Grants made in 2006
Education
Grants approved over £20,000
4Children - £24,765
Towards a communication officer's salary to run a high-profile heritage education awards event reaching 20,000 children.
ActionAid - £94,000
Towards introducing a new approach to the teaching of English as a Second Langague in the UK that will help learners to pick up language in a meaningful context.
Artlink Edinburgh & the Lothians - £40,488
Towards the salary over two years of a part-time co-ordinator, artists' fees, dissemination, travel and other associated project costs to develop new ways of supporting learning among people with profound learning and other disabilities.
Association of School and College Leaders - £50,000
Towards research into the impact of partnerships between secondary schools on school achievement and guidance on how to make school parternships work.
Better Government for Older People - £99,950
Towards core funding over two years to offer older people the opportunity to undertake research in a higher education institution.
Blaenllechau Community Regeneration - £51,676
Towards the salary of a facilitator to organise informal learning courses for 200 people aged over 50 in a deprived rural part of Wales.
Bolton Carers Support - £47,600
Towards the salary over two years of an outreach worker to offer informal learning opportunities to carers living in and around Bolton.
Bridgeton Community Campus Ltd - £45,000
Towards the salary over three years of a community development officer, tutor costs and overheads to run a total of 15 informal learning courses for 300 hard-to-reach adult learners from Bridgeton, Glasgow.
Brighton Unemployed Centre Families Project - £50,000
Towards the salary over three years of an education worker to develop informal learning opportunities for 200 hard-to-reach users and help them progress onto other courses.
British Association for Adoption and Fostering - £45,000
Towards the costs of developing, running and disseminating a training programme over two years for foster carers to help improve the education of children in their care.
Cardinal Hulme Centre - £40,323
Towards the salary over two years of a family project worker to give around 150 parents support to help their children to learn.
Catch Up - £297,350
Towards the salaries of part-time consultants, and the research and development of training resources to develop a self-sustaining Catch Up Numeracy Programme for children.
Chance UK - £89,211
Towards the salary of a chief executive over three years to expand the organisation's mentoring work with disadvantaged primary-aged children, to reduce exclusion rates from primary schools and to raise achievement.
Chorlton Youth Project - £35,000
Towards the salary over three years of a student support worker to re-engage school excludees in mainstream education.
Community Council of Devon - £53,100
Towards the salary over two years of an outreach worker to run informal learning programmes for disadvantaged, rurally isolated learners in community venues in Devon.
Deaf Action - £50,513
Towards the salary over two years of a learning co-ordinator to run informal learning programmes for deaf people in Scotland.
Deafax - £85,000
Towards the costs over two years of a deaf and hearing team to investigate uses of ICT across the curriculum of 120 young deaf people, 30 hearing people and 30 teachers of the deaf in six schools and to disseminate the outcome.
Demos - £130,000
Towards running costs for two projects in local authorities on vocational education and parenting.
Edzone - £37,395
Towards the salaries of tutors over three years to support the costs of classes for young adults aged 16-25.
Farringdon Jubilee Centre - £35,000
Towards tutors, student support, material, training, taster courses over two years to run informal education courses for hard-to-reach learners from Tyne and Wear.
Glasgow ESOL Forum - £51,500
Towards a development manager's salary and volunteer training costs over two years to train and support volunteer English as a Second Language (ESOL) tutors and to support existing tutors.
Hayle Youth Project - £60,944
Towards the salary over two years of a project coordinator to provide an alternative learning programme for young people, aged 16 or under from the Penwith area, who are excluded from mainstream education.
High/Scope UK - £41,500
Towards the salary over two years of a project worker training adults working in the care and education of young children.
I CAN - £180,000
Towards the salary of a project manager and other project costs to train 1,300 staff in how to improve speaking and listening skills in 25,000 primary school children.
Institute of Welsh Affairs - £33,900
Towards research into the implications of reorganising schools in Pembrokeshire and Powys.
International Learning and Research Centre - £64,708
Towards the salary of a project co-ordinator and project costs over two years to develop the speaking, listening and writing skills of 1,990 children and their parents/carers through story telling.
Jabadao - £150,000
Towards supporting the costs over three years of training early years' practitioners across the UK in specialist movement techniques for children under five.
