MORE than £140,000 in funding is set to be awarded to six organisations for sustainable community projects – if elected members give the green light.

Renfrewshire Council officers have recommended grants be allocated to the New Tannahill Centre, Clydeside Orienteers, 5th Paisley (Oldhall) Scout Group, RIG Arts, Star Project and Creating a Sustainable Gryffe.

It comes after they made applications to the sustainable communities fund which supports projects that promote or improve community collaboration, health and wellbeing, local spaces, economic development, biodiversity and the environment.

The pot was created after it was agreed in March last year the council should combine remaining monies from the community empowerment and climate change action funds. It was further bolstered by cash from the UK shared prosperity fund.

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Three types of awards are available through the process, including small (up to £10,000), intermediate (£10,000 to £25,000) and large (up to £100,000) amounts.

Applications were assessed in July by a cross-service panel of officers established to consider the bids against agreed objectives and criteria.

While six totalling £143,004 have been recommended for awards, nine have been deferred for further information and three did not meet the criteria.

A report, which will be considered at next week’s communities and housing policy board, said: “The sustainable communities fund has been very popular since its launch and has attracted a significant number of initial formal applications and more informal contacts and expressions of potential interest.

“Applicants are strongly advised to engage with coordinating officers as early as possible in the application development process.

“There continue to be a number of applications where further information is required to fully assess an application, which has led to a number of applications being recommended to be deferred at this time, in order to give applicants the best possible chance of success as part of the assessment process.”

Councillors will be asked to approve the awards at the board on Tuesday.