Agenda item

Consider the following BBBB applications for consideration:

(a)       Eat Sleep Ride

(b)       Volunteer Centre Borders

(c)       Duns Tennis Club

(d)       Chirnside United Football Club

(e)       Eyemouth and District Community Trust

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8.1       Copies of the summary of applications to the Build Back a Better Borders Recovery Fund had been circulated which outlined the grant applications and value of each project.  The Locality Development Coordinator explained that the total of each grant application made the Fund oversubscribed by £1,500.  The Chair welcomed Danielle Mckinnon (Eat Sleep Ride), Cath Booker (Duns Tennis Club), Duncan Morrison and Gavin Yuill (Chirnside United Football Club) and Susie Hopewell (Eyemouth and District Community Trust) to the meeting.

8.2       The Community Engagement Officer, Mr Purves, presented the summary of applications received.

(a)       Eat Sleep Ride
An application had been received for £15,000 to help cover the costs of running two new projects focusing on health and wellbeing, social isolation and the environment to support people in their recovery from the pandemic.  Weekly group sessions, of 10 hours per week over a 6 month period, would be delivered in a workshop format engaging with 25 young people; and one-to-one sessions would be delivered over an 8 week block with 15 primary school aged children and 6 young people.  The funding would be used for project costs including staffing, workshop facilitator fees, venue hire, horse hire and equipment.  The application was assessed as medium, noting that Eat Sleep Ride aimed to work with young people and families, from disadvantaged communities who were in need of support and who have been impacted negatively by the pandemic.  The Chairman asked Ms Mckinnon whether the project would accept a reduction of £1,506.60 in their application which was accepted by the applicant.

DECISION
AGREED to award Eat Sleep Ride the sum of £13,493.40, subject to the following conditions: 

(i)        Scottish Government coronavirus (COVID-19) guidance must be adhered to with a protocol for safe participation in the programme and use of resources developed;

(ii)       and all participants agreeing to adhere to this protocol.

(b)     Duns Tennis Club
An application had been received for £3,000 to cover the cost of treating the Club’s three all-weather courts so that they remained safely playable.  Duns Tennis Club intended to improve the condition of the courts by treatment and repainting which would help maintain the courts until a proposed total resurfacing took place in 5 years’ time.  The application was assessed as medium noting that the Club would be able to organise ‘have a go’ sessions after the surface had been upgraded.

DECISION
AGREED to award Duns Tennis Club the sum of £3,000, subject to the following condition, thatthe applicant must follow Scottish Government Covid-19 guidance.

(c)     Chirnside United Football Club
An application had been received for £5,000 to obtain a Building Warrant in pursuit of their proposal to build a new pavilion for the football club to accommodate changing facilities, a social hall and new practice grounds.  The application was assessed as high noting that the funding of a Building Warrant would enable the project to then move on to the next step and apply to funders to start the build by the target date of November 2022.

DECISION
AGREED to award Chirnside United Football Club the sum of £5,000, subject to the following conditions:

(i)        Scottish Government coronavirus (Covid-19) guidance must be adhered to.

(b)       Eyemouth and District Community Trust – The Splash Project
An application had been received for £11,340 to fund three months of the Community Development Manager’s salary at 35 hours per week and three months of the Project Worker’s salary at 25 hours per week to deliver the Splash Project.  The application was assessed as medium noting the community was at the centre of the Splash Project’s work, they had a successful history of delivery within the community and the proposed activity would be accessible to all and free of charge.

DECISION
AGREED to award Eyemouth and District Community Trust – The Splash Project the sum of £11,340, subject to the following conditions:

(i)        The applicant must follow Scottish Government Covid-19 guidance; and,

All staff costs must support the Living Wage.