Councillor Jo Rigby

Meeting

Agenda

The committee noted three reports: the Borough Residence Forum report, the Housing Services Activity update, and the HRA business plan update. It also decided to award the Grounds Maintenance contract to an unnamed bidder, subject to consultation with leaseholders.

Agenda and draft minutes

The Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education (SACRE) discussed a number of reports about the state of Religious Education (RE) in Wandsworth schools and the wider UK. The meeting concluded with a decision to write to the Department for Education (DfE) to express concerns about the quality of RE in the borough’s schools. The attendees also discussed plans for Wandsworth’s year as London Borough of Culture in 2025.

Agenda

The Grants Sub-Committee met to decide which organisations would receive grants from the Voluntary Sector Cost of Living Grant Fund and the Wandsworth Grant Fund. In total the committee recommended six applications from the Cost of Living Grant fund, for a total of £61,375, and eight from the Wandsworth Grant Fund, for a total of £76,856. During the discussion of the applications, there was some debate over whether the committee should take into account previous grants an organisation had received from the council when making their decisions, and there was also some debate over the criteria of the cost of living grant, with some councillors feeling that some otherwise good projects were not being funded because they did not meet the specific cost of living criteria.

Agenda and decisions

The committee noted all of the reports. It supported the recommendations in the report on the Balham Petitions and it supported the recommendations in the report on the ASB Case Review Protocol.