Note: There was an additional grant of £433,333 to
the Villiers Park Educational Trust. This brings the total
amount of our grants in 2003 to £2,092,665.
Strengthening the Voluntary
Sector Project Grants
|
| Organisation |
Project |
Grant (£)
|
| 999 Club Trust |
To provide training for staff and
trustees to improve governance and management. |
5,000
|
| Active Women |
To enable five volunteers to attend
five training courses on asylum issues. |
2,862
|
| Advisory Centre For Education (ACE)
Ltd |
Towards a fundraising consultancy. |
2,500
|
| Bebington Centre for Voluntary Service |
To establish a five year plan and
process for annual review. |
4,940
|
| Breckfield & North Everton Neighbourhood
Council |
To buy in training for local organisations
and excluded groups. |
4,525
|
| British Association Of Settlements
& Social Action Centres |
Towards the cost of developing collaborative
arrangements for local community organisations
to share services. |
15,000
|
| Caldecott Foundation |
Towards the cost of installing new
database management software. |
10,000
|
| City Centre for Charity Effectiveness |
Support for the development of the
new City Centre for Charity Effectiveness at Cass
Business School. |
10,000
|
| Community Catalyst |
Towards a pilot project to test
different approaches for supporting margnisalised
community organisatons. |
10,000
|
| Congolese Community Welfare Association |
Towards the cost of training for
staff and trustees. |
3,600
|
| Crime Concern |
Towards the cost of piloting management
information systems in London. |
10,000
|
| Deptford Churches Centre |
To enable this South London day
centre to employ a consultant to assist them with
the development and implementation of an evaluation
framework. |
2,970
|
| Family Welfare Association |
To run a pilot course designed to
give staff the tools and resources to pass on
their skills to their peers. |
12,500
|
| Female Prisoners Welfare Project/Hibiscus |
Towards the costs of an independent
review and business planning exercise. |
6,000
|
| Field Lane Foundation |
Towards a consultancy to document
the model of care used by this London project
in its work with homeless families. |
9,500
|
| Forum @ Greenwich |
Towards the costs of a consultant
to carry out a strategic review and evaluation
of the current strategy of this community development
organisation. |
4,000
|
| Great Torrington & District Community
Development Trust |
To free the Director and Project
Manager to develop the materials and the skills
to begin to deliver consultancy services to emerging
trusts. |
9,945
|
| Greenwich and Lewisham Congolese
Welfare Group |
To enable the management committee
and volunteers of this refugee group to undertake
organisational training and develop a quality
assurance framework. |
5,000
|
| Infertility Network UK |
Towards the set-up and training
costs of an integrated website following the merger
of CHILD with iSSUE to form the Infertility Network
UK. |
5,120
|
| Initiative Factory |
To develop better systems, a funding
strategy and to develop staff and volunteers. |
2,000
|
| KernowKash Company |
Towards the start up and running
costs of KernowKash Ltd, a company that will network
all the Credit Unions in Cornwall. |
15,000
|
| Kids Club Network |
Towards a searchable database and
the first phase of a business consultancy for
the Curiosity and Imagination initiative of Kids
Club Network in collaboration with Demos and the
Campaign for Learning. |
14,460
|
| Little Hearts Matter |
Towards the updating of information
packs (£4,130) and the website (£4,500) to reflect
the widened remit of the charity. |
8,630
|
| Liverpool Personal Service Society
Incorporated |
To develop conferences over three
years as part of an organisational marketing strategy. |
10,000
|
| London Community Cricket Association |
Towards the set-up costs of a website. |
2,000
|
| Mind in Tower Hamlets |
Towards the cost of providing a
training programme to a newly formed team of managers. |
4,800
|
| Motor Waste |
To develop a website. |
5,000
|
| National Association of Hospital
& Community Friends |
Towards the travel and accommodation
costs of a residential training weekend for regionally-based
trustees. |
3,500
|
| Netherton Feelgood Factory |
To support organisational development
to meet best practice and legal requirements. |
9,160
|
| Orrell Park and District Community
Association |
To fund a consultant who will provide
a long term strategic development plan and evaluation
document. |
3,008
|
| Prison Fellowship England and Wales |
To improve systems and effectiveness
