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Comic Relief goes direct
1 December 2006
Alliance magazine
In July this year, the Comic Relief Trustees approved two grants of £2 million and £1,560,000 to the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund and African Women’s Development Fund respectively. This is the first time that the organization has made grants direct to African organizations. Previously Comic Relief has always made grants to UK agencies, which in turn support local African agencies.
Why has Comic Relief not engaged in direct funding before? The issue was first raised by Trustees several years ago. As a public organization, Comic Relief has to ensure that the risks involved in its grantmaking are of an acceptable level and, historically, funding work in Africa through UK agencies provided such a level.
