Facts and figures

This included:

£63 million on projects for disabled people (such as improving access to buildings).

£32 million on projects for older people (such as home care, day centres and the provision of meals).

£55 million on projects for children and young people (including play groups, after-school care, helplines and victim support).

£5.6 million for health, medical and social research projects.

£14 million on building, extending and improving village halls.

£4 million on projects helping to build the capacity of the black and minority ethnic voluntary sector.

£7 million on advice, information and counselling for asylum seekers.

£59 million for projects supporting people in financial hardship (such as unemployed people and those in debt), including training, welfare and employment advice, community facilities.

£11 million for projects helping homeless people get their lives back on track (including advice, hostels, support services such as resettlement programmes, rent guarantee schemes, basic skills training and furniture recycling).

£10 million for projects benefiting victims of crime and abuse.