Grants made in 2004

Social Development

Grants approved over £10,000

Aberdeen Day Project Ltd - £95,232
Towards the costs over two years of developing a social firm offering training and employment to people with learning and other disabilities.

Addaction - £64,391
Towards the salary over two years of a Training Co-ordinator to help businesses and charities in Devon deliver effective drug and alcohol policies in the workplace and generate earned income.

Advocacy in Gateshead and South Tyneside - £20,000
Towards the salary of the Self Advocacy Project Worker to introduce and develop self advocacy in South Tyneside.

AIMS Advocacy - £18,300
Towards the salary of a part-time Co-ordinator to work with people with additional support needs and enable them to take a more active role in decision making.

All Saints Community Centre - £20,000
Towards the salary of the Outreach Community Development Co-ordinator to work with marginalised groups in Camborne, Cornwall.

Alone in London - £62,211
Towards the salary over two years of a Development Co-ordinator who will build on a pilot project to extend and improve family mediation services across England.

Anawim - £20,000
Towards the salary of the Project Manager to work with women who are either on remand or imprisoned, providing emotional and practical support.

Ascension Community Trust, The - £60,000
Towards the salary over three years of a Project Manager of the community café in East London's docklands.

Aspire Micro Loans for Business Ltd - £85,000
Towards bridge funding for the core costs over five months of supporting microcredit in Northern Ireland.

Bankside Open Spaces Trust, The - £20,000
Towards the salary of a Community Participation Manager to develop a self-financing consultancy service for community involvement in managing parks.

Bengali Workers Action Group - £20,000
Towards the salary over two years of the Bangladeshi Older People's Project Officer to promote participation and self-help for their older members.

Beulah Scotland - £12,000
Towards the salary and costs of a Development Manager.

Birmingham Credit Union Development Agency Limited - £180,600
Towards the costs of developing the first pathfinder Community Banking Partnership in Birmingham.

Blind in Business Trust - £30,450
Towards the salary of the Head of Employment to maximise educational and employment opportunities for visually impaired young people.

Breathing Space Ltd - £50,000
Towards the costs of a programme that enables unemployed and disadvantaged people to become employed or self-employed.

Bridge Women's Education & Support Project - £55,691
Towards the salary and costs over two years of the Volunteer Manager.

Bulwell Credit Union - £20,000
Towards staffing costs over two years to improve access to the credit union in Nottingham and support its continued growth.

Burnley Women's Refuge Association - £14,299
Towards the salary and costs of a part-time Ethnic Minority Community Support Worker.

Business Community Connections - £65,900
Towards the salary over three years of a Marketing/Development Worker to support emerging social enterprises and small businesses operating in a deprived part of South East Edinburgh.

Business in Prisons - £76,110
Towards the costs of Business Mentors to support prisoners to become self-employed on release.

CADISPA Scotland - £90,000
Towards the costs over three years of maintaining and expanding its work supporting local community groups in rural parts of Scotland.

Carers Lewisham - £17,735
Towards the costs of a pilot project to support those caring for a frail or disabled person to improve their skills and enter employment.

Carers UK - £31,516
Towards the salary of the Public Affairs Officer to ensure the effective implementation of the Carers (Equal Opportunities) Act 2004.

Castlemilk Budgeting Services - £11,104
Towards the running costs of this project aimed at alleviating poverty and debt in a deprived part of Glasgow.

Castlemilk Community Transport Ltd - £20,000
Towards the costs of making the Driver Assessor Trainer a full-time post and thereby increasing the level of self generated income.

Centre for Adolescent Rehabilitation - £200,000
Towards core costs over two years of a residential alternative to custody for young people in Devon.

CHANGE (Waltham Forest) Society Ltd - £40,100
Towards salary and operating costs of a project aimed at testing the most effective ways of delivering joinedup financial services to housing association tenants in London.

Children Our Ultimate Investment (COUI) UK - £98,645
Towards the costs over two years of expanding the 'Teens & Toddlers' teenage pregnancy prevention project.

Coalition for the Removal of Pimping (CROP) - £15,000
Towards the costs over three years of a Policy and Development Worker to support families where a child has been coerced into prostitution, particularly by influencing legislation and relevant agencies.

Commonside Community Development Trust - £50,000
Towards the salary and costs over two years of a Community Development Officer to expand its services to local people.

Co-Options Ltd - £58,500
Towards the salary over two years of a Development Manager to support the growth of income generating social enterprises.

Cope Ltd - £65,000
Towards the salary over two years of the Marketing Manager to promote the distribution and sales of the Shetland Soap Company.

