Allocations by programme area

£ % Arts in Education 1,169,600 24 Childcare & Support for Families 557,550 11 Counselling 152,600 3 Other 5,000 0 Schools, Education & Training 1,734,994 36 Special Needs (SEN) 313,700 6 Sport 279,300 6 Youth Clubs and Youth Initiatives 681,200 14 TOTAL 4,893,944 100

Within the broad categories above, certain types of schemes have been preferred, for example:

• Bursaries and allowances for education and training
• Youth clubs, sports and holiday playschemes
• Counselling projects which are properly structured
• Pioneering child care and parental support schemes
• Youth arts
• Partnership projects with the local authorities

Support has not been limited to the disadvantaged. There has been an equal concern to encourage talent and 'enable the enabled'.