Organisations that work with London’s most disadvantaged and unemployed are due to receive further cuts from London Councils across two different grant programmes.

London Councils leaders have voted to cut its London Boroughs Grants Scheme down to £8million a year from 2013 onwards. Our Voluntary Sector Forum (VSF) network is helping affected groups during this diffcult time to prepare a response.

In addition London's local authorities leaders have agreed a 50% cut to the European Social Fund matched funding pot that improves the employability and skills of unemployed people. Read LVSC's statement about the ESF cut.

We recently launched an innovative new online site to help VCS organisations that deliver health services win more public health delivery contracts and funding.

Organisations that enter their information on to the On the Radar database site will help to raise the profile of their work with health service commissioners.

Services such as alcohol and drug misuse prevention, healthy lifestyle improvement, prevention of ill health for domestic violence victims and more are all featured on the database.

Our latest annual review was launched in late 2011 and celebrates our 100th anniversary.
 
It details our achievements and challenges over the past year and past 100 years, as well as our commitment to give London's poorest and most marginalised people and communities a voice.

Find out more about LVSC's latest work on climate change in London: how the capital is dealing with the worst air quality in Europe, how eco-audits can save your organisation money and the latest VCS views on a legal challenge to reducing Government solar panel subsidies.
Read our climate change work here.

LVSC has arranged roundtable events for London's VCS with each of the four main candidates in the London Mayoral elections coming up in May 2012. We are using the discussions to develop a set of 'asks' for each of the Mayoral candidates.
Read more on our 'asks' here 

LVSC recently launched a campaign and report into the involvement of specialist VCS organisations in the government’s Work Programme. The Fair Chance to Work campaign aims to see the Work Programme get a fair chance to succeed, because every Londoner deserves a fair chance to work
Read more on the Work Programme in London here