AQW 49359/11-16


Ms Claire Sugden
Independent
East Londonderry


Tabled Date: 01/10/2015
Answered On Date: 23/03/2016
Priority Written: No


Question:
To ask the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety to detail the amount of funding his Department has contributed to community and voluntary sector groups; and organisations that provide independent advocacy services, in each year since 2012.


Answer:
My Department provided annual funding of £4.7m towards the core administrative costs of voluntary and community organisations since 2012. Detail on funding to individual organisations is listed on the Government Funder’s Database and can be accessed at www.volcomgrantsni.gov.uk
The core funded organisations which advertise advocacy services on the Family Support NI website are Include Youth, MENCAP, Northern Ireland Association for Mental Health, Threshold, Parenting NI, Rainbow and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.
My Department has also funded organisations to attend advocacy training courses since 2012/13, as detailed in the table below.
2012/13
(£)
2013/14
(£)
2014/15
(£)
2015/16
(£)
Alzheimer’s Society
14,750
14,960
1,595
1,495
ARC NI
1,500
880
900
Age Concern
1,595
British Deaf Association
2,090
CAUSE
8,970
1,495
Disability Action
1,4750
14,960
2,990
Derg Valley Care
3,090
Faughanvale Community Project
420
420
Mindwise
 3,190
NI Institute of the Disabled
1,508
Positive Futures
1,650
Prospects
395
Sense NI
1,545
VOYPIC
1,595
Total
£32,650
£31,220
£16,178
£13,505