Issue - meetings

(1) the following priorities and processes be approved for the main grants

programme 2022-2025:

(2) the overarching priorities for the programme will be:          

a.         An economically sound future, specifically:

iii.        Advice Services and

iv.        Enabling Digital Access for All

b.         A healthy and well future

c.         A future we all have a part in

(3) Four Community Fundraiser posts be funded, hosted by the VCS, with the

following areas of focus:

•           1x FTE Community Fundraiser with a focus on equality and equity

including ethnicity and disabilities as protected characteristics specifically

impacted by Covid, but with an expectation that the hosting organisation

should also look at addressing other protected characteristics as part of the

brief, along with intersectionality

•           1x FTE Community Fundraiser with a focus on geographical cold spots

in the borough/areas of high deprivation that do not have other sources of

income such as NCIL

•           .5 FTE Community Fundraiser with a focus on the arts

•           .5 FTE Community Fundraiser with a focus on sports

(4) the Community Fundraiser funding be let earlier, through an Expression of

Interest/Interview process, and awards granted by late November 2021;

(5) significant partnership grants for advice and social prescribing be retained,

but with a more rigorous outcomes-based approach;

(6) partnership grants of £10,000 be established with clear, measurable and

proportionate partnership outcomes;

(7) the approach to achieving equity in the Main Grants programme will be to

focus grants on projects which benefit:

•           communities most impacted by Covid

•           people with protected characteristics – specifically age, ethnicity,

disability, sexual orientation and gender reassignment, and

•           seldom heard voices

(8) funding Black Asian and Minority Ethnic infrastructure support that is tied

to and works alongside the Community Fundraiser with the focus of the

support being capacity building focused on collaboration, enabling

organisations to identify need, generate ideas for funding, and support to

become sustainable;

(9) a separate grant programme for Arts and Culture organisations be run

aligned to London Borough of Culture with the following strategic themes:

•           A healthy and well future

•           A greener future

•           A future we all have a part in

(10) the art and culture funding programme funds the following activities:

1.         Funding a cultural anchor organisation to:

•           Provide sector leadership

•           Co-ordinate consortium funding bids

•           Support emerging artists

•           Nurture partnerships

2.         Funding for organisations to address barriers to cultural participation

focusing on:

•           Ethnic diversity

•           Disability

•           Economic disadvantage

•           Age (young people and older people)

3.         One off funding to deliver projects around key themes: 

•           Increasing participation

•           Addressing the climate emergency

•           Celebrating diversity

•           Promoting equality and fairness of opportunity

4.         Address inequalities in the cultural workforce through

•           Bursary funding for emerging artists

•           Broadway Theatre associate artists

•           Employment and training programmes

•           Support for cultural and creative enterprise growth

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

Member for Business and Community Wealth Building, Councillor Kim Powell,

the Mayor & Cabinet for the reasons set out in the report and by a vote of 8-0:

RESOLVED that:

(1) the following priorities and processes be approved for the main grants

programme 2022-2025:

(2) the overarching priorities for the programme will be:          

a.         An economically sound future, specifically:

iii.        Advice Services and

iv.        Enabling Digital Access for All

b.         A healthy and well future

c.         A future we all have a part in

(3) Four Community Fundraiser posts be funded, hosted by the VCS, with the

following areas of focus:

•           1x FTE Community Fundraiser with a focus on equality and equity

including ethnicity and disabilities as protected characteristics specifically

impacted by Covid, but with an expectation that the hosting organisation

should also look at addressing other protected characteristics as part of the

brief, along with intersectionality

•           1x FTE Community Fundraiser with a focus on geographical cold spots

in the borough/areas of high deprivation that do not have other sources of

income such as NCIL

•           .5 FTE Community Fundraiser with a focus on the arts

•           .5 FTE Community Fundraiser with a focus on sports

(4) the Community Fundraiser funding be let earlier, through an Expression of

Interest/Interview process, and awards granted by late November 2021;

(5) significant partnership grants for advice and social prescribing be retained,

but with a more rigorous outcomes-based approach;

(6) partnership grants of £10,000 be established with clear, measurable and

proportionate partnership outcomes;

(7) the approach to achieving equity in the Main Grants programme will be to

focus grants on projects which benefit:

•           communities most impacted by Covid

•           people with protected characteristics – specifically age, ethnicity,

disability, sexual orientation and gender reassignment, and

•           seldom heard voices

(8) funding Black Asian and Minority Ethnic infrastructure support that is tied

to and works alongside the Community Fundraiser with the focus of the

support being capacity building focused on collaboration, enabling

organisations to identify need, generate ideas for funding, and support to

become sustainable;

(9) a separate grant programme for Arts and Culture organisations be run

aligned to London Borough of Culture with the following strategic themes:

•           A healthy and well future

•           A greener future

•           A future we all have a part in

(10) the art and culture funding programme funds the following activities:

1.         Funding a cultural anchor organisation to:

•           Provide sector leadership

•           Co-ordinate consortium funding bids

•           Support emerging artists

•           Nurture partnerships

2.         Funding for organisations to address barriers to cultural participation

focusing on:

•           Ethnic diversity

•           Disability

•           Economic disadvantage

•           Age (young people and older people)

3.         One off funding to deliver projects around key themes: 

•           Increasing participation

•           Addressing the climate emergency

•           Celebrating diversity

•           Promoting equality and fairness of opportunity

4.         Address inequalities in the cultural workforce through

•           Bursary funding for emerging  ...  view the full minutes text for item 529