Agenda and minutes

Members proposed and elected Cllr Ashbourne as Chair and Cllr Ashby as Deputy Chair.

RESOLVED:  that Cllr Ashbourne be elected as Chair for the ensuing municipal year and Cllr Ashby be elected as Deputy Chair for the ensuing municipal year.

To receive and consider apologies for absence.

There were no apologies for absence.

To receive and consider declarations of interest.

There were no declarations of interest in matters to be discussed at the meeting.

Prior to this Working Party being established Cllrs Luci Ashbourne and Joy Aitman along with the Town Clerk have had various meetings with Aspire, Got2b and WODC – Heather McCulloch – to receive a verbal report.

Cllrs Ashbourne and Aitman provided an update on progress so far, with the Events and Communications Officer explaining what had happened at the Youth Forum, prior to this meeting.    This had led to the proposed terms of reference.

Cllr Aitman had met with Got2B which was a fledgling youth worker  ...  view the full minutes text for item 4.

On 26 June 2019, Council agreed the following recommendations from the Youth Forum – Minute 292 refers:

a)            That Witney Town Council works with partners to sustainably fund a team to deliver a model of Detached Youth Work across the Town. This could be via in-house provision or through a  ...  view the full agenda text for item 5.

The Committee received and considered the remit and terms of reference for the Working Party. 

Cllr Ashbourne set a timeline of 6 months for the Working Party to allocate its funds.  All grant applications should be reviewed at once to ensure that everyone had the same opportunity. 

Invited Stakeholders should  ...  view the full minutes text for item 5.

To consider the next steps of the Working Party and make recommendations to the proceeding Stronger Communities Committee meeting.

The members discussed how to proceed and what next steps should be taken.

RECOMMENDED:

1)            to set six-month timeline for allocation of funding available from the Town Council;

2)            to invite stakeholders from the list of attendees from the Youth Forum – the Events and Communications Officer would circulate this  ...  view the full minutes text for item 6.

To agree the frequency of meetings and the date of the next meeting.

Members considered when the date of the next meeting should be.  It was agreed that 1 meeting with stakeholders and 1 meeting of just the Working Party elected members should be appropriate as it was a “Task and Finish” group.

Members agreed to delegate the timing and date of the  ...  view the full minutes text for item 7.