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Grants in 2002

The following table is a summary of grants agreed in 2002.

Please click on each programme to see a detailed list of grant recipients.

Programme Number of grants
Total value of grants (£)
Strengthening the voluntary sector core costs grants
12
861,000
Strengthening the voluntary sector project grants
55
473,895
Strengthening the voluntary sector commission
1
5,875
International grants
3
500,859
Arts core costs grants
6
375,000

Arts project grants

48
194,660
Trustees' discretionary grants
3
12,000
Total
128
2,423,289
Note: There was an additional payment of £700,000 to the Villiers Park Educational Trust. This brings the total amount of our grants in 2002 to £3,123,289 .

 

Strengthening the Voluntary Sector Core Costs Grants

Please note that applications to our core costs grants are sought by invitation only. We regret that we are unable to accept speculative applications. Please check if your work fits into our programme of Strengthening the Voluntary Sector project grants, which is open to application.
Organisation Geographical area
Grant (£)
CREATE Liverpool Ltd. Merseyside
75,000
Dove Designs Merseyside
75,000
Emmaus UK National
75,000
Foyer Federation National
75,000
Pentreath Industries Limited Cornwall and Devon
75,000
Prisoners' Education Trust National
60,000
Resource Unit for Supplementary and Mother-Tongue Schools National
51,000
Silvanus Trust Cornwall and Devon
75,000
Volunteer Reading Help National
75,000
Who Cares? Trust National
75,000
Windsor Fellowship National
75,000
Youth At Risk (UK) National
75,000
  Total of 12 grants
861,000
 

Strengthening the Voluntary Sector Project Grants

Organisation Project
Grant (£)
Action for ME Towards the costs of the merger of Action for ME and Westcare UK.
11,000
Adfam National Towards the costs of developing a website for families and carers of drug users.
8,400
Age Concern St Helens Towards a study to establish ways in which four organisations can collaborate to achieve maximum organisational effectiveness and efficiency.
10,000
All Saints Community Centre To free the Co-ordinator from routine tasks to develop the use of the Centre to secure its long-term viability.
10,000
Ariel Trust Limited To support the Director in promoting more effective working, using latest technology and new partnerships in the voluntary sector.
9,111
Association of Charitable Foundations To fund a feasibility study into a closer working arrangement between ACF and the Community Foundation Network.
10,000
Association of Charitable Foundations Towards the commissioning of a collaborative study on replicating success.
5,000
Association of Charitable Foundations Towards a bursary fund to support small trusts to attend residential conference.
2,500
BasicNeeds Towards the training costs of developing a decentralised fundraising strategy for BasicNeeds.
10,000
British Association Of Settlements & Social Action Centres To enable BASSAC to investigate resource sharing by local community organisations.
15,000
Cancer Black Care Towards a consultancy to enable CBC to produce and implement a development strategy.
10,093
Cancer Resource Store Towards a consultancy to produce a development plan and a funding strategy.
2,000
Careline (Ilford) To enable this national telephone crisis counselling service to develop a comprehensive five year operational strategy.
10,255
Charityskills To establish a pilot on-line training scheme for the voluntary sector.
15,000
Citizens Advice Bureau East Devon To pay for travel, accommodation and conference facilities for a residential planning weekend.
4,500
Civic Trust - South West Office Towards the costs of developing a federation of the Civic Societies in Devon and Cornwall.
5,000
Community Enterprise Unit Ltd Towards the cost of a pilot scheme to introduce social auditing to groups as a monitoring and evaluation tool and to set up a self-servicing Social Auditing Network in Devon.
9,997
Community Links Towards development training to help achieve Community Links' organisational development strategy.
10,000
Cranfield Trust To pilot website enabling volunteers and charities to share information from consultancy projects.
14,695
Deaf Education Through Listening and Talking (DELTA) Towards a two-year project to develop and train a national network of Regional Parent Support Groups.
10,000
Elfrida Society To employ a person with learning difficulties to create accessible information and facilitate user involvement in governance.
14,360
EQUATA -The Disability Arts Forum for the South West To contribute to the smooth handover to a new Director and to review the management and governance of the charity .
10,000
Exeter Community Umbrella Towards the setting up and monitoring of corporate systems to manage finances, personnel, IT and administration.
10,790
Families for Children Trust To develop a website for this new charity.
4,800
Family Rights Group To develop the capacity of community organisations to deliver family advocacy services.
16,000
Farndon House Information Trust Towards a development and project quality control manager.
18,000
Fathers Direct To fund a business planning consultancy to enable the organisation to practically plan to achieve the agreed strategy.
7,790
Foyer Federation To support the development of information and training materials for the Foyer Federation's National Conversion Programme.
10,000
HealthProm To undertake an organisational review.
9,600
Incontact Towards a project to co-ordinate 21 organisations in developing and providing information to help people with incontinence.
6,690
Institute for Philanthropy Towards investigating the feasibility of Guidestar UK.
10,000
Lighthouse Supplementary School Towards the external costs of the implementation of two quality assurance programmes at this South London based after school scheme.
4,000
Living Options Devon Towards a consultancy to help the organisation develop a strategic and a business plan for the next five years.
2,450
Manic Depression Fellowship Towards the development of an online support service aimed at young people with bipolar disorder.
5,000
Margaret Jackson Centre To support the Centre Manager in developing a business plan and quality assurance for the organisation in consultation with the trustees, the staff, volunteers and the Centre's Advisory Group.
2,394
Merseyside County Scout Council To deliver the Scout Association's new youth and leadership programme to Merseyside scouts and ensure successful implementation.
4,000
Migrants Resource Centre Towards upgrading and improving the IT infrastructure to increase MRC's capacity to manage information and to increase its efficiency.
3,500
Myasthenia Gravis Association - Merseyside Towards a medical conference in Liverpool to bring together sufferers and experts.
950
Nubian Life Resource Centre Limited Towards the costs of a consultant to develop a three-year business plan and strategies for fundraising, capacity building and quality accreditation.
5,000
One World Action To investigate the potential for a group of medium-sized international NGOs to share a building and other services.
12,000
Pembroke Street Estate Management Board Ltd To support the Coordinator and the Finance Worker during the start-up phase of a new charity, Pembroke Community Trust.
4,560
Pendeen Community Building Initiative "Towards consultancy support for a steering group with responsibility for setting up the organisation formally and planning to acquire a community building.
5,600
Pesticide Action Network UK Towards a consultation to assist the re-organisation of the organisation's library and database.
6,250
Sahir House To plan, hold and evaluate a residential weekend to improve service user and volunteer involvement in the agency.
3,010
Sefton Community Foundation Towards consultancy work to establish a community foundation structure for Greater Merseyside.
15,000
Shape London Towards employing a consultant to carry out a feasibility study into the possible merger of Shape London and Artsline.
10,000
Shared Care Network Towards the cost of managing the organisation's successful transition from a university base to independence.
15,000
St Giles Trust Towards the design and development of a database that will allow this day centre to store and retrieve client information more accurately and efficiently.
11,000
Telephone Helplines Association To undertake a study to benchmark the costs, training and other support requirements of different models for providing telephone helpline services.
14,650
Trojans Scheme To fund a review of current activities and the production of a three-year strategy and development plan.
11,000
Trust for the Study of Adolescence To assist with a review of organisational and financial management.
9,450
Unit for the Arts and Offenders Towards the cost of a programme to develop the Unit's strategies and skills in evaluation.
3,000
VLearningNet Towards the development by consultants of an interactive website and a Training Management Information System.
13,000
  Details of an additonal two grants remain confidential.
12,500
  Total of 55 grants
473,895

