Grants made in 2002

Education

Grants approved over £10,000

Academy of Youth Limited - £49,500
(The University of the First Age) Towards the costs over two years of training community volunteers to work with young people on out-of-schoolhours learning projects.

Antidote Projects - £49,680
Towards the costs of research over three years into the links between emotional literacy and educational attainment.

Better Government For Older People Network - £80,000
Towards the salary and costs over two years of a Coordinator to provide people aged over 55 with open learning programmes at three university colleges across the UK.

Birmingham Partnership for Change - £21,690
Towards the project costs of raising literacy levels of primary school children, particularly of African andCaribbean origin, in Birmingham.

Bridget's Trust Limited - £65,000
Towards the costs over two years of a scheme at Cambridge University and Anglia Polytechnic University to give academic and personal support to students with severe physical disabilities.

Business in the Community - £60,000
Towards the costs over three years of a mentoring programme that will enhance the literacy of primary school children in Northern Ireland.

Carmarthen Family Centre - £21,387
Towards the salary of a Project Worker who will run a family learning programme.

Centre for Education Leadership & School Improvement - £75,000
Towards the project costs over two years of testing effective ways of educating disaffected teenagers in out-of-school settings in Barnsley, Birmingham, Greenwich and Newcastle.

Centre for Language in Primary Education - £34,500
Towards the salary of a Project Officer to conduct research into improving methods of teaching literacy to boys.

Centre for Sustainable Energy - £24,520
Towards the development and delivery of family learning activities about the environment in Bristol.

Chartered Institute of Library Professionals (CILIP) - £90,000
Towards the costs over three years of a programme of professional development days on working with books for over 2,000 early years workers and librarians.

Charterhouse in Southwark - £40,000
Towards the salaries over two years of the Manager and Tutor to improve the skills of 'hard to reach' women to enable them to access education, training and employment in Southwark.

Choysez - £20,000
Towards the running costs of a project which will help young people in Northumberland to re-engage with education.

Christchurch Oxford United Clubs - £38,900
Towards tutor costs over two years to improve the educational and employment prospects of young people excluded from school.

Community Education Development Centre - £126,665
Towards the core costs over two years of running pilot after-school clubs for children with behavioural difficulties in Devon, Leicester, Liverpool and Staffordshire.

Community Service Volunteers - £91,112
Towards the salary and costs over three years of a Project Worker to work on a peer mentoring scheme to support pupils at risk of school exclusion or non-attendance.

Creggan Neighbourhood Centre - £50,820
Towards the salary over two years of an IT Tutor, and costs, to train adults in the Creggan area of Derry using laptop computers.

Curiosity and Imagination - £78,000
Towards the costs over two years of developing imaginative approaches to heritage education for families in disadvantaged communities across England.

Deaf Education Through Listening and Talking - £34,920
Towards the core costs over two years of a project to support parents of deaf children in assisting their children's language development.

Dearne Valley Venture - £29,640
Towards the core costs over two years of providing older people with the opportunity to develop a range of new skills from desk top publishing to managing community projects in South Yorkshire.

Demos Limited - £25,000
Towards the costs over two years of induction, training, salaries and fees to work with 100 socially excluded children, aged 14-19 across the UK, through a video project.

Downtown Women's Group - £24,377
Towards the salary of a Training and Education Officer for courses across Northern Ireland that increase women's participation in local decision-making and politics.

Endeavour Training - £30,000
Towards the core costs over two years of citizenship courses for young people in the East Midlands, South Yorkshire and West Midlands.

Essex County Council - £25,000
Towards the project costs of a training programme for headteachers.

Hackney Summer University - £25,000
Towards the development costs of a programme to encourage young people to stay in or return to education.

Haverhill Advocacy and Mentoring Service - £15,000
Towards the salary of a Project Co-ordinator to improve the educational chances of pupils with special educational needs.

Head Support Limited - £15,000
Towards the costs of a professional development scheme for middle managers and leaders in four Birmingham secondary schools.

High/Scope UK - £37,650
Towards the project costs over three years of developing a quality assurance scheme for pre-school nurseries.

