{"id":183,"date":"2007-08-20T19:41:51","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T19:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=183"},"modified":"2007-08-20T19:41:53","modified_gmt":"2007-08-20T19:41:53","slug":"looks-like-we-have-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"Looks like we have competition&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=141\">v (the independent charity and grant-provider that took over the running of Millennium Volunteers from DfES)<\/a> a few times before, as they&#8217;ve grown out of the Russell Commission recommendations to a major figure in youth volunteering. <\/p>\n<p>Last week, we <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/dalelane\/statuses\/203777092\">submitted our funding bids to v<\/a> &#8211; four separate bids totalling over &#163;1.7million over three years. Nothing much to do now but wait for the next stage of the selection process on 10th September. <\/p>\n<p>But I was reading this morning that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thirdsector.co.uk\/News\/DailyBulletin\/732271\/Rush-interest-youth-volunteering-funding\/1D63A9D442F17F34EFFE22EC4BAA4E24\/\">we apparently have a lot of competition<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The youth volunteering charity v has received nearly 800 expressions of interest from organisations that want to apply for shares of the &#163;70m funding available through its new National Youth Volunteering Programme.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Eek. <\/p>\n<p>Still, I think we have submitted strong bids, in consortium with other local providers, so I am hopeful. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned v (the independent charity and grant-provider that took over the running of Millennium Volunteers from DfES) a few times before, as they&#8217;ve grown out of the Russell Commission recommendations to a major figure in youth volunteering. Last week, we submitted our funding bids to v &#8211; four separate bids totalling over &#163;1.7million over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}