Decision details

UKSPF Communities and Place

(a)      award up to £60,000 to Aberdeen Council of Voluntary Organisations LTD (ACVO) for Aberdeen Third Sector Hub feasibility Study;

(b)      award up to £99,200 to Aberdeen City Council for the Tall Ships Races Aberdeen 2025 Culture Programme 24/25;

(c)      award up to £26,447 to Growing2gether for the Strengthening Communities by Building Local Skills, Wellbeing and Resilience project;

(d)      award up to £63,000 to Look Again in partnership with Culture Aberdeen and northeast based freelancers for the Aberdeen Independents project;

(e)      award up to £37,000 to Soundfestival for the Soundcommunities project;

(f)       award up to £45,228 to St Georges Community Centre for the Saint Georges Community Centre project;

(g)      award up to £108,000 to the Port of Aberdeen Trust Port to support Tall Ships Community Promotion, which includes volunteer recruitment and engaging young people with sail traineeships;

(h)      award up to £116,777 to Avenue for Mental Health and Relationship Support for Families and Individuals in Aberdeen;

UKSPF Local Business Support

(i)       award up to £562,680 to Aberdeen City Council to enable delivery of Business Start-up grants;

(j)       award up to £45,000 to Aberdeen City Council for the Aberdeen Renewable Energy Groups (AREG)’s Enhancing Offshore Wind Renewables through Digital Innovation project;

(k)      instruct the Chief Officer – City Development and Regeneration to develop applications within Local Business Support which will deliver priority activities for approval by Finance and Resources Committee on 8th May 2024;

UKSPF Multiply

(l)       award up to £827,773.44 to ABZ Works for the Core Numeracy Project; and

(m)     approve up to £133,885.36 of revenue funding from the Local Business Support, People & Skills and Multiply strands only be retained by Aberdeen City Council, as per UKSPF regulations which details that 4% of revenue funds can be retained by Local Authorities to ensure robust delivery and monitoring of the UKSPF Programme; and

(n)      to instruct the Chief Officer - City Development and Regeneration to email the Committee members the names of the applicants which were declined to receive an award and to consider how best this information could be included within future reports.