News for June, 2010

NEW AWARDS JUNE 2010 MEETINGS

June 13th, 2010

The following new awards were made by the Foundation’s Grants Committees in the first round meetings of Grants Year 2010-2011.

FAMILY VALUES

 

Alternatives Counselling Centre, East London                                       £5,000

Towards a pilot project for men from disadvantaged backgrounds helping them stay with partners during pregnancy.

 A.P.P.L.E, Ealing                                                                                           £30,000

Towards core costs.

 Boys Development Project, London                                                         £30,000

Towards an early years programme that supports parents and young boys through the transition into school.

 Kazzum, Shoreditch                                                                                     £4,000

Towards a Street Performance programme for children and families run by disabled actors in Tower Hamlets.

 National Literacy Trust, UK                                                                         £25,000

Towards the Words for Work project improving the communications skills of young people due to leave school for work.

 Royal National Theatre                                                                                £63,000

Towards the setting up of a three-year early years intervention project for parents and young children in South London.

 Reading Quest, Oxford                                                                               £12,030

Towards the costs of a literacy tutoring scheme in disadvantaged wards in East Oxford.

 Rudgwick Parish Church                                                                             £10,000

Towards core costs.

 Springboard for Children, London                                                               £30,000

Towards a literacy project at a primary school in West Norwood.

 Steam Industry Free Theatre, North London                                           £2,000

Towards participation in London’s Free Open-Air Theatre Season 2010.

 The Unicorn Children’s Theatre, London                                                  £30,000

Towards the Autism Friendly Performance pilot project including salaries.

 COMMUNITY HEALTH

 

Crawley Open House, West Sussex                                                          £35,000

Towards the refurbishment of an adult respite centre and young person’s residential unit.

 Creativity in Sport, Reading                                                                       £30,000

Towards core costs including salaries of the Body Rocks programme.

 Exposure, London                                                                                        £12,500

Towards the Mind Pictures project using creative digital film as a way of engaging young people with mental health issues.

 Grandma’s, Crawley                                                                                     £5,000

Towards a respite programme for families affected by HIV.

 Hampshire Riding Therapy, Bristol                                                           £45,000

Towards a programme for diabetic children.

 Lodge Hill Centre, Sussex                                                                          £12,000

Towards a three-year lease agreement for specialist teaching software.

 London Youth Rowing                                                                                 £30,000

Towards a mobile learning to row project for young people and their families in London.

 Scottish Association for Mental Health                                                  £10,000

Towards the salary of a Community Development Manager.

 

SAFER COMMUNITIES

 

Croydon Community Against  Trafficking                                                  £15,000

Match funding of a bid to the European Social Fund DAPHNE III programme to deliver awareness training and replicate community projects around trafficking

 Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group                                                            £45,000

Towards salaries.

 Keep Out, Surrey                                                                                            £30,000

Towards a youth crime diversion scheme run from HMPs Coldingley and Send.

 Making the Change, Bristol                                                                         £30,000

Towards the core costs of a halfway house project for young offenders who leave HMPYOI Ashfield.

 Personal Support Unit, London                                                                 £30,000

Towards a non-legal support and advice service at the Royal Courts of Justice.

 Shoreditch Tabernacle, East London                                                       £30,000

Towards a salary for the All4Recruitment project resettling offenders into the community.

 Surrey Jobmatch                                                                                          £30,000

Towards core costs.

 

SUSTAINING THE SECTOR

 

London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art                                           £30,000

Towards the hire of rehearsal rooms as part of the impact of the capital rebuild of the Academy.

Stone Pillow, Chichester                                                                             £21,724

Towards the Restore project.

The Space Trust, Bristol                                                                             £30,000

Towards the rent of a new warehouse as the basis for project expansion.