Purpose

To allocate part of the funding
from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) grant to
Children’s Capital of Culture across six cultural
organisations,  who will employ
16-to-25-year-olds from Rotherham as part of the service’s
traineeship programme, and to approve the use of an open, public,
and competitive selection process to identify these organisations
and to identify future organisations who will host
trainees.

Decision

ROTHERHAM METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL

 

RECORD OF OFFICER EXECUTIVE DECISION

 

Date of Decision:

29th February 2024

Title:

Children’s
Capital of Culture 2025 – Young Producer
Programme
 

Decision Maker:
(Including Job
Title)

 Polly Hamilton
Assistant Director – Culture Sport and
Tourism
 

Specific Delegation:
(If any)

Sub-Scheme of Delegation

All financial matters relating to the management and
delivery of cultural, leisure, green spaces, landscape design and
sports services, including:

·      
Awarding and distribution of grants
 
 

Brief Description of
Decision:

That the progress to date on
Children’s Capital of Culture is noted and to
approve the proposed route for awarding funding
to organisations who will host trainees, for the purpose of
covering the costs associated with each
placement.
 

Reasons for the Decision:

The decision supports the delivery of the
Young Producer programme – a series of traineeships with host
organisations that will help to give local young people paid work
experience and to build the Children’s Capital of Culture
programme for 2025.
 
This enables six organisations
to provide paid, part-time employment to 14 x 16-to-25-year-olds
from Rotherham, and to run a public-facing activity programme
across the borough that is predicted to reach at least 35,000
people.
 
 

Details of alternative options
considered and rejected:

Do not allocate the funding
– failing to allocate the UKSPF funding to trainee host
organisations using an open and competitive process would mean
Children’s Capital of Culture is unable to fulfil its
agreement around the purpose and timescales of spending this
funding. This would be a substantial reputation risk for the
Council and its partners, and may mean that the UKSPF grant is
withdrawn and that the Council is unable to access future rounds of
funding allocated through the Department for Levelling Up, Housing
and Communities.
 

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

None

Dispensations Granted:
(If any)

N/A
 

Reports or parts of reports
considered

N/A

 
I certify that this is a true
record of the executive decision to approve the
proposed route for awarding funding to organisations who will host
trainees, for the purpose of covering the costs associated with
each placement.
 
Signed by the
Decision Maker  

 
Dated: 29 February
2024
 
Name: Polly
Hamilton
                                        
Job Title:     Assistant Director,
Culture, Sport and Tourism