Grants made in 2005
Social Change:
Enterprise and Independence
Grants approved over £10,000
80:20 - £81,161
Towards the salary over three years of a project coordinator and costs of a cross-community youth programme in deprived areas of Belfast.
AALTO Ltd - £20,000
Towards the salary of a business manager to provide employment opportunities for people who have experienced mental-health problems resulting in social exclusion.
ABCUL Credit Union - £173,300
Towards the development and implementation of transaction banking services for 30 medium-sized credit unions.
Aberdeen Council of Voluntary Organisations - £43,000
Towards the salary of a part-time employment co-ordinator to establish an income generating shared health and safety resource in 10 Councils of Voluntary Service in Scotland.
Able Types - £42,801
Towards the salary of a Project Manager and costs to establish a social firm employing people with disabilities.
Access to Business - £38,160
Towards the expansion of the work into Dudley, Sandwell and Walsall to support people with disabilities or health problems who wish to develop a business idea and become self-employed.
Access to Employment & Training - £20,000
Towards the salary of a trainer, assisting unemployed people in London back to work.
Afro-Caribbean Millennium Centre - £16,500
Towards the salary costs of a Café Manager to help the centre become more financially sustainable.
Alabare Christian Care Centres - £20,000
Towards the salary of a part-time employment co-ordinator running an employment project to enable people with learning disabilities to access paid work.
Amman Valley Enterprise - £99,790
Towards the salary and costs over three years of a Business Development Manager to develop income generating activities.
Augment - £55,176
Towards the salary over two years of a Development Worker and Project Worker to oversee the establishment of a Clubhouse for people with severe and enduring mental health problems.
Belfast Interface Project - £33,403
Towards the salary of a director providing support to community organisations working across Belfast.
Blue Sky - £96,000
Towards the salaries over two years of the General Manager and Team Leader to provide employment opportunities for ex-offenders in a new start social enterprise.
Blyth Star Enterprises - £15,230
Towards the salary of a Kindling Production Manager to help people with long-term mental health problems to return to work.
Bridewell Organic Gardens - £20,000
Towards the costs over three years of creating a self-sustaining social enterprise.
Bristol Muslim Society - £20,000
Towards the salary of a Cultural Awareness Officer to improve inter-community understanding.
British Association of Settlements & Social Action Centres - £20,000
Towards the core costs associated with the business and financial planning needed to establish and deliver a national social enterprise.
Burley Lodge Centre - £38,179
Towards the salary over two years of a Social Enterprise Development Worker.
Cariba Project - £40,000
Towards salary costs over two years to enable mentoring and support of young black men on their release from prison.
Carr-Gomm - £153,430
Towards the salary and running costs over 18 months of developing this organisation and the further development and dissemination of SupportActionNet to improve services for vulnerable people.
Centre for Charity Effectiveness, City University - £60,000
Towards core costs over two years towards the Centre's work. The Centre aims to help voluntary and community organisations improve their effectiveness.
Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation - £15,000
Towards consultancy and publication costs, the research and dissemination of an investigation in to informal money transfer systems in low income communities.
Change - £58,445
Towards the salaries over two years of a marketing consultant and an in-house illustrator.
Christians Against Poverty - £90,000
Towards the salaries and running costs over three years of the Creditor Liaison Unit which enables people to become debt free.
Chrysalis Youth Project Ltd - £69,473
Towards the salary over two years of a Project Manager to develop trading income.
Churchtown Area Community Association - £19,997
Towards the salaries of a development worker and part-time clerical assistant.
Citizens Advice Bureau Oxford - £105,000
Towards core costs over two years of this project where prisoners train to work as CAB advisers.
Clapton Park United Reformed Church - £30,000
Towards the salary and costs over two years of the Centre Manager who will oversee the management and development of the premises in order to increase self-generated income and reduce reliance on grant aid.
Clockwise - £55,000
Towards the salary over two years of a credit union general manager.
Community Action Furness - £61,910
Towards the salary over three years of a Manager for a centre for excluded and disadvantaged young people in Cumbria, which will also be income generating and provide incubator space for local organisations.
Community Action Network - £90,000
Towards the salary over three years of the CEO and the costs of a programme of professional development.
Community Active Support (CAS) - £62,777
Towards the salary and associated costs over three years of a part-time project manager.
Community Action and Support against Crime (CASAC) - £100,000
Towards the salaries over three years of a director and administrator, to develop community restorative justice in Northern Ireland.
