The UK Government committed £23.4 million to the Commonwealth Education Fund, when it was launched in 2002. This funding supports three components: the Strategic Fund; Comic Relief Fund and Schools Linking Programme.
The Schools Linking Programme has received an allocation of £2 million covering the period between 2002-03 to 2005-06.
The following table shows yearly expenditure on the Strategic and Comic Relief Funds.
Strategic Fund Comic Relief Fund 2002 1,084 — 2003 1,833 1,666 2004 1,555 1,845 2005 2,429 1,731 2006 3,053 1,495 2007-2008 allocated 2,646 2,062 Total 12,000 8,799