BRADFORD TRIDENT, NDC PARTNERSHIP BOARD MEETING
of a Meeting of the Boardheld at St Joseph's Primary School, Bradford on Thursday 31 October 2002.

Commenced: 1710hrs           Concluded: 1750hrs              

PRESENT
Councillor Ian Greenwood (Chair)

Community Directors:
Greg Lucas (West Bowling)
Zamurrad Khan (West Bowling) (from 1725)
Munawar Khan (Park Lane)
Lil Acklam (Park Lane)
Joe Holloway (Marshfields)
Nyear Yaseen (Marshfields)

Council Directors:
Councillor Simon Cooke - Council Director

Faith Directors:
Finbarr Sands - Faith Director

Business Directors:
David Austin - Allan Austin Sports Ltd
Nick Baggio - Ivy Guest House

Health Director:
Lynnette Throp - Bradford City Primary Care Trust

LSC Director:
Angela Dobson - Learning + Skills Council (from 1710)

Adviser:
David Wilkinson (from 1715)

Observers:
Mark Fielding - (Interact) Bradford Trident Communications Manager

Staff in attendance:
Steve Hartley - Chief Executive
David Mosley - Company Secretary
Chas Stansfield - Programme Manager
Andy Brennan - Programme Manager
Judith Atkinson - Programme Manager
Wayne Noteman - Housing Projects Manager
Ian Hague - Neighbourhood Manager
Darrell Gregoire - Programme Co-ordinator
Umar Hayat - Programme Co-ordinator
Shamsuddin Ahmed - PACT Co-ordinator
Imtiaz Ahmed - Faith Co-ordinator (from 1730)
Claudia Dacres - PA to Chief Executive

1. APOLOGIES
Apologies were received from:
Zahera Hanif - Community Director
Jahnzaib Sarwar - Community Director
Isa Khan - Community Director
Nawaz Khan - Community Director
Jamshed Khan - Community Director
Amjad Ali - Community Director
Omar Khan - Business Director
Will Jennings - RSL Director
Dave Richardson - Police Director
Roz Hall - BMDC Regeneration Partnership
Zubare Khan - Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

2. MINUTES AND MATTERS ARISING FROM THE BOARD MEETING OF 25 SEPTEMBER 2002

2.1 The minutes of the meeting held on 25 September 2002 were agreed as a correct record.
There were no matters arising.

3. DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST
Simon Cooke declared an interest for item 5, Appraisal - Trident Information,
Advice and Guidance, and for Item 7, Arts Strategy.

Ian Greenwood advised the Board of the death of the father of Councillor Sher Khan and Isa Khan and offered the condolences of the Board and staff to the family and the community for the loss of a well respected community member.
The Board observed a two minute silence as a mark of respect.

4. BOARD MATTERS
A paper was presented by the Chief Executive requesting the Board's approval on various matters.

4.1 Away Day - Friday 11 October, Saturday 12 October

Steve Hartley reported back on the Away Day and highlighted the session identifying successes and concerns. He advised that the session on community cohesion and racial disadvantage was particularly useful and would be followed up at an extended Directorsí Briefing on 14 November with a view to bringing the issue back to the December Board. Steve added the work on planning for Year 4 would be taken forward by programme staff via
Working Groups prior to looking at a first draft of the Delivery Plan for next year at the December Board meeting.

Steve thanked all Directors who gave up their time and advised, for next year, an alternative venue would be sought.

4.2 Ministerial Visit ñ Tony McNulty MP, Thursday 24 October

Steve Hartley thanked all Directors who attended the Ministerial visit and advised that Tony McNulty was delighted with his visit to Hutson Street, which had been reported at the Government Office Mid Year Review meeting.

4.3 Social/Team Event
Steve Hartley reminded the Board of the Directors and staff social/team building event to be held on Friday 20 December (7.30 for 8.00 pm) at the Dubrovnik Hotel.

Joe Holloway expressed his view that last year's event was not particularly successful for varying reasons. However, David Mosley explained for this year's event the company had sole use of the larger restaurant area and silver
service would be included for the English food.

5. APPRAISAL - TRIDENT INFORMATION, ADVICE AND GUIDANCE

A report was presented by Andy Brennan seeking the Boardís approval for the Trident Information, Advice and Guidance project appraisal and NDC funding, and approval for delegation of an appraisal for the purchase of premises for the project to the Executive Committee.

Andy Brennan explained that this was a key project in the Jobs and Business programme with funding of £378,600 over 3› years. He added research had been conducted by MORI on peopleís attitudes to jobs, training and skills. This had indicated that people were keen to learn and develop their careers but did not know where to go. The project developed would address this issue as well as adding value and making the best use of other forms of provision currently available. It would offer Bradford Trident the opportunity to buy extra guidance for its residents.

Andy outlined the project and advised that Careers Bradford were the lead contractor (as well as lead contractor for the LSC Information, Advice and Guidance for West Yorkshire). 4 staff would be employed to deliver the service and a Learning Resource Centre would be established in close proximity to At Work Recruitment.

Angela Dobson advised the Board that the LSC had been consulted and were comfortable with the project, provided it complemented, not duplicated, current provision.

The board approved the appraisal.
Proposed by Lil Acklam
Seconded by Munawar Khan
All in favour.

 Agreed:

1. That the Trident Information, Advice and Guidance project appraisal and total NDC funding of £347,600 revenue and £31,000 capital be approved.

2. That delegated approval of an appraisal for the purchase of premises for the project to the Executive Committee, by postal circulation of the appraisal be approved.

6. MID YEAR REVIEW -YEAR 3

A report was presented by Steve Hartley for the Board's information.

