Grants made in 2001

Education

Grants approved over £10,000

Activities Childcare and Education Centre - £46,928
Towards an initiative which enhances the early education of children through practical outdoor activities.

Andover and District Partnership Trust - £38,000
Towards the salary of the Senior Project Worker to secure the long-term future of 'Stay and Play' which provides a family learning programme for disadvantaged adults.

Atlantic Council - £30,000
Towards the salary costs of an Education Director to promote the principle of citizenship and participation in the democratic process on a supra-national basis to the young people of today.

Bangladesh Community Development - £30,000
Towards the cost over three years of additional out-ofschool support for Bangladeshi and Asian children who are under-achieving academically; training is also given to parents to boost their skills in motivating and supporting their children's education.

Barbican Centre Trust - £15,000
Towards the production and exhibition costs of 'Myths and Monsters' which makes myths accessible to young people in inner-city schools.

Binoh of Manchester - £15,000
Towards the costs of 'Time Out' a project which helps disaffected children from an ethnic minority by providing support and education.

Book Trust - £144,540
Towards the cost of partnership funding for the National Bookstart Programme.

Bridgeworks Trust - £42,566
Towards the salary costs over three years of a Project Worker to help students at risk of exclusion in Gosport.

Bristol Mediation - £15,175
Towards the salary of the Co-ordinator to develop a peer mediation project.

British Dyslexia Association - £160,000
Towards salary costs for the Education Department which works to provide inclusive education and create equal opportunities for dyslexic people of all ages.

Child and Sound - £30,000
Towards the costs of a Project Co-ordinator who will provide music workshops for children and young people with physical and learning difficulties and special needs.

Children's Express - £99,000
Towards the salary of the UK Development Director and costs of the service which provides young people, particularly in disadvantaged areas, with a place to go where they can get help with their education and be listened to by others.

Children's World - £30,000
Towards the cost over three years of three workshop tours in special schools for children who have learning difficulties.

Clear Vision Project - £15,000
Towards the costs of producing 1,000 tactile books which will give young people with visual impairments access to books.

Community Learning Enterprise & Enterprise Opportunities - £11,944
Towards the costs of a part-time Literacy Worker to increase literacy in young people and adults.

Daycare Trust - £114,101
Towards the salary costs of the 'Activate' project which aims to improve access to and participation in the National Childcare Strategy for black and minority communities.

Derbyshire Gypsy Liaison Group - £30,000
Towards the cost of publishing the first books in a national reading scheme aimed at young traditional traveller children.

Doncaster Women's Aid - £22,470
Towards the salary of a Children's Worker to support children and their mothers in re-engaging with education.

Drumchapel Community Forum - £49,832
Towards the salary over two years of an Education Support Worker to provide educational support for unemployed adult learners in Drumchapel, Glasgow.

Elizabeth Foundation - £22,300
Towards the salary costs of a specialist teacher and an assistant to improve and develop the family learning programme for pre-school deaf children and their parents.

English and Media Centre - £29,630
Towards the core costs of a project which improves the literacy skills of secondary pupils whose linguistic and cultural experiences may exclude them from access to the wider curriculum.

Evergreen Play Association - £31,862
Towards the salary of an Inclusion Project Worker to work towards inclusive play for disabled and nondisabled children.

Fairbridge - £100,000
Towards the salaries over two years of three Development Workers to provide individual support for disadvantaged young people to help them return to mainstream education in Chatham, Cardiff and Birmingham.

Family Education Development Trust - £55,000
Towards the salary of a Family Development Worker to extend and enhance a family learning project in Devon.

Fawcett Society - £35,000
Towards the salary of a project worker and core costs of the Citizenship Project which encourages pupils to participate effectively in society.

Ferries & Port Sunlight Family Groups - £30,000
Towards the salary costs of the Administration Manager and Groups Support Worker for the 'Life Skills Project' which provides support and training in social skills and education.

Frontline Trust - £16,293
Towards the salary of a Learning Centre Co-ordinator to work to rebuild inner-city communities through education and community projects.

