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Waves Project Weymouth DT4
A children’s charity in Weymouth is facing the axe after council bosses said they were ending its £80,000 a year funding. They had been expecting a decrease in county council funding for 2010/11 but not such a knockout blow.
The charity, which is the biggest provider of family and children’s services in Weymouth and Portland, employs four full-time and five part-time staff plus a team of volunteers.
They work with an average of 80 families annually and estimate they will have worked with 700 children and young people, with a variety of problems including suicidal tendencies, for the year up to March 2011.
- Further info: www.childrenssociety.org.uk/all_about_us/how_we_do_it/working_with_children_and_young_people/pro_waves/WAVES_3682.html
- Source: www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/archive/2010/11/30/Local+News+(de_local_…
- Posted by: thelibdemcon at 10:45pm on 1 December 2010
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