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CITIES OF SERVICE ACTION PLAN

 

 

Meeting: 21/10/2014 - Cabinet (Item 58)

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Tracey Lee (Chief Executive) will submit a written report seeking approval of the Cities of Service Plan and local launch of the project in October 2014.  

 

Following an invitation to bid for funding for volunteering projects, Plymouth was successful in receiving funding over two years to deliver two specific projects – Energy Champions and Grow, Share, Cook.

 

A background paper to this report can be accessed at the Council’s website Council and Democracy/Councillors and Committees/Library/Cabinet background papers or using the following hyperlink –

http://tinyurl.com/q3d6bmh

 

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Tracey Lee (Chief Executive) submitted a written report seeking approval of the Cities of Service Plan.  

 

The report indicated that - 

 

(a)

following an invitation to bid for funding for volunteering projects, Plymouth had been successful in receiving funding over two years to deliver two specific projects: Energy Champions and Grow, Share, Cook;

(b)

a service plan had been developed with Nesta (the UK’s innovation foundation). 

 

Councillor Penberthy (Cabinet Member for Co-operatives, Housing and Community Safety)

introduced the proposals and indicated that –

  

(c)

volunteers would be encouraged to get involved to make a measurable and noticeable difference;

(d)

following approval, the action plan would go live on the Council’s website on the ‘Our Plymouth’ webpage.

 

Darin Halifax (City of Service Chief Officer) attended the meeting for this item and advised that –

 

(e)

volunteers were asked to register their interests on the website;

(f)

food would be delivered to food banks from today and 110 disadvantaged families would be assisted with deliveries to their doorsteps 26 times a year from 1 December 2014;

(g)

he would be providing a quarterly report on progress to Nesta and would also report back to Cabinet.

 

Cabinet Members thanked all those who had provided funding for the projects (Nesta, Public Health, Plymouth Energy Community, Families for the Future and the Family Intervention Project) and also the local growers.

 

Alternative options considered and reasons for the decision –

 

As set out in the report.

 

Agreedthe Cities of Service Plan.