Community Links Fund pledged spend breakdown: FOI release
- Published
- 5 August 2019
- Topic
- Public sector
- FOI reference
- FOI/19/01727
- Date received
- 16 July 2019
- Date responded
- 1 August 2019
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Information requested
- A breakdown of spend £36 million pledged the Community Links Fund.
- This information broken down by spend per Scottish parliamentary region.
Response
Attached is a copy of some of the information you requested.
The answer to your question regarding a breakdown of Community Links spend 2018/19 is provided in the table below:
| Applicant |
Sum of Claimed |
| Aberdeen City Council |
£422,042 |
| Aberdeenshire Council |
£124,708 |
| Angus Council |
£5,594 |
| Argyll & Bute Council |
£602,506 |
| Broadford And Strath Community Company |
£9,642 |
| Carse Of Gowrie Group |
£9,902 |
| Central Scotland Green Network Trust |
£436,100 |
| City of Edinburgh Council |
£44,766 |
| City of Edinburgh Council |
£3,395,168 |
| Clackmannanshire Council |
£74,165 |
| Clydebank Housing Association |
£51,156 |
| Coimhearsnachd Bharraidh Agus Bhatarsaidh (Barra & Vatersay Community) Ltd |
£27,780 |
| Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (Western Isles Council) |
£26,936 |
| Central Scotland Green Network Trust |
£186,027 |
| Central Scotland Green Network Trust |
£130,356 |
| Dulnain Bridge Community Council |
£21,422 |
| Dumfries & Galloway Council |
£117,662 |
| Dumfries and Galloway Council |
£767,876 |
| Dundee City Council |
£595,808 |
| East Ayrshire Leisure |
£109,566 |
| East Dunbartonshire Council |
£364,284 |
| East Lothian Council |
£231,518 |
| East Renfrewshire Council |
£868,750 |
| Edinbane Community Company |
£41,913 |
| Edinburgh and Lothians Greenspace Trust |
£24,691 |
| Edinburgh Bioquarter |
£3,300 |
| Falkirk Council |
£868,050 |
| Falkland And Newton Of Falkland Community Council |
£299,628 |
| Fife Council |
£663,734 |
| Forward Coupar Angus |
£43,641 |
| Gargunnock Community Trust |
£13,000 |
| Glasgow City Council |
£3,830,867 |
| Glasgow Science Centre |
£10,000 |
| Highlands and Islands Enterprise |
£166,999 |
| Hillhead Housing Association |
£496,119 |
| Inverclyde Council |
£27,188 |
| Killearn Community Futures Company |
£10,154 |
| Kingussie Community Development Company |
£35,632 |
| KPT Development Trust |
£8,000 |
| Loch Lomond And Trossachs National Park |
£23,136 |
| Moffat And District Community Council |
£45,049 |
| Moray Council |
£43,750 |
| Muthill Village Trust |
£212,800 |
| NHS Lanarkshire |
£11,951 |
| NHS Lothian |
£52,574 |
| North Ayrshire Council |
£457,450 |
| North Lanarkshire Council |
£38,497 |
| One Dalkeith |
£17,861 |
| Orkney Islands Council |
£770,895 |
| Parsons Green Parent Council |
£7,752 |
| Penicuik Community Council |
£34,300 |
| Perth and Kinross Countryside Trust |
£220,840 |
| Pollokshields Trust |
£11,940 |
| Port Of Inverness |
£26,426 |
| Renfrewshire City Deal |
£50,102 |
| Renfrewshire Council |
£248,086 |
| Rothes Community Council |
£11,940 |
| Rothes Community Council |
£23,060 |
| RSPB Scotland |
£106,547 |
| Scottish Borders Council |
£1,016,649 |
| Scottish Canals |
£10,960,749 |
| Scottish Environment Protection Agency |
£253,773 |
| SESTRAN |
£80,443 |
| South Ayrshire Council |
£156,060 |
| South Lanarkshire Council |
£26,501 |
| Stirling Council |
£982,955 |
| Strathblane Community Development Trust |
£4,680 |
| The Coalfields Regeneration Trust |
£50,180 |
| The Highland Council |
£154,665 |
| The Mull & Iona Community Trust |
£603,603 |
| Transition University St Andrews |
£48,275 |
| Transport For Edinburgh |
£274,938 |
| University Of Strathclyde |
£37,691 |
| Urban Roots |
£42,000 |
| West Dunbartonshire Council |
£47,065 |
| West End Community Council |
£58,959 |
| West Lothian Council |
£511,482 |
| Total |
£32,922,274 |
The remaining £3,077,726 was allocated to evaluation, administration and programme costs.
While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the Scottish Government does not have some of the information you have requested. The reasons why we don’t have the information are explained in the Annex below.
ANNEX
REASONS FOR NOT PROVIDING INFORMATION
The Scottish Government does not have the information
Section 17(1) of FOISA (information not held) requires the Scottish Government to notify you if it does not have the information you requested.
The Community Links programmed is administered by Sustrans Scotland. While we receive regular reports on the performance of the Community Links fund, these reports do not contain a breakdown of the £36 million committed to Community Links in 2018/19 broken down by Scottish parliamentary region.
This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have the information you have requested.
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