Social change: enterprise and independence 2006

Grants approved over £20,000

Aberdeen Foyer - £57,850
Towards the salary over two years of a business development manager to oversee the development of a social enterprise offering supported training and employment to young people at risk.

ART - £40,000
Towards core costs over two years to support ART with revenue shortfall as it moves towards operational sustainability, while providing finance to those who cannot borrow from mainstream lenders.

Babeco UK Ltd - £73,229
Towards the salary over 31 months of a project manager to oversee the expansion of Babeco's retail activities and local job/training activities.

Bewdley Development Trust - £98,232
Towards the salary of a development manager over three years to develop a financially self-sustaining organisation through the provision of community facilities, business starter units, events management, training provision and fuel supply ventures.

BIGinvest Limited - £68,001
Towards the costs over 18 months of starting costs to develop this CDFI to greater sustainability in its lending to social enterprises which create opportunities and economic independence for disadvantaged people.

Blisland Community Association - £45,000
Towards the salary of the manager of a new community-owned facility providing a village shop, meeting space, consultation rooms and small business units.

Bonny Downs Community Association - £59,629
Towards the salary of a chief executive over three years to improve access to a range of community activities and exploit opportunities for income-generating enterprises in a disadvantaged area of London.

Bromley by Bow Centre - £27,149
Towards an operations manager who will oversee the day to day running of the Green Dreams enterprise and help move it towards financial sustainability.

Build Community Development - £41,300
Towards the costs over two years of providing educational and recreational services to young people from ethnic minorities in the Leicester area within a framework that recognises and responds to the cultural and religious identity of the community.

Burton upon Trent YMCA - £39,486
Towards the expansion of the furniture recycling enterprise over three years, into Swadlincote and Uttoxeter, providing further employment, volunteering and training opportunities, while providing low-cost furniture to families in need.

Buttershaw Christian Family Centre - £57,289
Towards the salary of a manager over two years to oversee the transition of the family centre to become a financially stable social enterprise, and to ensure the continued delivery of support services to families in south Bradford.

CAADA - £75,000
Towards the salary of a development director over three years to support domestic violence charities to implement independent advocacy in a consistent and effective manner.

Caerphilly and District Credit Union - £31,526
Towards the salaries of a financial inclusion officer and part-time administration assistant to promote the organisation as a source of fair credit, advice and financial education for the benefit of local members.

Camden Garden Centre Ltd - £80,246
Towards the salary over three years of a training manager to oversee the delivery of a scheme offering employment and vocational training for vulnerable young people.

Carers Action - £92,625
Towards the salary over three years of a part-time project manager and project worker to develop a financially self-sustaining carers support project, in collaboration with GP practices and CABx, in Herefordshire.

CART - £60,000
Towards the running costs over three years of this community development finance institution to support its lending to small businesses who cannot borrow from mainstream lenders.

CLINKS - £90,000
Towards core costs over three years to support its work in strengthening and developing the independence of the voluntary sector working in the criminal justice field.

Common Wheel - £70,874
Towards the salary and core costs over three years of a project supervisor to provide meaningful work for people with mental-health problems, helping them back into society and generating income for the charity.

Community Food Enterprise - £88,329
Towards the salary of a chief executive and core costs over two years to support the development of food access projects through partnerships and enable local communities to embrace healthier eating and generate new streams of income.

Community Links - £60,000
Towards market research and a pilot test to develop a new way to fundraise by individuals selling unwanted items on e-Bay, using charity shops as drop-off points.

Community Links - £38,000
Towards staff time, production of a practical toolkit and materials, a conference and a series of seminars, and an on-line resource on values to deliver a programme of practical activities to celebrate, invigorate and safeguard the values of the third sector, focussing on an earlier investigation into the values of the third sector.

Community Projects North Devon - £69,358
Towards project costs over two years to support CPND's Jigsaw project in its efforts to increase opportunities for marginalised beneficiaries while becoming a viable social enterprise.

Community Technical Aid Centre - £42,755
Towards the salary of a worker over three years who will mentor ten community groups in developing and resourcing sustainable projects and train 20 local infrastructure organisations to provide similar mentoring to improve the sustainability of local voluntary groups.

COUI UK - £85,500
Towards the salary of a research officer over three years to strengthen the evaluation of Teens and Toddlers to demonstrate its effectiveness and support its expansion.

Creggan Community Cafe and Catering Ltd - £25,000
Towards the salary over two years of a catering manager to continue to run a community café for people from the Creggan area of Derry.

Datblygu Bangor Development Cyf - £72,448
Towards the salary over two years of an enterprise development worker and project costs in the initial development stage of the Trust which will establish volunteering opportunities for 50 people, provide enterprise training for 60 people and develop six community enterprises (or support others to do so) in Bangor, North Wales.

