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Rob Williamson, director of policy and communications, said there has been a full consultation with staff, who are a mixture of full and part time, but the formal announcement did not come until yesterday.
Speaking to the Chronicle, Mr Williamson said: "Everyone was made fully aware of the changes and some of the job losses have been made through a mutual decision.
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Mr Williamson said the job losses at the charity trust were in no way connected to the news of potential job losses at the beleaguered bank.
He said: "We do not know anything else about the bank's situation than anyone else who reads the papers and keeps up to date with the news so the future is unclear.
"The job losses here are to do with a loss of budget rather than being directly related to the bank."And despite the lower budget for the year ahead, Mr Williamson assured anyone who had been promised grants last year that 2008's budget will not affect them in the slightest.
He said: "If we have promised someone a grant of £90,000 over three years - £30,000 every year - we would take that out of that year's budget.