Communityworks - £57,157
Towards the salary over three years of the Centre Manager and running costs.
Contact - £33,054
Towards the salary costs over two years of supporting volunteers and developing sustainability through income generation.
Council of Disabled People - £72,000
Towards the salary of an employment and mentoring co-ordinator to help disabled people in Warwickshire gain paid employment.
Creation Development Trust - £32,783
Towards the salary over three years of a Food Development Manager to implement a café, catering and food co-operative.
Credit Action - £35,000
Towards costs of producing straight forward information and advice on debt for wider dissemination.
Dance United - £20,00
Towards the evaluation of the Dance United programme for women prisoners, particularly the work at HMP Holloway.
Democratic Dialogue - £20,000
Towards core costs to support policy development in Northern Ireland.
Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics - £18,310
Towards the salary and costs of a research officer to complete and disseminate research into disadvantaged neighbourhoods.
Dudley Muslim Association - £48,000
Towards the salary of a chief executive and an administration manager, to improve community cohesion.
East Ashington Development Trust - £20,000
Towards the salary over two years of staff, office overheads and community engagement and consultation costs.
East Manchester Credit Union Ltd - £57,025
Towards the salary over three years of a worker to expand and develop work providing affordable financial services for those who are financially excluded.
Ethnic Business Development Corporation (EBDC) - £60,000
Towards salary costs over two years for a programme of investment readiness support to potential clients of the Ethnic Mutual.
Employer Led Development Project - £26,440
Towards the salary costs of a project to improve the employability of unemployed disabled people.
Enterprise Credit Union - £20,000
Towards the salary of a relationship manager to develop a lending product for Muslim businesses.
Fablevision - £15,000
Towards staffing costs of the project to work with 30 young people from three deprived communities.
Fahamu - £20,000
Towards project officer salary costs over two years, supporting the development of BME-led organisations.
FareShare - £25,000
Towards the costs of a feasibility study into the establishment of a social business.
First Dorset Credit Union - £52,725
Towards core costs over three years to enable the credit union to expand and become more financially self-sustaining.
Fifteen Foundation - £112,750
Towards the salary and costs over two years of a new business manager to expand the charities franchise, provide disadvantaged young people with the skills and experience necessary to work as top chefs.
Firthmoor and District Community Association - £20,000
Towards the salaries over two years of a community centre development officer and a finance and IT development officer.
Forres Groups Action Ltd - £15,000
Towards the salary and costs of a part-time Administration Worker and Project Worker to develop community and voluntary groups and work to reduce the organisation's reliance on grant aid.
Forward Thinking - £210,000
Towards the salary costs over three years of a Regional Director and Administrator to expand the charity's work into the North of England.
Forward Thinking - £120,000
Towards the salaries over three years of a regional director and administrator to expand the charity's work in to the Midlands and north of England.
Free@Last - £60,000
Towards the salary over two years of the Director, who will progress the organisation's agenda for self-sustainability.
Getaway Girls - £15,042
Towards the salary costs of a Training Development and Delivery Manager for income generation.
Green Works - £66,500
Towards the costs of developing an integrated stock management system that will substantially enhance buisness performance.
Grub's Up - £63,885
Towards the salaries over two years of a new training manager and administrative assistant, to support Grub's Up in becoming a self-sustaining catering and training co-operative.
Guideposts Trust Ltd - £30,696
Towards the salaries of two part-time co-ordinators to develop income-generating care-support services in Swindon, North Wiltshire and Coventry.
Guild Place Ltd - £50,000
Towards core costs over two years to provide a community house on a deprived estate in Coventry.
Here We Are - £20,000
Towards core costs over two years to provide revenue funding to allow the organisation to continue to develop its income generating capacity and work towards self-sustainability.
Institute of Contemporary Scotland - £44,000
Towards the salary over two years of a Development Manager and Administrator to run a work experience and work shadowing project for asylum seekers and refugees.
International Associatin for Community Development (IACD) - £19,960
Towards the salary and costs of part-time Development Workers to identify best practice in community development.
Keystone Development Trust - £46,833
Towards the costs of a Development Worker to provide services to financially excluded people in Thetford, linking a CDFI, credit union, housing association and development trust.
King George Bootle Community Credit Union - £45,100
Towards the salary over three years of a business enterprise worker to expand the work of the credit union.
