Grants agreed in 2004

In 2004 we agreed grants under the following programmes.
Click on the programme to see a more detailed list of grants.

Programme	Total number of grants	Total value of grants (£)
Strengthening the Voluntary Sector project grants	55	434,150
Strengthening the Voluntary Sector core grants	13	849,000
Arts project grants	39	174,969
Arts core grants	6	420,000
Joint International Development programme grants	4	504,339
International other grants	6	36,000
Strategic grants/commissioned work	4	70,967
Discretionary grants	2	5,500
Villiers Park Educational Trust	1	600,000
Total	130	3,094,925

Organisation	Project Description	Grant (£)
Academy Trust (Norfolk)	Towards the cost of introducing a circus course for young people at a new arts centre in Norwich.	5,000
Age Exchange Theatre Trust Ltd	To encourage understanding between generations through the organisation of residencies in primary schools in Lewisham.	4,000
Aldeburgh Productions	To run arts and technology workshops for young offenders, followed by a composition project with a school or community group.	5,000
Arts in Cambs on Tour	Working with communities to promote five professional performances in village venues in west Cambridgeshire.	6,500
Artsites Birmingham	Towards the provision of creative activities for disadvantaged children under the age of five and their families.	6,000
Barefoot Project	To run a summer school involving young people from different ethnic and social backgrounds in Plymouth and Burnley.	4,410
Barrier Breakers	A composition programme for disadvantaged 7 - 13 year olds in London, using a system that is accessible to children with little or no formal musical training.	4,000
Birmingham Repertory Theatre Company	Towards the first year of providing a free theatre experience, every year for ten years, for every child born at Birmingham City Hospital in April 2004.	4,000
Brouhaha International	Towards the cost of helping a group of children and young people to organise a multicultural children's arts festival in Liverpool.	6,000
Busy Ape Arts	Towards work with Ouston Youth Theatre and The Sage Gateshead to devise and stage a musical.	6,000
Corali Dance Company	A practice-based exchange between two London dance companies, both of which work with learning disabled dancers.	4,163
Create (Arts) Ltd.	Towards a creative writing and music project with excluded young people in East London.	5,000
Dance NK	Towards a young persons' participatory, cross-artform project about living in rurally isolated communities in Lincolnshire.	4,000
De La Warr Pavilion	Towards the cost of paying for a musician to work with local choirs in Rother, Bexhill, Hastings and Eastbourne.	3,000
English Touring Theatre	Towards creating a team of first class education workshop leaders.	5,000
Escape Community Art in Action	A community arts project involving disabled people in Stratford upon Avon.	4,000
Film It	A film project with young offenders who are also fathers, at Huntercombe Young Offenders Institution.	5,000
galligu	Towards working with 20 people with challenging behavioural problems in the Merseyside area to produce a booklet of poetry and drawings.	3,450
Garlic Theatre	Towards a one-off tour of ten subsidised performances and six workshops for isolated small schools in Norfolk.	1,900
Halifax Young Singers	A contemporary music project for young people.	3,000
Hoxton Hall	Towards the cost of paying eight arts practitioners and a director for Hoxton Hall's summer arts project.	5,000
Ikon Gallery	Towards developing a project working with artists and deprived schools in Quinton, Birmingham.	4,000
Indian Classical Music Society	Towards the cost of the fees of soloists for an Indian classical music concert.	800
ITHACA (Charity) Ltd	Towards a skills exchange and mentoring initiative to support the professional development of artists with disabilities in Oxfordshire and Berkshire.	5,000
Jelly Leg'd Chicken Arts Gallery	Towards a project in Reading introducing young people to the creative possibilities of merging their visual arts and technical skills.	5,000
Lake District Summer Music	A week-long programme of workshops and performances of music from India, China and Japan, for Cumbrian school students.	5,000
Livewires	Workshops for young people in traditional music and dance, in the West Country.	4,000
Magic Me	Towards an intergenerational arts project about diverse environments for schoolchildren and nursing home residents in East London.	5,816
Modern Art Oxford	Towards a self-portraiture project involving the gallery and HMP Bullingdon designed to promote communication within families.	5,830
North West Disability Arts Forum	A residential writing masterclass for disabled writers.	3,000
Paintings in Hospitals	To support an exhibition of work by people attending the art programme at the E9 Day Centre at the Homerton Hospital.	3,000
Paddington Arts	Towards a dance, design and costume making project to include children with special needs.	5,000
Pyramid of Arts	To work with people with severe learning disabilities on a public art project for the Leeds waterfront development.	4,600
Quondam Arts Trust	To establish a young people's theatre in the Eden Valley, in Cumbria.	5,000
Rural Education & Arts Project	To provide quality participatory arts activities in three gardens, culminating in three celebratory events in Staffordshire Moorlands.	5,000
Shiva Nova	Towards the cost of Asian percussion and DJ workshops for Asian girls in Tunbridge Wells, Spelthorne, Thamesmead and Leicester.	5,000
Two Moors Festival Ltd	To enable young people to work with professional musicians in the production of an opera in North Devon.	5,000
Union Chapel Project	A weekend of arts skills and information exchange with an exhibition and performance event in Islington for homeless and formerly homeless artists.	6,000
Whitechapel Gallery	A programme of participatory projects and meetings involving disaffected members of the community.	3,500

