In his speech on Wednesday (27 October), Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced an overall pot of £560m to support the continuation of the NCS and “provide up to 300 youth facilities through the Youth Investment Fund”.
A breakdown of the fund by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport reveals that just £173m will be granted to the NCS over three years – a much lower allocation of funding compared with previous spending reviews.
The organisation, which was created by former Prime Minister David Cameron more than a decade ago, received £158m in government grants in 2020 and was granted £100m for 2020/21 in last year’s one-year spending review.
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