Highwayman Management Group - £32,324
Towards the core costs over two years of providing a programme of creative activity based on literacy, numeracy and IT skills in deprived areas of Dundee for adults experiencing social exclusion through a lack of basic skills.

Home Farm Trust - £33,255
Towards the core costs over two years of providing an information technology training programme for staff working with people with learning disabilities across England.

Human Scale Education - £53,200
Towards the costs over three years of converting a large school into smaller learning communities in Sussex and to disseminate learning from the project nationally.

Institute for Citizenship - £16,120
Towards the costs of developing and piloting citizenship resources in schools.

Institute for Public Policy Research - £46,956
Towards the costs of establishing a community currency scheme in six UK schools to encourage parental involvement in their children's schools.

Jabadao - £75,000
Towards the salary over three years of the Project Director for a dance project in Suffolk and Yorkshire for children who have emotional, behavioural and social difficulties.

Kidsactive - £25,000
Towards the salary of a Play Worker to develop and monitor play and learning opportunities for children who have been excluded from school, or who are at risk of exclusion, in six centres in London.

Learning Link Scotland - £51,710
Towards the salary over three years of a Project Coordinator to run training days for teachers working in voluntary organisations in Scotland.

Lyric Theatre Hammersmith - £39,325
Towards the project costs over two years of high quality educational arts activities for early years children and training for early years' workers in the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham.

Mindscreen Limited - £62,916
Towards the costs of creating a curriculum for young people at risk of exclusion who have an aptitude for business.

Mudiad Ysgolion Meithrin - £26,306
Towards the costs of a training programme for 26 Development Officers and ten trainers in Cylchoedd Meithrin nurseries.

National Association for Providers of Activities for Older People - £86,007
Towards the salary over two years of an Education and Training Co-ordinator to support the development of high quality and imaginative learning programmes for elderly people in residential homes.

National Association for Gifted Children - £30,744
Towards the costs of a project to improve levels of classroom support for more able pupils.

National College for School Leadership - £50,000
Towards the costs of applied research into effective leadership in schools.

National Playbus Association - £49,500
Towards the salary over two years of a worker to promote Playbus provision to Sure Start partnerships and to increase the use of mobile play facilities in disadvantaged communities across the UK.

National Primary Trust - £16,500
Towards the costs of a course to help middle leaders to explore new approaches to teaching in Oxfordshire.

Open College of the Arts - £199,800
Towards the salary over three years of the Development Director for the College who will develop creative courses for adults in prison and those with learning difficulties.

Profound & Multiple Impairment Service (PAMIS) - £44,739
Towards the salary over two years of a Project Worker to help develop individual education plans for young people with profound disabilities.

Parents for Inclusion - £31,000
Towards the costs of working with parents to ensure that the needs of children with special needs are met in mainstream schools.

Peers Early Education Partnership - £151,858
Towards the core costs over three years including the salary of the Chief Executive to run a national programme of early years' development work that aims to improve the
educational attainment of pre-school children.

Play and Care Entrust - £29,910
Towards the salary over three years of a Trainer Worker to improve access to appropriate training courses for volunteers, staff and management committees of children's organisations.

Pre-School Learning Alliance - £30,000
Towards the costs over two years of developing a family literacy programme across England.

Preset Charitable Trust - £29,721
Towards the salary of a Curriculum Co-ordinator to develop the creative skills of young people excluded from school in London.

Reading Matters - £30,000
Towards the salary and costs over three years of a Research Officer to evaluate the impact of volunteer reading support on pupils' academic progress.

RISE - £33,700
Towards the costs of research on the extent to which parent governor representatives on education committees have an effective voice in decision-making.

Scottish Pre-School Play Association - £69,917
Towards the costs over three years of a Development Worker to help 286 parent and toddler groups in Scotland with training to ensure that they are sustainable.

Scottish School Board Association - £28,304
Towards the project costs of encouraging greater parental invovlement in schools across Scotland.

Sheffield Wildlife Trust - £48,000
Towards the salary over two years of a Project Officer to develop environment projects with young people excluded
from school.