Arts Core Grants

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Strengthening the Voluntary Sector

Organisation Name

Project Description

Grant (£)

Action for ME	For an HR consultant to assist with the development of a new organisational structure and relocation in order to improve the effectiveness and long-term sustainability of the organisation.	10,000
Action Space London Events	Towards the costs of freeing up the staff to produce a business plan including fundraising and financial planning.	6,000
Akina Mama Wa Africa	Towards the costs of a residential Strategic Planning meeting to review current programmes and develop a new five-year strategic plan.	5,000
Alice Labol Foundation	To enable this South London charity to develop and improve its services through the implementation of a quality assurance framework.	1,500
Arts Disability Wales	To strengthen and focus the organisation as an effective, strategic disability arts organisation.	3,000
Asylum Aid	To employ consultants to assist with the development of a three-year business plan and to develop a remuneration strategy.	5,000
Blackfriars Advice Centre	For a consultancy for a cultural change programme.	15,951
Blackfriars Settlement	Towards the costs of a six month appointment of a temporary Policies and Procedures Officer.	12,000
British Council of Disabled People	Towards the development costs of an accredited training system for people advising organisations on disability equality and awareness issues.	10,500
Cardinal Hume Centre	For consultants to help the Centre develop a fundraising strategy and a new database to ensure a sustainable future.	4,775
Charities Evaluation Services	Towards the cost of promoting a common language and shared approaches to improving the effectiveness of small to medium voluntary and charitable organisations.	10,000
Children's Centre Project	Towards the costs of producing and disseminating a report mapping voluntary sector collaborative models along with a tool kit.	6,000
Community Accountancy Self Help	Towards the development of an organisational database and a content management system for CASH's website to improve organisational effectiveness and increase access to information.	7,958
Community Links	Towards the costs of a Project Manager to develop a Sustainable Income Project that will secure new ways of resourcing Community Links' and other organisations' work.	20,000
Consortium of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Voluntary and Community Organisations	Towards a consultant to assist the National Network with development and business planning.	6,000
Contact the Elderly	To enhance the organisation's website to strengthen the organisational infrastructure for future service delivery.	4,270
Coram Family	To develop the organisation's training and consultancy strategy.	12,150
Cornwall Sustainable Tourism Project	To support a 3 month period of strategic and business development to build the capacity of COAST for the future development of sustainable tourism in Cornwall.	9,300
Council for Voluntary Service Sefton	Towards the purchase and installation of VOLBASE, a unique database designed specifically for umbrella/infrastructure organisations.	11,145
Croydon Youth Development Trust	To enable two South London youth agencies to develop collaborative methods of working.	9,525
Disability In Camden	To run a one-year training programme to empower disabled people to participate more effectively at the strategic decision making level of management committees.	10,000
Domestic Violence Intervention Project	To employ a consultant to assist in the introduction and implementation of a new organisational structure.	9,000
East Devon Volunteer Support Agency	To establish an effective delivery model for engaging rural organisations in capacity building training within the East Devon area.	9,503
Education for Choice	Towards the costs of redeveloping this national charity's website to reach maximum audiences.	7,000
Ezer Leyoldos	Towards a financial consultant and the development of a clients' needs database to improve information management and planning.	2,480
Fawcett Society	Towards the purchase, installation and training associated with a new membership and fundraising database.	7,000
Graeae Theatre Company	Towards the costs of a strategic planning consultancy.	3,000
Greenbank Project	To review constitution, open up membership and introduce other policies.	5,000
Hear Our Voice	To pay for the development of a text helpline as an innovative approach to accessing mental health services for young people.	3,530
Homeless Link	To develop a strategy for an accredited training and qualifications framework for the homelessness sector.	15,000
ICA UK	Towards a project to assess the impact of ICA's 'technology of participation' training programme for the voluntary sector.	9,913
In Kind Direct	To support the organisation to subsidise its services to charities in Devon and Cornwall.	7,500
International Childcare Trust	To develop and implement a business plan.	12,630
Iranian Association	To pilot a project to set up a network of Iranian voluntary organisations.	9,940
Joint Educational Trust	Towards new software that will support collaboration between several educational trusts by enabling JET to centralise applications and client liaison.	5,000
Liskerrett Community Centre	Towards the funding of a feasibility study into the needs of the arts and crafts sector in South East Cornwall.	5,342
Liverpool Specialist Advice Services Ltd	To conduct a feasibility study for a Liverpool wide telephone advice service.	5,000
Living Options Devon	Towards the cost of funding a temporary Project Manager to free up the time of the Chief Executive for three days per week to devise and deliver an effective development strategy, marketing plan and effective quality management system.	10,000
Living Paintings Trust	Towards the software, installation and training costs of a new library management system.	9,402
Marriage Care	Towards the costs of regional discussion meetings as part of the process of merging the sixty-two separate Marriage Care charities.	14,700
Means of Survival and Development	For a consultant to work with the Trustees to improve their fundraising and financial management and understanding of business planning.	5,000
National Council for Voluntary Youth Services	Towards the costs of a feasibility study to co-locate voluntary youth services in London.	12,500
Nightstop UK	Towards the first year's costs of a project to set up a national monitoring and evaluation scheme.	10,000
Oasis North London	To enable this North London HIV agency to employ a consultant to carry out a strategic review.	3,600
Open Doors International Language School	To fund the salary of a staff member to be released for six months to design and implement particular quality standards which will ensure the long-term mainstream education funding of the organisation through the Learning and Skills Council.	10,461
People First (Self Advocacy)	Towards the development of a quality assurance system.	12,000
Sefton Older Persons Enabling Resource & Action	To work with management committee members, identify funders and employ a consultant to write a three year action plan and a strategic business plan.	4,760
Southwark Diocesan Welcare Service Trust	For a finance consultancy to prepare budgets and financial system in preparation for a merger between SDWST and ten other Welcare charities.	13,000
Speech Language and Hearing Centre	Towards the costs of the phase 2 development of a new database to include data to evaluate services and strengthen their Evidenced-Based Practice.	8,000
Toxteth Vine Project	For a feasibility study to reorder a building and make the charity more effective.	2,375
Trelya	Towards the cost of employing a consultant to undertake a major strategic review and produce and assist with the implementation of a three year strategy plan.	7,800
UKOWLA	To produce a manual on good practice in North-South community linking.	9,140
West Indian Welfare (UK) Trust	Towards the costs of a skills development programme to improve the effectiveness of the organisation.	4,000
West Plymouth Credit Union Ltd	Towards the cost of commissioning research into where WPCU can find new members who can benefit from the services offered and to help to strengthen the organisation by helping it achieve an annual growth rate of 4%.	2,500
Youth Education Support Services London	To free up the Project Manager's time to enable her to develop strategies, policies and procedures that will consolidate the organisation and ensure its long-term viability.	10,000

