Playtime in Northamptonshire has been told that it will receive around 90,000 for 2004/05, but its original approved budget was 101,000.
Although the project will not lose any staff, there is no money for core costs such as supervision and training.
Susan Mallock, vice-chair of Playtime's board of trustees, said: "They have been quite clever because we can't say there's been a reduction in service."
Children's minister Margaret Hodge said the contingency fund would be available to Wave 3 programmes primarily because of the way they profiled expenditure, with less spent in 2003/04, more in 2004/05 and amounts declining gradually in 2005/06.
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