This included consulting 12 Councils of Voluntary Service and a range of other organisations directly connected with the voluntary sector including the Community and Voluntary Organisations Council, Voluntary Action Highlands & Islands, Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations, Volunteer Development Scotland, and CVS Scotland.The report identified three models of funding:- matching funding, involving equal contributions from the Scottish Executive and local authorities;- funding entirely by the local authorities; and- shared funding, aligned around community planning boundaries, that would involve the Scottish Executive, local authorities and other key agencies.As additional work, at no extra cost, Eglinton considered four possible funding models, two of which took into account rurality and sparsity of population.These options and others are currently being considered by the Scottish Executive and an announcement as to the way forward will be made shortly.