Decision details

Community Safety Partnerships are in the final year of a three-year agreement. The Deputy Mayor has agreed a 2.6% uplift to the grants in recognition of inflationary pressures and the governments safer streets mission.

The decision and conditions covering the three-year agreement, remains in place. This decision covers the change to the allocations in 2025-26.

In the final year of the current three-year grant agreement, the 2025-26 allocations will be increased by 2.6%. This represents an increase of £102,800 to the Deputy Mayor. Details of each allocation are included int he Background papers.

The new amounts are set out below, paid as an advance payment:

• Community Safety Grant
• Voluntary and Community Sector Grant
• Hate Crime Grant

These payments, are dependent upon:

• Receipt of financial monitoring reports in each year with no unallocated underspends exceeding £15,000 in total.

• District Community Safety Partnership approval of the grant agreement in each year.

• Confirmation of the approval of the spending proposals by the district Community Safety Partnership as part of the local governance process, with quarterly updates, thereafter, shared with the GMCA and a financial report be provided to GMCA in February of each year with actual spend to January and projected spend to March of that financial year.