voluntary organisations, social enterprises and volunteering
voluntary organisations, social enterprises and volunteering
Fairer Scotland Funding 2014/15
Created: 17/01/2014As the old Chinese saying goes ‘may you live in interesting times’. And these certainly are.
As some of you will be aware Fife Council had originally intended to publish Fairer Scotland Funding (FSF) commissioning guidelines back in early November with a view to inviting expressions of interest by the end of the year.
In the interests of maximising investment the Council wish to use FSF as match funding for the European Programme 2014-20. It had been anticipated that the new EU Programme for Scotland 2014-2020 EU Programme for Scotland 2014-2020 would be available at the end of the year but significant delays in the timescale means that this will not now be available until February/March 2014 at the earliest. For this reason they plan to hold off publishing final guidelines until then.
In the meantime, the partnership’s Executive Group has agreed that despite the delays to the publication of the EU Programme, the attached briefing paper will be released to the third sector to give an indication of the activities that are likely to be supported by Fairer Scotland Funding depending on the priorities to be supported through European Funding.
FVA have spoken with the Council with regard to this paper. I think it is fair to say that whilst we think it represents a wonderful opportunity for coordination and third sector development there are also some areas around which we have concerns.
As the third sector representative on the Opportunities Fife Partnership we would like to host a meeting to gather the views of third sector providers at 1pm on Monday 13th January (venue tbc depending on numbers). If you would like to attend please email [email protected]
Alternatively, send us your comments by e-mail by Friday 10 January and we will feed them into the discussion.
The next Fife Employability Forum on 29 January will be a week after the Opportunities Fife Partnership meeting. Come along to hear the latest and join in discussions on working in partnership. To book your place email Isabel Ritchie on [email protected]
Downloads:
• Briefing Paper (428KB) PDF