get my microphone open in time to speak it's quite difficult we will endeavour to do that I do have highlighted notes I don't know if democratic services maybe help might be easier as long as you don't mind it's a little bit my short hand notes as well is there any of your notes any of your notes there's no confidential notes those that's great hold on Sue we're working with the technology here we've got our expert on it no pressure wonderful brilliant over to you Emma for the next one thank you very much page 44 this is Rumpton T club they meet twice a month in the village hall this is for people of Rumpton and neighbouring villages who are over 60 and they can come together and socialise they have a monthly speaker as well as part of their activities and this monthly speaker uses a projector to display the slides this current projector produces blurred images and there's also no sound up amplification so what they would like to do is to purchase a new obviously projector and a portable PA system so total project costs are £1278.99 of which £1000 has been requested from the community chest the parish council have confirmed they will donate £278.99 hence councillors councillor Annick Osborne is in favour thank you very much colleagues that's a nod from councillor Henley I'll come to you in a sec so no perhaps I've got no real problems I suppose the parish council might have contributed more because anyway perhaps perhaps getting into too much detail I'm happy to support it thank you councillor Linton I suppose my question was if this is in the village hall is there not Wi-Fi or any sort of computer systems there a projector sounds to me old-fashioned am I just no are we supporting the wrong thing is really what I'm asking well councillor Linton the model community space called Melbourne hub has four meeting rooms all with overhead projectors that you plug your computer into in the wall so actually it's a very handy way of doing more IT literate type stuff so I'll have to argue the one I think we're all in agreement I think it was just whether this projector is part of of that sort of system or the old sort of system where you had slides that you stuck in that was what I was envisaging from reading this report yeah I'll check this out myself just to be sure but it is definitely linked to computers oh that's fine no that's lovely so if you were here you would be okay with this then okay that's all of us then thank you very much Emma on page 45 we have Arts and Mines so Arts and Mines supports 150 plus people through a number of different programs to support mental health and these include arts on prescription pottery a creative cafe and various other projects as well and one of their projects that they would like to do is called creative Camborn so it's a new mixed media creative project that explores local cultural and community identities and it's a partnership with Camborn Library and they will be providing a series of workshops that will be delivered in the autumn and an exhibition in early 1984 this project is mainly aimed at those that may be experiencing mental health or physical health conditions surrounding villages from Camborn can also come along too so it's not just Camborn total project costs are £1,951 all of which are being requested from the community chest and this includes programme management costs and artists, materials and various other costs that they need for this an application to the Camborn Town Council for continuation funding will be made in September 2023 that's their next application rounds recycled and we used arts materials will be used where possible and they've also recently been awarded £4,000 per year just to denote service support grant if you remember and that's to continue building and developing the arts on prescription programme I just mentioned so they have had funding from the council but I just wanted to make you aware of that and all councillers are in favour Thank you Emma a little confused on the page 45 landowner in the first chunk of information it says the library county council community county council I'll imagine CCC and then on page 46 just over half way down it's got the one sentence the parish counciller owns the venue so we've got landowner who's I'm not sure I will double check there's a bit of discrepancy there isn't there I think it's held at the library so I would one would assume that it's actually the county council but I can confirm that Is it a county library outlet or is it a community library? I think it's a community library I've got a feeling that the building is actually owned by the town council and it's used for a community library I mean they're not asking for anything to enhance the structure of the building so I don't see the parish council is having read it I mean I may be wrong but I don't see that the not the town council is going to benefit in any way from this so unless I say I've persuaded otherwise I'm quite happy with this application even though they obviously use a facility owned by the town council I'm not suggesting that we don't support it I just kind of want to get to that No I agree with you I think it was yeah I think the landowner as far as I'm aware is the town council I don't think it's owned by the county council there's a few anomalies in there they still mention the phrase parish the town council for a year that aside Melbourne has a community library which is within the space owned by the parish council and the parish council helped to contribute towards that and any of the things that go on so some of the local developments that Melbourne have had have had library S106's put forward now I wonder whether or not this particular group ought to approach the library service at county because it's exactly the same situation for Campbell this project as it is for any other community based library um in Melbourne's case there was a £16,000 S106 for library services which clearly couldn't be used for the intention it was given so the county have used that amount they've assigned that to Melbourne library over a number of years for all sorts of stuff but you just applied directly to county council through Andrew Stoker I think the office's name is and so then I would like actually some effort if you like to be made to contact the library service because this is actually part and parcel they're using the library's name if you like and the county library service link it would be handy if there were any other funding to come from there as well but don't object to this in the least it was just more of a verbal point that there are more options than what I usually just thought of was come here for £2 and then that's it they need to explore and town council Campbell and town council is a highly experienced council, highly experienced, very professional so they would know that so are we a cancer handy? It's a point well made Jeff but this is yeah just making the best use of it's facilitation, it's facilitating and the best use of the solicitation so I'm very happy to get support My two colleagues, county repers Yeah to support but in future maybe to have that kind of eye and doubt as to who owns what and who