Charities

(asked on 17th December 2020) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent steps he has taken to support small UK based development charities.


Answered by
James Cleverly Portrait
James Cleverly
Home Secretary
This question was answered on 11th January 2021

The FCDO is committed to working in partnership with a diverse range of civil society organisations (CSOs) and recognises the unique role played by small charities.

The FCDO's UK Aid Direct programme, with an overall budget of £179 million, supports very small, small, and medium-sized civil society organisations (CSOs) working to achieve sustained poverty reduction and deliver the Global Goals. It offers a number of different grants for CSOs with an annual income of £1 million or less per year. Specifically, the Small Charities Challenge Fund (SCCF) has been set up to invite applications from very small CSOs with an income of £250,000 or less and offers grants of up to £50,000. To date, over 100 SCCF grants totalling £5.1 million have been approved for funding to small British charities across 22 developing countries. The FCDO's funding through SCCF is also coupled with initiatives aimed at building capacity of small charities

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