[cma-l] £100million Transition Fund for charities and voluntary groups launched

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The Government’s £100 million Transition Fund was launched today. The
fund is aimed at helping voluntary sector organisations delivering
high quality public services, adapt to new funding conditions where
cuts from public funding sources are likely.

The fund, which is being delivered by the Big Fund, part of the Big
Lottery Fund, is open to organisations which are spending at least 50%
of their income on delivering public services in the following areas:

- Education and training
- Health and social care
- Homelessness
- Offender rehabilitation
- Welfare to work/employment services
- Children and families
- Debt counselling and legal advice.

Funding is available for activities which lead to the following
outcome: “Civil society organisations, which deliver high quality
public services, are more resilient, agile and able to take
opportunities presented by a changing funding environment.”

Organisations should be expecting a cut of at least 30% in the public
funding they receive in the next financial year.

You can apply for a grant of up to 50% of the reduction in publicly
funded income that you use to deliver front line public services in
England, with grants between £12,500 and £500,000 available.

The type of activities that can be supported include:

- Developing and redesigning existing and new services in the public
service areas
- Restructuring or moving to a different business model, including
redundancy costs where necessary
- The costs associated with moving services to or from other organisations
- The costs of developing new partnerships, alliances, mergers and/or
shared services
- Staff training
- Getting expert advice and support.

In some cases it may be considered appropriate for a small amount of
the grant to be used to deliver services.

The deadline for applications is 21 January 2011.

For more information see the BIG website here:

http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/transitionfund

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