should be providing what as well Brilliant and Councillor Henry as you have supported here, thank you so we're okay here John, thank you in support Neil Thank you so the next application page 47 is Barhill Allotment Society they've identified, well they've told us that they've had several recent incidents of criminal damage so currently all machinery such as lawn mowers and streamers have to be kept off site and what they'd like to do is purchase a small secure container type structure and a security lock bar the cost to do this to install this is £1,732.79 and £500 has been requested from the community chest the parish council have contributed £1,200 and any shortfalls will come from the Barhill Allotment Society funds to sort of finish off the project and Councillor Bunty Waters is in support I have absolutely no problem with this and it's a very worthwhile there's been so much of this in the past in allotments, I've left alone a long time for people who've enjoyed this and it's counted over in this Can I say I'm also happy to support and glad to see that the parish council is contributing the lion's share I think sometimes I'm not on this occasion sometimes parish councils need to step up a little bit more So in support there is support I'm very happy with it I'm very happy with it Thank you very much That's out of your own support Thank you Biodiversity applications now so page 48 we have Meldrith village hall trustees and there is a a patch of rough ground adjacent to the main building at the moment it's only used by the toddler group for a play area and that's in the summer and what trustees would like to do is to upgrade the area into a new multi-use community coronation garden they're calling it which will be fenced in for all hall users so obviously it expands the use that it currently has so that will be children's groups disabled dementia groups and elderly users they could all use this this area it's quite a big project so total project costs are 39,441 pounds they're asking for the maximum £2,000 from the community chest they've had funding already for part of this including the national lottery they've provided £10,000 the trustees themselves will provide £10,000 and they're hoping to secure funding from the Clutonham village hall fund and the solar fund and councillor Salianne Hart councillor yourself councillor Hales councillor Susan Bunderven also in support of this thank you I know this venue very well it's a much needed upgrade to play groups and I'll have you though speak for themselves I'd like to speak if I may for the dementia side there was a group community support for dementia that was created about four years ago five years ago in Melbourne as a result of the lead on that personal circumstances for the partner it started in Melbourne hub and it outgrew Melbourne hub within nine months it was an astonishing on both sides of the coin it's an astonishing achievement but what's more astonishing is there is absolutely nothing as far as dementia is concerned and support within the community or within the fabric of say the NHS and stuff like this so this group is an absolute critical group it fills the military for each hall regularly once a month and this garden will only go to serve that purpose when they can obviously get out there and do it but there is the sensory side of it and there's the calmness so I can't advocate this more thank you so I'll take it to the floor now I'm just curious with the sort of people this is aimed at the facilities for them disabled toilets and stuff the full set of everything it's all level access as well from the front doors and the side doors everything is accessible anybody else got comments Judith I support this and good luck also finding this remaining amount of money because obviously it's really quite a big project and really really essential well I'm not going to speak on behalf of Meldriff Paris Council but what Emma mentioned which was the solar fund and they've got two solar funds a receipt of money it's for now like a 106 they have more than enough to finish the rest of that financing Councillor Ellington can I go to you absolutely support it I feel more of these sort of areas and arrangements are absolutely key to us coping with the Alzheimer and the problem of loneliness for the carers for those people is so great and needs so much attention thank you here here so it looks like total support from us here John I'll leave that one to you thank you Emma okay page 51 we have Eco Wittlesford this raises awareness awareness of environmental issues it does a variety of things including events, talks we undertake surveys and they provide nature walks as well what they like to do is create seven nature trails around Wittlesford and these will be signposted by QR codes that people can use with their smartphones and they can link to their web page to find more information about these particular places within the community so we have points of interest, history geology and biodiversity all those kind of things they can find out more about the trails have been designed already by a local ecologist and the website is ready to be built on and they also as part of the project they would like to install a significant number of new bat boxes bird boxes and hedgehog shelters total project costs £1,758 and £1,500 has been requested from the community chest the remaining £200 is coming from the Wittlesford all funds they said that once they do secure funding they will have an event where volunteers can build bat, bird and hedgehog boxes ready to install from the project and council Richard Williams is in support and I've actually spoken to the ECO Wittlesford and it's amazing what they're doing and I've supported myself Thank you Colleagues I think we're in agreement anything I would say is that I think using QR codes is great and it's the modern template but not everybody knows how to use a QR code or access the websites as a result thereof and when you scan a QR code the yellow box comes up it's quite small so if your eyesight isn't that great then you're not going to know what's happening so I just wonder whether or not they might like to consider the hydraulic version of a notification perhaps for our older residents who might like to take advantage of this just a thought have you got anything to say please Not really just this wonderful all these new projects Excellent thank you in that case then John that's a total support, thank you very much Emma Also on page 52 we have full born forum they undertake projects to help full born become a resilient and sustainable village and community and what's happened is they've got a herb bed project and this started about nine years ago at five key village locations and it basically encourages residents to pick herbs for their own use locally and so they wouldn't need to transport, use transport to get supplies from the shop so it's readily available and it's also part of full born's Grow Your Own initiative but what's happened over time is that the herb beds have deteriorated and they require replacements so they needed treated hardwood to ensure a much longer life and one of these herb beds on cow