The 1% Support Scheme in Ichikawa City

Costs and savings

One of the costs has been the administrative cost of running the program - for example, to cover payroll of staff. This was identified as being a problem, since it was eating into the funds available for the programmes which the funding was meant to support. For example, the running costs of the NPO division, with 12 staff, are currently estimated at 10 million yen annually. The NPO division say that the cost of sustaining the activities is getting higher – e.g. the printing of the 1% newsletter alone costs about 5 million yen. Ways of reducing costs are now seen as important to mitigate this problem.