Guidelines for Applicants 2010
PROGRAMMES 2008-2010
FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIETY
Building Family Values
Aim
To promote and reinforce the role of the family unit as a safer more caring environment, fostering social and civic values, responsibility and behaviour, and encouraging the young to take up opportunities for education, training and employment.
Priorities
- Promoting the family unit
- Social and civic responsibilities
- Parenting schemes
- Opportunities for children and young people 5-25 years of age
Typical Activities
- Family advocacy and advice; training and mentoring schemes for parents
- Home Start-type work: families struggling to cope with children; support to single parent families
- Early years interventions
- Community volunteering
- Vocational training for young people, especially NEET
- Social and civic education
- Support to children in care or adoption
- Domestic abuse
- Activity schemes for disadvantaged children
- Urban streets youth projects
- Literacy & out of school tuition
Likely Outcomes
- People are confident in their parenting skills
- More people contribute actively to their communities
- Young people at risk stay or return to full time education
- More young people have access to training for employment
- Fewer young people at risk of anti-social behaviour, exclusion from education or lack of employment
- More volunteer support available to disadvantaged families
Community Health
Aim
To provide avenues for an improved quality of life for those people with addictions, those disadvantaged by reason of mental or physical disability and their carers and those who are living less healthy or active lives by virtue of age or infirmity.
Priorities
- Addiction
- Mental health
- Disabilities
- Aged and Infirm
- Alternative and complementary practice
Typical Activities
- Community-based substance abuse therapy and rehabilitation
- Volunteering and placement schemes
- Advocacy and advice for the disabled; schemes assisting the disabled into independent living
- Training, employment and access opportunities for the disabled
- Young carer schemes
- Promotion of healthy and active life styles for the aged and infirm
- Schemes promoting inclusion of the disabled in the community including public awareness, employment, education and leisure
- Schemes specifically for disabled ex-Service personnel including those with mental disabilities such as post traumatic stress syndrome and related substance abuse.
- Palliative care schemes
- Neo-natal intensive care
- Medical research
- Mental health
Likely Outcomes
- More people in addiction therapies
- More opportunities of all kinds for those disadvantaged by reason of mental or physical disability
- Improved well-being amongst older people over 70 years
- More people in independent living including the disabled and young carers
- More young carers able to access education, training and employment
- Better quality of life for long term adult carers
- More volunteers in community health work
- Improved well-being for ex-Service personnel in the community.
Safer Communities
Aim
To promote initiatives contributing to the reform of the criminal justice system, a fairer and more appropriate penal system, the effective rehabilitation of offenders, particularly females, and the promotion of family contacts to reduce chances of re-offending on release.
Priorities
- Crime in Communities
- Alternatives to custody
- Preparing offenders for release
- Resettlement of offenders after release
- Female offenders
Typical Activities
- Crime diversion and prevention schemes especially with young people
- Work around community sentences
- Peer and other mentoring schemes
- “Through the gate” resettlement schemes encompassing physical and mental health, housing, training, education and employment
- Substance abuse therapy and rehabilitation
- Sexual abuse and violence in the home
- Female offender and children work
- Support to families of offenders
- Parenting skills for offenders
- Advocacy and advice schemes
- Occupational therapy work
- Volunteering and placements under licence
- Trafficking
Likely Outcomes
- More opportunities pre and post-release for training, education and employment
- More opportunities pre and post-release for mental, physical and substance abuse support services
- Fewer female offenders
- More offenders released into a family context
- Greater resort to alternatives to custody
- More effective alternatives to custody
Sustaining the Environment
Aim
To promote understanding of the needs of the built and rural environments to encourage conservation of resources, reduction of waste and dissemination of practical models of environmental sustainability.
Priorities
- Changing life styles: education and training
- Alternative and complimentary practice
- Conserving and sustaining the built and rural environments
Typical Activities
- Environment life style education and training
- Community green space conservation
- Community champion schemes
- Community volunteering
- Demonstrator or model projects
- Best practice schemes
- Horticultural therapy
Likely Outcomes
- More people with an understanding of the issues affecting their environment
- More community volunteering around environmental issues
- Development of practical schemes for resource conservation and waste reduction
- Preservation of the community environmental fabric
Strengthening the Charitable & Voluntary Sectors
Aim
To contribute to the performance of the charitable and voluntary sector and its value to society by improving the quality and compliance of its infrastructure and effectiveness of its service delivery.
Priorities
- Building the capacity of the Sector
- Improving the effectiveness of organisations
- Quality Marks and Accreditation
Typical Activities
- Small group development
- Volunteering opportunities
- Community organisation accountancy and financial management
- Accession to quality schemes
- Governance training
- Evaluation
- IT audit
- Mergers and collaboration
Likely Outcomes
- Organisations become more sustainable through effective fundraising
- Organisations have a better understanding of their own performance providing more effective service delivery through monitoring and evaluation
- Organisations have better skills, tools and processes for more enhanced performance delivery
- More accredited programmes and formally qualified staff
- Better governance through use of recognised quality standards
- Better financial management, knowledge and skills
