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By John Plummer, Third Sector, 30 July 2008
Hundreds of charities that applied to the Big Lottery Fund's £25m Research programme and its £76m Young People's Fund learned last week their verdicts had been deferred from July until September.
A fund spokesman said the Research programme was over-subscribed with 261 applicants and the fund needed more time to "identify suitably specialised peer reviewers" who could assess applications. Some proposals, he added, were so complex that overseas peer reviewers had to be found.
He said the Young People's Fund was delayed because more time was needed to train young people, who make up half of the decision-making panel.
Stephen Woollett, chief executive of South West Forum, which represents charities in the south west, is among those awaiting a verdict. He called for the establishment of a Compact agreement between the fund and charities in which it pledged to make decisions on time. "If we miss a deadline, we miss out," he said. "If the BLF does not meet one, it should be a Compact breach."
John Bunting, chief executive of Exeter CVS, which has also applied, said the delay was "a great disappointment" and made planning difficult.
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TS Member, 30 July 2008, 14:49
We made a decision not to apply for The Young People's Fund despite fitting the criteria very closely.BLF indicated at a briefing I attended that they were looking fund about only 20 projects with 1M plus grants. The time from the briefing to the deadline was not nearly enough for us to work up a 1M project and we didn't happen to have one sitting on the shelf. This, coupled with the remote chance of getting a grant anyway with over 90% of applications seemingly bound to fail, made us decide against committing much time and effort to a bid. In the light of this announcement it seems we made a good decision. I can sympathise with all the charities left in limbo by this delay.
Chris Dennis
Young People's Trust for the Environment
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