Ringfenced funding for Scottish support groups to end

By George Mitton, Third Sector Online, 31 March 2008

The Scottish Government will no longer set aside funding specifically for Volunteer Centres and Councils for Voluntary Service when current arrangements end in 2011.

Earlier this month, the Scottish Government announced funding of £11.5m for Volunteer Centres and £11.85m for CVSs over the next three years. But Geoff Pearson, head of the Scottish Government’s third sector team, said in a recent letter to chief executives of volunteer centres and CVSs that funding of the...

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