NCVO invites members to share details of funding cuts online 2

Finance | Tania Mason | 2 Jun 2010

NCVO is calling on civil society organisations to let it know how public spending cuts are affecting them, by inviting them to complete a rolling and publicly accessible survey on its website.

The idea is that people enter data as they experience cuts in their funding. The information is publicly available so people can see the running tally as it mounts.

NCVO intends that the data collected will help inform all organisations across the sector as they take forward programme and policy priorities with government.

The survey focuses on the current financial year, from April 2010 to April 2011.

Three organisations have so far entered details of cuts – Harrogate District Community Transport, Arcola Theatre Production Company, and Reading International Solidarity Centre. Together the cuts total £376,000.

According to the website, NCVO is defining a cut as “a statutory body in central, regional or local government, including government agencies, local authorities, PCTs and others, informing you that you’ll receive less money than they had previously agreed to provide, as part of a grant, a contract or another formal funding arrangement.

“This may include them asking you to make efficiency savings as part of an existing contract or cancelling a grant which they had previously agreed to provide.”

However, it does not include funding applications that have been turned down.

Those organisations that don’t want to publicly share the details they enter can email the details to almanac@ncvo-vol.org.uk and the data will be collected anonymously.

Directory: National Council of Voluntary Organisations (NCVO)

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Di Monaghan
Manager
Mind in Sedgemoor
6 Jun 2010

We have had a 25% cut in funding for core costs from our main funder(The Somerset Partnership) which is a devolved budget from Somerset County Council. The shortfall may seem small to larger organisations, but to ours which is already run mostly on a passion to help us overcome our disabilities (We are all users of the services of the Somerset Partnership - ie have severe or enduring mental health problems or are carers of those who have).
As the manager ( plus development worker/fundraiser!)it is a heavy load to bear and certainly not one I can unload onto others in our organisation. I'm only a carer - at the moment!!
Di Monaghan

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Crispin Truman
Chief Executive,The Churches Conservation Trust
The Churches Conservation Trust
2 Jun 2010

We suffered an unplanned and immediate 3% cut in our DCMS grant last week, which has been followed tit for tat by a proportionate cut in our Church Commissioners grant. The total reduction in our budget is £135,000 (£95,000 of it Government grant), a cut in grant-in-aid which had been agreed in our formal three-year funding agreement which was supposed to run until March 2011.

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