Glyndebourne Productions - £75,000
Towards the development of the education and community programme of the Glyndebourne Touring Opera.

Guild of St George - £49,700
Towards the cost of 'Power Drawing', an action research and professional development programme for 50 teachers to support the role of drawing as a teaching and learning tool.

Hackney Summer University - £20,000
Towards the core costs of maintaining the existing Summer School provision and to introduce new Junior Summer School activities for 11-14 year olds.

Heads, Teachers & Industry - £56,000
Towards the costs of 'Growing Leadership' a programme of secondments for headteachers in industry.

Helena Kennedy Bursary Scheme - £100,000
Towards the cost of a bursary scheme to support the progression of disadvantaged adult learners into higher education.

Highlands and Islands Arts - £33,000
Towards the costs over two years of artists to train 50 early years workers to nurture pre-school children's creative development.

HMP Liverpool - £28,800
Towards the salary of a Project Manager and the evaluation costs for drugs education work which educates young offenders aged 14-16 about the dangers of substance abuse.

Housebound Learners' Association - £25,901
Towards the costs of an adult education programme providing lifelong learning opportunities for isolated and housebound people in Wandsworth, London.

I.Can - £26,000
Towards the core costs of the early years speech and language programme working to reduce the number of children entering school with speech and language difficulties.

Integrated Education Fund - £15,250
Towards the core costs of four courses to train nursery and primary school teachers to promote a positive, selfconfident identity in young children and reduce bias and prejudice.

Interchange Trust - £51,000
Towards the salary costs of a Co-ordinator to develop the organisation's arts education work with disaffected young people across London.

Joint Educational Trust - £25,000
Towards the costs of free or subsidised boarding school places at independent schools for 250 troubled children.

Kids Club Network - £89,514
Towards the salary over two years of a Project Manager and core costs to develop a curriculum and training for childcare workers in out-of-schools clubs.

LEAD Scotland - £61,095
Towards the salary over two years of an ICT Systems Support Officer to support work that enables adults with physical disabilities and/or sensory impairments to access life-long learning.

Listening Books - £50,000
Towards the salary of an Education Officer for a pilot project testing the impact of non-fiction audio books on the attainment of children and adults with disabilities or learning difficulties.

Llandysul Family Centre - £15,834
Towards the salary of a part-time Co-ordinator to support a family learning project on an isolated housing estate in Wales.

Mary Frances Trust - £60,000
Towards the salary of the Clubhouse Education Worker who will give educational support to young people who have missed out on school due to illness.

Mediation Plymouth - £15,000
Towards the core costs of a project to train young people in primary and secondary schools in how to resolve conflict among their peers.

National Early Years Network - £79,243
Towards the costs of training to Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators to improve access to pre-school education for children with physical or learning disabilities.

Network 81 - £28,500
Towards the salary of the National Development Officer and administration support to extend training and information services for parents and professionals who work with children with special needs.

Open University - £82,602
Towards salaries and other costs of a major evaluation of the 'Interthinking Project' which teaches children how to talk together and think together more efficiently.

Open University - £93,000
Towards a professional development Mathematics education programme for Key Stage Three teachers.

Orkney Pre-School & Play Association - £61,762
Towards the short-fall in funding for the Early Years Project which develops family involvement in early years learning by supporting parent and toddler groups.

Parents and Professionals & Autism, Northern Ireland - £53,244
Towards the salary over three years of a Project Development Officer to help to ensure the educational and social development of children with autism to their full pre-school potential.

Peers Early Education Partnership - £520,000
Towards continued funding of early years work in Oxford which aims to make a long-term impact on the educational attainment of pre-school children and for preparing a fundraising and business plan for national expansion.

Pre-School Learning Alliance, Wakefield & Ackworth & District - £15,000
Towards the salary of a one-to-one sessional worker to provide educational support to young people with special needs.

Prisoners' Education Trust - £97,000
Towards the salary of an Assistant to the Director and course costs for a scheme to extend educational opportunities to prisoners in England and Wales.

