Purpose

On 24
August 2023 the Lead Cabinet Member for Resources
approved the sum of £100,000 to provide a one-year extension
in funding for 2024-25 to Mobile and Community Warden Schemes
operating in the district currently in receipt of funding. This
included a contingency fund for any new schemes expressing an
interest in setting up in the 2024-25 period. (see

agenda item 6 of
the Grants Advisory Committee meeting reports pack).
 
A total
of £15,908 has been allocated for any new schemes expressing
an interest in setting up in the 2024-25 period. This includes
£10,000 from the above sum of £100,000 plus an agreed
amount of £5,908 of Care Together Seed
Funding that was provided to SCDC by Cambridgeshire County Council
to enable individual Mobile and Community Warden Schemes across
South Cambridgeshire to seek innovative ways to promote and expand
their service at a very local level. (see
agenda item 4of the September 2023 Grants Advisory Committee
meeting reports pack).
The
maximum award available for any new scheme is
£5,000.
 
After consideration of these
applications by officers, it has been decided that:
 
1.   
AGE UK Cambridgeshire and Peterborough (WTDRPXRD) be
approved and funded at the full amount requested of £5,000 to
set up and run a new scheme in Great Abington, Little Abington and
Hildersham

 
2.   
Melbourn and District Warden Scheme (GBPDCPFL) be
approved and funded at the full amount requested of £5,000 to
set up and run a new scheme in Haslingfield.

Content

To award:
·        
AGE UK Cambridgeshire and Peterborough (WTDRPXRD)
the full amount requested of £5,000 to set up and run a new
scheme in Great Abington, Little Abington and
Hildersham.

 
·        
Melbourn and District Warden Scheme (GBPDCPFL) the
full amount requested of £5,000 to set up and run a new
scheme in Haslingfield.