Moss Side Community First Panel minutes

Notes of Community First Meeting held at Mosscare’s Head Office at 5.30pm on 23 February 2013

 

 

Present:                Khan Moghal

Sameem Ali

Jean Coddington
Tracy Neil
Tom Cass

Tola Adesemowo

Patricia Carmody

1.    Membership of the Group
Khan restated the membership of the Group as follows.

·        MCCR

·        Mosscare

·        Manchester City Council

·        Councillor Sameem Ali

·        Mike Bisson, Community Leader

·        Mohammed Sheikh, Community Leader

Khan then went on to welcome new members Tracy Neil and Jean Coddington.  Tracy is from Salisbury Street and Jean Coddington from the Alex Park Estate.  Jean also confirmed that Hazel Walker was due to attend future meetings. 

2.    Aim of the Group
Khan stated the aim of the group was to put forward recommendations for £33,000 of government funding to be spent over a 3 year period via applications from the community.

The aim of today’s meeting was to set the priorities for the year ahead and Khan confirmed the amount to be allocated for the current year was £8,488, current year being from 1^st April 2013 onwards.

Khan confirmed that we are in Year 3 of the 4 year project.

3.    2013/14 Priorities
The group came up with the following as this years priorities.

·        Young People – training and employment

·        Environmental issues

·        Children

·        Addressing the issue of climate change – to include recycling and education

·        Older people

Patricia agreed to come up with a useful form of words and this will be circulated to the group prior to the priorities being updated on the Moss Side Community First website.

The Group agreed that the advert would open for the current round of funding on the 1 April, to close on 31 May and the next meeting was arranged for Thursday 6 June at 3.00pm.

Tom agreed to add Jean and Tracy to the mailing list and in terms of the action plan, Tola agreed to send a copy of the guidance for new panels to Tom.

4.    Expenses
The issue of expenses was raised and Khan updated the group on what Levenshulme do in that a small community group administer the funds, so no expenses is paid.  In terms of Moss Side, Mosscare are the administrators and will not be putting forward any expense claims.  This was welcomed as the group prefer that the funding goes toward the community projects.

5.    Date of Next Meeting
Thursday 6 June at Mosscare’s office at 3.00pm.