Mr Brown's talking about us again....
Submitted by cedric on 7 December 2006 - 11:27am.
a commitment from Government to see three-year funding settlements passed to third sector organisations as the norm rather than the exception;
a community assets fund of £30m to enable communities and community groups to take on the management and ownership of assets;
allocation of an extra £6.5 million within the Safer and Stronger Communities fund in Local Area Agreements, with a focus on building the capacity of local community groups and to help strengthen the voice of the local third sector.
In his Pre-Budget report yesterday, Gordon Brown talked about the future role of the third sector (don't like that term) following the review which has been carried out by his office, in consultation with the sector. He is particularly concerned with the future role of the third sector in social and economic regeneration.
The main points he made are -
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