Thursday, September 13, 2007
Umbrella bodies dispute Audit Commission grant finding - Third Sector
Umbrella bodies dispute Audit Commission grant finding - Third Sector: "Umbrella bodies dispute Audit Commission grant finding By Paul Jump, Third Sector Online, 13 September 2007 The Audit Commission's assertion that local council grant funding to the voluntary and community sector is not in decline is incorrect, according to Navca and the NCVO. In its recent report Hearts and Minds: commissioning from the voluntary sector, the commission said there was no evidence councils were reducing total expenditure on grants. It claimed they were merely “aligning their grant giving better with their strategic priorities”."
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I work with councils on a daily basis and haven's seen massive evidence of a strategy to _reduce_ grant funding, however budgets are generally pretty tight and councils are having to demonstrate that the grant funding is actually having a measurable effect. We recently launched www.j4bcommunity.co.uk to support the sector in finding alternative sources of grant funding.
The move towards commissioning in councils will start to have a bigger effect but I think grant funding will still have a part to play for the forseeable future.
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