The consultation on funding and support for the voluntary sector in Westminster closed in October 2010. Decisions on future arrangements will be made in the new year.

The council has announced that the cabinet will make decisions on funding arrangements “early in 2011.

A summary of findings from the consultation is now available.

Download consultation findings

Statement from the Voluntary Sector Review Project Board

Voluntary sector funding in Westminster
Update and next steps

The consultation on the voluntary sector funding closed at the end of October.

We heard from a range of different organisations and individuals:

• 75 formal responses were received
• 46 people attended four dedicated workshops
• A further 72 people attended presentations at the Westminster Culture Network event and the Westminster Faith Exchange event
• Just under 90 people attended the Westminster Community Network (WCN) conference and contributed to a response by the WCN.

Download consultation findings

Next Steps

Westminster City Council’s Cabinet will make decisions on funding arrangements in early 2011.

We apologise for the slight delay in the outcome of this review, but we want to make sure that we know the full financial position for the council for 2011/12 before final decisions are made.

We will write to all organisations in receipt of annual revenue grant funding in early 2011 to announce the final decisions of the review and to explain what these decisions will mean for them.

The Cabinet paper will be publicly available on this website in due course: http://www3.westminster.gov.uk/cttee/committee/cttee.cfm?c_id=3

Voluntary Sector Review Project Board
08 December 2010