Issue - meetings

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Task Force Report Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) Funding Review

Meeting: 29/11/2018 - CORPORATE RESOURCES OVERVIEW & SCRUTINY COMMITTEE (Item 55)

55 Task Force Report on the Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) Funding Review pdf icon PDF 77 KB

 

To provide Members with the outcomes of the scrutiny task force review into voluntary and community infrastructure funding in Central Bedfordshire, comment on the recommendations to Executive.

 

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Minutes:

 

The Vice-chairman introduced the Task Force report on the VCS Funding Review.  The review had focussed on Infrastructure Organisations which were due to lose their funding and, in order to maintain the level of services provided by them, the Task Force recognised the need to continue funding until a wider review was undertaken. 

 

It was recognised that the VCS Infrastructure Organisations help to ensure a local thriving and robust voluntary sector. The withdrawal of their funding would see a decline in community cohesion as well as a risk to contracts and arrangements the Council has with the voluntary sector.

 

In light of the report, a Member queried the amount of £69,000 the Task Force had recommended to fund the three Infrastructure Organisations.  In response, the Chairman advised this amount would maintain the level of funds the Organisations had received annually.

 

Members agreed that a bigger piece of work was needed to fully understand the Council’s relationship with the voluntary and community sector, future funding provision and officers use the information to create a strategy to take the Council forward.

 

RECOMMENDED that subject to a closer inspection of financial matters in Phase II, the Voluntary and Community Sector Funding Review, Phase I, be fully endorsed.