lane this is the most urgent one that needs replacing it's on land owned by the parish council and to replace this would be £740 they've requested £450 from the community chest to contribute towards this and the balance will be provided by full born forum on funds raised from community activities and full born forum will also pay for the soil the compost and the services of a carpenter to cut the construct the herb bed also they'll use volunteers for the planting and ongoing maintenance and just to note that the parish council already installed at the same site a memorial bench and a decorative tree and we have Councillor Graham Cove in support so thank you I'm going to go to Councillor Ellington first if I may because she seems to always go last so are you there Councillor Ellington? that's it I am here yes I'm here I haven't run off it looks like a very interesting project I'm always ever so enthusiastic about herbs and things but then end up not knowing what to do with them when I've got them if you see what I mean I've got batteries and rosemary and all sorts of stuff out there do I ever use it now so I think we need to go the next step but that's just me I think this sounds like a lovely project thank you Councillor Rippeth I was just checking there's obviously again Councillor Cones in support I'm hoping Councillor John Williams is as well we've only just got one Councillor local member I was going to mention this but I know John is in a bit of an awkward position being the leader they approached me and as I said I can't offer an opinion until you've you've advised me on what I should do I was going to come to you John after we had made our recommendation to you and then you could have your two clinics because that would be safer for you okay thank you I was hoping he could cut himself in half for the local member on one half looks good and I'm somebody who's forever got herbs in the fridge which go off so if you could go and walk along and just collect exactly what you needed that would be really good as regards food waste as well Councillor Councillor Raj it's perfect for what you know situation is this is already ongoing isn't it they just want some more funding for upgrading or whatever so I support to it's relatively modest and the parish councillor obviously put some into the overall project in kind so I'm happy to support it okay Councillor Williams then you now have free reign because we all support it including now our colleague although she can't actually officially support it but she does so over to you okay well very much pleased that you're able to give this your support yeah it's been going for many years now they've got several boxes around the village and it's a very useful resource and people do use them so I would recommend other arishes looking to to do this as well because it's a a very easy way to get people to think about growing their own and joining together as a community to use the resources so natural resources so thank you very much and that enables me to say okay brilliant thanks Councillor Williams Emma okay again thanks okay thank you so page 54 this is a deferred application from let's run girls limited you remember last month you wanted a little bit more information on the group's ethos and backgrounds and also that the contact is made with the parish council to see if they're in support or not so I'll just give you a little bit of a background so it was initially set up by a lady you started running at university and what she did is she found that the university running club was very competitive and not very inclusive so she continued running alone but then she discovered like-minded people that wanted to do the same as her and that's how it kind of grew from there and obviously the question of why women only and I think we touched on this last month but basically it's a fact that in the UK inactivity rates are higher for women than men around one in three men and one in two women are not active enough for good health let's run girls it also recognises that women are less likely to be physically active than men and can face additional barriers to becoming more active so women may face some or all of the following real or perceived barriers to getting active so low self-esteem confidence safety concerns is a key one childcare responsibilities so obviously finding the time to go out fear of injury low motivation and health conditions and insights shared from organisations including women in sport and sport England suggest that women can and do benefit from access to exercise in a women only environment the parish council have supplied a letter of support as well so hopefully that's enough information to make that decision Thank you Emma, yeah I mean I have provided her a lot more I think she does answer the questions that we asked colleagues have we got any points you'd like to make, Councillor Ribbeth I'm just to say I'm kind of much more confident about this now because we've got more detail and it does for me fulfil that need for women and girls and women to get more involved with physical exercise so I would support Thank you Councillor Hanrash Do you have any comments Yes, yeah I hope this works Yes, I think I should support it Councillor Henly Come to you then Councillor Yeah, I echo Councillor Ribbeth's comments a more confident now because it's more information and happy to support it and maybe we could earmark this for a progress report at the future meeting and see what they're doing with the money That would be a really good idea actually because it doesn't promote that on a different platform Thank you, Councillor Hanson I believe I've heard in the past how women are always very active until they start having a family and then it all drops off the peg and never really it gets re-established and I think we need to encourage girls to get back to or to continue it through their productive years shall I say So yes, I'm very supportive Thank you In that case then Councillor Williams we believe the questions have been answered that we asked I think we've done due diligence so it's a recommendation from us Thanks Great That is for the applications I just wanted to mention that I've also provided an appendix B the sixth month report from Hope Against Poverty If you remember they spoke last month so I'm hoping that that evidence is enough but obviously please let me know if you need anything further I firmly believe it is Councillor Williams may have a comment it answers the questions we asked Councillor Williams No, I'm quite happy with the report I say it answers the questions that were raised about what they did with the money and looking forward to them doing something similar this coming Christmas hopefully Yeah, thanks Councillor Williams I suppose we just ought to thank Mahesh for providing information in such a timely manner so thank you very much OK, much obliged and I think that's it then is it from you Brilliant Colleagues, anyone else got anything to say because that is the last agenda item and if there's nothing else to say I'll say thank you very much bid you and everybody online farewell and see you next time Thank you very much, goodbye