through accreditation of the Sycamore Tree course
by the Open College Network. |
10,000
|
| Project Cosmic |
To support the costs for employing
a researcher for three months to produce a feasibility
study to find ways to make an ICT support and
training unit for community and voluntary groups
self sustaining. |
5,000
|
| Relate Cheshire and Merseyside |
For an IT project to improve efficiency
and underpin Relate Cheshire and Merseyside's
organisation. |
9,000
|
| Respond Community Matters |
To enable this South East London
community development agency to develop a community
website and database to promote the work of individual
community groups in the area, and to encourage
networking and the exchange of information. |
4,280
|
| Royal Association for Deaf People |
To fund the inclusion of British
Sign Language (BSL) video clips in the organisation's
on-line learning website. |
5,000
|
| Samaritans |
Towards the cost of a consultant
to help the working relationship between the volunteer
and paid management. |
10,000
|
| Somali Humanitarian Aid (UK) |
Towards a programme of training
for trustees and volunteers over an 18 month period. |
3,000
|
| Somali Umbrella Group |
To employ consultants to conduct
a feasibility study for developing a Somali community
centre. |
7,800
|
| South Devon Play Resource Centre |
To pay for extra staff hours to
work with volunteers, members and trustees to
create a five-year strategic plan and a business
plan for adoption by the trustees in December
2003. |
4,845
|
| Southwark Law Centre |
To enable the Centre to implement
the first phase of its IT strategy by upgrading
software to improve cost efficiency, quality and
effectiveness. |
9,808
|
| Speaking Up! |
Towards the costs of a temporary
Operations Manager to take over the majority of
the Chief Executive's responsibilities while he
carries out a consultation, business and strategic
planning exercise. |
14,400
|
| Spitalfields City Farm |
Towards the establishment of an
East London City Farm consortium to deliver sustainable,
co-ordinated services across six boroughs. |
8,300
|
| Sports Network Council |
To facilitate a review of organisational
structures and work on a strategic plan. |
10,000
|
| St Michael's Fellowship |
To enable the Fellowship to produce
promotional material which can accurately describe
their activities and so enable them to develop. |
10,000
|
| Tamar Development Trust Ltd |
Towards a programme of visits to
other organisations and attendance at conferences
and seminars for volunteer activists in the community. |
5,000
|
| Tamil Welfare Association (Newham)
UK |
To employ a consultant to assist
the organisation in upgrading its Community Legal
Services quality mark in order to obtain franchise
status. |
2,500
|
| Thrive |
To produce and disseminate an accredited
quality assurance pack for therapeutic gardening
projects. |
5,000
|
| Traidcraft Exchange |
To fund a consultant to help devise
systems, structures and procedures needed to support
staff based overseas. |
7,000
|
| Trinity Hospice |
Towards the cost of developing software
that will improve the analysis, planning and management
of patient care at this south London hospice. |
15,000
|
| UK Council on Deafness |
To fund 50% of the costs of administrative
support to enable the Director to concentrate
on implementation of the changes in procedure
and systems resulting from the recently completed
strategic plan. |
5,000
|
| UK Youth |
Towards the costs of a series of
effective practice training days for local branches
and clubs. |
4,008
|
| WCIT Charitable Trust |
Towards the first year costs of
IT 4 Communites project which matches expert IT
volunteers with charities needing assistance. |
10,000
|
| Welcare Community Projects |
Towards the costs of a consultant
to undertake a strategic review of this supervised
child centre. |
2,750
|
| West Devon Environmental Network |
Towards the 'Communities in Action'
project which will help build up the capacity
of local groups to develop projects and find funding. |
8,033
|
| Westminster Advocacy Service for
Senior Residents |
To pilot a national training and
information network on advocacy with people with
dementia. |
13,325
|
| Westside Housing |
Towards the cost of this West London
Housing Association implementing an effective
IT strategy to increase its efficiency and enhance
services to clients. |
12,000
|
| Womankind Worldwide |
Towards five days of ICT consultancy. |
4,100
|
| young@now |
Towards the costs of involving young
people as consultants in monitoring and evaluating
the work of this South London based youth work
development project. |
