Grants made in 2003

Education

Grants approved over £10,000

Beatbullying Ltd - £38,767
Towards the costs over two years of a programme to combat bullying in schools in eight London boroughs.

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - £30,000
Towards the fees of professional artists to work with teachers and pupils in Pupil Referral Units.

Canterbury Christ Church University College - £37,600
Towards the costs of research, publication and dissemination of a project to investigate character formation and values education in schools in London and Kent.

Chance UK - £60,750
Towards the salary over two years of a Senior Programme Manager for mentoring programmes for 100 primary children who have been excluded or are in danger of exclusion in Hackney, Islington and Haringey.

Community & Voluntary Education - £19,135
Towards the salaries of the Centre Manager and Development Worker to advance the education of young people and adults in Lambeth, particularly those who are unemployed.

DeafPLUS - £27,526
Towards the costs of four tailored courses for 40 people with profound deafness and mental health problems to improve literacy and life skills.

DEX - £35,525
Towards the salaries of a full-time Officer and a part-time Administration Officer, and office costs, for a project in West Yorkshire to provide information and support to deaf children who have left mainstream education.

St Wilfrids Day Centre - £10,500
Towards the salary of the Personal Development Supervisor to provide informal learning opportunities for hard-to-reach adults in Sheffield.

East London Schools Fund - £105,000
Towards the salary and costs over three years of a Training Officer to support the national expansion of the Fund's work with young people at risk of educational exclusion.

Federation of Artistic and Creative Therapy (FACT) - £37,000
Towards the salary over three years of an Outreach Educational Therapist to run weekly sessions for profoundly disabled children in London.

Forum on Prisoner Education - £40,385
Towards the salary of a Co-ordinator to increase the effectiveness of the Forum's activities in promoting the importance of prisoner education.

Halfmoon Young People's Theatre Ltd - £16,020
Towards training sessions in the East of London to promote personal, social and emotional development and creative literacy amongst early years' workers.

Hartcliffe and Withywood Ventures - £26,600
Towards the costs over three years of training for young disabled people and their peers in four secondary schools in south Bristol.

INaura - £53,740
Towards the salaries over two years of the Chief Executive and Office Manager to expand INaura's exclusion prevention work in more areas nationally.

Kids - £20,000
Towards the salary of a part-time Senior Adviser to recruit, train and support eight new advisers.

Learning Choices - £20,000
Towards the costs over two years of providing locally-based, informal learning programmes for 120 hard-to-reach adults in deprived parts of Northumbria.

Learning Plus - £12,185
Towards the salary and costs over two years of a part-time Co-ordinator to improve the literacy, numeracy and IT skills of 90 hard-to-reach adult learners in the Lake District.

Learning Through Action Trust - £39,637
Towards the costs of running and delivering a programme of interactive learning projects/workshops for school excludees in Buckinghamshire, Hampshire and Oxfordshire.

Liverpool Hope University College - £30,000
Towards the costs of developing a community education programme for hard-to-reach adults in Everton, Liverpool.

Manchester Metropolitan University - £73,300
Towards the project costs of a training programme for early years' practitioners working with children under the age of three in Birmingham, Bridgwater, London, Manchester and Newcastle.

Milton Keynes Play Association - £40,537
Towards the salary over three years of a Training Development Officer to run community based play courses and increase training for 60 parents from deprived estates.

National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) Wales - £69,771
Towards the salary and costs over two years of a part-time Project Officer to support the development of a programme promoting learning opportunities for the elderly.

Nuneaton Women's Multicultural Resource Centre - £13,490
Towards the salary and costs of a Childcare Co-ordinator to encourage women from black and minority ethnic (BME) communities in Nuneaton to be actively involved in their children's learning.

Phoenix Secondary and Primary School - £10,200
Towards the salary of a Resource Manager to work with parents in Tower Hamlets on how to use resources with their child.

Playboard - £21,000
Towards the salary and costs over two years of a Development Worker, and evaluation costs, to
support the development of out of school childcare facilities for young people in deprived areas of Northern Ireland.

Prism Arts - £13,000
Towards the salary of an Arts Development Worker to co-ordinate a project to extend learning opportunities for 260 hard-to-reach adults over the age of 60 in Cumbria.

