i. That funding is ceased to the Huntingdon Shop Mobility scheme with no further grant award for 2016/17, on the basis that:
a) it has not met the performance conditions within the existing grant award in not achieving additional matched external funding; and
b) that this is not a service that the Council provides across its other major towns.
ii. That the remaining five funded organisations be informed of continuation of Huntingdonshire District Council (HDC) funding for the financial year 2016/17 at the same existing grant level subject to:
a) confirmation and funding evidence from each group of its continued financial/operational viability (including identification of other funding streams which that is dependent upon); and
b) notification of a fundamental review of HDC Voluntary Sector Grant Funding system during 2016/17 as per the resolution detailed in (iii) below.
iii. That an HDC led Working Group of appropriate Members and Officers of both the District and County Councils be established to review the Voluntary Sector Grant Funding system, on the principles of:
a) tapering funding from 2016/17 in line with the District Councils overall Medium Term Financial Strategy and as detailed in Paragraph 3.1.3 Option 2 of the submitted report;
b) a commissioning and outcomes model with funding focused upon infrastructure organisations, taking due account of the National Association for Voluntary and Community Action (NAVCA) ‘Change for Good’ report and in particular Recommendation 14 of that report as expressed at Paragraph 3.2.2 Option B of the submitted report; and
c) the Working Group to conclude its recommendations direct to the Cabinet no later than end July 2016.
iv. That the Council expect funded organisations to undertake an efficiency review of their individual business on a ‘Lean’ or Zero Based Budgeting concept approach, which the Council could assist with and for which support should be sought from the NAVCA and from the Hunts Forum for Voluntary Organisations as representative of voluntary sector organisations.