Fondazzjoni Sebħ Trades Fundraising for a State Contract

The agreement, signed with the Ministry for Social Policy and the Family, covers the salaries of staff providing aftercare services — support that the foundation had until now financed entirely through fundraising. The shift in funding model is the more consequential detail here: it converts a charitable operation dependent on variable private income into a recurrent line item in a government partnership budget.

What the ministry committed to, what performance conditions apply, and how the arrangement will be audited over its three-year term are not established in the published source. The €1 million figure covers salaries, leaving open whether operational costs remain the foundation's own responsibility.

For the aftercare team itself, the practical effect is stability — predictable wages rather than fundraising cycles. Whether the arrangement improves the service, or simply insulates its financials, is a question the contract's monitoring mechanisms will eventually have to answer.