Charity and Voluntary Sector
BIG: Over £1.8m is to be invested in supporting the infrastructure of disability organisations across the UK. Five different organisations are set to share in the cash injection from Big Lottery Fund’s BASIS (Building and Sustaining Infrastructure Support) programme.
BASIS is the first Big Lottery Fund programme to focus solely on developing voluntary & community sector infrastructure. The scheme aims to fund a more expert, consistently available and sustainable set of support services for front line voluntary and community organisations across England.
BIG: The BIG Lottery Fund has announced a ‘big’ response to its public consultation on future priorities for its Lottery good cause funding with close to 3,400 submissions from across the UK. The responses will now be carefully analysed and help shape the Fund’s strategic framework of funding priorities from 2009-2015.
Sir Clive Booth, UK Chair of the Big Lottery Fund, said: “By the end of June we will be in a position to publish both the findings of the consultation and BIG’s new strategic plan that will be the foundation of BIG’s new funding programmes up to 2015.”