S.A.V.T.E - £47,701
Towards the salary over two years of a worker to recruit, train and oversee volunteer tutors for English as an Additional Language (EAL) programmes for hard-to-reach adults in Sheffield.

Safer Cardiff Ltd - £16,258
Towards the costs of extending a programme of support to 24 year 9 children at risk of exclusion in Cardiff, to raise their academic attainment and attendance at school.

School of Education - Inclusive & Special Education, The University of Birmingham - £41,570
Towards the costs of developing two professional development courses for early years' workers that will address the needs of pre-school children with sensory and learning difficulties.

Springboard for Children - £51,000
Towards the salaries over two years of project workers to deliver training for literacy programmes for children with special educational needs in Southwark.

Sudan People's Support Association - £20,000
Towards the salary and costs over two years of an Education Tutor to provide family learning for 80 refugee parents in Westminster.

The Association of Workers for Children with Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties - £90,000
Towards project costs over three years to develop the organisation's work with children with emotional, behavioural and social difficulties.

The DARE Foundation - £98,436
Towards the salary over two years of the Education Development Officer to support disabled people and carers whose education has been disrupted or prematurely ended.

The Dyslexia Institute - £117,655
Towards the salary and costs over two years of a co-ordinator to expand services and widen access to learning support for dyslexic children and adults in the South of England and Wales.

The Living Paintings Trust - £15,000
Towards the costs over two years of developing early years' learning resources across the UK for children under the age of five with visual impairment.

The Music Pool - £27,548
Towards the salaries of up to four project workers to develop the music teaching skills of parents and early years' educators in Herefordshire.

The New Forest & Romsey Mobile Community Project - £31,993
Towards the salaries and costs over two years of three part-time project workers to run literacy and social skills programmes with Romany children in Hampshire.

The Place To Be - £155,000
Towards the salary over three years of the Head of Planning and Development and costs to expand support for children transferring to secondary schools.

The Sutton Trust - £27,000
Towards match funding for two projects to widen access to further education.

The Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Trust - £59,580
Towards the salary and costs over two years of a Project Leader to pilot a family learning project focusing on conflict resolution in areas of deprivation in Cheshire.

The Wessex Foundation - £12,209
Towards the salary and costs of the Education Officer to deliver a tailored learning programme to 36 excluded primary and secondary children and 108 disadvantaged young people in Somerset.

The Who Cares? Trust - £108,033
Towards staff costs over two years to expand educational services for the 60,000 young people in care across the UK.

Thomas Coram Foundation for Children - £84,950
Towards the costs over two years of training for early years' practitioners in how to involve children in the designing and planning of services to meet their needs.

Tower Hamlets Summer University - £57,977
Towards the salary over two years of a Peer Volunteer Co-ordinator to develop out of school learning opportunities for over 1,600 young people aged 13-25 at risk of exclusion in the borough.

U Can Do I.T. - £90,000
Towards the salary over three years of the Chief Fundraiser to expand the education programme for adults with learning and physical disabilities across the UK.

University of Manchester - £23,500
Towards the costs of a study into effective educational practice with gifted children.

University of Southampton - £19,965
Towards the salary of a Research Assistant and interview costs for a study to understand the impact on families of early behavioural intervention for their autistic children.

Villiers Park Educational Trust - £72,555
Towards the costs over two years of a programme of professional development for teachers to update their subject knowledge and to communicate their subject more effectively to A level
students.

YWCA - £59,997
Towards the salaries over two years of project workers and a Research Officer for a national programme to reintegrate young women aged 11-16 who are excluded from school back into fulltime education.


Grants approved up to £10,000

African Family Development Association - £5,265
Axis: Visual Arts Exchange and Information Service - £9,640
Benton Estate Community Group - £5,000
Blyth Resource and Initiative Centre - £10,000
Brainwave Centre Limited - £5,000
Creative & Supportive Trust Ltd - £9,567
Department of Applied Computing, University of Dundee - £5,000
East Belfast Partnership - £5,000
Education Renaissance Trust - £4,000
Ezer North West Ltd - £8,210
Families In Focus (Essex) - £6,395
Family Welfare Association - £6,624
Gwynedd Literature Promotion Project - £5,300
Halifax Learning Zone - £6,000
Heads Together Productions Limited - £4,200

		Education Total value for Programme:	£2,502,316
		Total number for Programme:	87

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