 

Commission

Project
Grant (£)
In collaboration with other funders, we have commissioned Julia Unwin to write a publication on grant-making.
5,875
Total of 1 grant
5,875

 

International Grants

Organisation Project
Grant (£)
ICA UK Towards building the capacity of ICA Tanzania to expand its involvement with displaced people and migrant communities. It will also develop the capacity of 20 local groups from amongst the (predominantly) Maasai and Waarusha peoples in Kisongo and Manyara Divisions, Monduli District, Tanzania.
138,565
Reason Partnership To build capacity within RFI, its partner organisation in Peru and communities there to respond to the mental health needs of women suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) caused by displacement. It will test a model of effective practice which can then be used more widely in Latin America and elsewhere.
141,294
Tigray Development Association UK To promote conflict resolution as an essential strand running through development initiatives with displaced people in the region through the establishment of a Conflict Resolution Unit within TDA International.
221,000
  Total of 3 grants
500,859

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Arts Programme Core Costs Grants

Please note that applications to our core costs grants are sought by invitation only. We regret that we are unable to accept speculative applications. Please check if your work fits within the Arts Programme guidelines for project funding.
Organisation Geographical area
Grant (£)
Big Brum Theatre in Education Company West Midlands
54,000
Engage (National Association for Gallery Education) National
75,000
Poetry Society National
54,000
Skylight Circus Arts North West England
54,000
Theatre-rites National
72,000
Valleys Kids Wales
66,000
  Total of 6 grants
375,000

