January 2009
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National Safeguarding Unit for the Third Sector →
All children and young people have the right to feel safe. They should be able to enjoy participating in activities outside the home and to take proportionate risks, which are an essential part of growing up. The establishment of a National Safeguarding Unit for the Third Sector in England, was one the government’s commitments in the Department for Children, Schools and Families’...
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Local Grants Forum launches a guide to help defend... →
Local Grants Forum launches a guide to help defend grant funding in the recession.
The Local Grants Forum, a partnership of national organisations which campaign to protect grants for the local third sector, has today (Monday 26 January) officially launched ‘Defending Local Grants’, an easy to read guide that shows where you can find the resources you need to defend grant funding...
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Defending Local Grants →
Resources you can use at local level which will help you to convince councillors, commissioning officers and procurement professionals that grants should continue to be used to fund local organisations and groups. Published by NAVCA on behalf of the Local Grants Forum.
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NAVCA welcomes Government change of heart on... →
The Government has dropped plans to issue national guidance on single group funding, which threatened the funding of local black and minority ethnic (BME) organisations, and instead has accepted that decisions on single group funding should be made locally. This change of heart was contained within Hazel Blears foreword to the Cohesion Guidance for Funders Consultation summary of responses...
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Threat to Big Lottery Funding for 3rd Sector →
In most parts of England the Big Lottery Fund is a major funder of the third sector (voluntary and community sector), with a current commitment that 60-70% of its total funding goes to the third sector each year.
BIG is now consulting about its future funding programmes and about its commitment to our sector. The consultation runs until the end of February 2009.
Question Four of the...