Kilcooley Central Residents Association - £28,895
Towards salaries and costs to continue a restorative justice project on the Kilcooley estate in Bangor.
Legal Action Group - £20,000Towards the costs of improving the charity's information management systems.
Leicester Moneyline - £20,000
Towards the costs of this new CDFI's personal loans fund.
Leicester Moneyline - £47,500
Towards the costs over three years of a new CDFI to tackle financial exclusion in Leicester.
Llandudno and District Credit Union Ltd - £28,778
Towards the core costs over two years of a project to assist financially vulnerable people to manage budgets and control debt.
London Community Recycling Network - £90,000
Towards the salary and running costs over three years of the social enterprise support project.
Maltby Community Development Trust - £40,000
Towards core costs over two years of establishing a care and repair handy-person social enterprise.
Mannington Mills Community Association - £19,250
Towards the salary of the centre manager to create a centre in a disadvantaged area of Bradford.
Maytree - £20,000
Towards the core costs of this organisation which helps individuals survive a suicidal crisis.
MENCAP National Centre - £15,000
Towards the costs of a research and evaluation project on support services for parents with learning difficulties.
Mendip Care & Repair - £36,000
Towards the revenue costs of the organisation's Stairlift Recycling social enterprise.
Mid Cornwall Credit Union Ltd - £45,000
Towards the salaries over three years of a Development Officer and Co-ordinator to increase membership and enable self-sustainability.
Monmouth Youth Project - £20,000
Towards the salary costs over two years of a part-time development officer to help provide opportunities for young people to develop their awareness of extending entitlement.
Motor Waste - £46,629
Towards salary costs of a truck driver and vehicle insurance over two years, to help excluded groups gain employment skills.
New Hope Partnership - £15,000
Towards the salary over two years of an Employment Development Worker to improve the employability of young refugees.
Northumbria Churches Training Consortium - £88,415
Towards the salary costs of a project co-ordinator and support posts, to help 110 refugees find employment.
New Economics Foundation - £97,000
Towards the salaries and costs of action researchers to help achieve 'training communities.'
New Hope Partnership - £15,00
Towards the salary over two years of an employment development worker to improve the employability of young refugees in Birmingham.
Noah Enterprise - £73,222
Towards the salary costs over three years of a project to provide work and volunteering opportunities through recycling furniture and white goods.
Nottingham Development Enterprise - £62,966
Towards the salary and on-costs over two years of the development manager for the On-Board programme.
Norfolk and Waveney Enterprise Services Ltd - £12,500
Towards the salary of a part-time worker to help start a business to improve access to finance.
Omagh Community House - £18,000
Towards the salary over two years of a project manager providing services and low cost office and meeting accommodation to voluntary sector organisations.
One Parent Families - £34,353
Towards the costs of continuing the Signposter project, which provides a national database of organisations to support lone parents.
One Parent Families - £19,972
Towards a pilot financial awareness training programme to support the sustainability of the work provided through the Marks and Starts employment opportunities programme.
One Voice Ek Awaaz Ltd - £19,996
Towards the salary over two years of a business development manager to develop the organisations volunteering operations.
One World - £43,296
Towards the salary and costs over three years of a Volunteer Co-ordinator.
Parents for Children - £65,300
Towards the salary over three years of an Administrator to co-ordinate income-generating training courses and conferences.
Penryn Community Development Trust - £20,000
Towards the salary costs of a project to improve social and economic opportunities for people in Penryn, Cornwall.
Prime - £79,450
Towards the salary and costs over two years of a Regional Development Manager for North West England to promote self-employment among those aged 50 and over.
PrimeTimers - £70,000
Towards the salary and costs over three years of a project officer and an external evaluation of the work.
Prisoners Abroad - £84,730
Towards the salary over three years of a part-time Development Worker to improve the integration of British prisoners on their return to their families in the UK.
Public Service Broadcasting Trust - £20,000
Towards the 'Save Yourself a Fortune' project running costs to enable people to manage their finances better.
Race on the Agenda - £52,548
Towards the salary over two years of the Head of Policy to ensure issues of relevance to BME communities are included in the formulation of public policy.
Rainbow Crafts Fife - £14,400
Towards the salary costs of a project development manager to help provide employment and training opportunities for people with a disability or disadvantaged in the labour market and work experience for young people excluded from mainstream education.
Ray of Good Hope - £16,839
Towards the salary costs over two years to develop a BME-focussed mentoring programme.
