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

Governance | 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.

Acevo creates Commission on Public Health

Acevo creates Commission on Public Health 0

Governance | Gareth Jones | 3 Mar 2010
Topics: Statutory funding | Public service delivery

Acevo has launched a Commission on Public Health, which will be chaired by Addaction CEO Simon Antrobus, to identify how the sector can maximise its contribution in this regard.

New government 'won't understand the sector'

New government 'won't understand the sector' 0

Governance | Tania Mason | 2 Mar 2010
Topics: Statutory funding | Public service delivery | Umbrella bodies | International

Charities must prepare for a new government that will have very little knowledge or understanding of how civil society organisations work, whichever party wins the election, delegates to the NCVO annual conference were warned last week.

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.

Lessons for the sector after the election - by Diana Aviv

Lessons for the sector after the election - by Diana Aviv 0

Governance | Tania Mason | 1 Mar 2010
Topics: Umbrella bodies | Statutory funding | International

This is the full text of Diana Aviv's speech to the NCVO 2010 Annual Conference

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.

UK universities consider higher fees as US institutions’ fundraising drops

UK universities consider higher fees as US institutions’ fundraising drops 0

Fundraising | Stefan Marseglia | 15 Feb 2010
Topics: Individual giving | Major donors | Statutory funding

Universities may have to raise tuition fees in order to maintain teaching standards, according to research released last week.

Handling a difficult trustee

Handling a difficult trustee 0

Governance | 12 Feb 2010
Topics: Trustee boards | Trustee roles and responsibilities | Statutory funding

Our local authority provides 20 percent of our funding requirement. One of the conditions attached to the funding was that we would accept as a trustee a nominee of the local authority. We agreed especially as their nominee, Duncan, has skills and expertise that could be very useful to the board.

'Business as usual' for trusts and foundations, says Esmee Fairbairn chief

'Business as usual' for trusts and foundations, says Esmee Fairbairn chief 0

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 11 Feb 2010
Topics: Statutory funding | Trusts and foundations

Trusts and foundations have lost between 20 and 30 per cent of their value, but there has not been a commensurate drop in grant making, argued the head of a top foundation.

Social return on investment key topic for Conservative think-tank

Social return on investment key topic for Conservative think-tank 0

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 8 Feb 2010
Topics: Statutory funding

Iain Duncan Smith has expressed support for a statutory funding philosophy based on social return on investment that he says could change the culture of national and local government.

Blog: Government delays good for fundraisers

Blog: Government delays good for fundraisers 2

Fundraising | 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.

Adoption charities 'underpaid and under threat'

Adoption charities 'underpaid and under threat' 1

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 3 Feb 2010
Topics: Statutory funding | Public service delivery

Many voluntary adoption agencies are worried they will have to close down as a new report reveals that a fractured relationship with local authorities is resulting in fewer contracts and fewer children being placed in adopted families.

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

Governance | 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.

Voluntary sector not truly independent, says top Tory lobbyist

Voluntary sector not truly independent, says top Tory lobbyist 1

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 18 Jan 2010
Topics: Statutory funding

A leading Conservative website claims that the voluntary sector’s ‘dependency’ on statutory funding undermines its credibility as ‘voluntary’.

'Real concern' over Tory aid strategy, says Oxfam

'Real concern' over Tory aid strategy, says Oxfam 0

Fundraising | Stefan Marseglia | 15 Jan 2010
Topics: Statutory funding

A national security speech made by Conservative leader David Cameron has prompted concerns from charities that a Tory government would have a political approach to development funding.

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.

Arts funding falls 7 per cent in a year

Arts funding falls 7 per cent in a year 0

Fundraising | Stefan Marseglia | 13 Jan 2010
Topics: Corporate fundraising | Trusts and foundations | Individual giving | Statutory funding

Donations to the arts fell by 7 per cent last financial year, declining nearly equally across individual, corporate and trust fundraising streams.

'Pain right across the public sector' predicts Tory MP

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

Fundraising | 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.

Scottish charities avoid FOIs for fear of offending funders

Scottish charities avoid FOIs for fear of offending funders 0

Governance | Vibeka Mair | 6 Jan 2010
Topics: Funding | Statutory funding

Almost half of the voluntary sector in Scotland fear using freedom of information (FOI) requests in case of harm to working or funding relationships, according to research from the University of Strathclyde on the use of FOI laws by the voluntary sector.

Lung charity restructures and creates trading arm

Lung charity restructures and creates trading arm 0

Governance | 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

Governance | 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.

Government aid spending does not impact on individual giving

Government aid spending does not impact on individual giving 0

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 13 Dec 2009
Topics: Individual giving | Statutory funding

Individual giving to overseas development causes is in no way linked to government spending in the area, according to the latest research.

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.

Blog: Storm clouds on NHS funding horizon

Blog: Storm clouds on NHS funding horizon 1

Fundraising | Daniel Fletcher | 3 Dec 2009
Topics: Statutory funding

The last month of the Noughties is looking to leave health charities in a high degree of uncertainty, despite positive indications that the recession is unlikely to get any worse.

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