AQW 5535/17-22

Mr Stewart Dickson
Alliance Party
East Antrim

Tabled Date: 07/07/2020
Answered On Date: 20/07/2020
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for the Economy whether she will consider implementing a Third Sector Resilience Fund, similar to that in Scotland.

Answer:

My Department is currently delivering a £15.5m Executive Covid-19 Charities Fund to support organisations in the charitable sector directly impacted by the health pandemic, unable to access finance from other government schemes and facing the threat of imminent closure.

I am also pleased to say that The Dormant Accounts Fund, designed to help build third sector resilience and improve capacity to adapt to future challenges, is expected to be launched in the near future by the National Lottery Community Fund under direction from the Department of Finance.