Office for Civil Society to slash spending by £11m 1

Governance | Vibeka Mair | 29 Jul 2010

The Office for Civil Society has announced that it will cut £11m from its 2010/11 budget.

The cuts will come from the OCS itself, strategic partner v, Capacitybuilders, the Commission for the Compact and programmes to support social enterprises.

Youth volunteering charity v will lose £1.95m from its £39m grant for 2010/11, while its £15m match fund, in which the charity finds investment from the private sector to match the government’s contribution, will be reduced to £10m.

Charity support service Capacitybuilders will lose £1.3m from its £90m budget for 2008-11 and the Commission for the Compact will have £0.4m cut from its £2m yearly-funding allocated till 2011.

Smaller savings include £130,000 from payments to regional development agencies to deliver business support to social enterprises and £111,000 from social enterprise action research programmes which funds individual projects across government addressing policy issues with social enterprise solutions.

The OCS will cut £2m of unallocated funding from its budget.

Nick Hurd, minister for civil society, said: “We have pledged to be as open and transparent as possible about how we are making savings. We are facing some of the most challenging economic times and every area of government is looking at reducing costs and streamlining their work.

"The Office for Civil Society is no exception and I am committed to ensuring we are more efficient and effective than ever before and that our resources are focused on where they are needed most.”

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Bev Gamage
Admin Asst.
Staffordshire Environmental Fund
10 Nov 2010

In a recent publication distributed in and around the Staffordshire area The Office for Civil Society quoted that they would be developing a central website of grants and funding opportunities. Could you please point us in the right direction as to where we may find the website if yet live?

Kind regards
Beverley

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