It would be helpful if the Council could take on the following points:
a) Publicising the availability of the funding from the levy payments to the local voluntary sector who may have ideas for supporting community involvement and development
b) If community Centres are to be built then consideration should be given to establishing a permanent endowment fund that any group who takes on the running of the centre would have access to the revenue from the capital sum towards the running costs but not have access to the actual permanent endowment itself. Realistically such endowment funds would need to be in the region of £1 million. They could be run by the Heart of England Community Foundation and in fact there may be matched funding available towards the contribution.