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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