10,820
|
| |
Total of 58 grants
|
426,989
|
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2003
International
|
| Organisation |
Project |
Grant (£) |
| Anti-Slavery International |
"To establish a permanent network
of NGOs in West Africa working on the issue of child
trafficking. |
164,358
|
| Jaipur Limb Campaign (JLC) |
To strengthen the capacity of a local
partner in Angola and enhance its capacity to respond
to the needs of internally displaced people with
disabilities, and their families. |
156,000
|
| Rainforest Foundation |
To increase the capacity of Central
African organisations to address the problems of
displaced forest people through policy and advocacy
work. |
185,000
|
| |
Total of 3 grants
|
505,358
|
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Arts Programme
Core Costs Grants
|
|
|
| Organisation |
Geographical Area |
Grant (£)
|
| Anjali Dance Company |
Southern Region |
45,000
|
| Escape Artists |
Eastern Region |
45,000
|
| Heads Together Productions Limited |
Yorkshire |
45,000
|
| Multi Asian Arts Centre |
North West |
45,000
|
| North Tyneside Art Studio |
Northern Region |
45,000
|
| Small World Theatre Ltd |
Wales |
45,000
|
| Windows Project |
North West |
45,000
|
| |
Total of 7 grants
|
315,000
|
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Arts Programme
Project Grants
| Organisation |
Project |
Grant (£)
|
| Alternative Arts |
Towards initiating a literature-based
outreach programme with Bengali women in Tower Hamlets. |
4,750
|
| Apples and Snakes |
Towards a series of performance poetry
workshops in Deptford with young tenants of Stonewall
Housing, leading to a performance of the work produced. |
4,000
|
| Art-O-Matic |
Towards costume, visual arts and music
workshops with homeless people planning to participate
in the Thames Festival procession. |
5,000
|
| Bath Festivals Trust |
To produce a monthly workshop and
concert as part of the Royal United Hospital Bath
NHS Trust's arts programme. |
4,000
|
| Black Swan Arts |
To fund two artists (a dancer and
a sculptor) to work together with young children
in three first schools in Somerset. |
3,000
|
| Blue Elephant Theatre |
To provide performances and after-show
forums in Camberwell for a year and a free, bi-monthly
newsletter for disadvantaged audience members. |
5,000
|
| Centre for Performance Research |
To ensure accessibility to the Giving
Voice Festival for a wide range of participants
in Wales. |
4,000
|
| Children's Music Workshop |
Towards research and development of
performing arts programmes with primary schools
in rural areas in Kent, Sussex and the Midlands. |
7,000
|
| Circus Eruption |
Towards a team-building weekend in
Pembrokeshire for young disabled and able-bodied
members |
2,610
|
| Colomenywod Dance Company |
Towards a community dance project
in rural Wales to create and publicly perform its
work. |
1,000
|
| Common Ground Sign Dance Theatre |
To create dance training opportunities
for young deaf people on Merseyside. |
3,000
|
| DanceEast |
Towards a project for 100 young people
from schools in Newmarket, Lakenheath, Brandon and
Mildenhall, culminating in a performance in Newmarket. |
5,000
|
| Dark Jazz Dimensions |
Towards a collaboration between musicians
of Nigerian origin and musicians and young people
living in Manchester. |
5,500
|
| Design Museum |
To develop workshops for special needs
children in collaboration with Oaklands School in
Isleworth. |
4,000
|
| Double Elephant Print Workshop |
Towards printmaking workshops for
people with long-term mental illness in Exeter. |
2,000
|
| Durham City Arts |
Towards a contemporary horror story
created and enacted by young people from the villages
around Durham. |
5,000
|
| Firebird Trust |
Towards a programme of participatory
music activities with local people in the Derbyshire
village of Tideswell. |
6,000
|
| Garsington Opera |
To build children's awareness of opera,
self-confidence and creativity through workshops
with professional musicians. |
2,400
|
| Greenwich Dance Agency |
To enable 320 young people to participate
in professional dance workshops and a collaborative
performance. |
4,000
|
| Gurukul |
Towards workshops teaching Indian
classical music in schools in the north east of
England. |
5,000
|
| Inside Job Theatre Projects |
To support two rehabilitative projects
for prisoners in HMP Send and HMP Cookham Wood. |
3,800
|
| IOU Theatre |
Towards a large, outdoor theatrical
event for young people in Halifax. |
2,611
|
| Kala Chethena Kathakali Troupe Charity |
To increase awareness of Indian drama
in Somerset, Devon and Cornwall. |
4,050
|
