Issue - meetings

Big Lottery Funding: Play

Meeting: 22/01/2007 - Executive Member for Children and Young People's Services and Advisory Panel (Item 52)

This paper sets out how the Council may apply for Children’s Play, Big Lottery Funding. It seeks endorsement of the process followed to identify projects, approval to work up the identified projects for inclusion in the portfolio to be presented to the Big Lottery Fund, approval for the reserve projects and approval for use of the Council’s top-sliced funding.

Additional documents:

Decision:

Advice of the Advisory Panel:

The Executive Member is recommended to:

· Endorse the process followed to identify projects.

· Give approval for Officers to work up the identified projects for inclusion in the portfolio to be presented to the Big Lottery Fund.

· Approve the list of reserve projects

· Approve the approach set out for use of the Council’s top-sliced funding

Decision of the Executive Member:

RESOLVED: That the advice of the Advisory Panel be accepted and endorsed.

REASON: To ensure that York delivers a successful portfolio to the Big Lottery to enable our play sector to benefit from the funding on offer.

Minutes:

Members considered a report that set out how the Council may apply for Children’s Play; Big Lottery Funding. It seeks endorsement of the process followed to identify projects, approval to work up the identified projects for inclusion in the portfolio to be presented to the Big Lottery Fund, approval for the reserve projects and approval for use of the Council’s top-sliced funding.

Additional information in the form of an update report was circulated to Members after the agenda had been published. This material was also available for viewing at the meeting. A copy is attached to these minutes.

Officers said that this was a very exciting time for play as the Government was allocating £150 million of funding for projects. York had been allocated just over £320k of this.

Members welcomed the idea as a whole but said that the Council needed to build a comprehensive picture of play areas in order to avoid the same areas getting the funding every time.