Grants in 2003

The following table is a summary of grants agreed in 2003.

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 project grants
58
426,989
International grants
3
505,358
Arts core costs grants
7
315,000

Arts project grants

42
174,985
Discretionary grants
2
6,000
Other grants
7
231,000
Total
119
1,659,332
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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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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