Three-year funding is still not the norm, grant survey shows

By Andy Ricketts, Third Sector, 30 July 2008

Ministerial ambitions for three-year grant funding to be normal practice in the sector are not yet a reality, a survey of government grant programmes has revealed.

Of 22 programmes in England and Wales that are currently listed on www. governmentfunding.org.uk, a website run by the Directory of Social Change, the average maximum grant length from government departments is 2.8 years. The training and publishing organisation analysed the information on its site and found eight programmes had maximum grant lengths of...