Issue details

Initially the South Yorkshire Region partners worked together to secure an innovative funding offer to support Veterans and this was agreed in format and tendered out in 2020. There were no suitable applications for the total funding which was £65,000 to be rolled out across the region. The individual authorities’ members therefore discussed with the South Yorkshire funding, successfully granted through Dan Jarvis office and requested the opportunity to ensure we still used this money across the region for supporting veterans on a more localised basis.

This was agreed and each local authority had to complete a framework for how we would utilise our local share of this funding, for Doncaster this was £16,250 for them to agree an alternate allocation and use. This proposal was submitted, agreed and authorised by the South Yorkshire Region office as viable to draw down our initial allocation.

Consideration of utilising this money purely alongside the Housing provision with SLHD did not progress as it was felt that basing this money closer to the community / voluntary and wider partners in the steering group would make it more accessible and create more innovative applications for support elements that would contribute towards the more formal housing support offers in place for Doncaster but would not be limited by them.