June 23rd, 2010 
Tippa Naphtali 
Campaigners have hit out at measures in the Budget which they describe as ‘short-sighted’ and at odds with the coalition’s pledge to ensure fairness. The charity Railway Children warned the 25% cut to departmental budgets would almost certainly hit initiatives designed to protect the most vulnerable.
June 16th, 2010 Tippa Naphtali 
“Home Secretary Theresa May is to announce that registration, due to begin next month, is to be put on hold. The government is now contacting 66,000 organisations, including charities, voluntary groups and education authorities, to tell them that the planned registration is being cancelled”.
June 16th, 2010 Tippa Naphtali 
The Birmingham Community Foundation (BCF) is urging small community and volunteer led groups across Birmingham, Dudley and Walsall to apply for funding that is available until December 2010. The BCF has £750,000 to distribute to groups who have a turnover less than £30,000 a year and can demonstrate that their project can bring benefit to the local community.
June 15th, 2010 Tippa Naphtali 
Funding for programmes including the Working Neighbourhood Fund, Local Enterprise Growth Initiative and Prevent will be cut as part of local government’s £1.166bn contribution towards the overall £6.2bn deficit. The three programmes will face grant cuts totalling nearly £75m between them, the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has revealed.
June 9th, 2010 Tippa Naphtali 
A think tank has used two regeneration success stories to come up with a series of recommendations – including introducing ‘micro mayors’ – for wannabe Big Society communities to learn from. Following the lead of Castle Vale and Balsall Heath as ‘examples of community regeneration, collective efficacy and civic re-engagement’ could help ‘inject some gritty realism into the Big Society narrative.
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