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Minutes of the meeting of Brierley Hill Community First held on Tuesday 17 th July 2012 at St Michaels Church commencing at 7pm.

Present

June Bowen, Ray Gibbs, Graham Hudson*, Peter Plant*, David Proctor, John Rogers*,Tim Sunter*

*Indicates panel member

Apologies

Kevin Gripton, Rachel Harris, David Hoskin, Andrew Mann Ray, Steve Martin, TomMcCormack, Chris Szygowski

In attendance

Sandra Shepherd from Brockmoor and Pensnett Community First was welcomed to themeeting.

Declarations of Interest

Ray Gibbs declared an interest in both of the applications under consideration and tookno part in the decision making other than to provide information requested.

Minutes of the Previous Meeting

The minutes of the previous meeting had been circulated and were agreed as a correctrecord.

Matters Arising

(a) Hawbush Community Gardens had found a more cost effective way of purchasing a storage shed. As such they had asked if the savings could bespent on purchasing more equipment to put in the shed. TS reported that hehad contacted CDF with regard to this and they had indicated that as long as thepanel were satisfied with this there should be no problem. Consequently panelmembers had agreed by email to the proposal.

(b) Funding for United Kids Outreach there appeared to have been a delay to thefunding for United Kids Outreach. This had been explored with CDF and anupdated list of status of grants had been provided. Steps had been taken toresolve the matter and hopefully the grant had now been received. The list of grants and current status was circulated to members of the panel.

(c) Meeting with Francis Maude MP a meeting with the cabinet minister withresponsibility for Community First had taken place at Brierley Hill projectrecently. This had been a good meeting with lots of positive messages andinformation exchange taking place. It was agreed to invited the CommunityWorker for Brierley Hill to the next panel meeting.

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(d) A paper clarifying which projects qualified for support was circulated to themeeting.

Bids for July 2012

A summary table of bids is given below, covering amount requested, which prioritiesthe bids met and proposed match funding.

Copies of the submissions had been circulated and were available at the meeting.

Community Group Amount Requested

Matchidentified

Prioritiesmet

Crusaders After School Club 790 798.48 2, 3

Estella Dance Academy 500 1006.00

Total bids for July 1290.00

Total bids to date (y1 remainder) 637.74Total available for year 2 16979.00(Total available) (total bids) 15051.26

It was agreed to recommend the Crusaders After School Club for funding, butmembers felt that before agreeing to recommend the Estella Dance Academy moreinformation would be required. This included which charity it was proposed to support,questions about cost of venue hire, whether the project was local or covered a wider

area. It was agreed that TS should email the Academy with the questions and that, inorder to minimise delay, the panel would indicate whether or not they supported theapplication one a reply was received.

Community First Action Plan

Tom McCormack had drafted a focus group questionnaire which was circulated at themeeting. CDF had indicated that they would be issuing guidance on how to draw upthe Community First Action Plan during July. In the light of this it was agreed to defer this item until the guidance had been received.

Some discussion took place about whether it would be advantageous to produce a jointaction plan with Brockmoor and Pensnett panel and Sandra Shepherd agreed toconsult with her fellow panel members on this matter.

Any Other Business

There was no additional business

Date of next meetingsTuesday, 18 September 2012 19:00Tuesday, 20 November 2012 19:00