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Big Society Agenda

My right hon. Friend rightly mentions the Vine centre on the Crumlin road. Another excellent example is the Newtownabbey Methodist mission in the Rathcoole estate, one of the biggest estates in Northern Ireland, which is doing fantastic work for older people and young people and through social enterprise projects. Again, that is an illustration of what faith-based groups can do to reach out to the community. Does my right hon. Friend agree that one of the problems faced by these groups is that when they come to access funding and resources, especially at Government level, they are told that they cannot apply because they are a faith-based organisation? That is one of their great frustrations.