are any of these projects still up and running

[jawsbbc]

  The Belle Vue Youth Project, Central Correctors, Hartlepool Young Carers, NYPD (Nurturing Young People's Development), The Phoenix Funsters, The Rifty Youth Project and The Wharton Annexe.




Outgoing ceremonial mayor helped raise £118,000 for Hartlepool ...
https://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/.../outgoing-ceremonial-mayor-helped-raise-118-00...
1 Jun 2015 - Outgoing Hartlepool Ceremonial Mayor Stephen Akers-Belcher raised over ... In 2012-13 he supported The Belle Vue Youth Project, Central Correctors, Hartlepool Young Carers, NYPD (Nurturing Young People's Development), The Phoenix Funsters, The Rifty Youth Project and The Wharton Annexe.

[kevplumb]

wharton annexe is still going I renewed my CSCS card there

[Inspector Knacker]

How many of these 'organisations' are there? It must be Hartlepools biggest growth sector in the last 20 years.

[fred c]

The awarding of CIC grants should certainly be looked into including a review of previous contracts, would any private investor stump up £680,000 to a company that had a director who had been banned from holding directorships by a judge, I seriously doubt it ?

[Inspector Knacker]

I don't think the recipients of such grants should have any connection with the awarding body. There should be a clear demarcation line. Politicians should have no connection in any form with the recipient of such grants.

[Bluenose]

Just reflects the growth of the third sector positions  filled by volunteers, rather than  any determined plan to get business or jobs into the town