This paper reports on a recent pilot project by the English government aimed at introducing 'single pot' funding for local voluntary and community groups. It finds that implementation difficulties undermined the success of the scheme. Moreover, whilst local voluntary and community groups were...

Osborne S. P. and McLaughlin K. (2004) The cross-cutting review of the voluntary sector: where next for local government-voluntary sector relationships?, Reg. Studies 38, 573-582. This paper evaluates the impact of the recent 'cross- cutting review of the voluntary sector' by HM Treasury in the...