Community Grant Fund Policy 2025/2026

That the Community
Grant Fund Policy 2025/2026 set out at Appendix 1 to the submitted
report be approved and opened to applications in accordance with
the policy, subject to Paragraph 3.1 being amended to read
‘the fund is primarily designed to provide support for
organisations providing projects of a capital nature but up to 25%
of the total grant funding available may be allocated to
applications for projects requiring revenue funding. Revenue
funding applications will need to demonstrate lasting benefit to
residents living in the communities they are designed to
support.’

To provide further
funding to the voluntary and community sector organisations in
support of the Council’s long-term objectives for the
Bay.

This fund was
considered in the approval of the budget for 2025/2026. The option
to not spend this allocation has been discounted as it does not
meet the aims and objectives.

This decision will
come into force and may be implemented on 23 June 2025 unless the
call-in procedure is triggered (as set out in the Standing Orders
in relation to Overview and Scrutiny).

Torbay Council is
introducing a Community Grant Fund for 2025 to further support the
voluntary and
community sector organisations because the Council believed that a
vibrant Third Sector was vital to the community. 

The Council was committed to supporting
organisations that delivered projects which had a beneficial impact
on the local community and supported one or more of the
Council’s strategic themes from the Torbay Community and
Corporate Plan. This grant fund aimed to further enable work in
Torbay’s deprived areas outside of Torquay, which was
benefiting from other significant place-based funding.

At the meeting Councillor Tyerman
proposed and Councillor Chris Lewis seconded a motion that was
agreed unanimously by the Cabinet, as set out above.