AQW 49359/11-16 Written question to the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
To ask the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety to detail the amount of funding his Department has contributed to community and voluntary sector groups; and organisations that provide independent advocacy services, in each year since 2012.
Asked by Claire Sugden MLA on 1 October 2015
- Answered
- Written
- After due date
- Tabled
- 1 October 2015
- Answer due by
- 16 October 2015
- Answered
- 23 March 2016174 days after tabling
- Department
- Department of Health
- Priority question
- No
Answer
My Department provided annual funding of £4.7m towards the core administrative costs of voluntary and community organisations since 2012. Detail on funding to individual organisations is listed on the Government Funder’s Database and can be accessed at www.volcomgrantsni.gov.uk
The core funded organisations which advertise advocacy services on the Family Support NI website are Include Youth, MENCAP, Northern Ireland Association for Mental Health, Threshold, Parenting NI, Rainbow and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.
My Department has also funded organisations to attend advocacy training courses since 2012/13, as detailed in the table below.
| 2012/13 (£) | 2013/14 (£) | 2014/15 (£) | 2015/16 (£) | |
| Alzheimer’s Society | 14,750 | 14,960 | 1,595 | 1,495 |
| ARC NI | 1,500 | 880 | 900 | |
| Age Concern | 1,595 | |||
| British Deaf Association | 2,090 | |||
| CAUSE | 8,970 | 1,495 | ||
| Disability Action | 1,4750 | 14,960 | 2,990 | |
| Derg Valley Care | 3,090 | |||
| Faughanvale Community Project | 420 | 420 | ||
| Mindwise | 3,190 | |||
| NI Institute of the Disabled | 1,508 | |||
| Positive Futures | 1,650 | |||
| Prospects | 395 | |||
| Sense NI | 1,545 | |||
| VOYPIC | 1,595 | |||
| Total | £32,650 | £31,220 | £16,178 | £13,505 |