Decision details

This decision record sets out the key information for publication on the decision by the Executive Director for Customer, Digital and Transformation to approve expenditure for a Your Fund Surrey project located in Tandridge. The agreed recommendations are set out below and details of the project are set out in a decision report attached as an annex to this record.

It was AGREED

Officer Recommendations in consultation with the Advisory Panel. It is recommended that:

1.   That £44,000 is award from Your Fund Surrey to CF110 Limpsfield Parish Council as a significant contribution toward the overall project cost, with the suggestion that the applicant undertake community fundraising to reach the final project total, as a demonstration of the wider community engagement and commitment to the project and its proposed benefits.

2.   That the funding is awarded in two tranche payments with an initial payment of £26,000 and a second tranche payment of £18,000, contingent on the applicant confirming that they had raised the outstanding balance of £4,343 prior to release of the second tranche payment.

3.   To request that the applicant as part of the evaluation plan considers mitigations for any possible negative environmental impacts arising from the project, include any opportunities for additional tree planting, with the support of the Greener Futures team.

4.    To approve an additional sum of £5,509 to be held by SCC as contingency funding, for release only upon an evidenced request.

These decisions are to enable expenditure from the Your Fund Surrey to be awarded to a project which have been the subject of a rigorous assessment process by officers, as set out in Annex 1.

Officers consider the project to meet the aims and published criteria of the fund and to satisfy the requirements to award funding, the project has been further considered by the Your Fund Advisory Panel.

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