Funding changes 'hit Welsh sector'

By Emilie Filou, Third Sector, 5 December 2007

A number of Welsh charities that receive funding from the European Structural Fund's Objective One programme lost out under the new Convergence Programme because they did not prepare adequately for the change, according to a senior official in the Welsh voluntary sector.

The official, who declined to be named, said that a number of voluntary organisations in west Wales and the valleys wrongly assumed their Objective One funding would continue under the Convergence Programme, which runs from 2007 to 2013. "It was never certain that Wales would qualify for another round of...

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