Skills for the Community - £34,022
Towards the salary over two years of two part-time workers to develop basic skills support on a one-to-one level for disadvantaged adults in Hackenthorpe, Sheffield.

Soundabout - £50,000
Towards the core costs over three years of a project which will train special needs staff in special schools in how to use music to develop the skills of severely disabled pupils.

St Martin's Nursery School & St Paul's Nursery School - £28,830
Towards the salary and on-costs over two years of two part-time Co-ordinators who will enhance parents' ability to support their children's education in West Belfast.

St Monica's RC Primary School - £25,600
Towards the costs of a professional development course for headteachers and their staff in Liverpool.

Stonebroom Primary and Nursery School - £25,980
Towards a professional development programme for sixty teachers to improve attitudes to learning and attainment of disadvantaged pupils and pupils at risk of disaffection in Derbyshire.

Summer Education UK - £25,000
Towards the costs of a project which will develop young people's skills in supporting the educational achievement of their peers.

Survivors' Poetry - £30,000
Towards the salary and costs over two years of a Project Worker to train young people recovering from mental health problems to work as poets and mentors with their peers in London.

Sutton Trust - £28,000
Towards the salary over two years of a Project Co-ordinator to research and implement a programme which will help young people from disadvantaged backgrounds in Birmingham to progress from further to higher education.

Synectics Education Initiative - £50,000
Towards the costs over two years of a project offering teachers across the UK an opportunity to develop more creative approaches to teaching and learning.

Teach for London - £136,500
Towards the costs over two years of a programme encouraging talented graduates to teach in London.

Teacher Support Scotland - £50,000
Towards the costs of research on the professional development and support needs of teachers in Scotland.

Technology Colleges Trust - £44,450
Towards the costs of conducting a value-added study of specialist schools' and pupils' performance at GCSE.

The Buttle Trust - £30,000
Towards the costs over two years of a researcher to help young people move from care into higher education.

The Campaign for Learning - £60,000
Towards the costs of a national project exploring ways of helping young people to learn more effectively in schools.

The Centre for the Children's Book - £44,726
Towards the salary and costs over two years of an Education Officer to run reading, writing and literacy projects for hard-to-reach groups, including pre-school children, in the Newcastle area.

The College of Teachers - £32,220
Towards the salary of a part-time Project Worker to develop the teaching skills of classroom assistants in 10 UK schools.

The Down Syndrome Educational Trust - £16,605
Towards the salaries of researchers and project costs to improve the teaching of numeracy for children with Down's Syndrome.

The PACE Centre - £15,486
Towards the salary over two years of a senior teacher to train pre-school staff to work with children with physical and learning difficulties.

The SPACE Project - £20,000
Towards the salary over two years of a key worker, and resource costs, to help children and young people with mental health needs, and young and single parents, through a programme of personal and educational support.

The Third Age Trust - £63,959
Towards the costs of expanding the U3A's distance learning resource centre for the benefit of the elderly across the UK.

The Total Learning Challenge Project - £20,000
Towards the costs over two years of a programme for disaffected young people in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Thomas Coram Foundation for Children - £63,666
Towards the costs of research into the ways in which early years' services might further reflect the needs of young children.

UK Youth - £38,107
Towards the costs over two years of a project to re-engage young mothers in Birmingham and Sheffield with education.

ULTRALAB - £81,000
Towards the salaries of a project team to develop an internet learning resource and support system for young people who have been excluded from school.

University of Leicester - £50,000
Towards the costs over two years of an induction programme for newly qualified teachers that will be disseminated nationally.

University of North London - £50,958
Towards the costs over two years of a project to research why young people drop out of education at the age of 16.

University of Oxford - £34,809
Towards the salary of a researcher to improve the mathematics attainment of students entering secondary schools with below national target levels at key stage three.

Villiers Park Educational Trust - £58,250
Towards the costs of a professional development programme for middle managers in Birmingham.

Visualise - £16,000
Towards the salary costs of a tutor to improve the confidence and independence of adults with visual impairments in Edinburgh using proactive teaching and innovative technology.

Warwick University - £17,000
Towards the costs of producing and disseminating case studies of five headteacher training projects.