Re:generate - £79,000
Towards the salary over three years of a development director, enabling disadvantaged people to implement solutions to entrenched problems.
Red 2 Green - £66,448
Towards the project manager's salary and costs over two years to support individuals suffering from a mental health problem.
Remedi (Resorative Justice and Mediation Initiatives) - £14,125
Towards the salary of a senior restorative justice practitioner to develop and deliver adult mediation services.
Renfrewshire Association for Mental Health - £19,995
Towards the year one revenue costs of establishing a social firm employing peole with disabilities in Paisley/Glasgow.
Rhayader & District Community Support - £20,000
Towards core costs over two years to develop a social enterprise.
Ryde Development Trust - £19,390
Towards the salary of a chief executive, who is working to increase income of this community enterprise organisation.
Shama Women's Centre - £35,000
Towards the costs of a project to provide learning and employment for women from ethnic minority communities.
Shared Care Network - £20,000
Towards the salaries and costs of an Officer Manager and a Finance Manager.
Shettleston Housing Association - £62,001
Towards salary costs over three years of a new social firm in east Glasgow.
Social Employment Reaching Employment Needs - £78,792
Towards the core costs of a social enterprise delivering employment and training to excluded people in Powys.
Social Enterprise Academy (SEA) - £20,000
Towards a minimum of ten bursaries to organisations wishing to take one of SEA's courses.
Social Enterprise London - £19,823
Towards the staff and development costs to create an on-line business planning support tool to help create sustainable social enterprises.
Social Firms UK - £119,000
Towards core costs over two years to increase the level of support to social firms.
Social Firms Wales - £71,650
Towards the salary over two years of a Social Firms Development Manager to enable social firm growth in Wales.
South Coast Money Line - £80,000
Towards the costs over two years of providing community finance services to those experiencing financial exclusion.
South London Green Badge Taxi School - £50,000
Towards the salary over two years of a development manage, a feasibility study and developing a comprehensive business plan.
South Weston Community Cafe - £17,000
Towards the running costs over two years of the community café.
Scottish Personal Assistant Employers Network - £17,256
Towards the salary over two years of a clerical worker to enable the delivery of new services.
Stafford District Voluntary Services - £40,000
Towards the salary and running costs over two years of the Back 2 Bikes project, offering work experience and move-on opportunities to people disadvantaged in the labour market.
Streetshine Ltd - £77,760
Towards the salary over two years of the business development officer, marketing and administration costs, helping homeless people to secure employment and to become self-employed.
Suffolk Punch Trust - £15,000
Towards core funding to safeguard the future of the Suffolk Punch horse by running prisoner rehabilitation projects, school visits and a visitor centre and educational facilities.
Superscript Transcription Services Ltd - £10,500
Towards the start-up costs of a new social enterprise providing accessible information to people with disabilities.
Tan y Maen - £20,000
Towards the salary costs over two years of providing life management courses in Blaenau Ffestiniog, North Wales.
The Amber Foundation - £82,107
Towards core costs over two years, especially site manager and administrator, to help open and run a new social business that offers work experience and training to young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.
The Bambury Regeneration Centre - £15,900
Towards the salary costs over two years of an ITC technician, to oversee a new area of income-generating activity.
The Bonus Ball Resource Centre - £52,500
Towards the salary costs over three years of a project to set up an income generating community café and training kitchen.
The Community Furniture Project (Newbury) - £28,747
Towards the salary over two years of a Volunteer Manager to deliver the new volunteer skills programme.
The Cresco Trust - £75,000
Towards the salary over three years of a director help develop the Ben and Jerry's Partnership Programme and develop other social economy enterprise opportunities to provide supported employment.
The Employability Forum - £90,000
Towards the core costs over three years of the charities work in promoting the integration of migrants in the UK labour market.
The Green Hut - £71,600
Towards the salary over three years of a development officer to support a new building that aims to become financially self-sustaining through rental of retail and light industrial units.
The High Street Centre Ltd - £13,998
Towards the salary of a Centre Development Co-ordinator to develop the centre as a community resource.
The Hope Centre Ltd - £19,549
Towards the salary costs of a nursery manager in this social enterprise.
The Illingworth Centre - £20,000
Towards the salary over two years of a Centre Co-ordinator.
The Jericho Project - £10,361
Towards the salary of the Community Café Manager and a Project Administrator.