Core Arts - £68,814
Towards the salary over three years of the Membership Support Co-ordinator.

Counsel & Care for the Elderly - £118,800
Towards the costs over three years of a project to to enable older people in need of care to choose and control the support they need in their own homes.

Craigencalt Farm Ecology Centre - £17,993
Towards the salary over two years of a part-time Development Worker to improve employability of people with limited opportunities in Fife.

Creggan Community Cafe and Catering Ltd - £20,000
Towards the salary of a Business Development Manager to establish a café and catering community business in Creggan, Derry.

Derby Loans Ltd - £30,000
Towards costs of providing affordable credit to financially excluded residents of deprived areas of Derby.

Derbyshire Dales Careline - £12,326
Towards the costs of the part-time Deputy Manager to improve the welfare of elderly, disabled and vulnerable people.

Development Trusts Association - £120,000
Towards the core costs over three years of creating a national support infrastructure for Development Trusts in England.

Development Trusts Association Scotland - £60,000
Towards core costs over three years.

Devon Youth Association - £17,420
Towards the costs of a project to enable young people with disabilities to devise their own future lifestyle plans.

Dialogue Trust, The - £19,980
Towards the costs of running events at HMP Wandsworth to enable offenders to confront their behaviour and create understanding between offenders and non-offenders.

Digbeth Trust - £49,145
Towards the salary of the Development Worker and the running costs of a project to help voluntary and community organisations in Birmingham make the best use of their premises resources.

Disability Solutions - £60,000
Towards the costs of a Project Officer to increase employment opportunities for young disabled people.

Domestic Violence Intervention Project - £60,000
Towards the salary over three years of a male worker on the Al-aman Project, which provides a frontline service to victims and perpetrators of domestic violence in the Arabic speaking community.

Dundee International Women's Centre - £55,130
Towards the salary and costs over two years of the Project Manager to run a programme of social, educational and personal development activities for ethnic minority women.

Earthworks St Albans - £20,000
Towards the salary of a Community Contracts Project Leader.

East Area Asylum Seekers' Support Group - £20,000
Towards the salary and costs of the Support Worker to provide support for asylum seekers in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

East End Reinvestment Trust - £90,000
Towards the salary and costs over three years of a Development Manager to strengthen and expand peer lending to micro entrepreneurs in East London.

East Lancs Moneyline - £151,000
Towards the costs over three years of expanding the organisation's operations to Burnley.

East Staffordshire Racial Equality Council - £71,024
Towards the salary costs over two years of continuing the Jigsaw Mentoring project for disadvantaged young people.

Electronic Immigration Network - £64,062
Towards the salary of the Project Co-ordinator to improve the quality of information and representation for asylum seekers.

European Association for the Treatment of Addiction (UK) - £75,000
Towards the costs over three years of supporting its member organisations' services to improve the availablity and quality of treatment for people with drug and alcohol dependencies.

European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) - £17,247
Towards the costs of co-ordinating a set of consultation meetings with refugees to enable participation in the European Asylum debate on voluntary return.

Evelyn Oldfield Unit - £25,795
Towards the costs of a pilot project to develop a model to support refugee community organisations in Greater Manchester.

Faith Based Regeneration Network - £UK 90,000
Towards core cost over three years to build the capacity of faith groups to contribute to the sustainable regeneration of neighbourhoods in England.

Family Rights Group - £30,376
Towards the costs of developing a Business Plan to support the development of earned income.

Fawcett Society - £66,862
Towards the salary over two years of a Policy Officer and the costs of implementing the recommendations of the Commission on Women and the Criminal Justice System.

Federation of Stadium Communities - £20,000
Towards the salary of the Chief Executive during a period of organisational change.

Fine Cell Work - £60,000
Towards the costs over three years of enabling the organisation to become more financially selfsustaining and increase the numbers of beneficiaries/participants.

Focus to Work Trust Ltd - £50,400
Towards the salary and costs of the Managing Director to increase the development of social enterprises in East Kent.

Forth Sector Ltd - £38,930
Towards the costs of marketing a new social firm, The Soap Company, Edinburgh, and the salaries of the Shop Manager and Shop Supervisor.

Forthspring Inter-Community Group - £75,000
Towards the cost of a crosscommunity project to increase the confidence and employability of adults in West Belfast.

Forward Thinking - £365,000
Towards the core costs of this new organisation which aims to improve understanding between British Muslims and the wider community and enable them to access new opportunities.

Future Regeneration of Grangetown - £75,840
Towards the salary and costs over two years of a Community Worker to enable residents to become economically independent and to establish social enterprises in this area of Middlesbrough.

Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group - £19,193
Towards the salary of a part-time Detainee Support Worker to help detained asylum seekers.

Greater Shankill Alternatives - £50,000
Towards the salaries of two Youth Workers to work intensively with young offenders involved in anti-social behaviour in North West Belfast.

Green Estate - £50,000
Towards the salary over two years of a Development Officer, and costs, to provide business support and training for excluded individuals and tenants wanting to set up and run their own social enterprises and businesses.

Groundswell UK - £97,068
Towards the costs over three years of a project to enable homeless and excluded people to create and sustain their own community enterprises.

Hear Our Voice - £15,000
Towards the core costs of delivering services to young people with mental health difficulties at times of transition.

Here We Are - £20,000
Towards the salary of the Director and core costs.

Home-Start UK - £60,000
Towards the salary and costs over three years of a Development Manager in Central Scotland to develop community-led support services for disadvantaged parents, especially those from black and minority ethnic (BME) communities.

Housing Associations Charitable Trust - £80,000
Towards the costs over three years of work with refugee and indigenous community organisations in dispersal areas.

Hull Lighthouse Project - £19,513
Towards the salary of an Outreach Co-ordinator to offer advice and opportunities for change to women working in prostitution in Hull.

Hyde Park Source Limited - £12,040
Towards the costs of the Project Co-ordinator to work with longterm unemployed people in a disadvantaged area of Leeds.

Impact - £35,064
Towards the salary over three years of an Associate Organiser to support and encourage those wanting to play an active role within their communities.

Independent Living Alternatives - £60,704
Towards the costs over three years of a project to give disabled people access to a comprehensive personal assistant recruitment system.

Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees, The - £156,900
Towards the salary and associated costs over three years of a new Director.

Institute of Criminal Policy Research - £36,545
Towards the costs of a one year research project to explore how sentencing practices may further disadvantage the most economically and socially disadvantaged offenders.

Interlink - £75,000
Towards the salary over three years of an Inclusion and Equality Officer to promote equality of access to services for disadvantaged people in the Orthodox Jewish community of Hackney and Haringey.

Islay & Jura Community Enterprises Ltd - £20,000
Towards the costs over two years of improving the quality of life of people in the Hebridean Islands of Islay and Jura.

Islay Disabled Endeavours and Action - £40,195
Towards the salary over two years of a Project Manager to improve the integration of people with disabilities and special needs on the islands of Islay and Jura.

Key to the Edge - £79,039
Towards the salary over three years of a new Intensive Support Worker to support young people involved in or at risk of serious sexual exploitation.

Kuumba Imani Millennium Centre - £35,347
Towards the salary over two years of an Operations Development Manager to manage the centre and co-ordinate community programmes and activities.

Lambeth Mediation Service - £77,000
Towards the salary and costs over two years of the new Service Manager.

Lanarkshire Association for Mental Health - £60,200
Towards the salary over two years of a Technical Support Supervisor to improve the skills of individuals who experience long-term unemployment due to mental health issues.

Linknet - £25,604
Towards the salary over two years of a part-time Information and Communications Officer.

Living Medicine - £17,150
Towards the costs of starting-up a social enterprise using herbs and food to improve health.

Loganlea Miners' Welfare - £16,000
Towards the salary costs over two years of the Manager of a centre in Addiewell, West Lothian.

London Rebuilding Society - £90,000
Towards the costs over two years of providing technical assistance to enable local social enterprises, charities and voluntary organisations to take on loan funding.

Long Crichel Garden - £19,950
Towards the salary of a Project Manager.

Longheath Community Care & Church Centre - £16,000
Towards the salary and costs over two years of a part-time Co-ordinator to develop and run the centre.

Meadow Well Connected - £70,000
Towards the salary over two years of the Joinery Workshop Manager to run an income generating woodwork/joinery skills centre in North Shields. (One grant of £20,000
and one of £50,000.)

MENCAP National Centre - £83,609
Towards a project that provides support for parents with learning difficulties.

Mental Health Media Council - £90,032
Towards the costs of the Open Up 2 project that aims to tackle discrimination against people with mental health problems.

Menter Mon - £75,000
Towards the costs over three years of a new social enterprise project in Aberffaw, Anglesey.

Midlothian Sure Start - £35,136
Towards the salary of a part-time Back to Work Co-ordinator.

Migrant & Refugee Communities Forum,The - £29,217
Towards the salaries over two years of a Support Worker to support refugee doctors and dentists as they prepare to work in the UK.

Money Spinner Credit Union, The - £55,204
Towards the salary over two years of an Office Manager.

