Grants made in 2001

Social Development

Grants approved over £10,000

2D-Support for the Voluntary and Community Sector of Teesdale - £39,000
Towards the salary and associated costs over three years of a part-time Teesdale Volunteer Co-ordinator to establish volunteer bureau services in the rural area of Teesdale.

870 House - £56,684
Towards the salary costs over three years of a Social Worker to provide support to young people aged 8-16 who are experiencing distress with the aim of preventing breakdowns of family units.

999 Club - £45,000
Towards the core costs over three years of the Deptford 999 Club which provides advocacy and support to isolated and disadvantaged members of the community.

Action Resource Development and Information Centre - £21,000
Towards the salary of a Service Development Worker to encourage the integration and participation of recently arrived female refugees in Handsworth.

ADFAM National - £123,000
Towards the salary over three years of the Chief Executive of ADFAM National which supports the families, parents, partners and friends of those who use drugs.

Advice and Counselling on Alcohol and Drugs - £23,000
Towards the salary of a Project Worker to help people in Bristol with drug and alcohol problems gain access to education, training and employment opportunities.

Advocacy in Gateshead - £22,014
Towards the salary of a Self-Advocacy Worker to provide services for adults with learning disabilities to help them obtain full rights as citizens and develop their abilities.

Afiya Trust - £40,000
Towards core costs over two years of work to achieve equity in health and social care provision for the black and ethnic minority population via community involvement and representation.

Age Concern, Hereford - £15,000
Towards the costs of a mobile day service for older people which offers a range of services including a transport service for the elderly living in rural areas.

Agewell in Sheffield - £63,388
Towards the salary of a Training Officer and associated costs of providing volunteer training for older people.

Ahimsa - £24,000
Towards the development costs of accredited training programmes for professionals working in the field of domestic violence.

Airedale Voluntary Drug & Alcohol Agency - £32,941
Towards project costs over three years of a 'one stop shop' aimed at ensuring that pregnant women and parents with substance misuse issues access medical and support services.

All Saints Church, Speke - £21,000
Towards the salary of a Development Worker to work with local residents to develop solutions for local people, particularly marginalised young people, families under stress and the elderly.

Aquarius - £92,205
Towards the salary over three years of a Women's Alcohol Worker and associated costs of a service which provides alcohol counselling for individuals and groups.

Artillery Youth Centre - £37,596
Towards the cost over three years of providing courses to challenge young men's attitudes to violence and to extend the outreach youth service.

Artlink Central - £33,336
Towards the cost over three years of high quality arts projects which contribute towards personal, social and group development at Cornton Vale Prison in Stirling.

Asian Resource Centre - £24,000
Towards the salary costs of an Advisor to provide employment, education, health and immigration advice to people of Southern Asian origin.

Aston Reinvestment Trust - £30,000
Towards the core costs over two years of a community development finance initiative which contributes to regeneration in deprived areas of Birmingham primarily by giving loans to local projects.

Aston Reinvestment Trust - £200,000
Towards increasing the capacity of the loan fund to meet the credit needs of local small businesses and social enterprises who cannot access loans from a commercial lender; this payment is in the form of a loan.

Asylum Aid - £45,000
Towards core costs over three years to develop and expand their work in advising and supporting people appealing against refusal of asylum.

Asylum Welcome - £45,000
Towards the salary over three years of an Advice Worker to develop the family work and education and advice service provided for refugees and asylum seekers in Oxfordshire.

Bail for Immigration Detainees - £55,380
Towards the salary over two years of a Caseworker to obtain the release of asylum-seekers from detention in the UK through the provision of a free bail service.

Bangladeshi Community Association - £30,000
Towards the salary over three years of a Community Development Worker to provide advocacy, support, welfare and immigration advice to people from Bangledesh living in Bradford.

Bannside Community Group - £23,635
Towards the salary of a Development Worker to continue to develop services, activities and develop links with a divided community.

Belfast Central Mission - £45,000
Towards the project costs over three years of the Quayside Project, a Leaving Care and Aftercare service for young people aged 16-21 who are leaving residential or foster care and establishing a life within the community.

