Councillor Ian Tuffin

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Title: Vice-Chair of Growth and Infrastructure Overview and Scrutiny Committee

Party: Labour

Ward: St. Peter & the Waterfront

Other councillors representing this Ward:

Contact information

Correspondence address: 
c/o Council House
Armada Way
Plymouth
PL1 2AA

Phone:  01752 667919

Email:  ian.tuffin@plymouth.gov.uk

Mobile:  07557481283

Committee appointments

Terms of Office

  • 09/05/2011 - 08/05/2012
  • 04/05/2012 - 09/05/2016
  • 09/05/2016 - 06/05/2021
  • 06/05/2021 - 02/05/2024

Appointments to outside bodies

Additional Information

 

 

Community Grants 2023/24

Description

Amount  

Aug-23

£100.00

To support Plymouth Active with a contribution towards the costs of organising a Swimming Gala at Mount Wise to encourage children and the community to enjoy swimming

£100.00

Sep-23

£200.00

To support Plymouth Artists Together with the purchcase of paint, scaffolding and other costs involved for the mural to cover grafiti in Union Street

£200.00

Nov-23

£150.00

To support the 1st Stonehouse Scouts with a
contribution towards new outdoor kitchen
equipment and tent side panels.

£150.00

Dec-23

£500.00

To support Plymouth Hebrew Congregation with a contribution towards the cost of toilet refurbishment.

£500.00

Grand Total

£950.00

 

 

 

 

Community Grants 2022/23

Description

Amount  

Jul-22

£1,750.00

To support Plymouth Foodbank with a contribution towards food and cleaning items for users to collect.

£750.00

To support the work that Street Factory does to enable vulnerable people in St Peter and the Waterfront to help turn their lives around.

£1,000.00

Dec-22

£549.00

To support Adelaide Street Community Group with a contribution towards colouring books, pencils, or paints for young children in Stonehouse

£150.00

To support the New Friars Court Resident Community Group with their purchase of plants and gardening equipment to improve the internal garden space for the residents to meet and enjoy the environment.

£150.00

To support the OWSI project working with the Peninsula Dental School to bring dental health education to primary schools within the St Peter and the Waterfront Ward with a contribution towards to costs of books and other items.

£249.00

Mar-23

£2,701.00

To support Plymouth Pride 2023 with a contribution towards events in the city centre and through St Peter and the Waterfront.

£250.00

To support Plymouth Soup Run with a contribution towards necessary food, sleeping bags, warm clothes, toiletries or any other needed supplies for people in need

£1,701.00

To support Youth Parliament with a contribution towards materials and resources needed for campaigns around fuel poverty and climate emergency in partnership.

£500.00

To support Plymouth Hope Wellbeing Centre with a contribution towards their work within the community, helping to address health inequalities in BAME Populations and encouraging users to be physically active. It also provides a safe space for residents and ethnic minority individuals to come together.

£250.00

Grand Total

£5,000.00

 

 

 

Community Grants 2021/22

Description

Amount  

Jun-21

£800.00

To support Edgecumbe House Residents Group with a contribution towards garden funiture, plants, paint and planters to enable them to make environmental improvement to the gardens and surrounding areas of their social housing block.

£300.00

To Support  Millfield Trust which is a charity called Millfield inspired that is focused on local school children experiencing work place experience's that give them an insight into jobs and careers that may not, under normal circumstance, be available to them. . Millfield Inspired wants to hold a graduation event to mark the pupils achievement's, and also to present each child with a small gift. Widening Horizon have worked with six of the seven local schools in Stonehouse, High Street, St Peters, St Georges, St Andrews Cathedral, Pilgrim, totalling 155 young people who have completed the fifteen set tasks.

£500.00

Jul-21

£500.00

Funding towards the counselling service provided for the community in Plymouth by Pregnancy Crisis Care

£500.00

Sep-21

£300.00

To support Swarthmore Allotment Association with a contribution towards urgent repairs needed to their trading hut, which will allow it to continue to be used as a vital community hub and for fundraising.

£300.00

Nov-21

£250.00

Working with Plymouth Artist's Together to create a child friendly painted mural in Manor Gardens to bring art and colour into the area, in order to reduce the unwanted anti-social tagging and to give residents a feeling of investment.

£250.00

Dec-21

£250.00

To support Adelaide Street Angels host their Christmas social event which will reconnect all the community following the recent lockdown restrictions. This funding will help with room hire, leaflet printing and other associated items.

