Modernisation Fund decisions due in April
Howard Lake | 6 February 2006 | News
The Modernisation Fund in Northern Ireland, which has £2 million to distribute in its first round, will announce its first grants round in April. The Modernisation Fund was established to help community and voluntary sector organisations form partnerships, explore new ways of working and make themselves more efficient.
According to the Department of Social Development, who administer the Fund, applications totalling nearly £18 million were submitted for the £2 million programme. However, at least 50 per cent of the applications are ineligible because they do not address the programme’s central themes of change management and improving effectiveness.
The final round of revenue funding from the Modernisation Fund (around £1 million) will be open in October. The much larger captial programme totalling £15 million will be launched in the summer.
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