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Half of funding is lost at One World Centre
THE One World Centre has lost more than half of its funding after the government cut its annual grant.
Director Rosemary Clarke has admitted that securing funding for the charity in the long-term would be a challenge.
But thanks to the generosity of a number of supporters and members, she said that in the short-term there will be no impact on services.
Mrs Clarke said that the cut was ‘disappointing’ but that they had seen it coming.
The One World Centre, based at Thie Garey Ny Cloie in St John’s was set up in 2004.
It works to encourage understanding and respect for the lives and cultures of all people – to help to share a fair society that celebrates our global differences and interdependence.
It has received an annual sum from the Department of Education and Children (DEC) – which last year was £30,000 – since signing a service level agreement to provide the global dimension section of the Essentials for Learning curriculum.
The DEC announced that this funding would stop, but that it would receive £12,500 to run to the end of this month.
Mrs Clarke said: ‘Our relationship with government will continue. We hope to have a memorandum of understanding so we will still be working in schools.
‘The question is whether they will pay for our services or whether we will need to subsidise it from elsewhere.’
She said that since they found out, members and supporters had been ‘more than generous’.
And the H&S Davidson Trust, which has funded the charity’s Charity Challenge project in schools since 2007, extended its support by paying the salary of a fundraiser to work for the One World Centre from next month for six months.
But she added: ‘In the long term we need to secure funding from other sources.
‘Membership has been generous now but we can’t expect that to continue year on year.’
She said that it was important for the One World Centre’s work to continue, saying that it was easy living on an island to become ‘a bit blinkered’ and forget that we are inter-dependent.
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