Decision details

The Cabinet Member:  

1.    Approved the award of grant agreements to four grant recipients that shall support the delivery of older people’s day opportunities for the period 01/08/24-31/03/26 (with optional extensions of 1+1+1+1 years at the discretion of the Executive Director).  The grant recipients are: 

Happy Kids and Seniors Fitness Club - £3,044?per annum 

Westraven Community Café and Garden?- £3,588?per annum 

Good Neighbours – Rural Peterborough?- £4,000?per annum 

Bharat Hindu Samaj Peterborough??- £3,408 per annum 

If all extension options are taken, the total value across all grants is £85,315 over six years. 

2.    Authorised delegated approval to the Executive Director Adult Social Care & Commissioning to extend the grant agreements for up to four optional extension periods each of 1 year in accordance with the provisions in the grant agreement. 

The award of these grants is recommended to: 

·         Meet our early intervention, prevention and resilience outcomes. 

·         Support small community-led day opportunities for older people in Peterborough to delay the need for more formal care in a cost-effective way. 

·         Use our existing older people’s day opportunities grant budget in a more transformative and outcomes-focused way that supports more people. 

·         Meet our corporate value of transparency by replacing grants that had been in place with the same organisations for many years with grants that were advertised to the whole Peterborough community through a fair and transparent process. 

To not award grants for older people’s day opportunities. This is rejected because it would have a negative impact on our corporate priorities and vulnerable people in Peterborough. Previous grants had come to an end and the new grant recipients have been selected through a competitive process.  

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