Berwick Youth Project - £75,000
Towards the salary over three years of the Project Manager at a project providing welfare services for young people aged 14-25 years.

Big Issue in the North Trust - £71,728
Towards the salary over two years of a Head of Services to oversee a programme of work which offers homeless people housing, health and employment opportunities.

Blackthorn Trust - £37,956
Towards the salary over two years of support workers enabling people suffering from mental health problems to gain access to employment.

Boscombe Family Drop-In - £59,408
Towards core costs over three years of providing a wide range of services, support and advice to families living in inappropriate accommodation.

Braendam Family House - £25,000
Towards core costs to provide respite care in Scotland to families in crisis who are disadvantaged by poverty.

British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering - £36,450
Towards the salary and project costs for the second development phase of the 'Parenting the Sexually Abused Child' project which aims to enable foster carers to cope better with the care of sexually abused children.

Brokerage Citylink - £20,835
Towards the salary of a Recruitment Adviser to assist disadvantaged jobseekers in Tower Hamlets, Hackney and surrounding areas in competing successfully for good quality employment in the City of London.

BUILD - £15,000
Towards the salary costs over two years of a Senior Project Worker to provide activities and practical support to people with learning difficulties to develop skills and promote independence.

Burley Lodge Centre - £32,027
Towards the salary over three years of a Project Worker at a volunteering scheme in Leeds which encourages local people to take placements within community organisations.

Burnbake Trust - £70,350
Towards the salary over three years of employing an Arts Project Manager to encourage the rehabilitation of offenders and ex-offenders through an active enjoyment of the arts.

Cambridge Housing Society - £68,100
Towards the salaries over two years of two Development Workers and running costs of a community banking project giving low income families in Cambridgeshire access to bank accounts.

Canongate Youth Project - £54,000
Towards the salary of a Project Worker to assist local young people in Edinburgh to develop the skills and confidence necessary to make a successful transition to adulthood.

Caradon Housing Youth Project - £44,844
Towards the salary over three years of a part-time Client Support Worker to establish an Independent Living Programme for homeless young people in Cornwall.

Cardiff Gypsy Sites Group - £19,281
Towards the salary over three years of a Liaison Officer for Accommodation to provide support and housing advice to travelling families.

Care & Repair, Bristol - £36,815
Towards the costs over three years of the User Empowerment project which empowers older people suffering from disadvantage and social exclusion to develop user-led support groups.

Carers National Association - £78,187
Towards the salary over three years of a Public Affairs Officer to raise awareness within government and society of the needs of the UK's estimated 5.7m carers.

Carers Outreach Service - £41,786
Towards the salary over two years of a Consultation/Development Worker to involve carers in the decision-making process during planning, development and delivery of services that affect carers.

Cariba Project - £30,000
Towards the core costs over three years of providing young black offenders in Coventry with support and advice on housing, employment and training needs.

Changing Faces - £76,921
Towards the salary over three years of a Service Development Specialist to extend and develop the Outreach Service to improve the quality of life of young people throughout the UK who have facial disfigurements.

Chara Trust - £59,600
Towards the salary over three years of a Community Development and Training Officer to develop community capacity building through training which will enable disadvantaged groups in Liverpool to develop and share learning.

Chesterfield, North East Derbyshire & Bolsover Multi-Agency - £40,000
Towards the salary over two years of a Development Worker and administrative support to promote, develop and strengthen the membership and work of the Racial Harassment Task Group.

Christ Church, Kilkeel - £21,000
Towards revenue costs for 'Jim's Youth Club' which provides a social outlet and a base for cross community projects with young people.

Christians Against Poverty - £20,559
Towards core costs of work which enables people to help themselves out of debt and poverty by teaching budgeting skills.

Churches' National Housing Coalition - £75,000
Towards project costs over three years for the 'Regenerate' project which supports self-help initiatives on disadvantaged estates across England.

Citizen Advocacy, Sheffield - £30,000 Towards core costs over three years to provide
independent advocacy for people with a learning difficulty or mental health problem and to support selfadvocacy.

