Issue - meetings

Having considered an officer report, and a presentation by the Cabinet

Member for Community Sector, Councillor Jonathan Slater, the Mayor and

Cabinet agreed that a sum of £155,815 be granted to eight organisations to

extend their delivery period under the current Main Grants programme to 31

March 2022 to allow all organisations that have been granted funding under

the Main Grants programme to continue delivery of crucial Covid-19 recovery-

related services to Lewisham residents and also ensure that all organisations

are enabled to continue delivery of essential community activities and work

towards sustainability in light of previous disruptions resulting from the Covid-

19 crisis, until the start of the new Main Grants programme in April 2022.

The Mayor expressed his full support for the proposals and was delighted that

decades long relationships in some cases could be extended.

Having considered an officer report, and a presentation by the Cabinet

Member for Community Sector, Councillor Jonathan Slater, the Mayor and

Cabinet, for the reasons set out in the report and by a vote of 10-0;

RESOLVED that a sum of £155,815 be granted to eight organisations to

extend their delivery period under the current Main Grants programme to 31

March 2022 to allow all organisations that have been granted funding under

the Main Grants programme to continue delivery of crucial Covid-19 recovery-

related services to Lewisham residents and also ensure that all organisations

are enabled to continue delivery of essential community activities and work

towards sustainability in light of previous disruptions resulting from the Covid-

19 crisis, until the start of the new Main Grants programme in April 2022.