Ministers give cash to third sector projects
Tom Lloyd
Friday, February 15, 2008
The government has named the 99 third sector organisations that will benefit from its children and youth grants scheme in 2008/09.
The Department for Children, Schools and Families has allocated £11m from its Children, Young People and Families Grant Programme.
The cash comes from a £31m fund that will be spent over the next three years. Organisations are either given three year strategic grants, or a year's project funding.
The largest strategic grants went to NCB, which received £2.1m, the UK Youth Parliament, on £1.1m, and Rainer's Royal Philanthropic Society, which received just over £1m.
Junior children's minister Kevin Brennan said: "I was delighted to see so many high calibre applications from organisations working across the sector."
The cash comes from a £31m fund that will be spent over the next three years. Organisations are either given three year strategic grants, or a year's project funding.
The largest strategic grants went to NCB, which received £2.1m, the UK Youth Parliament, on £1.1m, and Rainer's Royal Philanthropic Society, which received just over £1m.
Junior children's minister Kevin Brennan said: "I was delighted to see so many high calibre applications from organisations working across the sector."