National Community Wood Recycling Project - £89,910
Towards core costs over three years to develop a network of financially self-supporting social enterprises.

National Group on Homeworking, The - £19,136
Towards the salaries and costs of a project to ensure homeworkers receive equality of treatment in the labour market.

Nelson Trust, The - £47,000
Towards the costs of developing a new service to support women in recovery from addiction and to encourage mothers to enter treatment.

Newington Community Care Association - £74,071
Towards the salary over three years of a Community Centre Manager and Volunteer Co-ordinator to expand services to the local community and oversee the smooth running of the centre in Hull.

Northern Ireland Children's Holiday Scheme (NICHS) - £94,233
Towards the costs of continuing and evaluating a community relations project for young people in Belfast.

Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities - £62,735
Towards the salary of the Capacity Building Co-ordinator to support local BME groups.

Opening - £62,000
Towards the costs over two years of activities to support the sustainable employment of disabled people in Glasgow.

Pace - £15,000
Towards core costs over two years of supporting parents to work with public authorities to create better services for children with autism.

Patmos Area Conservation Community Association - £15,000
Towards the costs of developing a food enterprise project and raising levels of healthy eating in Lambeth.

Pegswood Social Welfare Centre - £19,863
Towards the salary and costs of a part-time Administrator to improve the capacity of the organisation in Morpeth, Northumberland.

People First (Self Advocacy) - £46,800
Towards the costs over three years of providing support to the learning disabled people on its management board.

Portobello Business Centre - £81,666
Towards the costs over two years of a project in West London to provide business start-up training to disadvantaged people who want to start a business or become self-employed.

Portsmouth Area Regeneration Trust - £40,000
Towards operational costs of providing affordable credit to people who experience financial exclusion in Portsmouth and South East Hampshire.

Portsmouth Savers Credit Union Ltd - £50,000
Towards loan capital to ensure the long term sustainability of the credit union.

Praxis Community Project - £- £51,447
Towards the costs of the Community Participation Project Co-ordinator to work across the UK.

Probation Boards Association 15,000
Towards bridge funding for the salary of a National Co-ordinator.

Promise - £90,000
Towards the costs over two years of a project to provide adult mentors for the most 'at risk' care leavers in Somerset.

Public Law Project - £39,123
Towards the salary and costs of a part-time Traning Officer to develop a programme of income-generating training courses.

Radio for Development - £99,880
Towards the costs over two years of developing and maintaining a comprehensive after-care service for prisoners who have trained in prison radio.

Reading Single Homeless Project - £87,142
Towards the salary over two years of the Project Manager to provide training and employment opportunities for disadvantaged people.

Refugee New Arrivals Project - £40,580
Towards the salary over two years of a Project Manager to increase the independence of asylum seekers and refugees in Sheffield.

Restorative Justice Consortium - £20,000
Towards the costs of running this organisation, which assists in the development of restorative justice in the UK.

Richmond Hill Elderly Aid - £20,000
Towards the salary and costs over two years of a Neighbourhood Worker to support and help older people living in Leeds.

Roshni - £71,123
Towards the salary over three years of a Research, Education and Outreach Worker to increase awareness of child abuse within Glasgow's BME communities.

Rural Community Network (Northern Ireland) - £40,000
Towards salaries and costs over two years of a programme to increase the decision making capacity of communities in rural areas.

Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health The - £17,000
Towards a pilot project working with individuals from BME communities in Bradford who are suffering mental disorders.

Sandwell Advice & Moneylink - £92,727
Towards the salary over three years of the Community Banking Services Manager for this new Community Development Finance Institution (CDFI).

Sighthill Community - £88,000
One Stop Shop (SCOSS)
Towards the salary and costs over two years of two Support Workers at a newly established community centre in Glasgow.

Sign - £60,000
Towards the salary and costs over two years of a Chef and Business Development Manager to develop a catering enterprise for deaf people with mental health issues.

Sixty Plus - £16,000
Towards the costs over two years of a project to promote relationships of mutual benefit between older people and young volunteers.

Skerne Park CEA - £16,016
Towards the costs of employing a Community Economic Development Worker in Darlington.

Skye & Lochalsh Social - £70,000
Firm Development Group Towards staff salaries over two years.

Social Firms Scotland - £73,381
Towards core costs of this organisation which is responsible for supporting and developing social firms across Scotland.

South Liverpool Personnel Ltd - £32,500
Towards the costs of setting up a new social enterprise, especially Project Manager salary costs.

Spitalfields City Farm - £12,391
Towards the salary costs of the Farm Manager to enable this London-based farm to become more sustainable.

