# £10 million Social Enterprise Fund for England

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2011/07/27/10-million-social-enterprise-fund-england/
- Published: 2011-07-27T08:05:51+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The Government’s passion for contracting out public services continues to redden
the face, and the Cabinet Office wants to make sure that all the hard work they 
have put into creating opportunities for the voluntary sector and social enterprises
to take a full part in the big society isn’t wasted through lack of skill and management
expertise to run the run the contracts on offer.

The new £10 million Investment and Contract Readiness Fund is aimed at helping frontline
civil society organisations to be able to take advantage of new markets for public
service delivery set out in the White Paper, Open Public Services (see [www.openpublicservices.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/](http://www.openpublicservices.cabinetoffice.gov.uk))
and to become investment-ready and attract support from the likes of the new Big
Society Bank.

The Government will make money available to the Investment and Contract Readiness
Fund in April 2012. It will run for three years. A delivery partner will be employed
to manage the Fund and their identity should be known by April 2012.

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