[WiLT] No funds for local women's empowerment?

[WiL Admin]

(forwarded as it is seems very similar to the announcement last month
of vcs partners for health planning
http://freecharity.org.uk/pipermail/womeninlondontraining/2009-March/000903.html
ie there doesn't seem to be any money for empowering women's voices in
local invovlement eg influencing local funding priorities such as rape
crisis - deborah)


Empowerment Fund recipients named

Government announces the 21 charities to receive grants from the
£9.25m fund

The 21 charities that will receive grants from the Communities and
Local Government department's £9.25m Empowerment Fund have been
announced.

The fund provides three-year grants of £250,000 and £500,000 to third
sector organisations that deliver on the themes set out in last year's
white paper, Communities in Control: Real People, Real Power.

Increased in value from £7.5m earlier this year, the fund supports
national charities that work in community development, social media,
social entrepreneurship and community involvement.

Local umbrella body Bassac, Oxfam, the Media Trust and the Centre for
Sustainable Energy are among the charities that will receive grants
from the fund, which was announced by the Government in July last
year. More than 150 applications were received.

In September, after receiving a petition from more than 50 charities,
the CLG dropped plans to allow only charities with annual incomes of
at least £400,000 to apply to the fund. It said instead that the fund
would contribute no more than 50 per cent of an organisation's income
in any one year.

The full list of recipients:

Action for Market Towns
Bassac
Carnegie UK Trust
Centre for Sustainable Energy
Community Matters
Environmental Law Foundation
Housing Associations' Charitable Trust
Media Trust
Novas Scarman Group
Operation Black Vote
Oxfam
Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation
Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
School for Social Entrepreneurs
Sheila McKechnie Foundation
Social Firms UK
Tenant Participation Advisory Service
Urban Forum
Workers' Educational Association
Young Foundation
YWCA

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