KPMG Foundation - £250,000
Towards the costs of a literacy programme for children aged 5-11 in England and Wales.
Leeds Asylum Seekers Support Network
52,500 - £Towards the salary over two years of an English at home co-ordinator, volunteer travel costs and other costs to improve the English language skills of refugees and asylum seekers who cannot attend mainstream English classes because of caring responsibilities or ill health.
Listening Books - £50,000
Towards supporting the production of 400 audio books for children with visual impairments
Manchester Metropolitan University - £36,334
Towards project costs, including research, evaluation and dissemination to improve science learning activities for children under five.
Merthyr Tydfil Play Forum - £39,490
Towards the costs over two years of training adults to support their children's play and education.
National Extension College Trust Ltd - £46,009
Towards the costs of developing and piloting resource materials over two years and testing them with parents and young people to support the needs of young people excluded from school.
National Foundation for Educational Research - £49,786
Towards staff costs, travel, focus group and office costs to identify the support needs and provision for home educated children and their educators, from the perspective of home educators and other interested parties.
National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (Wales) - £93,529
Towards the salaries of a project officer and an administrator over three years to expand a programme to promote and sustain the number of learning opportunities for elderly people in Wales.
Open College of the Arts - £207,000
Towards courses over three years to make 52 arts and crafts distance learning courses more accessible to 3,000 hard-to-reach learners including prisoners and people with disabilities.
Ormiston Children and Families - £56,236
Towards the salary over two years of a part-time development leader to provide a programme of support for 60 children with behavioural problems at risk of school exclusion and their parents/carers from eight schools in Great Yarmouth.
Policy Exchange Ltd - £48,350
Towards the cost of researching the impact of head teachers on school performance.
Restorative Solutions - £147,750
Towards a project over three years testing the value of restorative justice techniques in schools to improve educational attainment and social inclusion among difficult and vulnerable pupils.
Romsey Mill Trust - £55,073
Towards the salaries over two years of a coordinator and an assistant to raise the educational attainment of teenage mothers, excluded from mainstream education in deprived wards in Cambridgeshire.
School Councils UK - £40,000
Towards improving the effectiveness of school councils in ten London secondary schools and to evaluate their impact on pupil behaviour, attainment, and staff morale.
Second Chance - £60,000
Towards the salary over three years of an exclusion worker to provide an alternative education programme for young people excluded from mainstream education from Portsmouth and the surrounding area.
SEN Research Grant - £30,000
Towards a literature review, exploring learning and social outcomes for young people with moderate learning difficulties.
Sheffield Hallam University - £34,500
Towards training for the coaches and mentors to develop and pilot effective coaching and mentoring strategies for science teachers.
Sleep Scotland - £50,500
Towards the salary over two years of a project worker to provide a transitional education programme for young people with complex needs and communication difficulties, on leaving school in Edinburgh.
Specialist Schools and Academies Trust - £200,000
Towards a schools innovation network over two years that will explore ways of providing pupils with better support and mentoring.
St Mary's University College - £88,500
Towards the salary over two years of a development project officer to encourage dialogue between 600 pupils from different religious backgrounds in 40 Northern Ireland schools, and interact with Principals/Teachers and with NICCEA.
Teach First - £186,000
Towards the salary over two years of a programme encouraging exceptional graduates into teaching.
The ACE Centre Advisory Trust - £50,479
Towards the cost over two years of developing and piloting new communication techniques for deaf children.
The Dartington Hall Trust - £82,592
Towards project costs over two years, including management, evaluation and research to support local authorities in their efforts to reduce exclusions from school.
The Lighthouse Project - £35,710
Towards tutor, management, outreach and materials to run informal arts and crafts courses for hard-to-reach learners in Birmingham.
The National Deaf Children's Society - £42,989
Towards consultancy fees, publication and dissemination of a toolkit to improve acoustics for deaf children in schools.
The Nurture Group Network (NGN) - £80,000
Towards the salary over two years of a director to expand NGN's membership, training and quality control programme and to ensure the sustainability of the organisation.
The Reader - £50,000
Towards the salary of a volunteer co-ordinator and an assistant project manager to extend the literacy skills of adults and recruit and manage community volunteers.