£150.00

To provide a Christmas tree, lights and decorations to support the residents group in Edgecombe House and encourage community inclusion.

£100.00

Feb-22

£2,000.00

To support the community at Manor Gardens with a contribution towards better play park apparatus and general play park improvements.

£2,000.00

Grand Total

£4,100.00

 

 

 

Community Grants 2020/21

Description

Amount  

May-20

£1,500.00

To support the local volunteering group Nudge Community Builders with the basic needs through Community activity during the COVID-19 pandemic.

£50.00

Supporting Moments Café throughout COVID -19

£100.00

To help Plymouth Foodbank with a contribute towards the food and hygiene products as well as other supporting items for the Plymouth Foodbank - The Oasis project, that help local people in crisis.

£1,000.00

To help Shekinah Mission with supporting the basic needs through the community activity with Plymouth Soup Run during the COVID-19 pandemic.

£250.00

Supporting Hoe Neighbourhood Forum with their community activity during the COVID-19 pandemic. This will be contributing towards their basic needs.

£100.00

Jun-20

£500.00

To enable Motor Neurone Disease to continue providing a level of support and equipment needed for patients and carers living in Plymouth.

£500.00

Aug-20

£100.00

To support Plymouth Vineyard with the pop-up Uniform Store Plymouth project with the purchase of vital equipment to get children ready for school such as pencil cases, water bottles as well as the cost of running the project which involves washing, printing and ironing equipment. This will hugely benefit families who have been struggling in Plymouth.

£100.00

Sep-20

£400.00

To support Friends of Wyndham Square with a mix of consultations regarding community improvements and family fun day activities such as games and art items to benefit the residents in the Stonehouse neighbourhood.

£200.00

To support Edgecumbe House with the purchase of gardening equipment, plantings and garden furniture to make environmental improvements for the residents and visitors to enjoy.

£200.00

Oct-20

£300.00

To support Plymouth PIE (Parklifers in Exile) with the ability to provide meals and equipment for their elderly and vulnerable patrons who use the Park Pavilion cafes across the city of Plymouth. 

£300.00

Nov-20

£300.00

Adelaide street Angels a local residents group have requested community grant funding support to enable them to include a child's colouring book and a pack of crayons to be included in the food Parcels as part of Plymouth Feed a Family at Xmas initiative .The book project is to be designed locally by local illustrators and printed ,the project is going to print 400 copies to be delivered to children in the Adelaide street area of Stonehouse plus included in the Feed a Family food parcels in the PL1 post code area.

£300.00

Feb-21

£900.00

To support  Oasis Project Food Bank with a contribute towards domestic items and food supplies that provides and supports residents using the Stonehouse foodbank.

£900.00

Grand Total

£4,000.00

 

 

 

Community Grants 2019/20

Description

Amount

Jun - 19

 

Plymouth Pride 2019 Crowdfunder. http://https//www.crowdfunder.co.uk/plymouth-pride-2020

£500.00

Neswick Play Park Summer Play Programme 2019

£300.00

Sept - 19

 

Contribution to Warehouse set up costs - Crowdfunder for the Warehouse Launch Weekend.

£300.00

To promote Victoria park by staging a summer fair for the local community. Purchase various items to sell on stalls, to cover cost of insurance.

£250.00

Dec - 19

 

The Hundred Homes Project to provide Christmas and New Years meals for disadvantaged residents in Stonehouse.

£350.00

Feb - 20

 

To support Operation Emotion's weekly support group and educational programmes for adult male survivors of sexual abuse in Plymouth.

£200.00

Purchase 15 trees for planting in Lower Street

£1,500.00

Grand Total

£3,400.00

 

 

 

Community Grants Scheme 2018/19

Description

Amount

Jul-18

 

To help towards the replacement of the carpet in the Synagogue.

£300.00

Sep-18

 

Defibrillator for Victoria Park

£300.00

Feb-19

 

To work in the community of Stonehouse making residents connections with families and children through Millfield Inspire

£1,000.00

Mar-19

 

To support the running of the Plymouth Foodbank.

£1,000.00

To contribute to "The Secret Listener" project that includes social inclusion, loneliness and isolation this project will support residents of the Barbican area to hear of 2nd world war woman who played a part in the victory.