| King of Hearts |
Towards a drawing activity day for
schools and members of the public in Norwich as
part of The Big Draw 2003. |
1,050
|
| Leicester Caribbean Carnival Ltd |
Towards preparatory costume-making
and performance workshops for children participating
in the Leicester Caribbean Carnival. |
3,000
|
| Leicestershire Chorale |
To consolidate 'Leics & Rutland Youth
Find a Voice' by appointing four peripatetic voice
teachers. |
3,000
|
| Little Angel Theatre |
Towards four day-long puppet-making
family workshops in Islington for economically disadvantaged
family groups. |
4,000
|
| London Open House |
Towards a project enabling young people
to explore architecture through music, poetry and
model making with their families. |
4,000
|
| Mousetrap Foundation |
To provide blind/partially-sighted
pupils with equal access to theatre through subsidised
audio-described performances enhanced by an interactive
education programme in London. |
4,500
|
| Norwich & Norfolk Community Arts Ltd |
Towards a singing project for a choir
made up of people from deprived parts of Norwich
and Great Yarmouth. |
5,000
|
| Orpheus Centre |
To pilot arts workshops in Surrey
targeted at new group of young disabled people in
new day visit format. |
6,214
|
| Small World Cultural Arts Collective |
Towards a two-week arts project for
young people in Keighley, culminating in an event
featuring the Small World drummers. |
6,500
|
| Sound It Out Community Music |
Towards 'Little Horrors', a cross-generational
project for Castle Vale (West Midlands) residents
to create new music for film. |
5,000
|
| Spitalfields Festival |
Supporting singing workshops involving
adults and older people in a Community Cantata for
Tower Hamlets. |
7,000
|
| Teesside Play and Education Resource
Centre |
To enable disadvantaged young people
from Teesside to participate in a residential weekend
at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. |
5,000
|
| Triangle Arts Trust |
Towards three month residency by Cuban
artist Inti Hernandez, who will be working on a
series of projects involving the Latin American
Diaspora in Lambeth. |
5,000
|
| Umoya Creations |
Towards a programme of music composition,
performance and workshops based on the Udu Project
with the Purcell School and other schools and organisations
in London and the South East. |
5,000
|
| Valley and Vale Community Arts |
Towards a forum theatre project for
three groups of 12-16 year old girls living in the
South Wales Valleys. |
5,000
|
| Welfare State International |
Towards a two week community music
project culminating in an event to celebrate newly
commissioned music about Morecambe Bay. |
5,000
|
| Wimbledon School of Art |
Support for an initiative to support
young people from two local schools developing their
artistic skills culminating in a display at ING
Bank in the City of London. |
1,000
|
| Yad Arts |
Towards a two-week summer project
for 14-18 year olds in Camden and Islington, using
a variety of media (film, music, visual arts). |
4,000
|
| Zenith Community Dance |
Towards the creation of a Disabled
Dance Touring Initiative in Bolton using the Soundfloor
(a giant keyboard-like floor). |
3,000
|
| |
Total of 42 grants
|
174,985
|
|
| Organisation |
Grant (£)
|
| Cherry Trees |
3,000
|
| Sir John Soane's Museum |
3,000
|
|
Total of 2 grants
|
6,000
|
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Other Grants
| Organisation |
Project |
Grant(£)
|
| Community Foundation in Wales |
To employ a donor development worker in
North Wales. |
54,000
|
| Harris Museum and Art Gallery |
Towards enabling the Museum to develop its
relationship with volunteers. |
15,000
|
| National Council for Voluntary
Organisations |
Towards the cost of setting
up and running a Collaborative Working Unit. |
70,000
|
| University of Wales Swansea
- Egypt Centre |
Towards enabling the Museum
to develop its relationship with volunteers. |
15,000
|
| WCIT Charitable Trust |
Towards the first year of a three year joint
project to support arts organsiations in making the best
use of IT in collaboration with the Baring Foundation. |
12,000
|
| Who Cares? Trust |
Towards a project to develop and manage
the Employability Plus project and improve training and
employment opportunities for young people with learning
disabilities, until The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial
Fund is able to fund this grant. |
50,000
|
| York Civic Trust |
Towards enabling the Museum to develop its
relationship with volunteers. |
15,000
|
| |
Total of 7 grants
|
231,000
|
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