Resource Unit for Supplementary & Monther-tongue Schools - £60,000
Towards the salaries of two Outreach Workers and core costs to enhance the support community-run classes give to children from ethnic minorities to develop confidence and study skills.

Robin Hood Gardens Education Training Trust - £30,000
Towards the cost of Sessional Language Support Workers to improve the English language skills of refugees and asylum seekers in Poplar, London.

Rosemount Life Long Learning - £20,000
Towards the costs of a tutor, a Crèche Worker and overheads to provide education, training and childcare services for women who wish to return to or join the labour market.

Royal Society of Arts - £75,000
Towards the costs of a Project Manager, administration and the development of curriculum materials to help young people understand the relevance of the school curriculum to their lives.

Sargent Cancer Care for Children - £35,335
Towards the staff costs of a pioneering centre of excellence providing study support to young people affected by cancer, to help them regain lost ground in their education through innovative, specialised education programmes.

Second City; Second Chance - £58,400
Towards the project costs of the mentoring scheme for disaffected young people which supports those at risk of dropping out of formal education in Birmingham.

Shaftesbury Society - £34,500
Towards the salary costs of a Transitions Worker to enable disabled young people from the London area to return to their local community and continue a mainstream education.

Sheffield Women's Education and Training - £48,261
Towards the salaries of an Outreach Worker and parttime Administrator, plus associated costs, to support women returning to education in areas of poverty in Sheffield.

Southwark Cathedral Education Centre - £15,000
Towards salary costs over three years of an Education Officer and Administrator for the education programme which offers resources to local schools including workshops in a variety of curriculum subjects.

Southwark Education Business Alliance - £30,000
Towards the project costs of 'WebPlay' which strengthens pupils' literacy skills through communicating on-line with children abroad.

St John's Welcome Centre - £15,765
Towards the salary over three years of the Project Development Manager to increase self-confidence and improve educational standards enabling local residents to gain employment.

Summer Education UK - £40,000
Towards the costs of a Project Co-ordinator, training and evaluation of the mentoring programme to develop young people's skills as peer mentors.

Tandem Project - £18,000
Towards the core costs of 'Inspiring the Teacher' which raises the status of teachers in state primary and secondary schools and offers them opportunities to explore their own creativity.

The Church of Christ the Carpenter - £15,498
Towards the costs of a part-time Youth Worker to reduce the rates of school exclusion by offering 30 pupilsone-to-one and group educational support sessions.

Tower Hamlets Education Business Partnership - £20,000
Towards the core cost of placing business volunteers in primary schools to help pupils with basic literacy andnumeracy skills.

Toxteth Educational Trust - £48,484
Towards the salary costs of a Project Worker to raise the educational achievement of children in the Toxteth area by training local parents in basic skills and supportingchildren's learning.

University of Exeter - £73,000
Towards the evaluation costs of a Continuing Professional Development project for Mathematics teachers.

University of Glasgow - £21,986
Towards the costs of a study that will recommend ways in which the experiences of minority ethnic children can be addressed more effectively as they move from primary to secondary school.

University of London - £39,600
Towards the costs of a Co-ordinator, administration and evaluation of the training programme for headteachers.

University of London - £49,000
Towards the costs of a pilot programme testing new approaches to creative teaching and learning using digital media.

University of London - £77,000
Towards the core costs of an action research project to identify the most effective ways of helping children with English as an additional language to develop their English speaking skills.

University of Oxford - £20,800
Towards the salary costs of a part-time Research Officer to evaluate a behaviour management programme for use in teacher training.

University of Oxford - £37,454
Towards the salary and overheads of a Research Assistant to co-ordinate and monitor a project to improve Mathematical achievement among pupils who are socially disadvantaged.

Villiers Park Educational Trust - £48,600
Towards the costs of a professional development programme to encourage teachers to update their subject knowledge and communicate their subject more effectively to A-Level students.

Volunteer Reading Help - £65,000
Towards salary and programme costs for an initiative that will recruit and train volunteer readers to help children in primary schools with basic literacy.

