Melanie Bettley
Council: Fareham
Committees:
Activity Timeline
Meetings Attended Note this may include planned future meetings.
71 meetings · Page 1 of 15
Health and Public Protection Scrutiny Panel - Tuesday, 24th March, 2026 6.00 pm
Planning Strategy Advisory Panel - Tuesday, 25th November, 2025 6.00 pm
Licensing Panel - Wednesday, 8th October, 2025 10.00 am
10 attendees, 6 documents, 0 media files
Planning Strategy Advisory Panel - Monday, 6th October, 2025 6.00 pm
Planning Committee - Wednesday, 10th September, 2025 2.00 pm
28 attendees, 19 documents, 0 media files
Decisions from Meetings
11 decisions · Page 2 of 3
Community Fund Application - Repair Cafe Portchester
From: Executive Portfolio for Leisure and Community - Wednesday, 5th March, 2025 2.45 pm - March 05, 2025
This report presents an application for funding under the Council’s Community Funding Programme. An application to the Community Fund for start-up funding has been received from Repair Café Portchester for £1,363.27 towards basic repair tools and PPE, a PAT testing machine, a sewing machine, administration tools and consumables. Repair Cafes are free meeting places, where visitors can bring their broken items from home for volunteers specialising in repairs to fix, giving a new lease of life and reducing waste. Repair Café Portchester aims to launch on 29th March, with monthly sessions thereafter at Portchester Community Centre on the last Sunday of every month, from 10:30am-1:30pm. There has been an overwhelmingly positive response from the residents of Portchester and there is already an established team of 10 volunteers with diverse repair skills, including a PAT (Portable Appliance Testing) trained volunteer. They have also gained support from experienced Repair Cafes in Portsmouth and Gosport. It is anticipated that the Repair Café will be able to support residents with fixing items such as small household appliances, clothing items and bikes, in turn reducing the amount of waste going to landfill due to their repair activities. For long term sustainability of the organisation itself, the Repair Café will be community-funded through donations from visitors who use the service and introduce a ‘pay it forward’ scheme to ensure accessibility for all. They also hope to introduce a small café element, offering refreshments and additional volunteer opportunities. The estimated start-up cost of this project is £2,339.79. Repair Café Portchester are looking for £1,363.27 from the Community Fund with the remainder being funded through fundraising donations. Both Ward Councillors, Councillor P Nother and P Whittle support the Repair Café’s application. As per their Register of Interests, it should be noted that both are members of the Portchester Community Centre which is the location where the Repair Café will run from.
Recommendations Approved
Community Fund Application - Victory Hall
From: Executive Portfolio for Leisure and Community - Tuesday, 4th February, 2025 4.30 pm - February 04, 2025
This report presents an application for funding under the Council’s Community Funding Programme. An application to the Community Fund has been received from Victory Hall for £10,000 towards a new accessible toilet and additional storage space at the front of the hall. Victory Hall has an existing toilet block, but when the hall is busy access is via going outside into the car park and accessing the toilet via the back door which is not suitable. More storage is also required to store tables and chairs which are currently taking up valuable cloakroom space. The Hall currently has over 1,000 users attending each week, with many being elderly or having mobility issues. Provision of a new accessible toilet would be a real benefit to these users and make the hall a more attractive venue. Better storage would also allow the hall to host more different types of events. Planning permission has been acquired for these works. The estimated cost of the project is £80,000. Victory Hall are looking for £10,000 from the community fund. They have raised £17,500 from fundraising and donations and will use £12,500 from reserves. Victory Hall have also secured a loan of £40,000 from ACRE to be paid back over 5 years. As of 13 January, Victory Hall held £81,685 in their accounts. In the accounting year 1 April 2023 – 31 March 2024, there was an income of £84,711 and expenditure of £69,033. Both Councillor Ford and Councillor Burgess supports Victory Hall’s application.
