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Applications closed at 5pm on 28 July 2008

A second round of the User-led Organisations Development Fund is available for 2009/10 for user-led organisations to apply to deliver Action and Learning Sites up to March 2010. 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. This follows the successful application by 12 sites during the first round of funding during 2008-09. The Action and Learning approach is 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.”

The User-led Organisation must be led and controlled by the people it works with. Applications made in partnership with another organisation are welcome, but must be led by the user-led organisation.