The Children and Youth Services Unit of my Office provides funding to Youth Work Ireland for its youth service provision, through a number of funding programmes. Youth Work Ireland acts as the grant administering agency for distribution of the funding from my Office to the projects, administered by that organisation, under the different schemes. Details of the monies allocated in the past four years are outlined hereunder:
|
Year
|
Special Projects for Youth (SPY)
|
No. of SPY Projects funded through YWI
|
Youth Information Centres (YICs)
|
No. of YICs funded through YWI
|
Youth Service Grant Scheme*
|
|
€
|
|
€
|
|
€
|
|
2007
|
5,298,243
|
49
|
941,750
|
12
|
2,625,755
|
|
2008
|
5,605,293
|
49
|
965,294
|
12
|
2,721,399
|
|
2009
|
5,297,002
|
49
|
912,201
|
12
|
2,471,759
|
|
2010
|
5,191,062
|
49
|
893,958
|
12
|
2,422,324
|
*Under the Youth Service Grant Scheme funding is made available to 31 national and major regional voluntary organisations. The continued funding of voluntary youth organisations through the scheme is intended to ensure the emergence, promotion, growth and development of youth organisations with distinctive philosophies and programmes aimed at the social education of young people.
All of the organisations and projects funded under the above schemes/programmes are required to complete a detailed annual report on their activities to my Office. Audited accounts must be provided also in respect of each project/service for the previous financial year and these accounts are examined by the Children and Youth Services Development Unit of my Office.
