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Office of the Third Sector and Capacitybuilders have announced details of 401 grant awards - totalling over £3.6 million - made to a range of third sector organisations, helping them to increase their resilience so that they are better able to provide vital services during the tough economic times.

These latest grant awards take the total number of organisations to have benefited from Phase Two of the Real Help for Communities Modernisation Fund to 521 with grants worth over £4.8 million in total.

‘Real Help for Communities’

The £16.5 million Moderni

Capacitybuilders Chief Executive highlights critical role of support providers as third sector emerges from recession.

Effective support and advice services will be vital to the third sector responding to current challenges and taking advantage of opportunities arising from the changing public service environment as the country emerges from recession, said Matt Leach - Capacitybuilders’ Chief Executive - today in his speech at the Westminster Briefing event; “What support for the Third Sector Through Recession”.

Demand for support from frontline third sector organisations continues to rise whilst more support providers report a fall in income and are exploring collaboration or merger.

Capacitybuilders' second survey of third sector support providers highlights the continuing impact of the recession on the sector.

New international network highlights what works in supporting a thriving third sector.
A new international network linking third sector academics across the globe has produced its first report, identifying lessons from abroad for support providers in England.

Over 80 third sector organisations to build resilience with latest Modernisation Fund grant awards
Capacitybuilders have announced details of a further 88 grant awards totalling nearly £850,000

Frontline third sector organisations are set to benefit from improved facilities at local resource centres across England, thanks to an additional £2m of capital investment from the Office of the Third Sector. The new round of small awards from Capacitybuilders’ successful Capital Investment Programme is open for online applications today.

Rocket Science Ltd has been appointed by Capacitybuilders to evaluate the £6m Social Enterprise programme.

Modernisation Fund

Capacitybuilders have announced details of the first 32 grant awards – totalling nearly £320,000 - under the second phase of the Real Help for Communities: Modernisation Fund Grants Programme.

The Regional Network Fund (RNF) aims to provide investment in BME and generic networks, supporting overall outcomes of demonstrable gains in the influence and sustainability of the Regional Networks by 2011. We are inviting proposals to evaluate the programme from organisations that:

Capacitybuilders today released details of 24 local projects that will benefit from the £1.45 million made available under Strand A of the Volunteer Management programme, which launched in June 2009. Dave Conroy, National Programme Manager at Capacitybuilders said: