Grants made in 2003

Strategic work

Arts & Heritage:
Regional Theatre Initiative
A strategic programme that provide directors with their first opportunity to direct a major production in regional theatres in England and Scotland. From an overall fund of £450,000 one grant was approved in 2003.

Education:
Adult Learners Initiative
An initiative worth £500,000 concentrating on opportunities for some of the most disadvantaged learners.

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

Education:
Esmée Fairbairn/Villiers Park Initiative
An initiative to focus on professional development opportunities for teachers.

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.

Education:
Higher Education, the Arts and Schools (HEARTS)
A joint initiative with a projected budget of £500,000 to address the gradual decline of the arts in schools.

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

Education:
Middle Managers Initiative
A £145,000 programme that aims to develop the leadership skills of middle managers in five schools in Birmingham.

Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge - £29,283
Towards evaluating the initiative.

Head Support Limited - £72,300
Towards continuation funding for the initiative.


Environment:
Esmée Fairbairn Allotments Initiative
An initiative worth £500,000 to develop 'how to' models for regenerating underused allotment sites or finding alternative ways of maintaining them as publicly accessible open spaces.

Environ Trust - £36,797
Towards the salary of an 'Allotments for All' officer.

Harrow in Leaf - £36,132
Towards the costs of a project to increase allotment use, improve physical and mental health and provide fresh produce to Harrow's multicultural population.

Newcastle City Council - £63,495
Towards the costs of plot clearance, training, biodiversity enhancement publicity and support to allotment gardeners and associations.

Sheffield City Council Parks Woodlands and Countryside Service - £38,242
Towards the costs of fencing and infrastructure for the revitalisation of the area to develop increased community participation.

Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council - £26,750
Towards capital and project costs of transforming a derelict area of allotment into a community garden and horticultural training facility for local people.

Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council - £25,000
Towards the costs of the regeneration of an allotment site in Heald Green.

The Station Allotments, Headingly - £26,420
Towards the costs of security fencing, hedgerows acess and a nature walk in a five acre allotment site in the most densely populated area of Leeds.