WAACIS - £15,000
Towards the cost of providing individual home tutorials on using the internet for people with disabilities.

Who Cares? Trust - £30,000
Towards the costs of the education element of 'CareZone' which benefits children and young people in care.

Winton & Co - £17,932
Towards the salary of a Project Assistant for 'The Parent House' which works in partnership with parents to provide crèche and early years development facilities, while parents attend education classes.

Young Enterprise - £90,000
Towards the costs of newly developed training materials to provide young people with a practical experience of running their own company, supported by teachers and volunteer business advisers.

Youth Outreach - £30,000
Towards the core costs the 'Bridge Builders Programme' which helps young people to bridge the gap between primary and secondary school.


Grants approved up to £10,000

Acorn Centre Youth Project, Edinburgh - £10,000
Aigas Trust - £3,400
AWCEBD - £10,000
Belfast Women's Training Services - £10,000
Bengali National Association, Newham - £4,250
Bexley School for Parents - £5,899
Birmingham North West Pre-school Learning Alliance - £3,100
Bivol Trust - £540
Bivol Trust - £4,392
Bolton Lads' & Girls Club - £8,320
Bournemouth & Poole College Foundation - £10,000
Bradford and District Autistic Support Group - £2,000
British Dyslexia Association - £5,000
Bully Busters - £1,000
Caspari Foundation - £2,890
Children's Trust,Tadworth - £10,000
Climbers Kids' Club - £2,000
Community of Malian Refugees in the UK (Amaru Charity) - £3,240
Community Reaching Out - £4,500
Connections Communications Centre - £10,000
Cregagh Pre-School Playgroup - £2,723
Croydon Council - £4,000
Crystal Vision Trust - £10,000
Disability Direct - £8,152
Educare M - £5,000
Elbwo Centre - £10,000
Family Welfare Association Head Office - £10,000
Fostering Network - £3,500
Foundation for Social & Economic Thinking - £10,000
Friends of Trinity Fields School and Resource Centre - £1,000
Gard'ner Memorial - £5,000
Gwynedd Literature Promotion Project - £5,000
Heathrow Gymnastics Club - £2,000
How Hill Trust - £5,000
Kings College for the Arts & Technology - £5,000
Living Paintings Trust - £5,000
Making Place - £8,640
Merseyside Community Mental Health Services - £5,013
Merseyside Trade Union Community & Unemployed Centre - £9,500
North Plymouth Playschemes - £2,000
Oaktree Education Trust - £10,000
One Stop Childcare - £2,080
Paces Sheffield - £5,000
Pennyburn Ante Pre-school Playgroup - £3,082
Philippine Resource Centre - £2,270
Photographers' Gallery - £5,000
REACH National Advice Centre for Children with Reading Difficulties - £10,000
Real Action - £5,000
Resources for Autism - £8,860
Shakespeare Schools' Drama Festival - £5,000
Shetland Link Up - £2,100
Skill Share - £9,485
SNAP Cymru - £9,843
South Sudanese Community Association (UK) - £5,000
Spadework Limited - £8,440
SPLASH - £1,000
St Barnabas Pre-school Playgroup, Worcester - £1,500
St Martin-in-the-Fields Social Care Unit - £8,000
Sure Foundation Supplementary Saturday School - £4,999
Surrey Youth Initiative, Dorking - £1,0000
Teso Foundation - £3,000
Tiny Tots Community Playgroup Strathfoyle - £600
Total Learning Challenge Project - £10,000
Tyneside Women's Employment Project - £8,000
University College Northampton - £4,500
Ways with Words - £5,000
West Heath 2000 - £5,000
West Somerset Community College - £10,000
Workforce Charitable Trust - £8,708
Yemeni Refugee Support Group - £2,250
YMCA Guildford - £10,000

		Strategic Initiative - £450,000 Towards the costs of a strategic grant-making initiative to support a community programme including family and inter-generational learning that will help adults to re-engage with education.

		Education Total value for Programme:	£4,677,477
		Total number for Programme:	158

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