Pilot projects for the National Citizen Service (NCS), community organisers and big society projects will receive allocated funds, although specific amounts were not reported.
Overall, £470m will be invested over the four-year review period to support capacity-building in the voluntary and community sector, including an endowment fund to assist local voluntary and community organisations.
The transition fund has been created to enable voluntary and community organisations that deliver frontline services to continue operating while adapting in the short-term to spending cuts.
The NCS, which offers a seven- to eight-week voluntary scheme for 16-year-olds, will receive enough funding for 10,000 places in 2011/12 and 30,000 in 2012/13. The exact figure has not been released.
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