The Community Grants portfolio includes:

• Community Grants (excluding those local grants delegated to Shire Committees)
• Community Enablement Support Fund capital and revenue grants
• Welsh Church Acts Fund

Current projects
Llanidloes Old Market Hall:
£92,000 scheme to create ‘A Celebration of Timber Building’ within this largely unused building approved, with £82,600 Heritage Lottery funding.

Montgomery Canal Restoration:
Management Strategy and Action Plan for further stages of restoration being prepared by a partnership over next year. In the meantime, efforts are being made to secure Welsh Assembly commitment to this project.

KEY BOARD DECISIONS TO DATE
Community Grants:
133 grants awarded to date with total value of £767,000.