Strengthening the Voluntary Sector - independence programme
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Legal Aid Practitioners Group Conference
Photograph courtesy of LAPG Photographer Robert Abermam |
Listed below are the grants the Foundation
has made,
under the STVS - independence programme in 2008, 2010 and 2011
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Maurice Wren,Asylum Aid
with Jean Lambert MP Photograph courtesy of Asylum Aid |
| Organisation Name | Purpose of Grant |
Grant (£)
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Year
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| Access to Justice | To contribute towards the costs of a development worker. |
20,000
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2011
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| Asylum Aid | To develop new service models for the delivery of quality assured legal advice and representation to people seeking asylum in the UK. |
10,000
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2011
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| Civil Exchange | To establish and run the Panel on the Independence of the Voluntary Sector. In addition to this grant, five honoraria of £500 each were granted to the following organsiations in recognition of the panel members' contribution to this work: Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Federation of London Youth Clubs, Relatives and Residents Association, Disability & Deaf Arts, Roma Support Group. |
130,757
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2011
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| Compendium Consulting | To produce a report sharing the lessons emerging from collaboration between legal advice organisations in Bristol, Coventry and Nottingham. |
8,000
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2011
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| Coventry Law Centre | To develop and test a new model for advice delivery focused on early intervention and impact. |
30,000
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2011
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| Frontier Economics Ltd | To carry out a feasibility study into new models of funding specialist legal advice. |
20,000
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2011
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| Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit | To assess the potential for future collaboration with other agencies and to purchase HR support to review the organisation's employment contracts. |
10,950
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2011
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| Hammersmith and Fulham Community Law Centre | To support the organisation and its partner, Nucleus Legal Advice Centre, to co-ordinate legal advice services in west London to help maintain and improve the provision of social welfare law in this area. |
30,000
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2011
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| Islington Law Centre | To assist in the development of a charging subsidiary which will offer low cost legal advice and representation in areas that are due to move out of scope of legal aid. |
30,000
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2011
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| Legal Action Group | To engage four non-advice organisations in collecting and analysing evidence of the impact of proposed changes to legal aid on their beneficiaries. |
40,000
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2011
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| Legal Action Group | To support the activities of the Justice for All campaign. |
50,000
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2011
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| Legal Aid Practitioners Group | To support the activities of the Justice for All campaign. |
10,000
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2011
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| Public Law Project | To upgrade IT infrastructure, purchase a new case management system and improve the organisation's administration. |
30,000
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2011
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| Rochdale Law Centre | To employ a part-time employment solicitor as part of establishing a new Community Interest Company |
29,970
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2011
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| Toynbee Hall | To carry out a feasibility study into the setting up of a Community Debt Management Service. |
29,921
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2011
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| Toynbee Hall | To review and redesign the organisation's advice service. |
30,000
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2011
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| Action for Advocacy | To recruit a Head of Policy to lead on A4A's work creating a means of communication with Government, promoting the independence of the advocacy sector. |
60,000
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2010
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| Advice UK | To secure evidence of the effectiveness and economic value of the BOLD intervention, develop a sustainable method for it's extension and secure support from central and local government. |
134,789
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2010
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| Asylum Aid | To expand Asylum Aid's legal policy advocacy; strengthening the organisation's independence by enhancing its credibility and influence, and providing a potential new income stream. |
60,000
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2010
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| Barton Hill Settlement | To support the development and dissemination of Barton Hill Settlement's Information Management System database. |
10,000
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2010
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| Birmingham Voluntary Service Council | To convert the Impact Toolkit into an Impact of Infrastructure Toolkit and support its take up by other local infrastructure bodies. |
20,000
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2010
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| Coventry Law Centre | To develop, implement and evaluate a mixed economy model for community-based advice delivery in Coventry - to strengthen agencies involved and to influence commissioners of advice services. |
150,000
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2010
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| Law Centres Federation | To develop a new business model for third sector agencies delivering specialist legal advice. |
149,500
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2010
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| Law Centres Federation | To complete and disseminate research into the cost and impact of quality legal repesentation for immigrants and asylum seekers. |
29,900
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2010
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| Legal Action Group | To conduct a poll on the availability of social welfare law services to the public and test public support for social welfare law advice services. |
8,000
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2010
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| Legal Aid Practitioners Group | To encourage parliamentary involvement and scrutiny of Legal Aid reform by supporting the development of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Legal Aid and developing a team of Legal Aid Champions. |
19,986
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2010
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| Nottingham Law Centre | To complete the redesign of independent advice services, based on evidence of client demand and to influence service commissioning and reduce unnecessary demand for advice from public service failures. |
86,859
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2010
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| Youth Access | To support the youth advice sector to evidence how access to independent advice is being compromised, to provide direct support to a number of local advice providers to improve their capacity to demonstrate impact and to contribute to national policy on planning and funding youth advice services. |
150,000
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2010
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| Action for Advocacy | A multi-stranded three year project, working with advocacy schemes to demonstrate the value of advocacy, improve service user involvement, improve finance systems, develop negotiation skills and facilitate greater engagement in social policy issues. |
197,626
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2008
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| Advice UK | A two year programme, working with New Economics Foundation and Directory of Social Change, to develop the RADICAL user-centred advice service approach, improve tendering skills in advice agencies and improve relationships with central government. |
199,979
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2008
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| Avon and Bristol Law Centre | A three year programme to support Advice Services for Avon to strengthen its influence and maintain the independence of its members through supported learning, business development and increasing capacity to engage with national debates. |
174,831
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2008
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| Coventry Law Centre | A two year programme of activities to strengthen individual partners of Advice Services Coventry and strengthen the partnership as a whole. To include, systems review (working with Advice UK), IT investment, governance improvement, user involvement and development of ASC's ability to undertake social policy work and campaigning. |
191,113
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2008
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| Grapevine Coventry and Warwickshire | A range of activities carried out over one year to reassert the values underpinning citizen advocacy, to improve systems for collecting evidence of needs, to strenghthen negotiation skills and to improve ways of measuring quality and impact. |
35,591
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2008
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| Law Centres Federation | A four year programme to strengthen and reassert the Law Centre service delivery model through improved understanding of local needs and by building the collaborative relationships with government necessary for effective advice services. |
200,000
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2008
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Refugee and Migrant Justice |
A one year programme to carry out research on evaluating the cost and impact of quality legal representation for immigrants and asylum seekers. |
199,680
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2008
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Courtesy of Coventry Law Centre |
