The problem is not that we need help to accommodate more people in our projects, but that it is difficult for central and local government to contract with our sector. We are diverse and numerous but, more importantly, many of the voluntary and community sector-based groups have no longevity within the marketplace.
What central and local government fail to realise is that they make the biggest contribution to the demise of many community sector organisations. They have no idea what life is like in the voluntary sector, where we constantly have to chase funding to survive.
They have no concept of not getting paid or having to make staff redundant because monies from funding agencies have not been paid on time, which in turn means that we cannot pay our bills.
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