Grants agreed in 2007


(Please note that there were no new Strengthening the Voluntary Sector grants in 2007)

In 2007 we have agreed grants and commissions under the following programmes.

Arts Programme Grants
Core Funding

Organisation Name
Grant (£)
Castlemilk Youth Complex
75,000
Frontline A.V.
63,000
Hounslow Arts Trust Ltd
75,000
Music Development Agency
75,000
Music For Change
75,000
North Music Trust
75,000
Street Level Photoworks
42,000
Writers and Scholars Educational Trust Index Arts
45,000

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

International Development Programme Grants

Organisation Name   Grant (£)
Motivation Charitable Trust The project will promote the inclusion of disabled people in programmes designed by mainstream NGOs and CBOs in Uganda.(The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 50% to the amount shown here).
175,000
One World Action The project seeks to strengthen the capacity of refugee communities in Tanzania to respond to sexual and gender-based violence. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 50% to the amount shown here).
150,500

UWESO UK Trust

Trust for Africa's Orphans

 This project aims to assist widows and orphans in Uganda in securing their rights to their husbands' and fathers' land. It comprises paralegal and advocacy training, awareness raising and information dissemination. (The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 50% to the amount shown here).
147,000
World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts The project will develop and deliver training programmes in life skills, 'non-formal education' and entrepreneurship to refugees and displaced girls and young women in four refugee camps in the Republic of Chad. To recruit and train 35 volunteer guide leaders, and increase girls' access to guiding and scouting services and activities.(The John Ellerman Foundation awarded an additional 90.38% to the amount shown here).
52,500

Contingency Grants/Commissions

Name Purpose of Grant
Amount (£)
African Medical and Research Foundation UK Towards the preparation of an application to the Joint International Development programme.
1,000
Arts for All To support a joint project with ING Bank to produce an exhibition of art work created by children belonging to the centre's Kaleidoscope Club.
6,000
Element Energy Limited A commission to carry out energy audits. The Esmee Fairbairn Foundation has provided an equal amount to add to the funds for this purpose.
2,500
Ethical Property Foundation To carry out an environmental audit with Hoxton Hall.
999
Fundacion Richmond Fellowship del Peru Towards operating costs of work in Peru.
8,000
Global Action Plan A commission to carry out energy audits. The Esmee Fairbairn Foundation has provided an equal amount to add to the funds for this purpose.
16,340
Institute for Public Policy Research To carry out a study into the ways in which migration can be better represented in UK museums and galleries.
8,000
Photovoice Towards the shortfall experienced by Photovoice in respect of the Foundation's STVS project grant to produce a manual.
3,000
Sound It Out Community Music Towards the salary of the Inclusion Officer.
3,000
UKOWLA (UK One World Linking Association) Printing and dissemination of a manual on good practice in North-South community linking.
2,240
War Child Towards the preparation of an application to the Joint International Development programme.
1,000

 

Learning Grants/Commissions

Name Purpose
Amount (£)
Annette Zera To commission Annette Zera to facilitate the Strengthening the Voluntary Sector network meetings.
1,292.50
Cathy Pharoah Further work as part of the commission for a consultancy to scope whether applications received under the theme of independence would constitute a useful database.
1,000
Child Poverty Action Group To contribute to the costs of a programme of activity to explore the impact on claimants in the field of welfare rights and welfare to work programmes of greater delivery of public services by advice and advocacy organisations.
8,000
Comparative Essays on Independence To commission comparative studies of the independence of the voluntary sector in the four countries of the UK and in the USA
12,000
Malcolm James To commission a short paper on Interculturality - Theory and Policy.
1,000


Interculturality Commission

An amount of £150,000 has been agreed to commission the Institute of Community Cohesion to set up and operate the Baring Foundation Annual Awards for the promotion of interculturality in action.

Parents with Learning Disabilities

An amount of £160,000 has been agreed for the Norah Fry Research Centre to carry out further work to help improve the situation confronting parents with learning disabilities and their children.


Baring Family Grants

Organisation Name Grant (£)
AMANDLA ku Lutsha
5,000
Centre for Health and Pastoral Care
3,000
London Sinfonietta
1,000

 

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