City & Hackney Alcohol Service - £39,314
Towards core costs of the Women's Service which provides advice and counselling for women suffering from alcohol abuse.

Clapton Park United Reformed Church - £30,000
Towards core costs over three years of the Families Project which provides access to childcare for disadvantaged parents seeking employment or training.

Claremont West Family Centre - £20,000
Towards core costs over two years to provide a family centre offering advice and information, drop-in sessions and parenting courses for socially excluded families.

Cleveland Domestic Violence Forum - £78,273
Towards the salary over three years of a Project Manager
to offer outreach services to support women who have
experienced domestic violence by training volunteers to
support them.

Community Action Network - £16,000
Towards the salary of a Director to develop a regional centre in Inverness to support and develop social entrepreneurs and provide opportunities for increased community enterprise in the Highlands.

Copperdale Trust - £22,000
Towards the salary of a Project Development Worker to develop the community centre as a resource for local people in Wythenshawe in Greater Manchester.

Cosgrove Care - £16,919
Towards the salary over three years of a Project Worker for a project which enables people with learning disabilities to get work by gaining new skills through supported work experience.

Crawley Ethnic Minority Partnership - £38,501
Towards running costs and the salary over two years of a Development Worker to develop a partnership of ethnic minority community organisations in Crawley.

Crediton Neighbourhood Family Centre - £30,300
Towards the cost over two years of six intensive family support courses to help young children who have behavioural and emotional problems and prevent them from being excluded from school.

Croydon Contacts - £32,346
Towards the salary over two years of a part-time Siblings Family Worker to work with young people aged 8-18 that have brothers and sisters with a disability or special need.

Cued Speech Association - £30,000
Towards the costs over two years of raising awareness of the benefits of cued speech among the deaf and hard of hearing community.

Cyswllt Ceredigion Contact - £12,193
Towards the salary over three years of the Centre Manager to provide specialist support and treatment to drug and alcohol abusers and their families in Ceredigion.

Deaf Direct - £38,000
Towards the salary over two years of the Director to work to promote the rights of people in Herefordshire and Worcestershire who are deaf or hard of hearing and ensuring their access to services.

Deafblind U - £54,000
Towards the salary of the Touch Appeal Designer and the cost of producing technical drawings associated with the new National Centre for Deafblindness, to help people who have lost both their sight and hearing in adult life.

Derby Changes - £60,000
Towards core costs over two years to develop initiatives to reach and engage excluded young people, particularly care leavers.

Detention Advice Service - £60,000
Towards core costs over three years to provide advice, information and advocacy to asylum seekers detained in prison and detention centres.

Development Trusts Association - £120,000
Towards core costs over three years to develop and expand local support and policy roles of the DTA which should assist in the transition to greater financial selfreliance.

Different Stroke - £79,245
Towards the salary over three years of the Director to work to provide support services for younger stroke survivors.

Digbeth Trust - £25,500
Towards the project costs including the salary over three years of a Development Worker to build capacity in community and voluntary sector groups in Birmingham.

Doncaster Partnership for Carers - £27,136
Towards the salary of an Asian Advocacy Link Worker to deliver a high quality advocacy support service to meet the needs of Asian carers and their dependants.

Dreadnought Centre - £54,333
Towards the salary over three years of a Centre Coordinator to provide support, activities and training for young people aged 8-18 who are experiencing problems relaing to issues such as disability or abuse.

Dream Scheme Network - £45,000
Towards the core costs over three years of establishing a further 20 Dream Scheme projects in northern England for disadvantaged young people to help reduce exclusion and criminality.

Dudley Caribbean & Friends Association - £19,250
Towards the salary of a part-time Urban Forum Development worker to provide opportunities for African Caribbean people to find solutions to difficulties they face.

East London Somali Youth & Welfare Centre - £30,000
Towards staff costs including the salary over three years of the Volunteer Co-ordinator to enhance the quality of life for people in the Somali community through training, experience and volunteering.

