The Government is to provide more than £2 million in grants for third sector organisations in England to upgrade community facilities.
Almost 100 charities, voluntary groups and social enterprises will share a fund worth £2.27 million, Third Sector Minister Angela Smith has revealed.
The groups will each get up to £30,000 under the Capital Investment Programme from Capacitybuilders. The scheme is intended to support small scale improvements to local community centres to assist organisations which have been affected by the recession.
The improvements are intended to upgrade the quality and capacity of facilities currently provided, for example, adding additional meeting rooms or improving communal libraries.
The minister said:
“I am pleased to announce today that we are awarding over £2.27 million of grants to transform local resource centres.
“Small organisations can really benefit by not only improving the accessibility or quality of their accommodation, but by pooling their resources and sharing facilities they can also reduce their overheads and concentrate their resources on delivering the services that people and communities desperately need.”
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