St Paul with St Mark, Old Ford - £20,000
Towards the salary costs over two years of developing this new, multi-purpose community facilities.

Streets of Growth - £12,001
Towards the costs of delivering workshops to young people overcoming institutional barriers.

Suffolk Regeneration Trust - £70,740
Towards the salary and costs over two years of a Project Worker to increase financial inclusion in East Sussex.

Sustainable Cities Research Institute - £19,981
Towards costs of devleoping a social appraisal toolkit for use by CDFIs and funders.

TAXAID UK - £138,600
Towards the salaries and costs over three years of setting up a new pro bono tax advice service in Birmingham.

Time Banks UK - £60,000
Towards the costs over two years of developing Time Bank projects in the UK.

Together we can Manage Partnership - £12,000
Towards the salary of a Resource Worker.

Trojans Youth & Community Development Group - £20,000
Towards core costs over two years to encourage pro-active participation of young people in various activities in Derry.

University of Sheffield - £36,619
Towards the costs of an investigation into the social impact and effectiveness of CDFIs.

Unlock - £99,985
Towards the salary of the Deputy Chief Executive of this organisation, which works to enhance the employment opportunities of prisoners and ex-offenders.

Upstart - £10,705
Towards the costs of the Co-operative Franchises for the Community Enterprise project.

Utheo Ltd - £19,947
Towards the costs of a volunteering project in Lanarkshire.

Vision 21 Cyfle Cymru - £80,769
Towards the salary over three years of a Development Officer to enable people with learning difficulties to enter employment, further education or voluntary work.

Voluntary Action Lewisham - £19,725
Towards the costs of training staff to design, deliver and pilot courses for local groups in Lewisham.

Volunteer Centre Moray - £16,863
Towards the costs of employing a Buddy Liaison Worker to support organisations and individuals in new volunteering settings.

Volunteers Greenwich - £15,000
Towards the salary costs over two years of developing an accredited programme in Volunteer Management.

West Hampstead Women's Centre - £17,920
Towards the salary of a part-time Development Worker in North West London.

West Harton Churches Action Station Ltd - £12,788
Towards the salary costs of a Community Development Manager in Tyne & Wear.

Weston Spirit Enterprise - £48,039
Towards costs over one year of Weston Spirit's new trading arm.

Women in Secure Hospitals - £20,000
Towards the salary and costs of the Development Co-ordinator to provide education and training opportunities for women with mental health needs in secure care.

Women Like Us - £40,000
Towards the costs over two years of establishing a social enterprise to provide flexible employment and enterprise opportunities for women returners to work.

Workwise - £65,452
Towards the salary over three years of the Employment Programme Co-ordinator to enable people with mental health problems to achieve and sustain employment.

Women onto Work - £19,117
Towards the costs of a project to enable deprived women, including those with disabilities and from BME backgrounds, to enter employment, training and education.

Wyre and Fylde Advocacy - £38,340
Towards the costs of a part-time Volunteer Co-ordinator to support existing volunteers and recruit, train and support 50 new volunteers.

Youth Action Northern Ireland - £35,000
Towards the salary and costs of the Senior Development Officer to support development of the new head office and service delivery centre in Belfast.

Youth Initiatives - £60,000
Towards the salary over three years of the Director to oversee cross community youth work in inner-city Belfast.

Co-operative Development Agency Dorset - £19,997
Grant surrendered at recipient's request, due to closure.


Grants approved up to £10,000

Angolan Advice and Information Centre - £6,310
Arab Group in Hounslow, The - £10,000
Baytree Centre, The - £676
Cardinal Hume Centre - £10,000
Churches' Commission for Racial Justice - £300
Democratic Dialogue - £5,000
Detention Advice Service - £10,000
Disabled Parents Network - £10,000
Hope Worldwide - £10,000
Hull & East Yorkshire Advocacy Forum - £10,000
Joe's Community Sewing Project - £10,000
Just Credit Union - £9,800
Natural Justice - £10,000
New Horizons - Borders - £5,200
NewLink South Wales - £6,000
NorDDIS - £10,000
Norwich Community Co-op Credit Union - £10,000
One Parent Families - York - £10,000
Oxford Development Education Centre - £6,600
People Enabling Co-operative Ltd - £7,500
Refugee Health Workers Programme - North East - £3,975
Residents of Moulsecoomb South - £10,000
Rotton Park Asian Elderly Project - £2,500
Somaliland Community Centre - £6,000
Stawley Rural Community Initiative - £5,395
Sudanese Refugees Support Programme UK - £8,800

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