East Surrey Domestic Violence Forum - £12,806
Towards the salary costs of the part-time Service Manager and Outreach Worker to offer advice and provide support to women suffering domestic violence.

Families in Care - £76,281
Towards the salary over three years of the Co-ordinator to provide support for families in the North East whose children are involved in care or adoption proceedings.

Family Mediation Scotland - £33,222
Towards the salary over two years of the Project Worker to futher develop the existing network of 26 family contact centres throughout Scotland.

Family Rights Group - £90,000
Towards core costs over three years to continue to provide advice and advocacy for families who are in contact with social service departments and provide training and other resources for professionals about family and childcare law.

Free@Last - £82,179
Towards the salary over three years of a Youth Outreach Worker to actively engage with the young people who are offenders in Nechells, Birmingham, and those most at risk of committing crime.

Furnival Burngreave Community Projects - £45,000
Towards revenue costs, particularly the salary of a Personnel Development Worker to manage volunteers and support trainees to develop work skills.

Future Housing & Care - £46,035
Towards core costs and the salary of a Co-ordinator to establish a fostering agency in the voluntary sector in Birmingham specifically to meet the needs of black and minority ethnic communities.

Glasgow Braendam Link - £45,000
Towards the salary over three years of a part-time Project Co-ordinator to provide support for disadvantaged families including home visits for families in crisis.

Govan Ecumenical Youth Association - £50,000
Towards core costs over two years of a drug and alcoholfree centre for young people aged 12-18 which aims to provide opportunities to move away from anti-social behaviour and learn new skills.

Granton Youth Centre - £18,770
Towards the salary of part-time sessional youth work staff to provide a community-managed youth work centre for young people aged 12-25 in Northern Ireland with leisure and informal education opportunities.

Greater Easterhouse Development Co. - £30,000
Towards the salary of a Community Action Network Director to support local entrepreneurs in the central belt of Scotland by bringing the voluntary, public and business sectors together to provide access to opportunities leading to regeneration.

Guild Care - £53,869
Towards the core costs and the salary of a part-time User Involvement Worker to involve elderly service-users in the design and delivery of residential and nursing care services and the governance of the organisation.

Gymnasian - £60,313
Towards the salary costs over three years of a Development Worker to develop a gym in Gloucester as a community facility for Asian young people and others.

Hackney Marsh Partnership - £42,934
Towards the salary over three years of a Development Worker to provide drop-in social activities and learning opportunities for local disadvantaged and unemployed people.

HARP - £48,000
Towards the salaries over three years of two key workers to enable homeless drug and alcohol users to gain accommodation and maintain independent living.

Hartcliffe and Withywood Teenage Parents Project - £15,000
Towards core costs for work to support socially excluded young single parents to build confidence, self-esteem and break down isolation.

Hounslow Action for Youth Association - £70,341
Towards the salary over three years of a Junior Youth Worker to work with disadvantaged young people to enable them to express their concerns and increase their confidence and skills.

House of St Barnabas-in-Soho - £20,000
Towards the salary of a key worker to provide advice, information and support for homeless women to enable them to acquire life skills and make positive changes in their lives.

Housing Services Agency - £38,846
Towards the salary of a Resettlement Worker to provide re-settlement, advice and ongoing support for homeless people in London.

Hull & East Yorkshire Advocacy Forum - £25,764
Towards core costs, particularly salaries, of an organisation aiming to empower disadvantaged individuals and groups through the provision of independent advocacy.

Hull Lighthouse Project - £49,500
Towards the salary over three years of an Outreach Coordinator to provide friendship, advice and opportunity for change to women with drug absue problems who are working in prostitution.

Huyton Credit Union - £20,000
Towards the project costs of the Money Advice and Budgeting Service in Liverpool which works to improve the quality of life for those facing exclusion due to debt and poverty.

Hyde Park Source - £46,956
Towards the salary over three years of a Project Coordinator to provide work experience and supported training opportunities to long-term unemployed people at a community project in Leeds.

