Background: Women’s organisations and voluntary organisations providing services to women in Coventry play vital roles in tackling discrimination and in promoting women’s human rights.
The cuts:
- A number of funding streams from central Government for voluntary organisations have ended or are due to end.
- Coventry City Council is facing a cut of £38 million in its grant from central Government. Although the Council has sought to protect grants to voluntary organisations agreed for 2011/12 some grants have been cut, and the future of others is under review and currently uncertain.
- Other sources of funding such as grants from charitable and non-charitable trusts and donations from individuals are becoming harder to obtain.
- Many voluntary organisations are facing increased demand from the communities they serve as a result of the recession and the impact of other public spending cuts
The Impact: All voluntary organisations in Coventry are vulnerable to budget cuts. But women’s voluntary organisations appear to be particularly vulnerable, with some expecting cuts of up to 70% of their funding in the next year. At a time when other cuts are having a negative impact on equality and in some cases women’s human rights the role of the women’s voluntary sector is more important than ever.
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