Information provided by Faith Based Regeneration Network [1]:

The Commission on Integration and Cohesion report ‘Our Shared Future’ www.integrationandcohesion.org.uk [2] 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 [3]
Comments by email should be sent to: cohesionfunders@communities.gsi.gov.uk [4] 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