Information provided by Faith Based Regeneration Network:
The Commission on Integration and Cohesion report ‘Our Shared Future’ www.integrationandcohesion.org.uk recommended that in future the presumption in funding the third sector should be against single group funding, that is groups constituted on the basis of a particular identity such as ethnic, religious or cultural. It recognised the history of funding these groups, but argued that evidence showed such funding had the potential to increase insularity and a sense of separation.
The Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG) is carrying out a consultation on single identity funding and the new guidance will have a profound effect on any faith based group that receives funding, either directly or indirectly from a national government source, or a local authority.
It will have a bearing on work with any grouping which may be relevant to cohesion.
The consultation period runs to 26th May 2008.
You can read the CLG discussion paper and download a consultation response form from www.communities.gov.uk/corporate/publications/consultations
Comments by email should be sent to: cohesionfunders@communities.gsi.gov.uk or by post to:
Consultation on Cohesion Guidance for Funders, Communities and Local Government,
7th Floor, Zone H10, Eland House, Bressenden Place, London SW1E 5DU