Council Cuts Caia Partnership Funding As Self-Sustainment Grows

Wrexham Council are looking to reduce funding for the Caia Park Partnership, as the organisation moves towards self sustaining itself.

The report going before the Executive Board on Tuesday seeks further funding to support Caia Park Partnership Ltd (CPP Ltd) for a further 3 years at £55,000 (2015/16) £41,250 (2016/17); and £30,937 (2017/18).

Councillor Neil Rogers said: “If you look what we are getting for our money we are getting around 31 programmes almost cradle to the grave.

“It is support for young mothers, community cafe, through to older peoples luncheon clubs.

“If you look at the report in 2009/10 we were giving them £180k, so since then the enterprise has become more sustainable.

“The key thing here is that it is the community delivering the services for their own community.”

Wrexham Council say further funding reducing over the 3 year period will further support the organisation towards sustainability and independence from Council funding.

“The funds that Caia Park Partnership Ltd receives from the Council enable Caia Park
Partnership Ltd to deliver services and activities that support and achieve the Councils
vision for ‘People to prosper both as individuals and in their communities’.

“The core objectives of CPP Ltd. are to ‘work with individuals, communities and partner
organisations in Caia Park and Wrexham wide to provide activities, services and facilities that meet identified community needs. The Partnership is deeply embedded in the community and all we do is underpinned by an ambition to enable people and communities to achieve their potential’.

“This directly supports the Councils commitment to Together in Wrexham which seeks to ‘empower local peoples to actively participate in community activities and in redesigning and delivering services and taking responsibility for improving quality of life in the places where they live’.”

The table above illustrates how CPP Ltd. has ‘sustained the reduction in funding from the Council since 2009 through both securing income from alternative sources and in significantly reducing the total core costs of the organisation from £330,922 in 2008/9 to £187,301 in 2013/14.’

The full report to the Executive Board can be found here.