Daily Archives: 09/03/2011

Grants give user-led disability charities ‘breathing space’ in fight for survival

Some of the user-led disability organisations that have suffered most from the effects of public spending cuts have won government grants aimed at guaranteeing their short-term survival.
The Department of Health grants come from a fund set up to support charities which would “not otherwise have survived to the end of the financial year”.
Optua, the Suffolk-based [...]