Institute of Welsh Affairs - £80,000
Towards core costs including the salary of a Research Fellow to set up a research project focusing on the National Assembly's 'Communitites First' initiative.

Inverclyde Community Development Trust - £18,840
Towards the salary over two years of a Project Worker to improve the skills of vulnerable people, including those who are homeless or mentally ill, through voluntary work and informal training opportunities.

Katherine Low Settlement - £60,000
Towards the salary over three years of a Community Development Worker to further develop the centre in Battersea, London and increase outreach support for young people, carers, pensioners and refugees.

Lancashire Youth Association - £78,050
Towards core costs over three years of the 'Edge' project which uses volunteers from the local community to support young people and their families most at risk of crime and criminality.

Langsett Foundation - £25,200
Towards the salary costs of the Co-ordinator to provide affordable, flexible accommodation to local voluntary organisations in Sheffield.

Leigh Park Community Association - £68,144
Towards the salary over three years of a Community Development Worker to promote community participation in Havant by supporting local community involvement in decision-making.

Lifecraft - £75,000
Towards the salary costs over three years of three staff to work to enable people with mental health problems to support each other, develop confidence, skills and gain control over their lives.

Linton Co-operative Association - £30,000
Towards the costs of the purchase and renovation of the local village shop and Post Office by a community cooperative to continue providing essential services to an isolated rural community.

Little Hulton Women and Family Centre - £20,000
Towards the salary of a Co-ordinator to run this community facility for local people and families in Salford to help them cope with depression, de-motivation and stress.

Lower Falls Newstart Project - £60,000
Towards the salary over three years of a Youth Worker/Peer Educator for the project which provides lifelong learning and opportunities to improve social skills for young people excluded from school, those with difficult behaviour or young offenders.

Mentor UK for the Prevention of Substance Abuse - £150,000
Towards core costs over three years to develop and evaluate prevention services to reduce self-harm and delay the use of drugs and alcohol among young people.

Merseyside Development Foundation - £36,672
Towards the salary of a Community Development Worker to develop the skills and infrastructure of community and smaller voluntary groups through training and community network forums.

Mixenden Parents Resource Centre - £21,025
Towards the salary of a Women's Outreach Worker to provide emotional and practical support for women in Halifax who are facing domestic violence.

Mobile Youth Project - £26,684
Towards the salary of four Youth Workers for a mobile unit delivering services to disadvantaged young people in Liverpool including informal education activities.

Monster Productions - £20,000
Towards the core costs of the 'Food Project' which encourages children and families in the most deprived areas of the North east, to change their attitudes to food, through drama, music and creating organic vegetable plots.

Moving On - £20,000
Towards the salary over three years of a Housing Advisor to give advice and practical support to homeless young people in the Durham area.

National Association of Child Contact Centres - £96,000
Towards the running costs and salary of a Training and Development Co-ordinator to develop national standards for local centres across England, backed up by a monitoring and appraisal system.

National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux - £20,000
Towards the costs for an initial three month period of an advice crisis line for the rural business community in England and Wales affected by the Foot and Mouth outbreak.

New Bridge - £88,365
Towards the costs including the salary of a Black and Ethnic Volunteer Development Manager to increase the diversity of volunteers who befriend prisoners.

New Connection Project - £73,920
Towards the salary over three years of the Project Director of a centre which offers advice, support and friendship for vulnerable people in Western Cornwall.

New Life Birchwood Community Action - £32,924
Towards the salary over three years of a Project Coordinator to implement projects and build partnerships with other community organisations.

Nigel Clare Network Trust - £40,000
Towards core costs over two years of developing advice and support for families with children who have a lifelimiting illness to help the parents secure and maintain employment.

Northumbria Coalition Against Crime - £30,000
Towards the salary over three years of a Volunteer Coordinator to recruit, train and support mentors to work with marginalised young people involved in or at risk of participating in criminal and anti-social activities.

Nottinghamshire Domestic Violence Forum - £18,700
Towards the costs over two years of specialist training for services to broaden expertise on working with male perpetrators of domestic violence.

