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Finance briefs

28 September 2007

The London Development Agency is to invest £20 million in youth services in the capital, London mayor Ken Livingstone announced last week. The funding, for the period 2008-10, will sit alongside £40 million of Youth Opportunity Fund and Youth Capital Fund cash from the Department for Children, Schools and Families.

BDP to lead revamp work in Gateshead

28 September 2007

Building Design Partnership (BDP) has been appointed to lead an advisory team on a 15-year project to regenerate Gateshead town centre.

Update made to care guide

28 September 2007

Tetlow King Planning (TKP) has updated its good practice guidance on planning for continuing care retirement communities for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF).

Windmills and casinos

By Sir Peter Hall

28 September 2007

Do we really need the City of London?

Tesco purchase attacked by competition watchdog

28 September 2007

The competition watchdog has criticised Tesco for reducing competition in Slough by acquiring a former Co-op store in the town.

Northern Rock says grants are secure

28 September 2007

The charitable arm of the troubled Northern Rock bank has moved to reassure grant holders that it is "fully able" to meet its existing commitments.

Public cash awards face VAT red tape

28 September 2007

Community organisations that replace grant funding with public service delivery contracts face VAT red tape, accountants warned last week.

Rise to pilot scheme in South-West England

28 September 2007

Financial institutions the Co-operative Group and Triodos Bank have announced they will sponsor a proposed social enterprise trade association for South-West England.

Big Lottery Fund reverses decision

28 September 2007

Good causes distributor the Big Lottery Fund has reversed a decision not to award a grant to an Orthodox Jewish Group.

Structural funding boost for Wales

28 September 2007

Brussels has approved the Welsh Assembly Government's plans for spending £570 million of European structural funding in West Wales and the Valleys over the next seven years.