Government should be made to explain short-term funding

By Paul Jump, Third Sector Online, 3 July 2007

Government departments should be made to offer three-year funding deals to charities or explain why they are not doing so, Compact Commissioner John Stoker has said.

Stoker is calling on ministers to institute the system following concerns voiced by the NCVO yesterday that rape and sexual abuse projects across England and Wales are facing imminent closure after having their funding cut at very short notice. According to the NCVO, projects under threat include a rape crisis...

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