Issue - decisions

Date of Decision:

29^th February 2024

Title:

Children’s Capital of Culture 2025 – Young Producer Programme

Decision Maker:

(Including Job Title)

 Polly Hamilton

Assistant Director – Culture Sport and Tourism

Specific Delegation:

(If any)

Sub-Scheme of Delegation

All financial matters relating to the management and delivery of cultural, leisure, green spaces, landscape design and sports services, including:

·       Awarding and distribution of grants

Brief Description of Decision:

That the progress to date on Children’s Capital of Culture is noted and to approve the proposed route for awarding funding to organisations who will host trainees, for the purpose of covering the costs associated with each placement.

Reasons for the Decision:

The decision supports the delivery of the Young Producer programme – a series of traineeships with host organisations that will help to give local young people paid work experience and to build the Children’s Capital of Culture programme for 2025.

This enables six organisations to provide paid, part-time employment to 14 x 16-to-25-year-olds from Rotherham, and to run a public-facing activity programme across the borough that is predicted to reach at least 35,000 people.

Details of alternative options considered and rejected:

Do not allocate the funding – failing to allocate the UKSPF funding to trainee host organisations using an open and competitive process would mean Children’s Capital of Culture is unable to fulfil its agreement around the purpose and timescales of spending this funding. This would be a substantial reputation risk for the Council and its partners, and may mean that the UKSPF grant is withdrawn and that the Council is unable to access future rounds of funding allocated through the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.

Conflicts of interest declared by any Executive Member consulted by the decision maker which relates to the decision:

None

Dispensations Granted:

(If any)

N/A

Reports or parts of reports considered

N/A