Grants for Good campaign appeals for help in pushing back government cuts threatening vital work of local charitiesCharities have lost more than £3.8bn in grants from government over the final decade and,at the continued rate of decline, there will no government grant money for charities by the next general election. This could waste families and communities across the UK.
From a height of £6bn in 2003, or the total value of public sector grant-making to the voluntary sector had plummeted to just £2.2bn by 2013. There is petite to propose that this trajectory is going to change austerity looks set to continue and local councils,one of the sector’s biggest funders, are staring down the barrel of a 29% cut to their funding over the next five years.
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Source: theguardian.com