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The Community First programme was officially launched last week. ‘Yippee’ we are all suppose to say, and I really want to be positive because our sector needs all the help it can get.
This programme is designed to replace/continue the highly successful Grassroots Programme which ended in March. Locally, Grassroots enabled Staffordshire Community Foundation to develop an endowment fund of £2.5m with local community groups directly benefiting from £1.1m in grants. If Grassroots was the invention of the round wheel, Community First is attempting to replace that with a square one – undoing every bit of good practice and success. Read more »