£600.00

Grand Total

£3,200.00

 

 

 

Community Grants Scheme 2017/18

Description

Amount

Aug-17

 

To support the New Barbican Association Community group to start environmental improvements, such as flower planting and bench refurbishment in the area

£400.00

Contribution to providing a defibrillator on Plymouth Hoe

£100.00

Oct-17

 

Friends of Patna Place to plant 5 no. trees in park

£300.00

Friends of Victoria - Help fund the Xmas Fare event, purchase of small gifts for young people to exchange for contributions to the food bank, to also purchase various items supporting the Xmas fayre.

£150.00

Dec-17

 

Fund and serve lunch to the elderly that will include residents of the William Venton Centre with Plymouth CAST

£150.00

Jan-18

 

To support community engagement in the Hoe Neighbourhood Forum's Neighbourhood Planning process, including support for branding and website development and rollout

£250.00

Feb-18

 

The funding for Street Factory is to help support local young people from the Ward through hip hop and other art forms to reach their full potential, many of these young people have many complex issues that require this type of support. 

£1,000.00

To partially fund and support The Barbican legends to mark and celebrate the one hundred years anniversary of women winning the right to vote , they are planning to visit Parliament

£500.00

Mar-18

 

To contribute towards the costs of undertaking feasibility studies and preparing any necessary permissions to develop a new partnership coffee shop project between the Millfields CEDT CIC and Students and Refugees Together

£650.00

Grand Total

£3,500.00

 

 

 

Community Grant Scheme 2016 to 2017

Description

Amount

Christmas Party for Children in Care

£100.00

Christmas party for Senior Citizens Forum

£200.00

Crowd funding pledge for the Illuminate and thanksgiving festival

£287.00

Financial support by ward councillors to Union Street Party - road closure and traffic management at the request of local community activists.

£500.00

Outdoor seating for Wesley Court Retirement home

£300.00

Picnic table for disabled resident visiting the Victoria Park community cafe on behalf of The Victoria Park Community Project

£300.00

Pride in Plymouth refugee support project

£500.00

support the Barbican pilgrims residents association

£300.00

This is to support Morley Court Residents Association to purchase various plants and equipment   plus to organise a summer event for residents of the group.

£150.00

To support New Barbican Association to make environmental improvements in the area to include seating and planting

£400.00

Grand Total

£3,037.00

 

 

 

Community Grant Scheme 2015 to 2016

Description

Amount

Support for the development of Union Corner (joint application with Councillors McDonald £200 & Penberthy £200)

£200

You Can do It Achievement Awards Ceremony 2015 (joint application with other Councillors)

£200

Union Street Party (joint application with Councillor McDonald £600)

£400

Extra curriculum activities such as school trips – help for disadvantaged children – St Peter’s Church of England School

£1000

Items to enable printing and gardening equipment for Barbican Pilgrims Residents Association Group

£300

Plants for Patna Park & surrounding area

£200

Training equipment for MAP Kings U12’s football team (joint application with Councillors Penberthy £50 & McDonald £50, Tuohy £54 & Evans £50)

£50

Support for Community Health in Lipson (CHIL) (joint application with Councillors Penberthy £50, Jarvis £500, Sparling £50, Singh £300, Evans £100, Coker £100, McDonald £100, Riley £100, Rennie £200, P Davey £100, K Taylor £400, Aspinall £200, Stevens £50, Dann £200, Bridgeman £50, Martin Leaves £166, Mahony £167 & Nicholson £167

£200

Donation to Plymouth Food Bank

£450

Grant towards the Stonehouse Local grants Fund managed by Millfields Inspired

£500

 

 

 

Community Grant Scheme 2014 to 2015

Description

Amount

Brownie Birthday Sleepover Event

£400

3 Towns celebrations (joint application with councillor McDonald £500)

£500

You Can Do It Achievement Awards (joint application with Councillors Mrs Foster £50, K Foster £50, K Taylor £50, Riley £50, Nelder £50, J Taylor £50, Sparling £50, James £50, J Smith £50, Parker £50, I Bowyer £50, Jarvis £50, McDonald £50, Beer £50, Tuohy £50, Aspinall £50, Downie £50, Drean £50, Churchill £100, Mrs Pengelly £100, Wigens £100, Rennie £125, P Davey £350, S Davey £300, Singh £100 & Mrs Bowyer £50)        

£300

Community garden plantings & community activity coffee mornings

£300

Grant to Oasis Crown Centre to celebrate the reopening

£300

Grant for extra curriculum activities at St Peter C of E Junior school

£1000

Cities of Service Grow, share & cook project (joint application with Councillor McDonald £500)

£410