Ockment Community Centre - £22,775
Towards the salary of a Manager for the Centre which provides community space and training and social opportunities for disadvantaged local people.

OpenDemocracy - £60,000
Towards an emergency grant for completing the pilot phase of the project to deliver a trustworthy global forum where citizens can think about, argue through and shape new solutions.

Orchardville Society - £34,569
Towards the salaries over three years of two Co-ordinators to manage volunteers to help people with learning disabilities become more involved in the community.

PANDA - £45,000
Towards the core costs over three years of a project which works to prevent relapse among recovering addicts and alcoholics in Greater Belfast and Northern Ireland.

Parents at Work - £33,155
Towards the costs of an 18 month pilot project providing support for unemployed parents of disabled children to enable them to take up or return to paid work.

Pennywell Youth Project - £44,461
Towards the core costs over three years including the salaries of a Project Worker and Modern Apprentice to work with schools and the police to provide disadvantaged young people with the opportunities to gain new skills.

Penumbra, Scotland - £30,000
Towards the salary over three years of a Development Worker to expand the peer education programme in secondary schools throughout Scotland.

PEP Charitable Trust - £100,747
Towards core costs over three years to provide training for residents and develop estate-based projects in disadvantaged areas.

Police Foundation - £25,000
Towards the costs of assessing community opinion of the Metropolitan Police's pilot scheme in Lambeth which involves warnings rather than prosecutions or formal cautions for possession of cannabis.

Positively Women - £49,459
Towards core costs over three years to expand the range of services and support provided for children and families affected by HIV.

Prisoners' Advice Service - £58,461
Towards the salary over three years of a second Caseworker to provide a free legal service to more prisoners and increase outreach support for vulnerable women prisoners.

Queens Cross Housing Association - £54,141
Towards the salary over three years of a Youth & Community Support Officer and four Sessional Youth Workers to develop a resource centre in a disadvantaged part of Glasgow.

Redbridge Racial Equality Council - £11,800
Towards the costs of a pilot Community Witness & Support Scheme to set up trained volunteers to support people suffering racial harassment and collect evidence of racist incidents.

REDRESS Trust - £100,000
Towards the core costs over three years of the UK programme which gives individuals access to justice and reparation in the UK for human rights violations and presses for legislative change.

Refuge - £20,000
Towards the revenue costs of the Psychological Support Programme providing specialist support to women and children experiencing domestic violence.

Robert Barton Trust - £27,250
Towards the salary over three years of a part-time Health and Wellbeing Worker for a centre for disadvantaged people living in Glastonbury.

Rural Information & Networking Group (RING) - £26,000
Towards the project costs of creating training and distance learning opportunities in rural areas of the Highlands using a community website as a central support tool for community information exchanges.

Safe Ground - £26,317
Towards the salary of a Project Co-ordinator to run a parenting, literacy and communication skills programme for fathers in prison to improve family relations and reduce the risk of re-offending.

Saltburn Christian Projects - £39,000
Towards the project costs over three years to develop facilities and support networks for disadvantaged young people particularly those with little family support.

SCOPE on Teesside - £55,620
Towards the core costs over three years of work to develop and expand co-operative businesses providing work skills opportunities for disabled people.

Seagull Print - £39,999
Towards the salaries over three years of a Print Bureau Manager and Project Assistant to provide a supported work environment for people with mental health problems.

Sketty Youth Project - £12,500
Towards the salary of a Scheme Development Officer to provide a range of opportunities for young people in a deprived area.

Social Action for Health - £71,208
Towards the salary over two years of a Senior Caseworker/Trainer for the 'Taking Charge Project' which provides support and training to vulnerable families and homeless people in Tower Hamlets, London.

South Cefncaeau Family Centre - £15,000
Towards the core costs of a centre which provides preventive support for disadvantaged families.

Southwell Diocesan Council for Family Care - £55,850
Towards the salary over two years of a Family Service Teamleader to provide a wider range of services to vulnerable families where children are at risk of social exclusion.

Springfield Community Flat - £42,300
Towards the salary over three years of a Community Development Worker to work with residents on this deprived housing estate in Lambeth, London and extend their services to refugees and asylum seekers.