Wednesbury Education Action Zone - £30,000
Towards a professional development programme on creativity in the curriculum for teachers in the West Midlands.

Whiterock Crèche Association Limited - £25,516
Towards the salary over three years of a Project Worker to support a family learning programme in a deprived area of Antrim, Northern Ireland.

Willington Action for Youth - £28,000
Towards the costs of a Learning Mentor to help re-integrate young people who have been excluded from school or mainstream education.

Willow, The North Hull Women's Centre - £27,982
Towards the salary over two years of a Project Co-ordinator and costs to address the low levels of literacy in Hull by encouraging women to learn basic skills through a programme of informal learning.

Women in Prison - £42,000
Towards the costs of the Education team and Finance Worker until the end of 2003.

Workers' Educational Association - £43,400
Towards the salary over two years of a worker to co-ordinate course materials for men who do not traditionally participate in education across Northern Ireland.

Workers' Educational Association: Scotland - £64,000
Towards the costs over two years of professional development for tutors working in adult education in Scotland.


Grants approved up to £10,000

African and Caribbean Voices Association - £10,000
African People's Link - £10,000
Alford House Club - £10,000
Art Room - £7,800
AWCEBD - £10,000
AWCEBD - £8,500
Bath Spa University College - £9,310
Bilston Resource Centre - £10,000
Bivol Trust - £5,280
Blackburn with Darwen Education Action Zone - £10,000
Brighton Unemployed Centre Families Project - £10,000
Centre for Innovation in Voluntary Action - £10,000
Chance for Children Trust - £7,900
Dame Vera Lynn Trust for Children with Cerebral Palsy - £10,000
Diversity In Barrier-Breaking Communications - £5,880
Enfield Turkish Cypriot Association - £7,000
Essex Learning and Advice Centre - £5,000
Families First - £5,000
Farmington Trust - £10,000
Federation of Worker Writers & Community Publishers - £10,000
First Taste - £7,500
Foundation for Social & Economic Thinking - £10,000
Garden Science Trust - £10,000
Garvagh & District Development Association - £2,390
Girls Workshop - £4,500
Groundwork Creswell - £9,733
HMP Channings Wood - £10,000
Iranian Association - £5,040
Joseph Clarke School Trust - £5,000
KMM Trust - £6,834
LEntA Trust - £8,000
Liverpool Community Spirit - £10,000
Mulberry Bush School - £10,000
National Campaign for the Arts Research & Education - £8,266
National Foundation for Educational Research - £10,000
Nechells Association for Community Education - £9,938
Newark Play Association Limited - £10,000
Newcastle Action for Parent & Toddler Groups Initiative - £5,000
Norfolk Education & Action for Development - £10,000
Nottinghamshire Dyslexia Association - £10,000
Oaktree Education Trust - £5,400
Oily Cart Company Limited - £8,946
Okehampton School Fund Account - £7,080
Oxford Community Mediation - £10,000
Pakistan Women's Welfare Association - £9,843
Pushkin Prizes - Northern Ireland - £10,000
Razor Edge Theatre Initiative - £9,980
REACH National Advice Centre for Children with Reading Difficulties - £10,000
Redditch Playcare Providers Forum - £3,000
Right Track Scotland - £9,986
Sheffield Diocesan Board of Finance - £10,000
Spires Centre - £9,923
Spitalfields Farm Association - £10,000
St James & St Bede Family Centre - £10,000
Sticky Fingers Voluntary Service Belfast - £10,000
Stoke Primary Home School Project - £10,000
Tam Tam Tales Trust - £5,600
The London Borough of Hackney - £7,759
Tong Parochial Church Council - £1,500
Tower Hamlets Parents Centre - £10,000
U3A Foyle - £1,320
Vauxhall Neighbourhood Council - £2,535
Waltham Forest Arts Council - £10,000
Winton & Co - £10,000
Workers' Educational Association - £1,500
XL Wales - £9,800

		Education Total value for Programme	£4,740,282
		Total number for Programme	159

Education Strategic Initiative grants are under Strategic initiatives and Shared grants

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