Grants approved up to £10,000

Adlam Allotments Association - £750
Ansley Village Allotment Society - £460
Ashington Highmarket Allotment Soc Ltd - £2,625
Barlow Hill Allotment Association - £1,000
Bath and North East Somerset Council - £600
Battery Lane Allotment Association - £750
Beauchamp Road and Green Lane Allotment Association - £625
Binswood Allotment Society - £1,500
Blackpool Youth Offending Team - £3,500
Board for Social Responsibility - £1,500
Brimington Gardeners Association - £1,500
Bristol City Council - £1,500
Bristol East Allotments Association Ltd - £525
Bristol East Allotments Association Ltd - £375
Broomhill and District Garden Association - £1,500
BTCV - Northamptonshire - £1,250
BTCV - Plymouth - £1,500
Buckfastleigh Town Council - £750
Cam, Dursley and District LETs - £1,300
Camborne Produce Association - £600
Catchgate Allotments Association - £638
Charity of Edward Marke - £1,750
Chinbrook Meadows Horticultural Society - £750
Chinley Allotments Association - £2,375
Claygate Allotment Holders Association - £1,155
Crewe and Nantwich Sustainability Alliance - £1,650
Dulwich Horticultural and Chrysanthemum Society - £940
Easteds Allotment Association - £1,000
Eastern Valley Group Allotments - £1,900
Exford Road Allotment Society - £1,950
Felpham Allotments and Gardens Society - £2,300
Foundation for Work and Unity in the Community - £1,000
Fromeside Allotment Association - £2,000
Glastonbury Allotments Association - £1,000
Grassmoor Perseverance Allotment Association - £500
Groundwork in Walsall - £1,500
Groundwork Leeds - £1,687
Hale End Horticultural Society - £1,125
Hangleton Playlink - £870
Hartlepool Borough Council - £900
Hawkenbury Allotment Holders Association - £1,118
Hayleys Field Allotment Association - £1,000
Highfield Park Trust - £2,000
Hillheads Allotment Association - £1,750
Horfield and District Allotment Association - £2,625
Horsham Shelley Allotments Society - £390
Hummersknott Gardeners Association - £1,250
Icklesham Parish Council - £450
Iver Heath Allotment Association - £500
Kenton Allotment Association - £770
Knaphill Allotments Association - £1,500
Mansfield Road Allotment Association - £450
Merton Allotments and Gardens Association - £940
Middlesbrough Council - £2,250
Moss Lane Allotments Association - £2,250
Narborough and Littlethorpe Leisure Gardeners Association - £3,126
Nettleden with Potten End Parish Council - £250
Newby and Scalby Parish Council - £350
Newport City Council - £2,500
No Place Allotment Association - £2,180
North East Leamington Allotment Association in partnership with Action 21 - £1,500
North Lincoln Horticultural Society - £1,250
Northampton Borough Council - £500
Northampton Borough Council - £750
Northampton Borough Council - £750
Northampton Borough Council - £750
Oakwood Lane Garden Society - £210
Old Lane Allotment Association - £1,875
Old Windsor Parish Council - £1,650
Park Farm Allotment Association - £750
Parklands Allotment Association - £750
Pengover Allotments Association - £750
Penmore Allotments Association - £1,950
Portsmouth City Council - £750
Prudhoe Gardeners' Association - £2,500
Richmond Allotment Holders' Association - £1,000
Richmond Street Allotments Association - £2,662
Rossdale and Victoria Allotment Association - £750
Rotherham Primary Care Trust - £1,240
Roundhill Allotment Tenants Association - £1,875
Rustington Parish Council - £1,875
Scottish Tree Trust - £1,000
Sefton Park Allotments Society - £1,650
Seven Kings and Goodmayes Allotment Society Ltd - £650
Skelmersdale Horticultural Society - £1,810
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council - £1,750
South Harpenden Allotments and Garden Society - £1,160
South Littleton Allotments and Gardeners Association - £1,500
Teignbridge District Council - £170
Thurrock Allotment Steering Group - £2,500
Tring Town Council - £1,500
Tyldesley Allotments Association - £500
Vale View Allotment Association - £2,200
Walnut Tree Meadow Allotment Society - £1,125
Walton and District Allotment and Garden Society - £575
Warmington Parish Council - £1,332
Warrington Borough Council - £4,000
West End Allotment Association - £1,250
Weston Street Allotment Association - £920
Wolverton and Greenleys Town Council - £500
Woodcroft Allotments Association - £2,500
Youth Organic Environmental - £2,500

Environment:
Esmée Fairbairn UK Biodiversity Programme
A £1.25 million programme to support the recovery of threatened UK species that are not benefiting from other funding sources.

British Butterfly Conservation Society Ltd - £119,280
Towards the analysis, publishing and launch costs over two years of the project: 'Long Term Population Trends in British Moths'.

Environment Department, University of York - £159,950
Towards the costs of research into the benefits of protecting areas of the UK sea from fishing.

Marine Biological Association - £121,901
Towards the salaries and costs over three years of researchers to collate and collect data and conduct scientific analysis.

Plantlife International - £122,675
Towards the salary over two years of a New Species Recovery Officer and associated costs.

School of Biology & Biochemistry, Queen's University Belfast - £135,000
Towards the costs of research and species recovery work to conserve some of the most threatened UK marine species and habitats.

Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford - £119,972
Towards research salaries and costs over four years for a project to control the American mink, reducing its pressure on riparian biodiversity and to understand its interaction with the native polecat.

Rethinking Crime & Punishment
A strategic initiative worth £3.1million over three years from 2001 which is designed to raise the level of debate about responses to crime, and identify credible alternatives to prison.

Fawcett Society - £40,000
Towards the costs of a project to raise awareness of gender and justice among the general public and to educate decision makers.

University of Central England - £38,880
Towards the costs of a series of screenings of prison films and events to raise awareness and debate about the growth of the UK's prison population.

Rethinking Crime & Punishment grants approved up to £10,000

Centre for Crime and Justice Studies - £7,300
Children's Rights Alliance for England - £1,000
Howard League for Penal Reform in Scotland - £4,623
NCH Scotland - £10,000
NCH Scotland - £3,000
Penal Affairs Consortium - £10,000
Powys Challenge Trust - £10,000
Revolving Doors Agency - £3,617
Scottish Council Foundation - £10,000
The Diocese of Winchester - £3,000
The Open University - £10,000
University of Luton - £1,500
Winchester RJ International Conference Committee - £10,000

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