The 21m Department for Education and Skills (DfES) fund, which awarded 86 projects with three years of funding earlier this month (YPN, 9-15 February, p3), has rejected bids from organisations including The Woodcraft Folk, which is set to lose 52,000 a year - a fifth of its core funding.
Jess Cawley, chair of the charity's general council, said: "We received a terse letter from the DfES claiming that the charity was 'not good value for money'. It could mean radical changes."
Also at risk is the Frontier Youth Trust's six-year-old spiritual development project, Connect, which now faces closure. Dave Wiles, chief executive of the trust, said: "The DfES said we were duplicating work by The National Youth Agency and (the work) was also too secular. The DfES is looking for reasons to axe projects, but why axe one with good Ofsted reports?"
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