Fund postpones decisions on two programmes

By John Plummer, Third Sector, 30 July 2008

Hundreds of charities that applied to the Big Lottery Fund's £25m Research programme and its £76m Young People's Fund learned last week their verdicts had been deferred from July until September.

A fund spokesman said the Research programme was over-subscribed with 261 applicants and the fund needed more time to "identify suitably specialised peer reviewers" who could assess applications. Some proposals, he added, were so complex that overseas peer reviewers had to be found. He said the Young People's Fund was delayed because more time...

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