The Junction - £15,293
Towards the salary and costs of a Volunteer Co-ordinator to support local young people.
The Machan Trust - £20,000
Towards the salary and costs over two years of a part-time Volunteer Co-ordinator.
The Suzy Lamplugh Trust - £60,286
Towards the salary and costs over three years of a Business Development Manager to manage social enterprise activity.
The Thornbury Centre - £20,000
Towards the salary over two years of a Programme Manager.
The Village Garden (Broughshane) Ltd - £31,323
Towards the salary of a Development Manager to enable the organisation to become more self-sustaining.
Tomorrow's People Trust - £195,000
Towards the costs over three years of developing ‘Project Radical’, which will provide accommodation and work through social enterprises for vulnerable people.
Toynbee Hall - £89,460
Towards the salary over three years of a project worker for the Financial Inclusion Forum to address the issue of financial inclusion at national level.
Toynbee Hall - £20,000
Towards salary and running costs over three years of the jumble shop as it generates increasing income.
Turning Point Scotland - £150,000
Towards the costs over three years of running the Pegasus alternative to custody project.
UnLtd - The Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs - £75,000
Towards core costs over three years of the Ventures programme, which offers intensive support to help grow or replicate successful projects.
Upperlands Community Development Ltd - £15,000
Towards core costs over two years to meet the needs of the rural community in Northern Ireland through the provision of appropriate services.
Voice - £53,000
Towards the costs over two years of developing a training programme to improve advocacy services for young people and generate income.
Warley Woods - £58,400
Towards the costs of developing a communications strategy and a contribution towards the maintenance costs of the park.
Wessex Reinvestment Trust - £48,655
Towards the costs of developing and financing Community Land Trusts and financial mechanisms for community asset investment.
Wheelbase - £38,428
Towards the salary over two years of the development worker to examine different types of finance incentives which might capitalise community reinvestment.
Wolverton Unlimited Association - £15,000
Towards the salary over thee years of a co-ordinator to offer help and support to potential entrepreneurs, and those wishing to set up social enterprises and social businesses.
Women onto Work - £19,379
Towards the salary of the part-time Post Course Support Worker to support women into employment, training and education.
Women's Aid Federation of England - £80,000
Towards the salary and costs over two years of a Policy Officer to research and promote improvements in policy and practice on domestic violence.
Woodhouse Park Family Centre - £59,306
Towards the salary over three years of the Centre Manager to work with staff volunteers and local people and develop the centre's capacity to generate more of its own income.
Working Families - £106,960
Towards the salaries over three years of a campaigning and policy worker and an information and policy worker, plus running costs to support a working world which works for children, working parents, carers and employers.
Workmatch Ltd - £46,440
Towards the establishment of two new social enterprises providing work experience and qualifications for people with learning difficulties.
Worldwide Volunteering for Young People - £15,000
Towards exploring the feasibility of two income generation options that will allow this organisation to become more self-sustaining.
Grants approved up to £10,000
Blackburn with Darwen Churches Action - £10,000
Bristol Mediation - £5,150
Burton Caribbean Association - £10,000
Calton Centre - £10,000
Carluke Development Trust - £9,206
COUI UK - £5,000
East Lancs Moneyline - £10,000
Hillingdon Youth Network - £2,000
LASA Credit Union Ltd - £9,000
Newport Credit Union - £9,500
People Matters - £10,000
Project Happy - £4,000
Restorative Justice Consortium - £10,000
Skye and Lochalsh Mental Health Association - £10,000
Steel Valley Community Partnership - £3,410
Telegraph Hill Centre Group - £8,130
The Holderness Volunteer Centre - £4,000
The Loft Youth Project - £7,880
University of York - £10,000
Youth Cafe - £10,000
Loans
British Association of Settlements & Social Action Centres - £92,000
A twenty-year loan towards the purchase and refurbishment of a building to enable BASSAC and the Development Trusts Association to co-locate to more suitable premises.
Charity Bank - £500,000
A ten-year loan to grow Charity Bank's capital base, enabling it to grow deposits and increase provision of loans.
Development Trusts Association - £138,000
A twenty-year loan towards the purchase and refurbishment of a building to enable the DTA and BASSAC to co-locate to more suitable premises.
Venturesome - £250,000
A five-year loan to increase the resources of the Venturesome Investment Fund to support small charities and social enterprises with risk capital.
Weston Spirit - £250,000
A loan towards investment in fundraising and working capital.
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