Purpose

Cabinet CIL expenditure report in July 2020 gave delegated authority to Director - Leisure, Culture and Community Wellbeing to manage CIL Neighbourhood expenditure.

To enable the Council to distribute the Neighbourhood portion of CIL collected in line with regulations and the Council’s CIL Infrastructure Delivery Plan.

To enable the Council to distribute the Chesterfield Pride in Place allocation to the Community Grants Fund as approved by the Chesterfield Town Board, in line with regulations and the Chesterfield Regeneration Plan.

Decision

The Director - Leisure, Culture and Community Wellbeing has approved the updated Community Grants Fund Guidance document for 2026-2028.

Alternative options considered

The grants fund criteria could remain unchanged, however, this would make the process more complicated for organisations to bid into the fund