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.
