Groups made eligible for cash by councillors

MORE than 100 of the previously rejected community fund applications have now been deemed eligible by Glasgow City Council.

It was previously revealed that some organisations had their funding bid rejected because they had not submitted all the necessary documentation with their application.

The integrated grant fund (IGF), which will be replaced by the communities fund, will now be extended for six months from April 1 to allow the new applications to be assessed.

The issue was discussed

report presented to the

aand city administration committee, with the IGF being extended as a result.

Councillor Jennifer Layden said: “I want to thank colleagues who have given me input and feedback [on the scheme].

“Following on from a short extension in January to allow organisations to provide missing documents, a further 111 applications have become eligible.

“They will now require assessment and this has meant that the timetable for decisions on the fund has had to be extended for six months.

“This extension is for community and voluntary organisations.

“One of the important points that we really need to emphasise here is that this extension is not an automatic transition to the communities fund for current IGF recipients. Applicants need to plan accordingly if they are not successful. We have ensured that no area partnership will lose funding.

“We hope that we can come to the city administration committee after summer recess to propose groups that would be allocated funding through this programme.

“We want to implement a new grant funding programme that is fair and transparent to all third-sector organisations across the city but there is still more work to do.”

A total of £47,631,924 will be allocated from the funding pot between 2020 and 2023.

Labour councillor Martin Rhodes welcomed the news and the sixmonth extension to the IGF.

GLASGOW Museums has acquired a railway nameplate of outstanding historic merit, named after former Labour leader John Smith.

The plate, ‘The Rt. Hon John Smith, QC, MP’, which has been mounted on a wooden backing board, was presented by the Railway Heritage Designation Advisory Board in the presence of members of John Smith’s family at Riverside Museum, where the city’s transport and technology collection is exhibited.

The nameplate ‘The Rt. Hon John Smith, QC, MP’ was previously attached to a ScotRail Class 320 Electric train, which regularly carried passengers on Glasgow’s rail network.

John Smith’s widow, Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill, said: “I’m delighted that John’s nameplate will be available to see at Glasgow Museums. John and I met and married very near here at Glasgow University. He loved the city and would be proud to know he is being remembered in one of its finest museums.”