Mary Craig, Deputy Chief Executive
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“With June already upon us and while the sun is (hopefully) shining it's worth reflecting on the Foundation’s year so far. We’re just about to make our third round of awards this year, with early June marking the half way point in the six lots of awards we’ll make in 2008. We’ve also just passed our fourth deadline of the year for our standard grant scheme, and the one deadline of the year for our overseas awards. Our other award programmes, the Partnership Drugs Initiative and Capacity Building, are also delivering against their usual schedules.
Another important milestone in our calendar is the Annual Forum, which took place at the end of April. As always it was great to see so many familiar faces there, and to have the opportunity to find out first hand what is most important to the sector at the moment. Along with my colleagues, I continue to be deeply impressed by the commitment there is to delivering high quality, thoughtful services for the people in our communities who need these the most, and to the strategic view of creating lasting change that is taken by many in the sector.
We look forward to delivering funding through the rest of the year, and to keeping in touch with you through your applications, at our funding surgeries, as part of our assessments and reviews, or because we have some other opportunity to meet up or talk on the phone.”
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