Government funds 'shut out bids from smaller charities'

By Andy Ricketts, Third Sector, 17 September 2008

More than 50 charities have signed a letter calling on the Government to abandon plans to allow only charities with annual incomes of at least £400,000 to apply for funding from its new Empowerment Fund.

The Communities and Local Government department is setting up the £7.5m fund to help registered charities run community schemes. But a consultation document on the proposals, to which interested parties can respond until the end of the month, proposes that charities with income less than £400,000 cannot apply. A spokeswoman...

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