Chancellor announces £300m for volunteering
Howard Lake | 11 January 2001 | News
Chancellor Gordon Brown will today present the Government’s target of an extra one million volunteers as part of the move towards government decentralisation.
Chancellor Gordon Brown will today present the Government’s target of an extra one million volunteers as part of the move towards government decentralisation. He is to announce a £300m package today to support the voluntary sector and promote volunteering, particularly among people over 50.
Not all of this money is new: it includes the £70m for the Children’s Fund announced last year.
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Read Brown hails advance of Britain’s volunteer army by Patrick Wintour, Brown’s volunteer army targets over 50s by Nicola Hill, and Volunteers plan stirs up unions by Patrick Wintour at GuardianSociety.
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.