Statutory funding

Statutory funding comprises various types of funding, such as grants and contracts, from a number of different sources, such as local authorities, primary care trusts, and central government departments.

In recent years many of the sector’s biggest organisations have become more and more reliant on statutory funding, as the culture of contracting with local and central government agencies to deliver public services becomes more prevalent.

The 2009 Civil Society Almanac, published by the NCVO, states that income from government totalled £11.5bn the latest year for which figures are available, and £7.8bn of this was from public sector contracts. The sector’s total income was £33.2bn, meaning statutory funding now accounts for a third of charities’ total revenue.

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'One-stop' disability consortium wins £2.6m employment services contract

'One-stop' disability consortium wins £2.6m employment services contract 0

Finance | Tania Mason | 9 Mar 2010
Topics: Public service delivery | Statutory funding

A unique partnership between one national charity and five local charities has won a £2.6m contract from Birmingham’s local strategic partnership to provide employment services for people with multiple disabilities in five of Birmingham City’s most deprived areas.

Most OTS partners at risk from spending cuts

Most OTS partners at risk from spending cuts 0

Finance | Tania Mason | 1 Mar 2010
Topics: Statutory funding | Public service delivery

The majority of the Office of the Third Sector’s 40 strategic partners get most of their income from the government, putting them squarely in the firing line for imminent public spending cuts.

Sally Burton: Leading the charge at the Shaw Trust

Sally Burton: Leading the charge at the Shaw Trust 0

Finance | Tania Mason | 19 Feb 2010
Topics: Trading | Statutory funding | Human resources | Leadership and strategy

The Shaw Trust’s new chief executive is intent on creating a new enterprise division that employs disabled people itself – and makes a profit from it. Tania Mason reports

Spending cuts and strategic partners

Spending cuts and strategic partners 0

Finance | Tania Mason | 19 Feb 2010
Topics: Statutory funding | Public service delivery | Office of the Third Sector

With public spending cuts looming, charities that rely heavily on statutory funding are facing dangerous roads ahead. Tania Mason investigates which of the Office of the Third Sector's strategic partners are most at risk.

Blog: Government delays good for fundraisers

Blog: Government delays good for fundraisers 2

Finance | Daniel Fletcher | 8 Feb 2010
Topics: Statutory funding

Treasury's delays on introducing international accounting standards for NHS charities can only be welcomed by fundraisers.

Compact launch: who said what

Compact launch: who said what 0

Finance | Vibeka Mair | 2 Feb 2010
Topics: Statutory funding | Compact

Implementing and embedding the new refreshed Compact is the next step for a new decade of government and voluntary sector partnership, according toSimon Blake, chair of Compact Voice.

'Little evidence' of ChangeUp's impact on frontline groups

'Little evidence' of ChangeUp's impact on frontline groups 1

Finance | Tania Mason | 2 Feb 2010
Topics: Statutory funding

The first qualitative evaluation of the first four years of the ChangeUp programme has revealed that the local infrastructure groups that swallowed up much of the funding made very little attempt to measure the programme's effect on frontline charities.

New charity British Waterways 'would be UK's 13th-biggest'

New charity British Waterways 'would be UK's 13th-biggest' 1

Finance | Tania Mason | 1 Feb 2010
Topics: Statutory funding | Leadership and strategy | Public benefit | Sustainability

Moving British Waterways out of the public sector and into the voluntary sector would create the 13th-largest charity by income and the fifth-largest fundraising charity, according to a new report outlining the pros and cons of the idea.

Victim Support gets £8m to deliver National Victim Service

Victim Support gets £8m to deliver National Victim Service 0

Finance | Gareth Jones | 27 Jan 2010
Topics: Public service delivery | Statutory funding

Victim Support has been named the key agency for the delivery of the government’s new National Victim Service.

Darling requests more service delivery evidence

Darling requests more service delivery evidence 0

Finance | Tania Mason | 27 Jan 2010
Topics: Statutory funding | Public service delivery

Chancellor Alistair Darling has asked civil society leaders for evidence of the sector’s ability to deliver efficiencies for the government by providing more public services.

