Agenda item

Presentation by Chief Executive of Renewal Trust

Cherry Underwood, Chief Executive of the Renewal Trust, gave a presentation updating the Committee on the Area Based Grant between 1 April 2019 and 30 September 2019. She highlighted the following points:

(a)  Renewal Trust partners have remained largely consistent since the last update with the exception of City College Nottingham who are no longer partners;

(b)  The Renewal Trust continues to liaise with other Area Based Grant lead organisations to support key objectives across the City including creating jobs for Nottingham people, as well as cutting crime and reducing anti-social behaviour. Holiday hunger and reducing levels of children going without meals in the school holidays is also a priority across the city in the most deprived wards;

(c)  The ABG has supported 72 people into sustainable employment. These positions have not necessarily been full time but they do not include the unsustainable zero hours contracts;

(d)  139 job clubs were supported and 576 1:1 support sessions. A breakdown of repeat visitors is not currently available but can be produced for Councillors. There are a number of repeat visitors to the Job clubs, within this cohort of repeat visitors there is an increasing element who have complex social care needs. There is work taking place to ensure that these needs are addressed by partners;

(e)  22 people across the area were helped to access training specific to the field of work that they wanted to move into, such as, CSCS card and food hygiene; 

(f)  There are two provisions supported as locally idnetified need. The first is Stonebridge City Farm, which brings local peopl together to improve neighbourhoods, and increases the sense of strong community. The second is Young People Outreach, who attedn local events direct young people to existing provisoon and promote activites/sessions within the area. They work toeards cutting crime and antisocial behaviour and have worked with at least 500 young people each year at risk of becoming involved with gange and knife crime, or are at risk of exploitation;

(g)  The ABG also provides universal provision for children and young people. 99 sessions were provided in this reporting period, reachin 2111 young people. There were 6 of these sessions held weekly, across the area;

(h)  Holiday provison is also provided by the ABG. There were 44 sessions provided by Greenway, EPIC and STAA, and 3007 children and young people attended. These schemes helped to tackl holiday hunger and helped to eoncourage young people to be more active.

During questions and discussion the following information was highlighted:

(i)  The Renewal Trust, as lead organisation for the Are Based Grant work closly with Nottingham Together to ensure a spread of activites across the wards ensuring provision for al citizens;

(j)  Despite a bid to central government for money to help towards provision designed to tackle holiday hunger Nottingham City was not awarded the funding.  Schemes still ran and going forward there will be work around engaging partners and organisations to ensure sufficient funding;

The Committee thanks Cherry for her attendance and noted the information in her presentation.

Resolved to:

(1)  receive the Area Based Grant update twice a year;

(2)  request that break down figures around Job Club attendees is circulated to Committee members as requested.