St Barnabas Family Centre - £32,912
Towards the salary over three years of a part-time Administrator for a community centre which provides a multi-purpose, multi-cultural community resource in a deprived area of Coventry.

StartHere - £50,000
Towards the salary and associated costs of a Software Developer to enable the roll-out of this unique public information service across Scotland.

Stepfamily Scotland - £13,000
Towards the salary of a Helpline Supervisor to develop the telephone helpline for stepfamilies experiencing difficulties in Scotland.

Strathclyde University - £130,000
Towards the project costs over three years of working with small groups in sparsely populated rural areas of Scotland to enable local people to develop and run community businesses and facilities.

Survivors UK - £15,000
Towards the core costs of providing a volunteer-run service to help and support adult male survivors of childhood sexual abuse and adult sexual assault.

Take a Break, Herefordshire - £37,500
Towards core costs over three years of providing carers with short-term breaks.

TAXAID UK - £60,000
Towards core costs including the salary over two years of a Tax Practitioner to involve professional tax advisers as volunteers to help people on low incomes understand their tax rights using Citizens Advice Bureaux and other networks.

Together in Notre Dame - £45,000
Towards the salary over three years of a Community Development Worker to continue the engagement of previously marginalised residents of the Notre Dame estate in Lambeth, London.

Torridge Addiction Action Group - £25,352
Towards the salary over two years of a Project Co-ordinator to provide for addicts in recovery.

Toynbee Hall - £78,883
Towards core costs and the salary over three years of a Bengali Women's Support Worker to expand the support service for women of Bengali origin, including support with education, housing, immigration and welfare problems.

Victim Support National Office - £110,221
Towards the salaries over three years of a Restorative Justice Worker and a part-time Administrator to develop Victim Support's response to and involvement in the new developments in restorative justice.

Victim Support, Northern Ireland - £19,000
Towards the salary of a Project Worker to provide a support service to victims of violent crime as they arrive in the A&E unit of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast.

Voluntary Action Lochaber - £24,000
Towards core costs of the Community Development Project which provides training, advice and information to local community groups in rural Lochaber.

Voluntary Service Pembrokeshire Association - £59,331
Towards project costs over three years to establish a coalition for disabled people to enable them to access facilities and opportunities.

West Harton Churches Action Station - £17,982
Towards the salary of a Cook for the Action Station Community Coffee Shop in South Shields.

West Sussex Voluntary Organisations Liaison Group - £37,731
Towards the salary costs over three years of the Project Co-ordinator for a local advocacy service for adults with health or social care needs.

Whinney Banks Parental Support Project - £60,000
Towards the core costs of the 'Family Links Project' supporting families where children are at risk of being looked after by the local authority on the Whinney Banks estate in Middlesbrough.

Wingate & Station Town Family Centre - £49,648
Towards the core costs over three years of a project in an ex-colliery village in East Durham which works with vulnerable children and their mothers to develop their skills and confidence.

Women's Health & Family Services - £49,608
Towards training costs and the salary of a Somali Assistant Psychologist to provide a service that improves the accessibility of mental health services for the Somali community in Tower Hamlets, London.

Yeldall Christian Centres - £63,000
Towards the salaries over three years of a Resettlement Manager and Worker to prepare former drug addicts for a drug-free life through the provision of education, training and access to employment opportunities.

Youth Action, Cambridge - £24,895
Towards the project costs over three years to enable young people aged 18-24 to achieve positions of authority and responsibility within local and countrywide decision-making bodies.

Youth Aware - £30,000
Towards the project costs over three years of providing a mobile support service for at-risk young people in Birmingham.

Community Foundation - £50,000
Towards the cost of the 'Community Leaders' Awards Programme' to develop the skills and capacity of voluntary sector staff and community leaders in north east England.


