# Chancellor announces £300 million for volunteering

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2001/01/11/chancellor-announces-300m-volunteering/
- Published: 2001-01-11T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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.

Read [Brown hails advance of Britain’s volunteer army](http://www.societyguardian.co.uk/voluntary/news/0,8371,420867,00.html)
by Patrick Wintour, [Brown’s volunteer army targets over 50s](http://www.societyguardian.co.uk/voluntary/story/0,7890,420917,00.html)
by Nicola Hill, and Volunteers plan stirs up unions by Patrick Wintour at GuardianSociety.

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