- Title or Description
- Grants to the VCSE Sector
- FOI Number
- 2024588
- Date Received
- 03/06/2024
- Type of Request
- FOI
- Request or Question
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1. Listing separately for each year, in the years 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2023/24 what was the I. Total annual financial value of grants given to the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector by your authority? II. Total number of grants given to the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector by your authority? 2. Listing separately for each year, in the years 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2023/24 of the above grants (question 1) what total number were awarded through I. Competitive/open application processes? II. Grants in aid? III. Unknown?
3. Listing separately for each year, in the years 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2023/24 what was/were the:
I. Total number of formal challenges you received around your grant processes and decisions on the basis of alleged non-compliance with: State Aid, Subsidy Control, or Public Procurement regulations?
II. And of these what number of these challenged resulted in legal proceedings? - Response
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Total value of grants paid Total number of grants paid
2021/22 2022/23 2023/24 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24
429,982.32 937,621.65 722,096.43 183 358 276
Award mechanism Number
2021/22 2022/23 2023/24
Competitive/open application process 105 269 184
Grants in aid* 78 89 92
Unknown - - -
* Funding is ringfenced to support the operation of community councils, local festivals and village halls.
None for all years.
The Council also award Grants to the Community though the Common Good Committees. Information in relation to the funding provided by the Council to these areas is publicly available on the Scottish Borders Council Website therefore to this we give notice of Section 25 of FOI(S)A 2002.
This information can be interrogated at the following link:
Committee structure - Scottish Borders Council (moderngov.co.uk) and then choose the individual committee. Accounts for each of the Common Good sub-committees are published on the agenda for every meeting. So if for instance you look at the Hawick Common good of 22 November 2023 Agenda for Hawick Common Good Fund Sub-Committee on Wednesday, 22nd November, 2023, 10.00 am - Scottish Borders Council (moderngov.co.uk) You can see grants paid on page 12.
