Voluntary and Community Sector Funding Information

Birmingham City Council is committed to becoming more open and transparent about the decisions which affect Birmingham's citizens.

The Voluntary and Community Sector funding information contain details of our funding paid to voluntary and community sector organisations.

Updates will be published on this page on a quarterly basis. Each year, new data will appear as follows:

• Quarter 1 - Data to 30 June will be published in July
• Quarter 2 - Data to 30 September will be published in October
• Quarter 3 - Data to 31 December will be published in January
• Quarter 4 - Data to 31 March will be published in April (this will be the year-end publication)

The information below reflects data available as at 30 September 2012.

Published data from 01 April 2012 is drawn directly from our grants payment system.

This is the first report using data drawn from the system. There may be a small number of data quality issues within the report. Once issue we are aware of is that the project name is not included in all cases. We did not want to hold up the publication for this minor problem and will work to resolve the issue in time for the next update.

More data is being migrated to GMS all the time, so the report will continue to increase in size throughout this transitional year.

Grants data published up to 31 March 2012 was collected from a number of different sources. The final publication of data for financial years 2010/11 and 2011/12 is attached below. The format and content of this data will not match that drawn directly from the Grants Management System, so caution is advised when attempting to compare.

The Council is committed to improving the transparency, accuracy and consistency of the data we publish. This is the reason we have moved to a new method of reporting.

Please refer to the attached guidance documents, which should help you to understand the published data and provide useful additional context.

However, if you have any comments or questions about the publication, please do not hesitate to contact us either by email at GMSAdministrator@birmingham.gov.uk or you can also write to us at VCSF Information, Systems and Governance, Corporate Procurement Services, PO Box 10680, Birmingham B4 7WB.

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