Agenda and minutes

Holehird Trust Joint Committee - Monday, 21st November, 2022 10.00 am

Venue: County Hall, Kendal

Contact: Daniel Hamilton  Email: daniel.hamilton@cumbria.gov.uk

Items
No. Item

33.

APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

To receive any apologies for absence.

 

Minutes:

Apologies were received from Mr W Clark.

34.

DISCLOSURES OF INTEREST

Members are invited to disclose any disclosable pecuniary interest they have in any item on the agenda which comprises

 

1          Details of any employment, office, trade, profession or vocation carried on for profit or gain.

 

2          Details of any payment or provision of any other financial benefit (other than from the authority) made or provided within the relevant period in respect of any expenses incurred by you in carrying out duties as a member, or towards your election expenses.  (This includes any payment or financial benefit from a trade union within the meaning of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992.

 

3          Details of any contract which is made between you (or a body in which you have a beneficial interest) and the authority

 

(a)       Under which goods or services are to be provided or works are to be executed; and

 

            (b)       Which has not been fully discharged.

 

4          Details of any beneficial interest in land which is within the area of the authority. 

 

5          Details of any licence (alone or jointly with others) to occupy land in the area of the authority for a month or longer. 

 

6          Details of any tenancy where (to your knowledge)

 

            (a)       The landlord is the authority; and

 

            (b)       The tenant is a body in which you have a beneficial interest.

 

7          Details of any beneficial interest in securities of a body where

 

(a)       That body (to your knowledge) has a place of business or land in the area of the authority; and

 

(b)       Either –

 

(i)      The total nominal value of the securities exceeds £25,000 or one hundredth of the total issued share capital of that body; or

 

(ii)     If that share capital of that body is of more than one class, the total nominal value of the shares of any one class in which the relevant person has a beneficial interest exceeds one hundredth of the total issued share capital of that class.

In addition, you must also disclose other non-pecuniary interests set out in the Code of Conduct where these have not already been registered.

 

Note

 

A “disclosable pecuniary interest” is an interest of a councillor or their partner (which means spouse or civil partner, a person with whom they are living as husband or wife, or a person with whom they are living as if they are civil partners).  

 

Minutes:

No disclosures of interest were made on this occasion.

35.

EXCLUSION OF PRESS AND PUBLIC

To consider whether the press and public should be excluded from the meeting during consideration of any item on the agenda.

 

Minutes:

RESOLVED that,     the Committee exclude the press and public during consideration of Item 8, 9 and 10 on the Agenda.

 

 

36.

MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING pdf icon PDF 160 KB

To receive the minutes of the previous meeting held on 20 September 2022 (copy enclosed).

 

Minutes:

RESOLVED that,                 the minutes of the previous meeting of the Holehird Trust Joint Committee held on 20 September 2022 were agreed as an accurate and complete record.

 

37.

CUMBRIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION AGREEMENT pdf icon PDF 89 KB

To consider a report from the Assistant Director – Customer and Community Services (copy enclosed).

 

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Members considered a report from the Director of Finance (s151 Officer) which asked member’s to note the current account positions and the funds made available for distribution on grants and fees for the remainder of the 2022-23 financial year.

 

RESOLVED that,                   members note the contents of the report.

 

38.

GRANT APPLICATIONS pdf icon PDF 70 KB

To consider grant applications received by Cumbria Community Foundation (copy enclosed).

 

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Members considered the recommendations of the Senior Grants & Donor Services Officer from Cumbria Community Foundation.

 

24075 Studio Moreland

Saturday Art Club @ The Studio Morland

AGREED £2,000.00

Priority – Children & young people

Charitable objectives - to provide activities to beneficiaries.

 

 

24136 Windermere Youth Project

Running and youth worker costs

AGREED £2,000.00

Priority – Children & young people

Charitable objectives - to provide facilities and activities to beneficiaries.

 

23996 Newbiggin Village Hall

New roof

AGREED £2,000.00

Priority – All ages

Charitable objectives - to provide facilities to beneficiaries.

 

 

24064 Crossthwaite & Lyth Recreational Field Trust

Refurbishment of Tennis court

AGREED £2,000.00

Priority – Older people

Charitable objectives - to provide activities to beneficiaries.

 

 

24088 Queen Katherine School Association

Duke of Edinburgh Awards

AGREED £2,000.00

Priority – Children & Young People

Charitable objectives - to provide activities to beneficiaries.

 

24127 Warcop Methodist Church

Warm Spots

AGREED £1,000.00

Priority – all age groups

Charitable objectives - to provide facilities to beneficiaries.

 

39.

DATE AND TIME OF NEXT MEETING

The next meeting will be held on 23 March 2023 at 10:00am in County Hall, Kendal.

 

Minutes:

The next meeting of the Holehird Trust Joint Committee is due to take place on 23 March 2022.

40.

PROPERTY MATTERS

To consider a report from the Land Agent (copy enclosed).

 

Minutes:

The representatives from Savills land agents attended the meeting and presented a report on activity in relation to individual properties owned by the Trust. The first report covered the following up until 21 November 2022:

 

·       Re- letting of Holehird Mansion and Stables Cottage

·       The sale of Holehird Mansion and Stables Cottage

·       Leonard Cheshire (LC) Dilapidations

·       Holehird Mansion – Police dogs

·       South Lodge: external decoration and joinery repairs

·       Belle Hill Cottage

·       Low Borrans Cottage

·       High Longmire

·       Lakeland Horticultural Society (LHS)