The Shannon Trust - £99,000
Towards recruitment costs and the salary of a new director, to enable literate prisoners to coach other prisoners with reading difficulties.
The Sutton Trust - £98,000
Towards project costs to support three projects to enhance access to higher education for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.
The Sutton Trust - £50,000
Towards project costs to work with disadvantaged young people at risk of failing to realise their academic potential.
The Who Cares? Trust - £150,000
Towards projects over three years to improve the day-to-day lives of children and young people in public care in the UK.
Tinsley Forum - £36,022
Towards the salary over two years of a development worker and associated costs to provide an alternative learning programme, 15 hours a week for three months, for 30 excludees aged under 16 from the Tinsley area of Sheffield.
Tyneside Women's Health - £78,674
Towards the salary over three years of part-time course/group co-ordinator and associated project costs to offer up to 450 women with mental health problems, informal learning courses.
Yarrow Housing Ltd - £39,550
Towards the salary over two years of tutors, administrative support, materials and equipment to develop the literacy skills of 30 to 40 adults with learning disabilities, including those with complex/challenging needs with limited or no literacy skills.
Grants approved under £20,000
5x5x5 - £13,400
ACETS - £19,490
Advisory Council for Social Responsibility - £8,282
An Munia Tuber - £20,000
Animarts - £5,000
Asha Womens Centre 06-2618 - £20,000
Association for Education and Ageing - £9,987
Barbican Centre - £20,000
Bristol Children's Playhouse - £5,000
Cambridge School Classics Project - £4,500
Canterbury Christchurch University College - £10,000
Carnegie Young People Initiative - £3,000
Centre for the Study of Comprehensive Schools - £20,000
Charity Challenge - £20,000
Chartered Institute of Library Professionals - £20,000
Chorlton Workshop - £19,945
Citizenship Foundation - £20,000
Comberton Village Collage - £14,000
Conflict & Change - £20,000
Creative & Supportive Trust - £11,478
Department of Experimental Psychology - £20,000
Eastfeast - £10,000
First Take Video Ltd - £20,000
Global Link - £18,561
Harmony Training Ltd - £19,589
Hornsea School and Language College - £3,000
Institute of Education, The University of London - £18,813
Jackdaws Music Education Trust - £14,238
Jubilee Waterside Centre - £20,000
Leeds Metropolitan University - £20,000
Learning Skills Wales - £20,000
Leonardo's Protégé - £10,000
LifeLine Community Projects - £16,339
London Centre for Leadership in Learning - £20,000
Margrave Communications - £20,000
Motorvations Motor Project Ltd - £20,000
Multicultural Resource Centre - £5,550
Music and Dance Education Trust - £20,000
Music for Change - £10,000
National Foundation for Educational Research - £3,114
Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship - £19,526
Norfolk County Council - £20,000
North Kensington Women's Textile Workshop - £8,044
One to One Children's Fund - £2,426
One to One Children's Fund - £20,000
Pennywell Neighbourhood Centre - £19,488
Personalised Education Now - £10,000
Realisation: Training in Resources for Personal Growth - £14,520
ReCOM Ltd - £9,441
School of Education - £16,300
Scottish Network for Parental Involvement in Children's Learning - £7,500
Sheffield City Council - £17,700
Sheffield Gypsy and Traveller Support Group - £13,975
Snug & Outdoor - £20,000
Springboard for Children - £20,000
St Ebbe's Primary School - £2,750
St Wilfred's Centre - £20,000
Sticky Fingers Early Years Arts - £20,000
Stretch - £17,600
Survivor's Poetry - £3,000
Teaching Freedom - £20,000
The Foundation for Social and Economic Thinking - £20,000
The Life Science Trust - £20,000
The Mary Glasgow Language Trust - £20,000
The Music Collaborative - £20,000
The Phoenix Education Trust - £17,978
The Prison Phoenix Trust - £20,000
The Runnymede Trust - £5,000
The SHINE Trust - £11,633
University of Cambridge - £19,855
University of Winchester - £10,000
Windsor Community Arts Centre - £12,800
Worker's Educational Association - £20,000
Worker's Educational Association - £20,000
Total value of grants: £5,811,318
Number of grants: 135
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