The Department may have given grants to charitable bodies through a number of our programmes, but the status of the organisations are not recorded. The Department, however, does provide grant in aid for operating purposes to the following organisations that are registered as charities. The organisations and amounts (where they are over £100,000) are as follows:
£000 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 Citizen Advice 23,855 21,470 21,470 121,470 28,970 Citizen Advice Scotland 3,240 2,916 3,016 3,389 3,362 Design Council 6,035 6,605 6,179 6,435 6,475 UK Skills 2,800 3,200 5,000 5,900 10,100 Ufi/learndirect 201,000 171,000 156,000 158,000 145,000 Learning and Skills Improvement Service—(est October 2008) n/a n/a n/a 99,000 96,000 1 HMT allocated an additional £2.5 million in PBR November 2008 to enable CABx to extend their opening hours for 2008-09—this money is ring-fenced.