Purpose

The purpose of this report is to seek the Director (Education and Inclusion)) approval to award grants totalling £0.012m to 5 local voluntary, community, faith, and social enterprise organisations. The proposed grant awards will be funded from the Local Youth Transformation Pilot grant budget of £0.524m.

Decision

That the Director (Education and Inclusion) is recommended to agree to allocate £0.012m of the Council’s 2025/26 Youth Workforce Development Fund to the 5 organisations as detailed at Appendix A to this report.

Alternative options considered

Do nothing: This was considered and rejected as the Youth Workforce Development Fund forms part of the Councils Local Youth Transformation Pilot. The Local Youth Transformation Pilot is a programme funded from the Department of Culture Media and Sport that aims to support local authorities to transition back to local leadership and capability on youth provision, and to provide tools, guidance and funding to improve their youth offers and empower young people in every community.?As this is an activity committed too within the Councils development plan for funding, failure to deliver this may result in financial clawback and reputational risk.