This report will set out the recommendations from the officer grants panel for the allocation of grant funding to the community and voluntary sector for 2014/15.

The Head of Customer Services and the Head of Leisure, Parks and Community Services submitted a report (previously circulated, now appended0.

Resolved, subject to Council agreeing the grants budget on 19^th February 2014, to:-

(1)  Approve the recommendations for the commissioning programme as listed in Appendix 1 to the report, noting that at the Board’s meeting on 9th October 2013 it had agreed that 2014/15 would be a one year funding programme with a three year commissioning cycle from April 2015 (minute 80 refers);

(2) Approve the recommendations as amended and listed in Appendix 2 to the report for the Arts and Culture commissioning theme;

(3) Approve the recommendations for the applications received to the grants 2014/15 open bidding programme as set out in Appendix 3 to the report.