Sue King

<>The problems come when the monitoring required as evidence far outweighs the benefits of the funding. last year I dealt with a funding officer who expected the groups who received £2,500 to fill in the same monitoring forms as those receiving £25,000+ She just could not see that our objections were not about monitoring per se but the amount of information she required from some of the smaller groups took up a disproportinate amount of time for the funding they received. Another problem is ...

<>The voluntary sector groups in Haringey expressed their concerns about how this is going to work in practice at an event we hosted in partnership with the LA. There is a real fear that organisations who have large marketing budgets will attract the spending power to the detriment of small local groups who clients are used to receiving services from them for free! There is also concern that many of the services that are provided as an add on to the main funded service provison i.e. lunch...

Knowing the local environment we work in is essential for the voluntary sector, that means keeping a finger on the pulse. Very good information on poverty in London is contained in Londons Poverty Profile produced by the City Parochial Foundation. Download from http://londonspovertyprofile.org.uk