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User-led Organisations Development Fund

Applications closed on 29 November 2007.

A new User-led Organisations Development Fund is available for 2007/8 for user-led organisations to apply to deliver Action and Learning Sites up to March 2009. These will develop ways of becoming an organisation that meets the Life Chances recommendation and then share learning with other organisations and groups across the country. The Action and Learning approach will be driven by an emphasis on locally created solutions to common concerns and problems.

For the purpose of applications to the User-led Organisations Development Fund, a user-led organisation is defined as: “one where the people the organisation represents, or provides a service to, have a majority on the Management Committee or Board and where there is clear accountability to members and/or service users.”

Applications must be led by user-led organisations.