Cambridge City Council Grants for Local Groups - One Week To Go!

Cambridge City Council has made available, via the Area Committees, grants for local groups. This round of funding is the last round for 2012-13 and there is only one week left to apply.

Some examples of the type of things that can be fully or partially funded;

• Summer outing for elderly people
• Producing a newsletter for local residents
• Sports and arts activities
• Community events and festivals

Full information (and contact details) are available here (Google Docs, PDF).

This round closes on the 30th September for decision at the 22nd November meeting.

If you want help putting together a bid please contact us using the details on the left.

Cambridge City Council Grants for Local Groups

Cambridge City Council has made available, via the Area Committees, grants for local groups. Some examples of the type of things that can be fully or partially funded;

• Summer outing for elderly people
• Producing a newsletter for local residents
• Sports and arts activities
• Community events and festivals

Full information (and contact details) are available here (Google Docs, PDF).

The first round of funding was completed in March and grants were awarded at the 17th May meeting of the North Area Committee. This round closes on the 30th September for decision at the 22nd November meeting.

If you want help putting together a bid please contact us using the details on the left.

Cambridge City Area Committee Grants for Local Organisations

Cambridge City Council has made available, via the Area Committees, grants for local groups. Some examples of the type of things that can be fully or partially funded;

• Summer outing for elderly people
• Producing a newsletter for local residents
• Street party to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee
• Sports and arts activities
• Community events and festivals
• Events celebrating the Olympics

Full information (and contact details) are available here (Google Docs, PDF).

There will be two rounds of funding in 2012-2013, the first closes on the 31st March and will be decided at the 17th May meeting of North Area Committee and the second closes on the 30th September for decision at the 22nd November meeting.

If you want help putting together a bid please contact us using the details on the left.

North Area Committee results...

Last night at North Area Committee a few issues that affect the ward were discussed.

Firstly we had many Friends of Arbury Court Library along, and I'd like to promote the meeting they are holding at 7pm on February 2nd. This meeting is to formalise the group and come up with ideas to support it, and the other libraries threatened by the Conservative County Council. They are also staging a "read-in" at the library on Saturday February 5.

The report back from County Councillors suggests that Milton Road library is under bigger threat, but the local Liberal Democrats are campaigning to save all of Cambridge's libraries.

We also had some community grants to groups in King's Hedges. I managed to get the committee to agree to go against officers and give a grant to the Meadows Children and Family Wing, who do a lot of work with families in Arbury and King's Hedges. This is subject to checks that it isn't a "double" claim, but seperate project work. There were also grants to King's Hedges Brownies and the King's Hedges Family Support Group.

There is still some money in the pots, so if you know of a community group that could do with some help get in touch.

We also had the police priorities and I discussed issues of ASB with Sgt Wragg. He has agreed to meet me to see what can be done about some specific local problems.

North Area Committee: Thursday 27 January

The first North Area Committee of 2011 is coming up soon.

As far as I know there is no planning so the meeting will be starting at 7.30pm at the Manor School on Arbury Road.

As well as the Open Forum, a chance for you to raise any issue you wish with your local councillors, it looks likely that we will have items on...

• Local police priorities
• We hope someone from Tesco to talk about issues related to their stores
• Information about the UK census, which is this year
• A regular item on community grants.

We will also be looking at how we can improve local participation in decisions that affect the North Area. The hope is to extend how many people get involved in making decisions on public services.

We hope to see you there!

City Council Leader Fighting Government For Fairer Deal

Cambridge City Council Leader Sian Reid is battling with the government for a fairer deal after a 20 per cent cut in the city council’s grant from government next year.

Cllr Reid has talked to Local Government Minister, Andrew Stunnell after the city council was told it would receive 12 per cent less in grant funding than it was expecting for 2011/12.

Prudent management by the Lib Dem controlled city council has meant that some of this can be absorbed but the reduction in government grant gives the council less to spend in future years.

The figure includes a £900,000 bill to support the government’s concessionary bus fares scheme for the elderly and disabled which has already cost the city council £4.8 million in the last four years.

Cllr Reid said: “The council will come in under budget this year and that helps us to deal with the news that we will be receiving considerably less than was anticipated. We can cope without increasing our long term savings targets that were set out in November.

“But the government promised that no council would face more than an 8.9 per cent reduction this year. And we have been penalised through the concessionary fares scheme because the government is under the impression that we received £900,000 more than we actually did.

“I am pushing the government to look again at the funding for Cambridge city so that we can get a fairer settlement.”

North Area Committee: Grants to community groups

One of the items at North Area Committee last night was to award City Council grants to community groups.

Every year the City Council gives just under £60,000 to the four area committees to allocate, and the North gets a share of just over £21,000. These grants are used by differnt groups in different ways to support community projects.

Last night we agreed to fund two groups active in the Arbury and King's Hedges areas: Groverbury Ladies Club and the Abury Manor branch of the Royal British Legion. The total to them was just over £1000.

These grants are for special events, but we also give grants to cover start up and other one off costs.

There is still about £9000 in the kitty for this year, so if your group could use a grant to help community activities then check the application guidelines, and the general information page.

If you have an idea and need help to get going then contact a member of the team.