Item 9 - Grants Programme 2021-25 (G13/19)

Summary 
 
The current Grants Programme is a four-year programme that is due to complete at the end of March 2021. The programme operates across three priority areas:
- Priority 1 - Combatting Homelessness
- Priority 2 - Tackling Sexual and Domestic Violence
- Priority 3 - Tackling Poverty through Employment
Grants Committee members, in July 2019, supported the idea of a 2021-25 Grants Programme. Grants Committee agreed that the current principles remained fit for purpose and that a review of the programme should take account of the priorities - the Pledges to Londoners - that Leaders had already committed to.
This paper builds on discussions with Grants Committee members, and sets out a timeline of activities that will need to be achieved to develop and deliver a 2021-25 Grants Programme, including governance requirements to enable:
- Leaders' Committee to determine the principles and priorities of the Programme and the overall budget of the Programme
- Grants Committee to commission services, make awards of funding, manage projects’ performance and advise Leaders’ Committee on the Programme.
For consideration 
Grants Committee is asked to:
- agree that a 2021-2025 Grants programme is established based broadly on the current programme Priorities and level of funding, subject to consultation, and final approval of Leaders’ Committee
- consider, contribute to and agree the consultation questions (Annex 2) that will be used with stakeholders to inform the 2021-2025 programme
- agree that the consultation is used to better understand whether Priority 3 should be refocussed on youth poverty
- agree to propose to Leaders’ Committee that reserves be used flexibly as a response fund throughout the 2021-2025 programme and agree any additional principles that should be applied to a response fund (section 3)
- agree the timetable of activity proposed to establish a 2021-2025 Grants programme (section 4).
 
 

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