Purpose

Rotherham Museums, Arts and Heritage service
requests permission to distribute grant funding to community groups
to deliver intergenerational family learning programmes for
Children’s Capital of Culture.
 
Rotherham Museums, Arts and
Heritage has been commissioned by Children’s Capital of
Culture to lead on the family learning strand.
 
The Family Learning
Commissioning Panel has been set up by the service to allocate
commissions and grant funding to community organisations to deliver
creative and play based approaches to intergenerational families in
Rotherham.
 
The funding has been allocated
through an open call application process and the panel has made the
final decisions on the allocation of grant funds.  A total budget of £67,500 has been allocated
to the Family Learning Commissioning Panel to distribute to
community organisations throughout 2025 and 2026 through a grants
and commissioning programme.
 
The funding for the panel and grants
are through the Children’s Capital
of Culture Arts Council Place Partnership bid for Rotherham to
deliver the festival year in 2025.

Decision

 

ROTHERHAM METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL

 

RECORD OF OFFICER EXECUTIVE DECISION
 

Date of Decision:

7th July, 2025

Title:

Children's Capital of Culture Family Learning
Commissioning Community Grants
 

Decision Maker:
(Including Job Title)

Polly Hamilton, Assistant Director Culture
Sport and Tourism

Details of Specific Delegation
 
or
 
Delegation contained in the relevant
Sub-Scheme of Delegation.
 

Sub-Scheme of Delegation – Strategic
Director of Regeneration and Environment
 
 
·      
Authorisation of grants up to a value of £25000 according
to the Council’s criteria for cultural, leisure and events
grants P32
 

The implementation of any
functions associated with any grant/funding regime, including, but
not limited to, National Grants/funding, SYMCA funds, Grants &
Programmes and European Funding/Grants.

 
 

Decision:

Award Children’s Capital of Culture
Family Learning Community Grants to twelve organisations
recommended by the Family Learning Commissioning Panel.

Reasons for the Decision:

Rotherham Museums, Arts & Heritage
Service
has been commissioned by the Cultural
Partnership Board to
deliver a programme of family learning
activities as part of its
Arts Council England Place Partnership
Funding.
 
The family learning programme includes
targeted interventions bringing care homes
and
early years settings together and two rounds
of
open grants to support grass roots
community
organisations to deliver family learning
programmes locally. programme between
major events throughout the Summer season.
The opportunity to submit proposals for
grants
was advertised openly via social media,
flyers
and an open drop-in grant surgery event
where
groups could discuss their ideas prior to
submitting proposals.
 
The open call for this round of family
learning
grants received 26 applications, of which 22
met
the criteria and 12 are recommended for
approval.
 

Details of alternative options considered and
rejected:

Do Nothing – Without the grants
programme the Museums, Arts & Heritage service would not be
able to deliver a Family Programme to the scale and diversity
required by the Arts Council England funding as set out in the
original bid proposal. In addition, many of the groups supported
would not have the capacity to deliver grass roots activities to
the scale and quality proposed in the programmes above.
 

Conflicts of interest declared by any Cabinet
Member consulted by the decision maker which relates to the
decision:

No conflicts of
interest declared.

Dispensations Granted:
(If any)

n/a

Conflicts of interest declared by the Decision
Maker if they sit as a Cabinet appointed representative to an
outside body which relates to the decision:

No conflicts of
interest declared.

Dispensations Granted:
(If any)

n/a
 

Reports or parts of reports considered

Children’s Capital of Culture Family
Learning Grants
 
Appendix 1  
Equality Screening and Analysis Part A & B
Appendix 2  
Carbon Impact Assessment
 

 
 
 
 
I certify that this
is a true record of the executive decision to:
 
Award Children’s Capital of Culture Family Learning
Community Grants to twelve organisations recommended by the Family
Learning Commissioning Panel
 
 
I confirm that in
making this decision, due regard was given to the seven principles
of public life.
 
Signed by the
Decision Maker:
 

 
Dated:         
7th July, 2025
 
Name:         
Polly Hamilton        
Job Title:     Assistant Director,
Culture, Sport & Tourism
 
 
If you require any assistance in the
completion of the decision record please contact the Governance
Team governance@rotherham.gov.uk