Grants agreed in 2006

In 2006 we agreed grants under the following programmes.
Click on the programme to see a detailed list of grants.

 

Strengthening the Voluntary Sector Projects
(2005 programme, agreed March 2006)

Organisation Name Purpose of Grant
Grant (£)
African Initiatives To build the capacity of African Initiatives to implement its 5 year strategic plan.
11,560
Association for Real Change To develop a streamlined database to facilitate communication with non-members and members.
6,941
British Overseas NGOs for Development To develop a membership database to improve effectiveness of member-focused services.
11,975
CASA To develop CASA's quality systems in light of national occupational standards.
16,777
Charity Bank Limited To support three organisations in Cornwall to take advantage of investment opportunities.
18,000
Consortium for Street Children To purchase an upgraded database to support the implementation of a new strategy.
10,000
Hammersmith Women's Aid To develop organisational potential through joint working or merger with parallel providers.
12,500
ICA UK To strengthen voluntary youth organisations' user involvement strategies.
17,115
Lady Margaret Hall Settlement To develop the LMHS 'family' support system for small local charities.
12,000
Learning Through Landscapes in London To review fundraising and development strategies.
3,640
Lister Steps Ltd To redeploy management skills to consolidate and develop organisational strategy and resources.
11,300
Live Music Now A contribution to the costs of purchasing and installing a new database.
10,049
Parents for Children For a consultancy to explore the potential for collaboration with other adoption and fostering agencies.
14,760
People and Planet To pilot new approaches to managing and training interns and volunteers.
17,204
Speaking Up! To strengthen user-involvement throughout the organisation especially at Board level.
9,122
Women's Sports Foundation To develop a communications and IT strategy.
14,800

 

Strengthening the Voluntary Sector
Independence

Organisation Name Purpose of Grant
Grant (£)
Action for Advocacy To implement a quality assurance system for the independent advocacy sector.
100,000
Advice UK To challenge the top down Government threat to independent advice through a bottom up demonstator project.
96,515
Asian Peoples' Disability Alliance To fund a Compact Officer post to lead compact processes with local authorities and PCTs.
80,064
Barton Hill Settlement To implement an improvement loop of bottom to top management training and systems upgrading.
63,421
Birmingham Voluntary Service Council To identify, pilot and evaluate impact assessment tools across specific activities, particularly those relating to campaigning, advocacy, policy development and participation in strategic fora.
93,846
British Association Of Settlements & Social Action Centres (BASSAC) To support a Community Impact Programme - supporting governance and building the impact of community anchors.
100,000
Clinks To appoint a BME Voluntary Sector (Offenders and Ex-offenders) Network Manager for London.
99,600
Development Trusts Association To improve capacity to tell our stories - winning hearts and minds.
97,677
Directory of Social Change To develop Fair Deal - a programme of practical training, advice and support to negotiate fairer contracts with government.
43,127
Furniture Resource Centre Ltd To fund a post to support the work of two Directors concentrating on added-value local government contracts.
100,000
Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sector To deliver tailored work with ten small voluntary organisations vulnerable to losing independence.
49,909
Health Advocacy and Resource Project To support the transition of the Delivering Inclusion Network from a loose collaboration to a constituted partnership.
99,948
Islington Play Association To build a consortium of children centre providers and share experience nationally.
55,089
Mental Health Media Council To appoint a part-time head of engagement/user involvement and purchase a relationship management database.
84,701
Northern Refugee Centre To fund work on consolidation of refugee organisations in Yorkshire and Humberside.
40,000
Partners in Advocacy To employ a consultant to assist with devising and implementing monitoring and evaluation systems, and to support a team of people with learning disabilities to assist in gathering user feedback.
28,806
Place2Be To build confidence and maintain independence, while at the same time nurturing a healthy, mutually beneficial relationship with government.
99,672
Post Adoption Centre To develop PAC's evidence-base for its therapeutic work and develop better systems for gathering and using data about services and performance.
99,281
Powys Carers Service For the employment of an Operations Manager, the cost of admin support, office base and travel.
92,343
Quaker Social Action To deliver a programme to develop and maintain QSA as an independent charity with the ability to set its own priorities and fulfill its own aims and objectives.
87,540
Sheila McKechnie Foundation To reinforce the sector's ability to challenge government through knowledge and skills development.
99,400
Women's Aid Federation of England To strengthen the capacity of the domestic violence sector to provide specialist services.
98,223