Sector's best-case scenario: cuts of 'hundreds of millions', says CFDG report

Sector's best-case scenario: cuts of 'hundreds of millions', says CFDG report 1

Finance | Tania Mason | 13 Jan 2010
Topics: Statutory funding | Public service delivery

The most optimistic scenario for the voluntary sector in the next public spending round is overall funding cuts of “hundreds of millions if not billions” of pounds, whichever party gets into power, according to a new report by CFDG.

'Pain right across the public sector' predicts Tory MP

'Pain right across the public sector' predicts Tory MP 0

Finance | Celina Ribeiro | 12 Jan 2010
Topics: Grants | Statutory funding | Public service delivery

A Conservative MP has admitted that there will be “pain across the public sector”, even in areas protected against spending cuts.

Lung charity restructures and creates trading arm

Lung charity restructures and creates trading arm 0

Finance | Tania Mason | 5 Jan 2010
Topics: Leadership and strategy | Trading | Public service delivery | Statutory funding

The British Lung Foundation has restructured its operations and created a new trading subsidiary that will deliver lung testing events for Primary Care Trusts across the country.

Acevo wins bid for investigation into NHS anti-competitiveness

Acevo wins bid for investigation into NHS anti-competitiveness 0

Finance | Vibeka Mair | 5 Jan 2010
Topics: Statutory funding | Funding | Public service delivery

Acevo and the NHS Partners Network have successfully lobbied for an inquiry into a Primary Care Trust’s decision to only accept tenders for running its community services from NHS organisations.

Refreshed Compact is launched

Refreshed Compact is launched 0

Finance | Vibeka Mair | 16 Dec 2009
Topics: Compact | Statutory funding

The refreshed Compact, outlining commitments for a working partnership between government and the voluntary sector, has launched today following a storm of controversy on the government’s recent breach of Compact guidelines.

OTS consultancy bill tops £1.1m since 2006

OTS consultancy bill tops £1.1m since 2006 0

Finance | Tania Mason | 8 Dec 2009
Topics: Statutory funding | Office of the Third Sector

The Office of the Third Sector spent just over £430,000 paying consultants in the 18 months to September 2009, bringing to £1.15m the total spent on consultancy fees since the OTS came into existence in June 2006.

GamCare under threat from Gambling Strategy Board proposals

GamCare under threat from Gambling Strategy Board proposals 1

Finance | Tania Mason | 1 Dec 2009
Topics: Funding | Statutory funding | Impact reporting

GamCare, the advice and counselling charity for problem gamblers, is worried that it will be sidelined and have its funding slashed under new proposals from the Responsible Gambling Strategy Board.

Funding the core

Funding the core 1

Finance | 30 Nov 2009
Topics: Funding | Statutory funding

Core funding improves outcomes as well as relationships with funders, argues Jessica Sklair.

Easy answers to Bad Funding

Easy answers to Bad Funding 1

Finance | Nick Wilkie | 21 Nov 2009
Topics: Funding | Statutory funding

Bad Funding has become part of civil society's DNA. But it doesn't have to be like that, says Nick Wilkie

Serco, Catch 22 and Turning Point set to bid for more prisons

Serco, Catch 22 and Turning Point set to bid for more prisons 0

Finance | Vibeka Mair | 18 Nov 2009
Topics: Statutory funding | Ethics

The Catch 22, Turning Point and Serco consortium are likely to bid for the management of more prisons in the north of England.

Treasury considers rewards for helping looked-after children stay clean

Treasury considers rewards for helping looked-after children stay clean 0

Finance | Tania Mason | 11 Nov 2009
Topics: Statutory funding

The Treasury is considering a proposal to reward local authorities – and their voluntary sector partners - for each looked-after child that reaches the age of 24 and has a job and a stable home.

Etherington warns sector on 'coercive' contracts

Etherington warns sector on 'coercive' contracts 0

Finance | Vibeka Mair | 6 Nov 2009
Topics: Statutory funding

Stuart Etherington, chief executive of the NCVO, has voiced concerns about charities running prisons and taking up other "coercive" roles, warning that the sector must recognise such decisions can be controversial.

Public spending cuts 'to mirror 1970 levels'

Public spending cuts 'to mirror 1970 levels' 0

Finance | Gareth Jones | 21 Oct 2009
Topics: Statutory funding | Recession

Forthcoming government cuts in public spending will be as high as cuts made in the recession of the 1970s, Robert Chote, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies warned charity finance leaders earlier this week. Speaking at the Charity Finance Live conference about the state of the UK economy over the next five years, Chote said the government had implied a cut in spending by 3 per cent a year in real terms from 2010. Over three years this would result in around £33bn in savings.

