Grants made in 2004

Strategic work

Arts & Heritage:
Regional Museums Initiative
An £800,000 initiative to support museums in providing appealing and important exhibition programmes across the country.

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery - £95,350
Towards the costs of presenting A Family of Fashion: Generations of Stylish Dress: 1885 - 1970.

Gallery Oldham - £89,648
Towards the costs of presenting Creative Tension: British Art
1900 to 1950.

Holburne Museum, The (Bath) - £45,000
Towards the costs of presenting Pictures of Innocence.

Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service - £100,000
Towards the costs of presenting Art at the Rockface.

Pallant House Gallery Trust (Chichester) - £95,000
Towards the costs of presenting Eye Music: Experiments in Abstract Art from Kandinsky to Mondrian.

Royal Albert Memorial Museum (Exeter) - £20,000
Towards the costs of researching Eye to Eye: Discovering People in Portraits.

Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust - £10,000
Towards the costs of research about the Ruskin collection.

Whitworth Art Gallery (Manchester) - £81,507
Towards the costs of presenting Walter Sickert: drawing is the thing.

York Museums Trust - £96,550
Towards the costs of presenting Celebrating Ceramics.


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

Faculty of Education, University of Plymouth and project management - £200,000
Towards running the initiative.


Education:
Music in Primary Schools
An initiative to test ways of enhancing the teaching of music in primary schools.

St John with St Mark Primary School, Bury - £61,200
Towards running the initiative.

Education:
Partnership with The Sutton Trust
In addition to the strategic initiatives the Foundation also runs an ongoing partnership with The Sutton Trust to support a limited number of projects that increase access to higher education for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.

The Maternity Alliance - £17,310
Towards identifying the services and support which have successfully addressed the key issues during pregnancy and the first year of life in other countries, and the implications for policy and practice in the UK.

Chelmsford Girls' Grammar School - £15,705
Towards establishing a 'first in the family' project working with Chelmsford Girls' Grammar School and other local state schools in the area.


Environment:
UK Biodiversity Programme
An initiative worth £1.2 million over two rounds to support the recovery of threatened UK species that are no benefiting from other funding sources.

British Butterfly Conservation Society Ltd - £194,027
Towards the costs of restoring a network of semi-natural grasslands in the Culm region of Cornwall and Devon and ensuring the long-term survival of its rich biodiversity.

Buglife - £138,952
Towards the costs of a project to initiate measures for the sustainable management of the UK's soft rock cliff invertebrate biodiversity.

Scottish Association Marine Science (SAMS) for - £145,000
Towards the costs of a project to investigate some of the most damaging marine alien species in UK waters.

Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) - £146,534
Towards the costs over two years of a project to benefit conservation of deep-sea offshore marine natural heritage through research into biodiversity, addressing ecosystem damage and raising public awareness.

Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, The - £368,200
Towards the costs over five years of conducting research on the impact of changing farm practice on bats, moths and dragonflies.

Environment:
Allotments Regeneration Initiative
An initiative worth £850,000 to develop 'how to' models for regenerating underused allotment sites or finding alternative ways of maintaining them as publicly accessible open spaces.

Ackroyd Avenue Allotments Society - £9,790
Bootstrap Enterprises - £16,400
Bullroyd Allotments Association - £16,500
Cardiff Mind Ltd - £3,478
Community Campus '87 (Cleveland) Ltd - £16,850
Dale Allotment Association - £21,859
Devenish Partnership Forum - £20,540

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