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according to Welsh Government priorities. The Welsh Government also
recognises its role in seeking to ensure that the Third Sector has fair
and reasonable access to public funds.
1.6. Across the range of its functions, the Welsh Government is committed
to establishing and maintaining procedures to ensure accepted best
practice in the administration of its grant schemes and those of
agencies, which administer funds on its behalf.
1.7. The Welsh Government will maintain, use and promote the Code of
Practice for Funding the Third Sector at Annex A, which, sets out the
key principles that will underpin Welsh Government funding for the
Third Sector as well as what the Government expects from the Third
Sector in return.
1.8. The Code of Practice for Funding the Third Sector and the terms and
conditions issued at the time a grant is made provide the mechanism
by which the Welsh Government will monitor the use made of any
assistance provided by it to relevant organisations.
1.9. The Code of Practice for Funding the Third Sector is monitored by the
Funding and Compliance Sub-Committee of the Third Sector
Partnership Council.
1.10. The Code of Practice for Funding the Third Sector is an integral part of
the Scheme. Accordingly, any re-making or revision of the Code must
be done in accordance with the statutory requirements of section 74.
Defining the Third Sector
1.11. Section 74 of the Government of Wales Act 2006 (as set out in Chapter
one above) defines ‘relevant voluntary organisations’ as:
“…bodies other than local authorities (or other public bodies) whose
activities -
are carried on otherwise than for profit, and
directly or indirectly benefit the whole or any part of Wales (whether
or not they also benefit any other area
1.12. ‘The Third Sector’ is used in this Scheme and by the Welsh
Government as an inclusive and overarching description of a very
diverse range of organisations that share a set of values and
characteristics. It is widely accepted that Third Sector organisations
are:
independent, non-governmental bodies;
established voluntarily by people who choose to organise
themselves;
‘value-driven’ and motivated by social, cultural or environmental
objectives, rather than simply to make a profit;
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