- Reference: 2014/5025
- Question by: Darren Johnson
- Meeting date: 17 December 2014
Thank you for your answers to questions 2014/4220 and 2014/4221. One of the advantages of the Community Grants Programme was that groups such as Phases and Southwark Habitat for Humanity could bid for funds directly without having to partner with a registered provider, a barrier that effectively prevented them from accessing funds to bring homes back into use and train young unemployed people in previous years. By reverting to that previous arrangement, you risk strangling their growth. Will you reconsider raising this issue with the Government and looking at your own funds from 2015-18 with a view to supporting this...
