Agenda Item 2: Government funding for Sikh organisations

Aim
To secure for Sikh organisations and Sikh projects a "fair" share of Government funding made funding available to voluntary, charitable, community and religious organisations and further to encourage the Government to ensure funding provided by the independent distributing bodies is within a framework of Government policy directions that provides a fair distribution to British Sikhs as one of the most important ethnic minorities in the UK.

Objectives
To undertake research regarding direct and indirect UK Government funding available to voluntary, charitable, community and religious organisations and with the help of the UK Government help raise the awareness of Sikh organisations about the different sources of funding for Sikh projects.

To encourage the UK Government to provide Sikh organisations a "fair" share of Government funding that is made available for voluntary, charitable, community and religious organisations that takes account of the size of the Sikh community and extensive contributions by the Sikh community to Exchequer funds.

With the help of the UK Government and its agencies to provide advice and assistance to Sikh organisations on how best to obtain funds from different sources within government.

To encourage Sikh organisations and the UK Government to take actions to secure at least 1% or around £20 million of the annual funding from the independent distributing bodies for Sikh organisations and Sikh projects.