While the scheme is a lifeline to some organisations, the pot is, in truth, pitifully small. The grant made to Girlguiding UK, for example, represented 20p a year for each member. You don't buy many tents or train many leaders for that.
Much-maligned local authority youth services are considerably more generous.
They grant aid to the voluntary sector locally five times as much as central government's NVYO scheme. Their level of support for voluntary youth work, proportionate to budget, is also more than twice that provided by the Connexions service, created and funded by central government. And when did you last hear of a government capital building programme to renew youth service facilities? But the Government - via the Ministry of Defence - can find 90m each year for the cadet forces. Will the forthcoming green paper make better sense of such funding streams?
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