OTS u-turn sees partner assessments disclosed – and generally positive

OTS u-turn sees partner assessments disclosed – and generally positive 0

Finance | Tania Mason | 14 Sep 2009
Topics: Statutory funding | Funding | Office of the Third Sector | Umbrella bodies

The Office of the Third has changed its mind and agreed to publish the assessment reports for its 11 most highly-funded strategic partners, as requested by Charity News Alert under the Freedom of Information Act. Initially the OTS refused to disclose the reports, saying the public benefit in keeping them secret outweighed the public benefit in making them available. But after Charity News Alert requested an internal review of this decision, it agreed last week to provide copies. No reason was given as to the change of heart.

OTS refuses FoI request on strategic partner assessments

OTS refuses FoI request on strategic partner assessments 2

Finance | Tania Mason | 7 Sep 2009
Topics: Office of the Third Sector | Volunteering | Statutory funding

The Office of the Third Sector has refused to publish the latest assessment reports of its 11 most highly-funded strategic partners, saying the public interest in keeping them secret outweighs the public interest in disclosing them. In response to a Freedom of Information request from Charity News Alert to see the reports, the OTS cited an exemption under the section of the Act that deals with the development of government policy.

Howard League to tackle Catch 22 over prison concerns

Howard League to tackle Catch 22 over prison concerns 1

Finance | Vibeka Mair | 7 Sep 2009
Topics: Statutory funding

Howard League for Penal Reform is meeting Catch 22, the first charity to win a bid to manage a prison, to discuss its concerns about charities running prisons. Frances Crook, chief executive of Howard League, initially sought to speak to Charity Commission chair Dame Suzi Leather to discuss her worries about charities running prisons after Catch 22, crime prevention charity Turning Point and private service deliverer Serco won a Ministry of Justice bid to run Baghull and Belmarsh West prisons in July.

Charities that want to run prisons are 'naive' says Howard League boss

Charities that want to run prisons are 'naive' says Howard League boss 2

Finance | Vibeka Mair | 11 Aug 2009
Topics: Statutory funding

Charities bidding to run prisons are naïve about what it will involve, according to Frances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform. And she plans to seek a meeting with Charity Commission chair Dame Suzi Leather to debate the issue further. Crime prevention charities Catch 22 and Turning Point became the first charities to win a Ministry of Justice bid to run two prisons in a consortium with private service deliverer Serco last month.

Curley's prisons Freedom of Information request rejected

Curley's prisons Freedom of Information request rejected 2

Finance | Vibeka Mair | 11 Aug 2009
Topics: Statutory funding

NAVCA chief executive Kevin Curley has been told he cannot use the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act to see the copy of the bid by the Serco consortium that won the contract to run two new prisons, or any award letter and document. The UK government’s National Offender Management Service (NOMS) told Curley: "Although Serco had been announced as the winning bidder we have not reached contract signature which is planned for early next year. In addition the bids would be considered commercial and therefore not disclosed under the FoI Act.

Howard League for Penal Reform offers backing to Curley prison campaign

Howard League for Penal Reform offers backing to Curley prison campaign 2

Finance | Vibeka Mair | 30 Jul 2009
Topics: Statutory funding

Chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, Frances Crook, has offered support to NAVCA chief Kevin Curley’s campaign against the prospect of charities running prisons. It is the second crime prevention charity to back the campaign in a week. Richard Garside, director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, hasalso offered support to Curley, saying he was right to ask if there were limits to charitable provision.

Running prisons could be charitable, Commission tells Curley

Running prisons could be charitable, Commission tells Curley 1

Finance | Vibeka Mair | 29 Jul 2009
Topics: Statutory funding

Kevin Curley, chief executive of NAVCA, has vowed to fight the prospect of the charity sector running prisons after the Charity Commission refused to rule out the possibility that it could be a charitable purpose. Curley wrote to the Commission twice this year, asking for a review of whether charities could run prisons after the Ministry of Justice decided the third sector and private sector organisations could bid to run new prisons and existing failing prisons. Crime prevention charities Catch 22 and Turning Point were the first charities to win a prison bid this month.

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