Agenda and minutes

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Items
No. Item

1.

Election of Chair

To elect a Chair.

Minutes:

Mr. Bob Parry OBE was re-elected Chair.

2.

Election of Vice-Chair

To elect a Vice-Chair.

Minutes:

Mr. Derlwyn R. Hughes was re-elected Vice-Chair

3.

Declaration of Interest

To receive any declaration of interest by any Member or Officer in respect of any item of business.

Minutes:

Mr. R. Meirion Jones declared a personal and prejudicial interest with regard to grant applications from Cwmni Fran Wen and the National Eisteddfod and left the meeting during consideration of those applications.

 

Mr. T. Victor Hughes – Chair of the Isle of Anglesey Charitable Trust declared a personal and prejudicial interest with regard to grant applications by the National Eisteddfod and Llangefni Social Enterprise and left the meeting during consideration of those applications.

 

Numerous Members of the Committee stated that they are members of local Eisteddfod Funding Appeal Committees within their communities.  The Treasurer responded that the advice of the Monitoring Officer was that they declare but could take part and vote.

 

 

 

 

4.

Exclusion of the Press and Public pdf icon PDF 16 KB

To consider adopting the following :-

 

“Under Section 100(A)(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, to exclude the press and public from the meeting during discussion on the grounds that it may involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Schedule 12A of the said Act and in the attached Public Interest Test.”

Minutes:

RESOLVED to adopt the following :-

 

“Under Section 100(A)(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, to exclude the press and public from the meeting during discussion on the grounds that it may involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Schedule 12A of the said Act and in the attached Public Interest Test.”

5.

Major Grant Applications 2016/17

To submit report by the Treasurer in relation to the above.

Minutes:

Submitted – a report by the Treasurer in respect of grant applications received from four organisations. 

 

The Treasurer reported that the Isle of Anglesey Charitable Trust at its meeting held on 27 January, 2016 resolved to fund the existing commitments of £660k together allocation of up to £200k of capital resources to fund major grant applications.  It was noted that each applications needs to be assess in accordance with the procedure approved by the Charitable Trust on 22 September 2015, which was attached as Appendix 1 to the report, and in accordance with the additional criteria approved by the Charitable Trust on 27 January 2016 as follows :-

 

·           Sustainability – the applicant must demonstrate that the project can continue without further grant funding i.e. for capital grants that the revenue costs can be funded once the project is operational, and for revenue grants that the project can continue without additional support from the Trust;

·           Benefit – the applicant must demonstrate how the project will be of benefit to Anglesey residents;

·           Evaluation – the applicant must provide details of what the success criteria for the project will be and how they will be measured.

 

The Committee evaluated the four applications received in detail and RESOLVED :-

 

·      To support, in principle, the grant applications received by the Llangefni Social Enterprise and Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru;

 

·      To invite representatives from Cwmni Fran Wen and Menter Iaith Môn to a special meeting of the Regeneration Committee to address issues raised by the Committee;

 

·      That the Committee will decide on the level of grant allocation at the special meeting of the Regeneration Committee to be held on 3 March, 2016.