Autumn Budget 2024
12th December 2024
It is becoming more and more challenging for voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations to keep running services that support and enrich communities.
The Chancellor’s autumn budget statement has added to this, announcing changes that could have a devastating impact by increasing costs while the availability of funding declines. In particular Community Action Bradford and District is concerned by the plans to increase National Insurance Contributions starting in April 2025, which will put additional strain on many of our beneficiaries whose services are often provided on behalf of public sector colleagues.
As your local infrastructure charity we are here to support our sector to thrive so it’s important for us to challenge these plans. We’ve done several things already:
- Signed NCVO and ACEVO’s letter to the chancellor along with 7,361 other charities (read the Chancellor’s response)
- Shared a template letter to help you write to your MP
- Recommended using WYCAS’s wage costs spreadsheet to help charities calculate the increase in costs.
Please see the full comms document outlining what we’re doing at a local and West Yorkshire level, headlines and summaries from the budget and resources where you can read more.
