UK online centres to receive £13.75 million funding
Howard Lake | 12 September 2004 | News
A cash injection of £13.75 million is to target those UK online centres that are based in deprived areas and run by community or voluntary organisations.
The funding is to be made available to eligible UK online centres in a bid to develop the sustainability of the network, and will be available for allocation by October 2004.
The funding will be provided by Ufi, the company responsible for running the 6,000 UK online centres; the Learning and Skills Council (LSC); the Department for Education and Skills; and the Community Access to Lifelong Learning programme at the Big Lottery Fund. It is designed to support UK online centres that are committed to undertaking innovative work but currently lack the necessary finance to develop their training, marketing and management capability to its maximum potential.
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Further investment from LSC and DfES, for allocation from April 2005-2006, will be confirmed later this year.
Ufi spokesperson Angela Richards commented: “This £13.75m investment is not designed to simply sustain core services in UK online centres, but to take innovative centres to the next stage in their development.”
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