Third Sector: Finance

(asked on 11th June 2018) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much and what proportion of the Local Sustainability Fund has been spent.


Answered by
Tracey Crouch Portrait
Tracey Crouch
This question was answered on 14th June 2018

The Local Sustainability Fund supported around 260 small and medium size charities and social enterprises to strengthen their organisations and help secure the future of their services. Grant holders project’s came to an end in June 2017. The total spend was £18.7 million.

An evaluation was published in January 2018, which found that 94% of recipients reported improvement in the ‘strength, sustainability and resilience’ of their organisation. Improvements were reported in a range of areas including governance and leadership, strategic thinking and planning, income diversification and confidence and self-belief.

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