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<p>Civil Society forms an essential part of our communities up and down the country.
It includes large, national charities, social enterprises, volunteers and small grassroots
organisations but what joins them all is the idea of creating social value to help
build a better society.</p><p>Government funding to civil society is ring-fenced for
particular projects or programmes. Grant agreement terms and conditions prohibit grant
funding being used for paid for lobbying and political campaigning.</p><p>Information
on grants awarded to civil society can be found be here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-grants-register"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-grants-register</a></p><p>Published
grant funding that was approved and was made available to organisations categorised
as civil societies by the Home Office for following financial years was:</p><p>2017-18:
£23,608,511</p><p>2016-17: £24,563,857</p><p>2015-16: £20,642,744</p><p>Information
for financial year 2018-19 is not yet published.</p>
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