Minutes of
a meeting of the Marden Community Plan Management Group held at The Allens on Thursday 9
January 2006.
Present
John Verrall Chairman
Chris Turner Treasurer
John Banks
Graham Tippen Acting Coordinator
Kate Tippen Note taker
Apologies
Mike Lutener
Marden
Parish Council
1.
Funding
John Verrall and Graham Tippen recently met with Sue Beer (ACRK) to discuss funding opportunities.
A number of opportunities exist and the following will be applied for:
Source |
Amount |
Status |
Marden Parish Council |
3000 |
Confirmed, available from April |
Actions for Communities in Rural Kent – |
3000 |
To be applied for via Sue but confident we will get this amount |
KCC members grant |
Up to 3000 |
To apply via Paullina Stockell but probably not available until after April |
MBC members grant |
1000 |
To apply via all 3 councillors but anticipate not available until after April |
Funding may also be available from KCC Rural Revival project and the National Lottery through the Awards For All programme where grants of up to £5000 are available.
ACTION Graham to progress all funding applications
2. Budget
In order to apply for funding we need to produce a budget. Graham has worked up a budget, after the discussion with Sue Beer. Some further amendments were made and a final copy has been forwarded separately.
Graham has agreed to coordinate the plan on an unpaid basis until April. Once we know what funding is confirmed we can then proceed with recruiting someone on a remunerated basis.
Chris is proceeding with opening an account with Nat West. It was agreed that the signatories would be: John Verrall, Chris Turner and Graham Tippen as chairman, treasurer and secretary. (See Item 4). All cheques to be signed by 2 signatories. The forms were completed at the meeting.
ACTION Chris to finalise details of the bank account.
3. Terms of
reference and constitution
Graham has produced a draft terms of reference document to detail the roles of the Management Group and the Working Group. The terms of this document were agreed at the meeting.
We still need to create a document to describe the constitution of the Marden Community Plan and Sue Beer has sent Graham a draft document to work from.
ACTION Graham to draft a document. Note this has been circulated to Management Group members.
It was agreed that the Terms of Reference document be circulated to work stream leaders and Edith Davis in preparation for discussion at the Working Group meeting on 19 January.
The constitution would also be discussed at the WG meeting.
4. Working
Group
It was agreed that Edith should be asked to continue to minute the Working Group meetings, but that Graham in his role as Coordinator would become the secretary.
It was also agreed that work stream leaders would be asked to provide updates at the meeting about progress on their work streams and future plans.
5. AOB
None
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