# DSC report estimates minimum £243.1 million funding gap after Brexit

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/11/28/dsc-report-estimates-minimum-243-1m-funding-gap-brexit/
- Published: 2017-11-28T07:29:14+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**A report from DSC into what Brexit might mean for UK charities has estimated that
it will leave at least a £243.1m funding gap, and advised steps to help mitigate
the effects of leaving Europe.**

 

The report, [_What does Brexit mean for UK charities’ European Union funding?_](https://www.dsc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/here.pdf)
looks at how much EU funding is at stake, where it comes from, variations across
topical and regional areas, government statements about the future of EU funding,
and at what policymakers and charities should do.

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It estimates that in 2015, UK charities received at least £258.4 million in EU funding.
Approximately 295 UK charities were awarded a sum total of £210.9 million under 
direct management (funds administered directly by the European Commission, and around
113 UK charities also received around £47.5 million from three main European Structural
and Investment Funds under shared management.

 

Out of this, it says, £15.3 million was administered by European Commission Directorates
whose work relates specifically to the functioning and development of the European
Union itself: funding that will most likely need no replacement after Britain’s 
departure from the EU. Therefore, it estimates that the minimum ‘funding gap’ that
will need filling after withdrawal from the European Union to maintain current programmes
amounts to £243.1 million.

 

The report also warns that variations in funding levels across topics and regions
means that the impact of a potential non-replacement of funding could disproportionately
affect certain charities, causes or UK home nations.

 

Recommendations for charities are:

 

 * Identify your potential exposure to a loss of EU funding as part of strategic
   planning, involving your board if there is a significant risk. Look for partners
   that may be in a similar situation, in your sector as well as across sectors.
 * Provide evidence to umbrella bodies (in your sector and for the wider charity
   sector) as well as local MPs in constituencies where EU funding supports key 
   services. Describe the potential impacts of non-replacement of EU funding on 
   your beneficiaries.
 * Ask government via umbrella bodies and local MPs to provide a credible commitment
   on how EU funding will be replaced in full after the UK’s departure from the 
   EU, and a clear timetable for this.

 

The full report can be [downloaded from the DSC site](https://www.dsc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/here.pdf).

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