 

Arts Programme
Core Funding

Organisation Name

Grant
(£)

Arcola Theatre Production Company
74,760
B Arts Ltd
68,613
Cardboard Citizens
75,000
Commedia Sheffield
68,000
Cultural Co-operation
75,000
Music in Detention
45,000
Project Phakama UK
45,000
Victoria & Albert Museum
75,000

(To find out more about arts organisations we have funded under the theme of Arts and Refugees since 2004 click here)

Joint International Development Programme

Organisation Name Purpose of Grant

Grant
(£)

Africa Educational Trust To reduce illiteracy and poverty amongst displaced women, children and young people living in camps for internally displaced people in Somalia by building their communities' capacity to identify and address their education and training needs. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 45% to the amount shown here).
176,711
Children in Crisis The project will train 300 primary school teachers and support local NGOs and community groups in delivering educational services in an isolated part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 45% to the amount shown here).
169,377
Consortium for Street Children Working with NGO, government and CBO partners in Tanzania and Zimbabwe. The project seeks to prevent children from moving onto the streets and reintegrate those who are already there into society. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 45% to the amount shown here).
56,000
Skills for Southern Sudan The project will train local consultants in South Sudan who will go on to train CBOs in a range of skills needed to establish themselves as organisations. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 45% to the amount shown here).
121,512

Click here for information about the grants we have made under the International programme since 2001.

Learning Fund

Organisation Name/ Grantee Purpose of Grant
Grant (£)
Cathy Pharoah Towards a consultancy to scope and conduct research on applications to the STVS independence programme.
3,000
Centris Fund for an external evaluation of round one of the Strengthening the Voluntary Sector grants programme.
90,000
Margaret Bolton Commission to research and publish a review of the STVS projects grants programme.
15,000
Margaret Bolton Feasibility study for a review of the Strengthening the Voluntary Sector project programme.
800
New Economics Foundation Towards the costs of the planning meeting of 'Building capacity for independent action'.
500
Nuffield Foundation To commission and publish research on foundations and international development.
7,500
Revolving Doors Agency Work on replication.
10,000
Trish Silkin For a review of the Baring Foundation and John Ellerman joint International grants programme.
10,000

The sum of £5,000 was agreed under the Learning Fund for a jointly funded consultancy on arts and refugees.


Discretionary Fund

Organisation Name Purpose of Grant
Grant (£)
Baphumelele Children's Home Funding for volunteer expenses to work assisting caregivers in running the children's home in South Africa.
5,000
Cusichaca Trust Collaboration with Richmond Rellowship del Peru.
5,000
Ecologia Trust Towards a fundraising strategy and costs of a fundraiser.
5,000

 

Other Grants

Organisation Name Purpose of Grant
Grant (£)
Africa Educational Trust Towards costs associated with application to the International programme. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 45% to the amount shown here).
700
Education Action International Towards costs associated with application to the International programme. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 45% to the amount shown here).
700
Disability and Development Partners For a four month extension of the work on developing DDP and for the translation into Portuguese of an independent evaluation of the work already funded by the Foundation.
4,450
Fundacion Richmond Fellowship del Peru Towards operating costs of work in Peru.
3,000
Greenwich and Lewisham Young People's Theatre Towards the costs of GLYPT's involvement in a festival for children in Rwanda.
2,100
ING Bank N.V Towards an arts project 'Unreal City', jointly funded with ING Bank.
5,600
Norah Fry Research Centre Funding for a consortium to take forward the work identified in 'Finding the Right Support'.
115,000
Pastoral and Environmental Network in the Horn of Africa (PENHA) For a business planning consultancy.
5,000
Pastoral and Environmental Network in the Horn of Africa (PENHA) For the core costs of PENHA's London HQ.
15,000
Rainforest Foundation Research work 'Markets for Non Timber Forest Products in African Diaspora Communities in London'.
1,500
Volunteering England For the production of a report on Museums and Volunteering.
5,000
Young Foundation Towards research into unmet social need in the UK.
30,000

 

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