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Animateur: Someone paid to initiate particular projects or work. A dance animateur might work with local youth clubs to develop young people's interest in dance.
Aims: The overall result the project is expected to achieve. Specified tasks or things that you want to achieve. Often used interchangeably with "goals" or "objectives" although there is a difference between aims and objectives. For example, an aim might be to improve the quality of funding applications to charitable trusts. In order to reach that aim one objective might be to offer training, information and advice to applicants.
Advocate: A person who acts on behalf of a service user who feels unable to represent him or herself when dealing with statutory organisations. Advocates operate independently of any statutory organisation.
Additionality: Funds from Europe are supposed to be additional to what national governments would normally have spent in an area: they should not displace such resources. Similarly, individual projects must be able to demonstrate that without European Funds their project would not be able to go ahead (or that it would go ahead in a reduced form). This is the principle of additionality. Additionality is similar to added value but usually referring to added extra income. For example, the money distributed to good causes from the National Lottery is supposed to be additional to the funds otherwise provided out of taxation for charities, sports arts and the national heritage. Funds which are additional to normal public expenditure or services can be described as providing "charitable added value"
Added Value: Added value occurs when grant funding purchases additional outputs or outcomes to those that would be achieved with mainstream budgets. What is new or additional to the area and/or initiative. This is used to show how the value of an initial investment can be upped or enhanced by what the organisation does with that investment. For example, a Trust might give you £10,000 for a project. You then bring in volunteers and other expertise to -un that project, thus adding to the original investment of £10,000.
Annual Business Plan: The Programme Monitoring Committee (PMC) will agree at the start of the programme and then annually thereafter a pattern of applcations and apprval rounds and spending profiles that will help it assess progress towards meeting targets.the plan is drawn up by the Programme Directorate.
ACTION WITH COMMUNITIES IN RURAL ENGLAND: this term's description is unknown. If you know what ACTION WITH COMMUNITIES IN RURAL ENGLAND is then please click on the Assistance Required link below to enter the description.
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Agenda 21: Local authorities are required to produce an LA21 strategy to show how they will work with their communities to achieve sustainable, environmentally friendly development. A product of the Rio earth summit of 1992
Accessibility: This is a plan around a common theme, e.g. new technology
Act of Parliament: Law or Decree e.g. The Criminal Justice Act. Also called a statute
Action Plan: This is a plan around a common theme, eg. new technology
Active Communities Directorate: Government body located at the Home Office supporting strong and active communities in which people of all races and backgrounds are valued and participate on equal terms by developing social policy to build fair, prosperous and cohesive society in which everyone has a stake and to ensure that active citizenship contributes to the enhancement of democracy and the development if civil society." Includes the ACU, the Civil Renewal Unit and Charities Unit
Active Community Unit: Government body located in the Active Communities Directorate of the Home Office tasked to create a "change in culture, in which being active in your community is a usual and everyday thing". It works to create local infrastructures for people to become more involved, including improving opportunities for volunteering, training and mentoring.
Appraisal: An assessment of the worth or quality of something. E.g. a regeneration project
Area Based Initiatives: ABIs are publicly funded initiatives targeted on areas of social or economic disadvantage, which aim to improve the quality of life of residents and/or future life chances and those of their children. Area Based Regeneration Government initiatives for reviving communities aimed at tackling all the problems in a neighbourhood rather than one or two aspects. The idea is to address physical, economic and social decline in the round rather than in isolation
Asset Register: Contains a list of all the capital assets held by SRB projects.
Audit: To identify all facilities, activities, resources specific to an area/group/department/association. E.g. A Community Audit or a financial check that is undertaken,
Auditor: An independent person or organisation who checks on the correctness of a piece of work and reports back, usually on financial accounts but also on outputs
Accountable Bodies: Accountable Bodies The Government Office issues "offer letters" to successful project applicants on behalf of the Secretaries of State for DTLR. There is a separate process whereby project sponsors can assume responsibility for appraising and approving their own projects below a certain level of funding. This means they become an Accountable Body on terms agreed with the Programme Directorate. The organisation is responsible for ensuring that funds are effectively managed and spent in line with agreed delivery plans.
Active Community Unit: A unit in the Home Office which aims to promote the development of the voluntary and community sector and encourage people to become actively involved in their communities, particularly in deprived areas.
Accountability: If you are accountable you have to give an account or answer or your action to someone. This may be formal, like when a Management Committee reports to the AGM or Councillors stand for re-election. But there are many other things that organisations be held to account by all the different stakeholders involved. these include:when and where meetings are held, how accessible reports are,whether there is contact between senior staff or trustees and users of services.
Accreditation of Prior Learning: officially to recognize a person or organization as having met a standard or criterion
Awards for All (National Lottery): A national lottery funding body, distributing small grants up to £5000 to groups. For more informaton got to their web site at www.awardsforall.co.uk