Recommendations Approved
Community Grant Application - Titchfield Village Trust
From: Executive Portfolio for Leisure and Community - Monday, 13th January, 2025 2.30 pm - January 13, 2025
This report presents an application for funding under the Council’s Community Funding Programme. An application to the Community Fund has been received from Titchfield Village Trust for £3,485 towards the replacement of the emergency exit doors and toilet doors at Titchfield Village Hall. Titchfield Village Trust have just completed a 5-year project to re-roof and refurbish the interior of the Titchfield Village Hall. One of the last remaining parts of this project is the replacement of the fire exit doors and doors to the toilets. These doors are failing resulting in users having difficulty entering and exiting the toilets. The emergency exit doors are not very secure due to past water damage and previous damage which has been repaired as much as possible. A number of groups use the community building, including stitching and crafts groups aimed at over 65s, brownie groups and home school groups for primary school aged children. The total cost of the project is £3,885. Titchfield Village Trust are looking for £3,485 from the Community Fund, with the remainder being funded by Titchfield Village Trust reserves. As of 5 November 2024, Titchfield Village Trust held £1,344.82 in their accounts. In the accounting year April 2022-April 2023, there was an income of £94,410.10 and expenditure of £26,024.72. Both Councillor Miss Harper and Councillor Mrs Hockley supports Titchfield Village Trust’s application.
Recommendations Approved
Community Funding Application - Portchester Community Choir
From: Executive Portfolio for Leisure and Community - Thursday, 21st November, 2024 2.30 pm - November 21, 2024
This report presents an application for funding under the Council’s Community Funding Programme. An application to the Community Fund has been received from Portchester Community Choir for £2,047.21 for the purchase of technology and storage equipment for their Singalong Outreach project. Portchester Community Choir started in 2017 and now has over 70 members. More recently they have received requests from local groups asking if they could take singing to people who cannot attend their performances for groups of 20-30 people. Care homes and groups like Dementia Care Hub have already benefited through their trial sessions and they would like to continue and expand these extremely beneficial outreach performances. This technology and storage equipment would enable Portchester Community Choir to be self-sufficient as currently they use members’ personal equipment which is not fit for purpose. Portchester Community Choir are looking for £2,047.21 from the Community Fund for the purchase of a laptop, portable speaker, printer (to print their song sheets), microphone and headphones plus storage for these items and the song sheets. As of October 2024, Portchester Community Choir held £1,654.20 in their accounts. In the accounting year January 2023 – December 2023 there was an income of £10,401.51 and expenditure of £9,754.63. Both Ward Councillors, Councillor Bainbridge and Councillor D Wiltshire supports Portchester Community Choir’s funding application.
Recommendations Approved
Voluntary Sector Funding Application - Titchfield Community Association
From: Executive Portfolio for Leisure and Community - Monday, 30th September, 2024 11.00 am - September 30, 2024
This report presents an application for funding under the Council’s Voluntary Sector Support Fund Programme. An application for Voluntary Sector Support Funding has been received from Titchfield Community Association for £150 to pay for one year’s membership to Action Hampshire. The Association was previously a member but had allowed this to lapse several years ago when finances became more challenging. They would now like to benefit from this support once more. The Association’s aim is ‘To promote the benefit of the inhabitants of Titchfield and district and that part of the Borough of Fareham, West of A32 and Newgate Lane, together with the Electoral District of Curbridge without distinction of sex, sexual orientation, race or of political religious or other opinions, by associating together the said inhabitants and the local authorities, voluntary and other organisations in a common effort to advance education and to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and leisure-time occupation with the objects of improving the conditions of life for the said inhabitants. To establish or secure the establishment of a Community Centre and to maintain and manage the same, or to co-operate with any local statutory authority in the maintenance and management of such a Centre, for activities promoted by the Company in furtherance of the above objects’ and ‘to promote such other charitable purposes as may from time to time be determined and that in the attainment of the said objects the Company shall be non-party in politics and non-sectarian in religion.’ In 1964 when the Constitution was first written, in keeping with the history of the village, its outreach extended to the boundary of the ancient parish of Titchfield, which included Curbridge and the outreach was maintained when the Constitution was renewed in 2012. The Community Centre regularly has between 1,500 and 2,000 visitors per week and raised income of £195,006 for the year 23/24. Ward Councillor, Councillor Harper and Executive Leader Councillor Martin are both supportive of the application.
Recommendations Approved
Summary
Meetings Attended: 71
Average per Month: 2.7
Decisions Recorded: 11