Sep 03 2009
500 winners announced for Targeted Support Fund
The government has announced the award of 558 grants to voluntary and community organisations (VCOs) totalling £13.356m from its Targeted Support Fund.
Launched in February 2009, the Targeted Support Fund is part of the Government’s recession action plan. The programme is funded by the Office of the Third Sector and delivered at a national level by Community Development Foundation. Grants of between £10,000 and £40,000 were awarded under three themes to help organisations meet increased demand for their services during the recession.
- employment and employability;
- information advice and guidance, and;
- health and wellbeing.
In London, some £325,000 was awarded to 15 VCOs. The North East region did well with 98 grants awarded totalling £ 2.2m. However, the narrow winners were the North West region with with 143 winners collecting a cool £3.4m. Yorkshire & Humberside followed close behind with 138 grants totalling £3.3M.
We’d like to know why there was such a regional disparitybetween London and other regions, but until more detailed descriptions appear we can’t tell you anything more about the projects taxpayer money is supporting. The complete list of projects and case studies can be downloaded from NAVCA.
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