Agenda item
Application for Youth Activities Small Grants Fund 2010/11 - Round 1 (ECS/10/057)
Minutes:
With reference to article 25 of the minute of its meeting of 10 December, 2010, the Committee had before it a report by the Director of Education, Culture and Sport which presented the recommendations of the Youth Activities Grant Funding Group for the first round of funding for the financial year 2010/11, which had a closing date of 30 April, 2010.
The report advised that twenty four new applications had been received this round, and twenty one recommendations for funding had been made by the Youth Activities Grant Funding Group. The report continued that the total sum recommended for approval was £24,696, and that if the recommendations outlined were approved there would be an uncommitted budget of £25,304 remaining.
Appended to the report were details of the applications received and the recommendations made by the Youth Activities Grant Funding Group.
The Committee resolved:-
(i) to ratify the recommendations of the Youth Activities Grant Funding Group and to therefore approve funding to the following organisations:
Group Name |
Summary of Application |
Decision |
Don Swimming Club
|
To fund bus and pool hire to attend a swimming competition in Inverness.
|
to award £1,227 |
Young LGBT Group
|
To allow young LGBT people to plan and organise their own events and activities. |
to award £739 |
Transition Group – Middlefield Youth Flat |
To fund the cost of a trip to Edinburgh for 8 young people. |
to award £1,175 |
Noble Brothers’ Productions
|
To purchase a sound microphone and adaptor. |
to award £1,360 |
East End Girls FC |
To fund the cost of good indoor training facilities, based in a central location with high quality coaches. |
to award £1,500 |
SHMU FM Youth Radio Project |
To fund team building activities over summer recess at Aberdeen Sports Village. |
to award £825 |
Girls Only SHMU |
To purchase equipment to enable better quality productions to be produced. |
to award £1,490 |
SHMU Train – Torry Academy |
To purchase media technology equipment. |
to award £1,500 |
21st Aberdeen (Cults) Scouts |
To part fund a return trip to Gomel. |
to award £350 |
Craiglea Children’s Centre |
To purchase fishing equipment. |
to award £1,500 |
Stoneywood/Dyce Cricket Club |
To purchase a mobile cricket net cage for practice sessions. |
to award £1,480 |
Dee Boys’ Club |
To fund the cost of a new fence around football pitches. |
to award £1,500 |
Powis Gateway Community Centre |
To fund the cost of setting up a youth computer facility at Powis Gateway Community Centre. |
to award £1,380 |
St Machar Academy 2010/11 Citizenship Group |
To fund the cost of this group taking part in the Youth Achievements Awards. |
to award £1,270 |
Trinity Court Tenant Group |
To fund the cost of the Tenant Group to take part in activities and workshops. |
to award £1,500 |
Sensory Support Service Peer Support Group |
To enable young people with hearing loss and visual impairment to take part in activities with others who face similar challenges. |
to award £1,500 |
Bucksburn Academy’s Environmental Group |
To fund the cost of a safe route/path to school and to build a wildlife area. |
to award £1,500 |
St Machar Academy’s Environmental Studies Class |
To fund the cost of improvements to the school grounds in relation to the quality of the environment. |
to award £1,400 |
Aberdeen Scout Network |
To fund the cost of a trip to Kenya for 5 days to volunteer at an orphanage. |
to award £1,500 |
and
(ii) to instruct the Director of Education, Culture and Sport to arrange for the funds to be distributed accordingly.
Supporting documents:
- Youth Activities Grants Fund, item 22. PDF 26 KB
- Youth Activities Grants Fund - Appendix, item 22. PDF 93 KB