(i) To cease the current corporate voluntary sector grant funding programme in favour of an approach which identifies the most appropriate funding route in each circumstance, based on the nature of service the Council wants delivered and the outcome(s) it wants achieved.
(ii) To undertake mitigating actions to ensure that voluntary, community and faith sector organisations are not disadvantaged in any commissioning process including support to enhance their ability to respond to tenders.
(iii) To give a minimum of 3 months’ notice to all current grant recipients and to put in place a transition programme, so that there is continuity of grant aided services for the duration of any procurement process.
(iv) To use grants for shorter term and one-off funding for specific themes (as and when funding is available), for voluntary, community and faith organisations to develop local services and to pilot new ideas and innovations.
(v) To encourage collaborative approaches and make successful efforts to bring in match funding wherever possible as a general principle.
(vi) To endorse the principle of participatory budgeting and for this to be considered alongside work to commission a new community development model and to include in the specification, whether delivered in house or by an external partner, the requirement to implement this in the most efficient way.