Funding provided to various disability organisations: FOI release

Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002


Information requested

Details of funding given to various disability organisations in the last 5 years.

Response

I enclose a copy of most of the information you requested.

In the last 5 years the Scottish Government has directly paid:

£10,000 to DG Voice
£3,472,984.19 to Inclusion Scotland
£1,084,076.72 to Disability Equality Scotland
£1,057,839.50 to Glasgow Centre for Inclusive Living
£3,029,073.05 to Glasgow Disability Alliance

The Scottish Government has not directly funded any of the other organisations specified.

Of this, £580,766 to Glasgow Disability Alliance, £339,749.82 to Inclusion Scotland and £12,100 to Disability Equality Scotland was to take part in stakeholder engagement in relation to the National Care Service Bill.

The Scottish Government does not routinely record whether any funding provided to an organisation is 'core' funding. Descriptions of each payment made to the organisations specified are in the attached file.

These figures do not include payments made indirectly via the Scottish Government's Equality and  Human Rights Fund or Social Isolation and Loneliness Fund, details of which can be found here: Equality and Human Rights Fund: projects funded - gov.scot and Building stronger social connections - gov.scot

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FOI 202400442265 - Information released - Annex

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