Grants & Funding
For information on grants available from Central Government
to the voluntary and community sector please visit the
Government
Funding web site. The site offers information on
grants from 4 government departments (Department of
Health, Department for Education and Skills, Office
of the Deputy Prime Minister and the Home Office).
The Role of the Voluntary and Community Sector in Service
Delivery: a Cross Cutting Review'
The
Role of the Voluntary and Community Sector in Service
Delivery: a cross cutting review, published in September
2002, identified that getting the funding and procurement
relationship right is crucial to effective service delivery.
However, a number of obstacles were identified which
were seen to be restricting the scope, scale and effectiveness
of the sector. The ACU is working in partnership with
government departments and local agencies to modernise
the funding relationship and reduce bureaucracy.
Central Government Funding of Voluntary and Community
Organisations
The Government values the voluntary and community sector.
The report below,Central Government Funding of Voluntary
and Community Organisations, shows that total central
government funding of voluntary and community organisations
was £2.2 billion in 1999/2000; £2.7 billion
in 2000/01 and £3.3 billion in 2001/02 - a rise
of 48 per cent between 1999/2000 and 2001/2002. The
report also shows that the Home Office and its agencies
provided total funding of £193.9 million in 2000/01
and £357.8 million in 2001/2 - one of the largest
Government spenders on the sector.
Central
Government Funding of Voluntary and Community Organisations
 (file
size 552kb)
Think Smart - Think Voluntary Sector
The Home Office and OGC have jointly published best
practice guidance on procurement of services from the
voluntary and community sector entitled "think
smart .... think voluntary sector!". The guidance
is intended for use by all Government departments and
NDPBs and follows a recommendation in the Treasury Cross
Cutting Review on the role of the voluntary sector in
the provision of public services.
The aim of the guidance is to create awareness of
the value which voluntary and community organisations
can bring to the delivery of services, the barriers
they face in securing contracts and the practical things
which can be done to help.
The guidance was formally launched at a Home Office
symposium on Better Procurement through Supplier Diversity
held on 9 June and attended by Fiona Mactaggart and
John Oughton from the OGC.
HM Treasury Guidance to Funders
HM
Treasury Guidance to Funders. The guidance is intended
to help government departments, non-departmental public
bodies (NDPBs), other funding bodies themselves distributing
public money to voluntary and community organisations.
The document addresses two specific issues. It clarifies
what Government Accounting says about the timing of
payments by funders to voluntary and community organisations
(responding to recommendation 19 of the cross cutting
review). It also explains the opportunities for moving
to more stable funding relationships between funders
and voluntary and community organisations (responding
to recommendation 21 of the cross cutting review).
A summary version of the Guidance to Funders
is available
Compact Code of Good Practice on Funding
The Compact Working Group, the body which takes forward
the Compact in the voluntary and community sector, issued
a draft new version of the Compact
Funding Code on 3 November 2003. Launched in 1998,
the Compact aims to provide a framework for partnership
relations between government and the voluntary and community
sector. Over the past five years, five good practice
codes on volunteering; consultation; black and minority
ethnic community organisations; funding; and community
groups have been developed.
Adventure Capital Fund
The £2.5 million Adventure Capital Fund (ACF)
programme was launched in December 2002 as a demonstration
programme to run from April 2003 through to March 2004.
Designed to test the effectiveness of making direct
investments in independent community-based organisations
that were working in disadvantaged neighbourhoods or
with marginalised communities, the programme aimed to
foster an enterprising culture within the participating
organisations and increase their capacity,accelerate
their growth and improve their sustainability. The attached
report reviews the progress of the ACF programme from
its origins in early 2002 through to the end of June
2004.
Volunteer
Recruitment Fund 2004
(file size 119 Kb)
Adventure Capital Fund
(file size 1mb)
Email enquiries should be entitled ‘Grants and
Funding’ and be sent to:
public_enquiry.acu@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk
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