Charities "should have 25-year grant funding"

By Paul Jump, Third Sector Online, 6 October 2008

Third sector organisations should be given grants for up to 25 years to encourage long-term thinking, innovation and independence, according to the chief executive of the Wales Council for Voluntary Action.

Graham Benfield will tell a WCVA conference in Llandudno tomorrow that three-year funding is not long-term funding. "It means one year to set up, one year to implement and one year to close down and search for more money," he will say. Grants for between 10 and 25 years would...

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