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Charities

Answer

Funding provided through grants in aid to the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector in each of the last five years is shown in the following table. A grant in aid is typically used to fund part or all of the administration costs of the recipient body.

Body	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11 (final outturn)
Air Training Corps	33,005	34,000	34,850	35,721	36,614
Armed Forces Memorial	—	—	—	113,113	205,612
National Memorial Arboretum	250,000	189,220	371,296	346,950	433,942
Army Families Federation	291,444	293,190	300,093	332,100	366,558
Army Sports Control Board	307,245	417,195	434,032	425,744	458,960
Commonwealth War Graves Commission	32,392,094	34,199,339	36,601,286	47,844,871	44,641,049
Council of the Reserve Forces and Cadets Associations	—	57,489,076	59,369,448	63,490,300	62,758,836
Council of Voluntary Welfare Work	125,469	80,448	85,273	77,793	144,803
Duke of York's Royal Military School	—	—	—	—	154,469
Fleet Air Arm Museum	593,724	614,000	631,000	¹—	¹—
Gurkha Welfare Trust	679,010	988,000	1,077,000	938,000	1,421,000
National Army Museum	5,292,879	5,489,000	5,734,850	5,515,222	6,312,403
National Museum of the Royal Navy	—	—	—	3,237,466	2,797,046
Naval Families Federation	149,220	92,620	185,000	223,000	248,601
RAF Museum	6,774,110	7,019,000	7,989,309	7,367,000	7,552,000
RAF Sports Board	165,923	65,865	149,837	288,387	160,770
Royal Marine Museum	740,788	765,480	783,000	¹—	¹—
Royal Navy Museum	895,502	873,000	1,045,000	¹—	¹—
RN Sports Board	272,907	—	—	—	—
RN Submarine Museum	561,997	575,708	591,000	¹—	¹—
Royal British Legion Polish Ex-servicemen	81,567	141,000	120,000	110,181	80,000
Royal British Legion War Widows	65,665	61,000	61,000	62,220	²—
Royal Hospital Chelsea	9,232,000	9,554,000	10,487,000	10,824,000	10,838,000
Royal Irish Home Service Benevolent Fund	—	—	—	124,179	64,246
Royal Navy Marine Society and Sea Cadets	8,228,969	9,300,419	8,941,426	9,450,215	9,224,094
Scott Polar Research Institute	35,000	35,000	35,000	35,000	35,000
Skill Force	2,502,000	1,000,000	500,000	250,000	³—
Victoria & George Cross Reunion Association	30,000	—	40,000	40,000	—
¹ The National Museum of the Royal Navy has provided funding to the Fleet Air Arm Museum, the Royal Marines Museum, the Royal Navy Museum and the Royal Navy Submarine Museum since 2009-10.
² The Royal British Legion did not arrange any pilgrimages in 2010-11.
³ Skills Force is now funded by the Department for Education and Skills.

A breakdown of expenditure including grants as well as grants in aid could be provided only at disproportionate cost as the grant funding mechanism is delegated locally and we do not currently identify discretely those grants which relate to the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector. We also provide funding to the sector through commercial contractual arrangements for specific services.In my answer to the hon. Member for Vale of Clwyd (Chris Ruane) on 7 June 2011, Official Report, columns 26-28W, I gave the provisional outturn figures for 2010-11. This answer updates those figures to final outturn, corrects the 2007-08 and 2009-10 balance of funding between the Armed Forces Memorial and the National Memorial Arboretum and shows the RAF Sports/Sports Control Board as a single line entry. I apologise for the errors and for the delay in answering this question.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

79081; 537 c134W

Session

2010-12

Subjects

Charities

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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