Arts Programme Project Grants

Organisation Project
Grant (£)
20,000 Voices To plan, create and publish a community song book and CD in Northumberland.
4,500
Animarts Towards an exchange of ideas and experience, between artists and teachers, with a view to designing a long-term professional development programme for artists working in educational settings.
5,000
Attik Dance Ltd To run dance workshops, for young and older people, linked to a tour of a new dance piece to rural venues in seven counties.
5,000
Banner Theatre Co Ltd Towards a participatory theatre residency with asylum seekers in North West England, leading to a performance piece about their experiences.
5,000
Black Arts Alliance Towards education workshops with young people in inner-city Manchester linked to an opera about Mary Seacole.
3,730
Bluecoat Arts Centre Limited Towards work between writers in residence and excluded communities in West Derby and Merseyside.
2,500
Bolton Multicultural Arts Towards training for local residents researching material for a multicultural story book.
3,456
Brewery Arts Centre To create an exhibition, using digital technology, sound and light, designed to involve teenagers and young adults in Cumbria.
5,000
Campaign for Drawing (Guild of St George) To film Big Draw events, showing a range of transferable strategies for engaging all ages in imaginative and constructive drawing activities.
5,500
Escape Artists Towards workshops, public events and a debate for artists and patients at Fulbourn Hospital, Cambridge.
6,000
Foundation for Art & Creative Technology Towards a docusoap to be produced by an artist and a group of young unemployed people (16 -25 years) in Liverpool.
3,970
Friends of Teignmouth Jazz Festival Towards a composer in residence project, involving school and community workshops.
4,520
Futures Theatre Company Using drama to develop the creative potential of young men (11-16) with severe behavioural problems.
3,500
Garlic Theatre Towards workshops in puppetry and music, for families with young children in Norfolk, linked to a tour for 4-11 year olds.
1,000
George Piper Dances Towards a dance and film project involving young people living on the Aylesbury Estate in the London Borough of Southwark.
4,000
Heads Together Productions Limited Towards a digital photography project working with disaffected young people in former coal mining areas of North Yorkshire.
5,000
Hudawi/LBT Creative Partnership To encourage young people from the African Caribbean community in Huddersfield to participate in arts activities and events.
5,000
Hyphen-21 To commission poems by ten ethnic minority writers for display in healthcare waiting rooms across the country.
3,500
Intrepid Theatre Company Towards drama about refugees, with the participation of young people from different backgrounds, to be performed at the Brighton Festival.
2,427
ITHACA (Charity) Ltd To create a project template for introducing the arts into residential homes for the elderly in Oxfordshire.
5,000
Jabadao Towards dance events and residencies in homes and day centres for elderly people in Leeds.
7,000
Lampeter Arts Association To facilitate a series of arts workshops during the 2002 Drovers Arts Festival.
4,000
Landscape Recording Association Towards Kids in Orbit, a project for children in rural Wales and the West Midlands, involving astronomy and the arts.
3,250
London Mozart Players Towards a community music project in Louth, Lincolnshire, involving schools, composers, elderly people, and disabled children and adults.
2,900
Ludlow Assembly Rooms To enable all staff to visit other arts organisations, bringing back and implementing fresh ideas.
2,890
Music Wheel To offer specialist music provision and performance opportunities for a group of children with physical and learning disabilities in Essex.
4,377
Musical ARC To enable musicians with a disability to work with professional musicians and give five performances in Leeds.
3,500
National Disability Arts Forum To publicise a new arts information resource for disabled people.
4,970
North East Somerset Arts Towards arts residencies with the residents of 18 small villages around Chew Valley Lake in Somerset.
5,000
Orchestra da Camera To build children's self-confidence and creativity through musical composition and performance with professional musicians in Coventry.
4,500
OSJ Towards two pairs of interactive concerts for autistic children and their families.
3,500
Oval House To expand the organisation's successful youth dance programme by responding directly to the needs of local youth.
5,000
Paddington Arts Towards work with a group of autistic children to create their own video artwork and installation.
4,500
Pigment Explosion Limited Towards an intergenerational arts project with elderly users of St Hilda's Community Centre and the pupils of Thomas Buxton School in Tower Hamlets.
5,000
Poetry Can Towards a poetry project with learning disabled people from Midsomer Norton, leading to a performance and video.
4,000
Poole Arts Trust Ltd Towards an arts project with vulnerable young people, working with professional artists and local industry in Dorset.
5,000
Rocket Theatre Company Towards a theatre performance involving teenagers in Manchester in all stages of delivering a professional production.
2,000
Sidney Nolan Trust To run introductory courses to print-making for people of all ages and abilities.
3,000
Sinfonia 21 Towards a five-day project for disabled and non-disabled students to create a collaborative music/dance piece.
3,200
Soft Touch Community Arts Co-operative Ltd To work with young offenders to create multi-media artwork about their lives and prison experiences.
3,000
Stratford Circus Towards a storytelling and performance project for families with small children.
6,000
Tamasha Theatre Company Towards an innovative training initiative for young, emerging British Asian theatre directors and designers.
3,500
Telephone Box Performance Company Towards a project introducing prisoners to a range of artforms as part of a drug rehabilitation scheme in HMP Channings Wood.
2,000
Tonic Towards a concert and talk by Paul Robertson and the Medici Quarter to promote music in healing, in Leeds.
3,330
Waterside Artists' Co-operative Limited Towards a skills exchange between artists and primary school teachers.
3,840
Wavendon Allmusic Plan To enable pre-school children in Milton Keynes to access high-quality music as part of their development.
5,000
Worfield Charity Concert Trust Towards a one-day music workshop and performance for St Mary's Bluecoat School in Bridgnorth, Shropshire.
800
Zip Theatre Towards a project for up to 100 children, in Wolverhampton, working with actors, musicians and dancers.
6,000
  Total of 48 grants
194,660

Trustees' Discretionary Grants

Organisation
Grant (£)
Children & Families of the Far East Prisoners of War
5,000
Parish Church of S. James the Great
5,000
St Mary's Church Micheldever
2,000
Total of 3 grants
12,000

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