Dozens of community groups have been told they are not getting cash from a council fund this year, while more than 200 were successful.

The latest round of the Communities Fund has been announced with 72 organisations told their bid has been unsuccessful.

Of those, 21 had previously been receiving funds which will now be cut. Some had been receiving support for several years.

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The council said the Communities Fund was oversubscribed with almost 450 groups across the city applying for cash. 

The final recommendations see 235 groups approved for cash from the £16.5 million allocated this year from the £50m fund spread over three years.

Among those who were previously funded but who were rejected this time is Dates-n-Mates a dating and friendship agency run by and for adults with learning disabilities. It asked for £230,000.

InterFaith Glasgow also lost its funding. It applied for £560,000 for its ongoing project working with asylum seekers and refugees to “address poverty and inequality” to “foster social contact and greater cooperation between people from diverse backgrounds”.

 Of those who were successful, some received hundreds of thousands for city-wide projects, while others got smaller amounts.

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The Citizens Theatre, in Gorbals, will get £600,000 over three years for a “multi-faceted programme of productions, participatory and learning activities” it said will “engage a wide range of people from communities across Glasgow”.

Glasgow Clyde College gets £515,702 for its “Inclusion for All” learning programme, which it said will “provide a route for young people and adults to get back into education, training, volunteering and/or employment through participation in a variety of informal and formal community-based adult learning opportunities in a range of subject areas”.

Achieve More charity has been awarded £467,620 for a programme of “weekly early intervention activities for young people, aged 10-25, across 30 identified areas” in the city.

Others who were awarded more than £400,000 over the three years include the Glasgow Women’s Library, Glasgow’s Golden Generation and Glasgow Council for Voluntary Services.

Others asked for and received, lower awards.

First Feet Residency, which supports “born and unborn babies of teenage parents to have the best start in life” was allocated £41,000 for its work.

Councillor Christina Cannon, City Convener for Education, Communities and Equalities, said: “This has been a comprehensive, robust open and transparent process that has resulted in £50 million of grant funding being distributed to 235 organisations across the city to help our citizens and communities most in need."

She added: “A total of 445 applications were received – applying for 64% more money than the value of the grant funding available.

“Across the board, there was a 90.4% increase in the grant funding requested in comparison to 2022/23 applications.”

Councillors on the City Administration Committee are being asked to approve the allocations at a meeting on Thursday.