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.
Eric Pickles has announced that his Department for Communities and Local Government will give a coalition of youth volunteering bodies £10m to train 2,700 new adult volunteers.
The Prince of Wales is today meeting with members from youth charities, both at his Clarence House base and in South London, to discuss the issues young British people face.
The legal hearing regarding the future of Gloucestershire's NHS services has been set for 8 February.
The Labour Party is holding a summit today of charity and voluntary sector
groups to discuss the impact of the current government’s policies on
children’s charities and their services.
Bill Gates has pledged a $750m vote of confidence in the Global Fund to fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria after it was announced its executive director would step down following the exposure of a "grave abuse of funds" in several countries the fund works in.
Beatbulling has been awarded £1.3m from the Cabinet Office’s Social Action Fund to expand its services by setting up a new social action organisation.
The Scottish government has allocated almost £700,000 to charities providing information and advice to disabled people and their carers, as part of its self-directed support strategy.
Government should be more creative in engaging with the third sector, according to Conservative MP Richard Fuller responding to Labour calls for an assessment of the effects of local authority funding cuts on the voluntary sector.
The Aids Healthcare Foundation has renewed its call for the executive director of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria to step down after the Fund announced that it will halt new grants to developing countries because of budget restrictions.
Newcastle City Council will donate the wage savings it will make from Wednesday’s strike action to its Newcastle Fund grants programme to support employment charities in the city.
The price of a seat at the table of power may be having to bite your lip to stop yourself saying what you really think, but it is a price worth paying, outgoing Navca CEO Kevin Curley said in his final speech to a Navca Conference yesterday.
Sir Stuart Etherington, chief executive of NCVO, has suggested that too much money from government led to an unstrategic and bloated national infrastructure sector, and welcomed recent moves towards rationalisation.
Former Communities Secretary Hazel Blears MP has called for a legal definition for social enterprises, while minister for civil society Nick Hurd has conceded that such a definition may be required.
A Sussex village hall due to host a talk by BNP leader Nick Griffin on Sunday cancelled the event after council bosses threatened to remove its rates relief if the meeting went ahead.
Minister for civil society Nick Hurd has written an open letter to the sector that seeks to explain the “strategic framework” underpinning the government’s recent policy initiatives.
The Shaw Trust has appointed former chief executive of Reed in Partnership, Chris Melvin, as its acting interim chief executive.
The National Youth Agency has launched a consultation to discover the level of support within the sector for an Institute for Youth Work.
The sector independence inquiry launched by the Baring Foundation is deeply flawed and will be a wasted opportunity unless its terms and methodology are completely revised, according to one of the responses to the inquiry consultation.
Locality has selected a second tranche of organisations to host the £15m government programme, which will recruit and train 5,000 community organisers over the next four years.
The Office for Civil Society has announced the 19 providers chosen to run the 2012 National Citizen Service programme, which will aim to reach three times as many young people as this year’s pilots.
An interim service to support voluntary and community organisations in Harrow, north London, will be launched next week, following the closure of Harrow Association of Voluntary Services in the spring.
Creating a culture of giving and philanthropy in the UK will take "decades, if not generations", according to a report by the Community Foundation for Merseyside, but the sector should avoid knee-jerk reactions to cuts, it warns.
The government today launched the £10m Innovation in Giving Fund, calling on applicants to send in videos pitching ideas for technologies and networks that make it easier for people to help each other.
Local authorities should not make cuts to the voluntary sector that are larger than those they are experiencing themselves, according to new guidance issued today.
VSO is preparing to reduce its administrative costs by 30 per cent as it seeks ways to mitigate the effects of a drop in funding from the Department for International Development of 12 per cent over the next three years.
Questions have again been raised about the independence of the New Schools Network, after a leaked email showed that civil servants had been pressured to fast-track a grant to the charity by government advisers.
The National Communities Resource Centre has received over half a million pounds from the Department for Communities and Local Government to provide training to tenants of social housing wishing to sit on tenant panels.
The chief executive of the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations has released a damning appraisal of the UK government's treatment of the voluntary sector in the context of its response to last week's riots.
A digital arts charity in Lancaster has announced its decision to close, saying it cannot continue in the current financial climate.
The Big Lottery Fund has appointed a consortium led by Catch 22 as the preferred partner to run its £25m Realising Ambition progamme, which will focus on support for young people at risk of offending.