Steve Hartley and Ian Greenwood thanked everyone who attended the Review meeting. A significant number of Board members had attended and made a useful contribution.

Steve Hartley advised that for this year the main focus had been on performance management and Directors had fed in their views via the Away Day. Government Office were very comfortable with the scores, their only criticism being they felt Bradford Trident had underscored its performance.

Steve highlighted some of the positive outcomes which clearly illustrated Bradford Trident activities were having an impact and Ian Greenwood felt these were all positive signs for the area.

Joe Holloway enquired whether spend was on track and whether programmes could be brought forward. David Mosley confirmed the level of spend and Ian Greenwood added that we had already indicated to Government Office a degree of reluctance to bring programmes forward. He felt it was important that the company did not overreach itself.

Angela Dobson, on behalf of the Board, thanked Steve Hartley and the staff team for their performance achievements. Ian Greenwood echoed this and also expressed his thanks to Board Directors for their input.

7. ARTS STRATEGY

A report was presented by Mark Fielding seeking the Board's approval for an Arts Strategy prior to the development of an enhanced arts programme for the area.

Mark Fielding provided an overview of the strategy highlighting the need, its contents, the vision, aims and objectives as well as the benefits to the Bradford Trident community.

Ian Greenwood commended the document. He stressed the importance of broadening residents horizons and felt the strategy would be a means of addressing this.

Lil Acklam felt more emphasis should be given to music and varied musical instruments.

Angela Dobson wondered whether the strategy undersold the economic value it could attract. Mark Fielding responded that employers seeking locations would look at what was available to enhance the quality of life for their employees, ie visitor centres, museums etc and were more likely to locate to such an area. He added, there was always an economic spin off to cultural activity. Simon Cooke, through his involvement with a regional music charity, explained funding had been obtained from the New Opportunities Fund and the National Lottery that had been very effective for engagement. The positives were economic, as well as the childrenís performance in mainstream school. Steve Hartley added some of the skills based initiatives Mark had
included do have an economic link.

Munawar Khan requested the inclusion of Asian clothes design.

The Board accepted the proposal
Proposed by Simon Cooke
Seconded by Greg Lucas
All in favour

Agreed:

1. That the Board accepts the strategy embodied in the Vision, Aims and Objectives of the document be approved.

2. That the Chief Executive takes overall responsibility for the development of the arts strategy to ensure its status as a cross cutting issue be approved.

3. That a Project Appraisal be drawn up for Board approval which acts on the Vision, Aims and Objectives and will incorporate:
a) provision for a two year action plan to be drawn up;
b) the provision of a budget for arts from NDC funds of about £50,000 / year;
c) appropriate development and administrative support be approved.

Action: Chief Executive

8. FORMATION OF CHARITY
A report was presented by David Mosley to bring the Boardís attention to the recommendations of the Executive Committee meeting held on 10 October 2002.

David reminded the Board that this issue had previously been debated and the recommendation was the establishment of a charity with 9 trustees (4 Community Directors and 5 non Bradford Trident Board representatives). Bradford Trident would then gift aid its rental income to the charity without paying any corporation tax. As a safeguard, if the Bradford Trident Board were unhappy, they could discontinue ìgiftingî after 12 months. They would also have the opportunity to exercise ìstepp inî rights in situations of crisis.

Ian Greenwood advised the Board that, at this stage, they had been asked to discuss the principles and agree the composition of the charity, as a proposal would come back to the Board at the December meeting. He added once the charity was established it would be operated and reviewed on a year-by-year basis.

Lil Acklam enquired whether the income the company had already accumulated would be liable for tax before the charity had been set up, as it would be some 9 months before this would be established. She also raised the issue of the effect on Accountable Body Status.

David Mosley advised that if the charity were not registered by 31.03.03 then the tax would have to be paid. Ian Greenwood added the formation of a charity would not effect Accountable Body Status as this had no effect on tax issues.

9. FINANCE REPORT

A report was presented by David Mosley for the Board's information.

David advised directors that the level of spend was on target. He added spending had been reprofiled at Government Office request to a lower figure.
Angela Dobson drew the Board's attention to an error on the spreadsheet.
The reprofile figure should be £8.017m
The Board accepted the report.

10. LOCAL EVALUATION UPDATE

A report was presented by David Mosley updating the Board on the progress of the Local Evaluation Programme.

David reminded the Board that a tender process had taken place for the appointment of consultants and Banks of Weir (BOW) and Leeds Metropolitan University had been selected. He added Zubare Khan had joined the Bradford Trident team as Monitoring and Evaluation Officer around 6 weeks ago and was currently working with Programme staff and Working Groups on the 8 projects they had identified which would be evaluated before the end of February. David drew the Board's attention to the projects set out in section 2.3 of the report. Appendix 1 identified what would be done and when this would be achieved. David added Bradford Trident was currently ahead of other NDCs on this issue.

David further advised the Board that although this was a three year contract, the evaluators had agreed to provide full training for Zubare Khan by the end of year 3 in order that he would be able to undertake the remaining work, resulting in a saving to the company.

The Board accepted the report.

11. WORKING GROUPS - REPORT BACK

A report was presented by Programme Managers outlining the actions of all Working Groups which have met since the last Board meeting.

Greg Lucas expressed his concern at the Woodroyd project. He explained the project had been split into several groups however, consultations had not been representative of the cultural mix within the area. He felt the issue needed to be addressed.

Ian Greenwood advised that the Chief Executive would look into this.

Action: Chief Executive

The Board noted the Working Group reports presented.

12. ANY OTHER BUSINESS
No items were raised under Any Other Business.

13. DATE OF NEXT MEETING
Wednesday 18 December, 5.00 pm

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