I don't know of any centre that has money left at the end of the year to give back for anything.
With the new amendments to our contract with Heritage Canada and the National Association of Friendship Centres, the way we get our money has changed. There are centres with different agreements that aren't receiving their money all at once. We now have to report back before we're able to get money. If your staff isn't properly trained or you don't have a director who can put that stuff together and report it, you're going to be lacking in that area.
The way the new situation is now, you receive 50% of your funding in April, or whenever the agreements were signed—which this year was two or three weeks ago—and then you receive 45% before Christmas or in the fall, and then with the end report, you receive 5%. There are new requirements for the stats that are due in September, so they can negotiate more funding from the federal government and our friendship centres can have more money.
So it varies, but I don't know of any centre that sends money back, because every penny is used and stretched for anything, and we work on air basically. We do need more money.