European cash hope for Hull's community wardens
Hull's community warden service is set to be revamped, despite facing a £500,000 funding cut.
Council funding for the service run by the Goodwin Development Trust is being reduced as part of the authority's cost-cutting budget measures for the coming year.
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Hopeful: Councillor Daren Hale
However, city council deputy leader Councillor Daren Hale said officials from the trust and the council were optimistic about securing European funding as an alternative.
Speaking at a council scrutiny meeting, he said: "There is potential for European Regional Development Fund money coming in from a bid which has been submitted and we are very hopeful it will be successful.
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"The intention would be revert the focus of the service back to supporting elderly and vulnerable people as it did initially."
The council's contract for the wards was recently extended until the end of March.
Cllr Hale said: "There will still be community wardens in every area of the city if not in every ward."
2 Comments
by Allan87
Saturday, February 23 2013, 11:26PM
“Spiderboy, Hull has done very nicely out of euro money over the last few decades, such as the wardens to the Marina. The problem isn't Europe, its Whitehall. If it wasn't for euro money then vast swaiths of the North of England would still have bomb sites from WW2. Whitehall has written off Cities like Hull, Sheffield, Newcastle so the EU has been a life line”
by spiderboy
Saturday, February 23 2013, 10:15AM
“SO WE GO CAP IN HAND TO THE EEC TO ASK FOR SOME OF OUR OWN MONEY BACK, BECAUSE OUR OWN GOVERNMENT WHO CAN AFFORD TO SEND BILLIONS TO EUROPE CANNOT AFFORD TO FUND IT? . WHAT A JOKE SITUATION.”