A sunlit Preston Town Hall Pic: Tony Worrall Preston City Council has effectively waived a total of £28,000 of rental payments for three community groups i
, which will see it use an underspend from last year’s budget to provide one-off assistance to the Plungington Community Centre; the Black community support organisation, Windrush Initiatives CIC; and disability support group Pukar.-owned buildings – had each approached the authority to seek help with their running costs.A cabinet report described the groups as “valued organisations delivering critical work” within some of the city’s most needy communities.
The relief will be delivered by paying each of the groups a grant of £9,333 – derived from leftover funds in its community engagement budget for 2022/23 – which will then immediately be returned to the town hall to cover existing rental liabilities. Cabinet member for communities and social justice Nweeda Khan told the Local Democracy Reporting Service: “These are one-off contributions to help support the groups delivering essential services to some of the most deprived and disadvantaged communities in the city. Offsetting the rental contributions removes a huge burden, enabling critical support services to continue.
The authority says that it is also currently developing a “more joined up, strategic approach” to managing its relationship with the community organisations that form part of its estate.Who are the groups getting rent relief?
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