Purpose

To request approval to launch and administer the Gedling UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) ‘Health and Wellbeing, Physical Activity’ Grant Fund.

Decision

1. The Portfolio Holder for Lifestyles, Health and Wellbeing approves the launch and administration of UKSPF ‘Health and Wellbeing, Physical Activity Grant Fund to community-based organisation across the Borough.
   2.The portfolio Holder for Lifestyles, Health and Wellbeing delegates authority to the Head of Communities and Leisure to give final approval on grant applications, following rigorous assessment by a panel established from within the GBC Communities Team.
   
   

Reasons for the decision

To enable the launch and delivery of the Council’s UKSPF ‘Health and Wellbeing, Physical Activity Grant programme 2025/26.

Alternative options considered

To not deliver the Health and Wellbeing, Physical Activity Grant Fund.
This grant fund has been designed to support the strategic outcomes within the Gedling Plan 2023/27 which seeks ‘to enable a resilient, empowered, inclusive and healthy community’. Choosing not to support this project does not therefore support the corporate priority identified above.
To deliver a different approach to achieve an increase in Physical Activity provision within the local community.
Developing an alternative model would take time and resources which have not been identified. There is a risk that by the time another model is developed the timeframe to spend the UKSPF funding (by March 2026) will have decreased which may result in returning the funds, rather than ensuring the residents of Gedling benefit from the funds.