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Central government has introduced a further tranche of the Household Support Fund (HSF4) for 2023/24. Funding for the scheme has been provided to Surrey County Council (SCC), who has overall control and responsibility for administering HSF.

SCC has passed a proportion of the funding to Surrey districts for distribution on to residents.

To assist in delivering the funds to hard-to-reach local residents, EEBC has already entered into a partnership with the Good Company, a local charity who run the local food bank, Epsom Pantry and the Epsom Refugees Network.

This report proposes to continue the partnership with the Good Company, to enable these funds to continue to be disbursed to vulnerable residents, in a timely manner, whom the Council would otherwise be unable to reach.

Following consideration, the Committee resolved with 6 votes for, 1 abstention and the Chair not voting to:

(1)      Agree that a further £50,000 of the HSF4 allocation be passed to the Good Company, for distribution to residents in the period October 2023 to March 2024.

The Committee received a report setting out that central government had introduced a further tranche of the Household Support Fund (HSF4) for 2023/24. Funding for the scheme had been provided to Surrey County Council (SCC), who has overall control and responsibility for administering HSF.

SCC had passed a proportion of the funding to Surrey districts for distribution on to residents.

To assist in delivering the funds to hard-to-reach local residents, EEBC had already entered into a partnership with the Good Company, a local charity who run the local food bank, Epsom Pantry and the Epsom Refugees Network.

The report proposed to continue the partnership with the Good Company, to enable these funds to continue to be disbursed to vulnerable residents, in a timely manner, whom the Council would otherwise be unable to reach.

Following consideration, the Committee resolved with 6 votes for, 1 abstention and the Chair not voting to:

(1)      Agree that a further £50,000 of the HSF4 allocation be passed to the Good Company, for distribution to residents in the period October 2023 to March 2024.