Published: 05 September 2007
BIG takes views on BASIS priorities
Third sector organisations are to have their say on what the focus of funding will be in the second round of the Big Lottery Fund’s BASIS programme.
A 12-week consultation has been launched to identify funding priorities for phase two of BASIS, which awards grants to organisations supporting the third sector.
Through round one of the programme, over £100 million of the £155 million programme has been distributed to increase the effectiveness of voluntary and community organisations.
In phase two, funding will be more tightly focused to ensure it strengthens the areas that need addressing most.
Using the knowledge it has gathered since BASIS was launched, BIG has identified which services have the highest priority both nationally and regionally.
The consultation is asking third sector organisations for their views on these priority services to be targeted in round two.
Following the consultation, a final list of services the programme will fund will be established.
Sanjay Dighe, Chair of the Big Lottery Fund’s England Committee, said:
“Since we launched the BASIS programme, Capacitybuilders, as well as national and local infrastructure organisations, have done a lot of work on needs assessment and identification of gaps.
This means that we are in a much better position to identify clearly the services we want to fund and, in many cases, the organisations who can best provide them.
We think that this is a better approach than opening up the programme to a large number of applications in a relatively un-prescribed way. I urge the third sector to respond to the consultation.”
The consultation is running for 12 weeks. Organisations can reply online via by email, or by post, until 12:00pm, 16th November, 2007.
Consultation events will also be run across the country. Please contact the Big Lottery Fund office in the England region relevant to your work for further details of these meetings.
Further information
Basis round two consultation
Basis phase one
Big Lottery Fund
Capacitybuilders
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