Issue - meetings

UKSPF Communities And Place

(i)       Defers decision on the application for up to £167,112 to Tillydrone Community Development Trust for the Benholms Tower Project to the meeting of Finance and Resources Committee on 5th July 2023;

(ii)       Awards up to £79,506 to Greyhope Bay for the Phase 2 Feasibility Project;

(iii)      Awards up to £124,800 to VisitAberdeenshire for a Make a Day of it in Aberdeen Campaign;

(iv)      Awards up to £82,468 to Home-Start Aberdeen to support additional vulnerable families;

(v)      Rejects the application for up to £300,000 to Aberdeen Performing Arts at this time for the Lemon Tree Redevelopment project due to lack of information on funding sources for proposed main capital works.

UKSPF People & Skills

(vi)      Awards up to £275,000 to Aberdeen City Council for additional employability keyworker support for economically inactive people;

(vii)     Awards up to £355,000 to Aberdeen City Council to provide additional courses for economically inactive people, Green Skills courses and development of local projects; and

(viii)    Notes the officer review outcome in relation to the Lemon Tree Redevelopment – Design Development proposals and instructs the Chief Officer – City Growth to report back to the Finance and Resources Committee by September 2023 with details of work done to support Aberdeen Performing Arts in identifying alternative sources of funding.

With reference to article 8 of the minute of the previous meeting of 1 February 2023, the Committee had before it a report by the Director of Commissioning which sought approval for the proposed allocation of grant funding of UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) 2023/25.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee –

UKSPF Communities And Place

(a)      defer decision on the application for up to £167,112 to Tillydrone Community Development Trust for the Benholms Tower Project to the meeting of Finance and Resources Committee on 5th July 2023;

(b)      award up to £79,506 to Greyhope Bay for the Phase 2 Feasibility Project;

(c)      award up to £124,800 to VisitAberdeenshire for a Make a Day of it in Aberdeen Campaign;

(d)      award up to £82,468 to Home-Start Aberdeen to support additional vulnerable families;

(e)      reject the application for up to £300,000 to Aberdeen Performing Arts at this time for the Lemon Tree Redevelopment project due to lack of information on funding sources for proposed main capital works.

UKSPF People & Skills

(f)       award up to £275,000 to Aberdeen City Council for additional employability keyworker support for economically inactive people; and

(g)      award up to £355,000 to Aberdeen City Council to provide additional courses for economically inactive people, Green Skills courses and development of local projects.

The Committee resolved:-

(i)       to approve the recommendations; and

(ii)       to note the officer review outcome in relation to the Lemon Tree Redevelopment – Design Development proposals and instructs the Chief Officer – City Growth to report back to the Finance and Resources Committee by September 2023 with details of work done to support Aberdeen Performing Arts in identifying alternative sources of funding.