Inquiry calls for more self-sufficiency, but not more cash

By Emma Maier, Third Sector Online, 21 May 2008

The National Assembly for Wales should improve its voluntary sector funding by reviewing its funding criteria, simplifying applications and developing an online information service, according to an inquiry report released today.

However, the inquiry, the first completed by the National Assembly for Wales’s Communities and Culture Committee, does not call for more funding. Instead, it acknowledges that funding for the sector from the Assembly Government has increased from £79m in 2002/03 to £174m in 2006/07. The report recommends that the Assembly...

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