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Advice Services Transition Fund
Wonderful. Excellent. fantastic. Thank you BIG lottery for allocating nothing to the city of Sunderland.
Apparently there must be no need up here.
Ho hum.
What wrecks my head about this fund is that only a small amount can be spent on actually giving advice to the people who need it most
That depends though. We are going to allocate 100% of this fund to give advice. The problem though is that 100% of nothing is, er, nothing!
Update : Apparently Sunderland HAS been given some of this fund, although not in the list. Good news!
interesting piece by Jule Bishop, Chief Exec of the Law Centres Network ...
‘Transition fund: how much of the £67m will be wasted?
The Advice Fund was welcomed as a timely initiative with the potential to secure the future of the not-for-profit advice sector for the benefit of communities. Developing infrastructure and encouraging new ideas for self-sufficiency was a good idea.
However, the current conditions imposed with the funding will not generate the solutions that Government was after. What a damn pity ....’
More @ http://legalvoice.org.uk/topstories/transition-fund-how-much-of-the-67m-will-be-wasted/