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Mark Wicker

Aug 8, 2025

0:42
We'll take what needs to be done and then from that, we'll merge the conversations.
0:46
Well, I come from the perspective of my role within MDA, which is my job is to take joy, the directory of joy into MDA.
0:56
into the community and to encourage the voluntary community sector to be part of it.
1:01
And the reason for that is because not just for them to advertise what they do, all the wonderful work they do, but as an engine to take funding into the voluntary community sector.
1:13
It's a really useful way and an innovative way, I think, of getting funding into the voluntary sector through referral payments and seed funding, a pot of money that we're working with, sending small £5,000 grants into organisations to help them to get things off the ground and to maybe or to potentially invest deal with a massive waiting list that they have.
1:43
They're proving there's a gap in provision because they just do not have the resources to deal with the demand that's coming.
1:49
And so I think it's a pilot project.

27 MINS LATER

29:05
They do fantastic work and it's all been narrative, splitting down labor, but no data.

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