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Last updated: 24 November 2008
The Office of the Third Sector’s focus is on investment in strategic, long-term programmes that improve the overall strength of the sector. We are unable to offer direct funding assistance to individual projects.
Most of our funding is delivered through five key programmes:
The agency that aims to create a more effective sector by improving the support services available to third sector organisations.
Futurebuilders is a programme set up to assist front-line third sector organisations to build their capacity to increase the scale and scope of their public service delivery. The Government-backed fund provides loans, repaid through contracts with public bodies, to build organisational capacity and capability to increase the scale and scope of an organisation’s public service delivery.
Details of the £130 million Grassroots Grants programme to boost local community organisations with much-needed access to small grants and long-term financing through an endowment fund. The programme is being administered by the Community Development Foundation.
The independent youth-led charity, v, was launched on 8 May 2006 to take the lead in delivering a step change in the quality, quantity and diversity of volunteering opportunities available to young people aged 16-25 in England.
The Office of the Third Sector wants the concerns and priorities of the third sector be clearly expressed to and heard by government, and the strategic partners programme aims to ensure there are organisations that are empowered to help make this happen.