Strengthening the Voluntary Sector Core Grants

 

Strategic Grants/Commissions

Organisation	Project Description	Grant (£)
Community Foundation for Northern Ireland	To extend CFNI's Social Justice Fund	20,000
Institute for Volunteering Research	For research with regard to our work with museums and volunteers.	15,000
Norah Fry Research Centre, University of Bristol	To commission a mapping study and literature review regarding parents with learning difficulties.	27,967
WCIT Charitable Trust	Towards the second year of a three year joint project to support arts organisations making the best use of IT.	8,000

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Organisation	Project Description	Grant (£)
Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund Europe	Capacity-building of indigenous peoples' organisations in Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda to enhance their socio-economic conditions and assert their rights. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 50% to the amount shown here).	57,143
Practical Action (formerly Intermediate Technology Development Group)	Building the capacity of NGOs and CBOs to implement decentralised infrastructure interventions to improve the lives of flood-displaced communities in Mozambique. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 50% to the amount shown here)	135,187
UNICEF UK	A comprehensive support programme for the reintegration into the community of child soldiers in Sudan. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 50% to the amount shown here).	115,367
Y Care International	To develop the capacity of Y Care International, grass-roots groups and NGOs to meet the needs of internally displaced former child soldiers in Colombia.	196,642

Organisation	Grant (£)
ICA UK	2,000
International Rescue Committee, UK	1,000
Mercy Corps Scotland	1,000
Penal Reform International	1,000
Reason Partnership	30,000
VETAID	1,000

Organisation	Grant (£)
Peter Le Marchant Trust	2,500
Users and Friends of Manor House Library	3,000