The Community Services Programme (CSP) supports around 400 community organisations to provide local services through a social enterprise model with funding provided as a contribution to the cost of a manager and an agreed number of full-time equivalent positions.
The organisation in question is approved for funding under the CSP until end-December 2018. In late April it submitted an application for funding for the period 2019-2021. My Department requested Pobal to invite the organisation to formally submit a business plan, the next stage in the process, and a decision will be made in due course.
My Department has, this week, requested Pobal to extend the current CSP funding to the organisation pending completion of the re-contracting process.