Welsh communities fund to get clearer focus

Third Sector Online, 18 June 2008

A new three-year £25m fund to boost community regeneration in Wales will be focused more closely than its predecessor on projects that provide clear and lasting benefit to deprived communities, the Welsh Assembly Government has announced.

The Outcomes Fund replaces the Assembly Government's original Communities First programme, which was established in 2002 to allow community groups to bid for money to improve their local areas. Existing partnerships will be able to apply for the funding, but will have to explain how their proposals will contribute to...

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