Grants approved up to £10,000

Addiction Recovery Foundation - £5,000
Advocacy Alliance - £3,989
Age Concern Bromyard & District - £4,000
Andover Young Carers Project - £5,931
Bangladesh Council - £1,800
Baseline - £5,090
Benview & Ballysillan Avenue Tenants Association - £9,000
Beyond Existing - £995
Black and Minority Community Partnership - £10,000
Blyth Detached Project - £6,000
Booth Centre - £3,304
Breaking Free - £4,930
Bromley Advocacy Project - £3,510
CCP-Council of the Portuguese Communities - £2,000
Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) - £8,000
Cheylesmore Workers Group - £5,000
Cleveland Alzheimer's Residential Care Centre - £10,000
Cockerton & Branksome Living Enterprise (CABLE) - £2,340
Community Development & Advocacy Centre - £5,000
Council for Voluntary Service, Hamilton District - £4,950
Council for Voluntary Service, Rugby - £8,000
Croydon Hearing Resource Centre - £10,000
Denton Young People's Project - £7,488
Derby Law Centre - £9,750
Dunoon Link Club - £9,000
Ezer North West - £5,000
Foyer Federation for Youth - £9,008
Gloucestershire Forum for Young Single Homeless - £5,661
Gobowen Youth Steering Group - £5,900
Golspie Youth Action Project - £4,100
Hastings & Rother Bond Board - £7,210
Help the Homeless, Chorley - £10,000
Herefordshire Growing Point - £5,000
Honeycomb Community Project - £5,000
Houghton Road Centre - £4,277
Investors in Children - £7,000
Kairos in Soho - £10,000
Lanarkshire Furniture Initiative - £5,000
Lifebuoy Charitable Trust - £10,000
Link-Up Association, Nuneaton - £5,108
Lintel Trust - £10,000
Liverpool Somali Women's Group - £5,000
Llanelli Disabled Access Group - £4,000
Lung Ha's Theatre Company - £3,000
Maggs Day Centre - £7,716
Marches Family Network - £4,000
Middlesex Young People's Clubs - £4,860
MIND, Scarborough - £9,541
Mosaic Women Writers - £2,000
NewLink South Wales - £4,500
Nottinghamshire Coalition of Disabled People - £4,560
One Parent Families, York - £8,000
One-to-One Enfield - £5,000
Parents Against Drug Abuse, Ellesmere Port - £5,000
People First, Kensington & Chelsea - £1,500
Rights Project - £5,000
S.T.E.E.R. Mental Health Charity - £8,850
Saffron Sight - £10,000
Scottish Council Foundation - £4,850
Seeds of Hope project - £10,000
Shoshanas Rochel - £2,000
Sierra Leone Women's Forum - £10,000
SITRA - £10,000
SmartMove Teeside Rent & Bond Guarantee Scheme - £8,360
South Lakeland Support Group of Disabled Children & their families - £6,000
SPLITZ - £6,000
St Cuthbert's Community Trust - £5,664
St Joseph's Pastoral Centre - £4,880
St Mark's Family Centre - £10,000
St Mark's Institute Trust - £3,406
St Matthews Project - £2,400
Stanhope Community Association - £3,904
Station House Community Association - £7,152
Streetscene - £10,000
Support Action for Europeans - £9,952
Sutton Centre for Independent Living and Learning - £7,500
Swarcliffe Good Neighbours Scheme - £5,000
Together We Can Manage Partnership - £10,000
Tonbridge United Football Club - £5,000
Tranx-Action - £1,250
Volunteer Bureau Lowestoft & District - £5,000
Volunteer Centre Leicester - £8,000
Volunteers Greenwich - £3,580
Welsh Association of Youth Clubs - £9,000
Westcliffe Neighbourhood Drop-In Centre - £5,000
Women's Aid Northumberland - £10,000
Work Match - £4,640
Workable - £10,000
Yemeni Elderly in Small Heath & Sparkbrook - £5,068
Youth-Link, Dundee - £5,000

		Strategic Initiative - £1,000,000 The second £1 million contribution towards Rethinking Crime & Punishment a £3 million grant-making programme.

		Social Development Total value for Programme:	£8,253,825
		Total number for Programme:	261

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