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MATCH-FUNDING scheme has been launched to help boost the coffers of community groups across Kirklees.
"That's why we've introduced the Employer Ownership Fund, which through
match-funding, supports employers to deliver the skills and training they need for their work-workforce.
Match-funding is intrinsically a good idea, since it rewards local fundraising efforts, but for vital grants to simply be withheld without it, is ridiculous.
But to gain the minimum grant of pounds 100,000 small businesses in European assisted areas needed to raise pounds 100,000 in
match-funding, while those in non-assisted areas such as Cardiff needed to raise a minimum of pounds 400,000.
Gifts in kind and volunteering are expected to count towards
match-funding, says Euclid Network Members of the European Parliament have agreed to consider simplifying the way the European Commission funds charities and allowing them to count gifts in kind and volunteering towards
match-funding targets.
The local authority has now been warned to find
match-funding and design projects to create jobs and regenerate industrial areas or risk losing the windfall from the European Regional Development Fund.
THE Heart Of England Co-op has set aside a portion of the tobacco profits from its Helping Hearts Award Scheme for a new staff
match-funding initiative.
As well as
match-funding, Sir Julian's Cardiff-based Julian Hodge Bank played an active role in the recent Macmillan Cancer Relief golf day stagedPeter Bibby Community Affairs Editor peter.b i bby@wme.co.uk at the Vale of Glamorgan Hotel Golf and Country Club.
It puts an end to the nonsense Nationalists and others have peddled over the
match-funding issue, and is proof positive Labour is delivering on its pledges to help transform the prospects for all the people of Wales.
Every racecourse in Britain will be represented-"The first time I can remember that happening," said RCA racing director Morag Gray-at the day- long event being staged to highlight the Tote's
match-funding programme for 1999.
And Mr Clark today set out how the Government will fulfil a
match-funding pledge made by George Osborne.