To consider the award of a grant to South Dorset Community Sports Trust to assist with facility improvements to the Osprey Leisure Centre on Portland.

That Management Committee:

(a)       awards a one-off grant of £65,000 to South Dorset Community Sports Trust Ltd (charity no. 1101711)  to assist with facility improvements to the Osprey Leisure Centre at Castletown, Portland, as summarised in Appendix A to be funded from the reserves already set aside for one-off projects;

(b)       makes any grant to the South Dorset Community Sports Trust Ltd, as recommended in 2(a), conditional on the Trust submitting details for the improvements to the facilities, information as to how the improvements will help to increase the Centre’s role as a community health and wellbeing facility, and details of any match funding secured from other sources;

(c)       gives delegated authority to the Strategic Director to agree, in consultation with the Briefholder, the terms of a grant agreement with the South Dorset Community Sports Trust Ltd if the grant requested in recommendation 2 (a) is agreed.