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Community Leadership Fund

The purpose of the Community Leadership Fund is to enable elected members to seek support for projects that will have a positive impact on communities within their wards.

This may relate to projects across the whole city and is not limited to amenities within particular wards, providing councilors are satisfied that communities within their own wards will have the opportunity to benefit.

£10,000 is available each financial year per ward.

Application Criteria

The critieria for each application is as follows:

  • The overall objective for any approved project must be to promote the social, economic and/or environmental well-being of the ward.
  • It must support the sustainable Community Strategy.
  • The project must not be contrary to Council Policy.  If so, it must be referred to Cabinet for a final decision.
  • The project must be lawful.
  • Projects encouraging or discouraging political action, for example protests, are not permitted.
  • All projects will be subject to obtaining all necessary consents, authoroties, licences, permissions from the Council or otherwise (any of these costs must be funded from the project sum.)
  • The project should have no ongoing financial consequences for the Council, unless an agreement has been made with the Director of the service area concerned and evidence of this is submitted with the application.
  • There should be no retrospective applications for funding.  The applications and necessary approvals must be completed prior to the project being implemented
  • All monies are to be spent by 31st March, unless prior approval is sought from the Leader of the Council and the Executive Director of Operations.

Community Leadership Funds Spent

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PDF file icon  Community Leadership Fund - April to December 2011
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PDF file icon  Community Leadership Fund - January 2012
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PDF file icon  Community Leadership Fund - February 2012
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PDF file icon  Community Leadership Fund March 2012
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PDF file icon  Community Leadership Fund April 2012
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