Young People: Voluntary Work

(asked on 12th March 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, which youth full-time social action programmes have received statutory funding in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Tracey Crouch Portrait
Tracey Crouch
This question was answered on 20th March 2018

Government is committed to increasing the quality and quantity of social action opportunities available to young people. The below table outlines the main funding pots and programmes that have been established to provide these opportunities:

2013

2014

2015

Live programmes/funds

Centre for Social Action Innovation Fund

Uniformed Youth Social Action Fund

National Youth Social Action Fund

National Citizen Service

Local Youth Social Action Fund

#iwill fund

European Voluntary Service (EU funded)

These funds and programmes are not specifically designed to increase the number of full time social action opportunities available, and as such, we do not collect data on the duration of the social action activities provided.

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