Neighbourhood Support Fund (NSF) was a three-year pilot funded from the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) that provided an opportunity to test ways of working with hard to reach young people through voluntary and community sector projects and to feed the learning from the pilot into policy development. NSF has received further funding of 10m a year for the next three years to continue to support local projects.
Managing agents (MAs) have now selected voluntary youth projects for continuation funding for phase two of the programme. The decision to cease funding some projects was not taken lightly. In deciding which projects to continue funding, MAs took into account performance in terms of supporting hard to reach young people, the partnerships they formed locally to bring about their re-engagement with mainstream provision and how projects provided management information and financial information.
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