Dundee International Women's Centre - £29,594
Towards the salary of a project manager who will be responsible for the overall management and co-ordination of income generation projects.

Edinburgh Cyrenians - £50,000
Towards the costs over three years of supporting staff and developing economic independence by growing commericial income, while creating more opportunities for vulnerable people to take part in supportive work.

Emmaus UK - £150,000
To provide additional business support to Emmaus Community Businesses, and a contribution to core costs.

Ethical Property Foundation - £120,000
Towards the core costs over three years of developing a comprehensive property advice service to the voluntary and community sector in Bristol and the surrounding area.

Focus to Work Trust Ltd - £45,000
Towards the salary of a managing director over two years to develop the organisation and in particular two new social firms employing people from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Forward Thinking - £440,000
Towards the core costs over five years of the charity's work in improving understanding between British Muslims and the establishment.

Fresh Horizons - £45,000
Towards the salary over three years of a management accountant to develop robust financial sustainability systems for this social enterprise.

Granton Youth Centre - £54,000
Towards the salary of a development worker over three years to train and support young people to increase their employability.

Halton Credit Union - £58,676
Towards the salary of a development worker over three years related to working towards greater self-sufficiency.

Hastings Furniture Service - £63,500
Towards the costs of employing a placement support worker, participant costs, training and equipment for a project that supports the long-term unemployed moving towards employment.

Helping Hands Community Trust - £40,793
Towards the salary of a part-time manager over three years to develop, manage and promote a self-sustaining enterprise that provides training opportunities to disadvantaged people.

Howard League for Penal Reform - £115,000
Towards the salary and running costs over two years of 'Barbed Design', a new social enterprise in a prison providing real work for prisoners.

HURT Trust - £51,028
Towards the salaries of three key staff until this social enterprise becomes financially self-supporting.

Kids City (Formerly Trojans Scheme) - £119,059
Towards the salaries of a training co-ordinator and a training administrator, to run a volunteering into employment programme within the play and childcare sector and to develop greater sustainability.

Landau Consultants Ltd - £58,756
Towards the salary costs over two years of a charity manager to support people with learning difficulties to gain paid employment through the provision of supported work placements.

Leeds City Credit Union (LCCU) - £169,766
Towards the core costs over two years of the two new branches to provide credit union services and challenge financial exclusion in Armley and Seacroft by establishing LCCU branches in former council offices.

Legal Action Group - £90,000
Towards the salary of a business development manager over two years to improve the financial sustainability of the organisation and its ability to achieve its aims of promoting access to justice for socially excluded or vulnerable people.

Media for Development - £192,116
Towards the salary over three years of an operations manager to roll out the prison media training programme across England.

New Easterhouse Credit Union Ltd - £33,000
Towards the salary of a development manager and administrator and rental costs of a main office to continue working towards financial sustainability.

Noel's Kitchen Café - £48,334
Towards a chef/co-ordinator's salary over three years to build a parent-initiated community café, providing healthy and affordable food as a sustainable social enterprise, specifically targeting isolated and socially excluded families.

Oxford House in Bethnal Green - £64,910
Towards the salary over two years of a social enterprise manager to improve the financial sustainability of the organisation as a whole and develop new enterprise models for delivering social outcomes.

Oxford House in Bethnal Green - £90,000
Towards the salary over two years of a technical manager to deliver youth focused vocational training and employment through recycling and repairing second-hand bikes.

Penumbra, Scotland - £23,000
Towards the cost of employing, training and managing a store manager for a health food retail warehouse providing training and employment opportunities for people with mental health problems.

Pepys Community Forum - £58,037
Towards the establishment over two years of a self-sustaining community recycling venture that will provide employment, volunteering and work experience placements within a deprived community.

Plunkett Foundation - £1,000,000
Towards a partnership over three years to accelerate the growth in community-owned shops in deprived rural areas through a package of technical support, loans and grants to viable enterprises.

Release - £90,403
Towards the salary of a director and head of legal services over two years to increase Release's self-generated income so that its services relating to drugs and the law are more sustainable.

Re-Union Canal Boats - £50,000
Towards the salary and expenses over two years of a business development manager to develop income streams.

Revive Healthy Living
38,275
Towards the salary over three years of a project manager to establish a viable community café.

Salerbeck ACE - £36,000
Towards the salary and associated costs for the manager of Salterbeck to continue the development of ACE towards independent sustainability through improvement of existing services and the development of new services and facilities.

Solstice Nurseries - £54,323
Towards the salary of a business manager over two years to lead the strategic direction of the horticulture enterprise in order to maximise commercial opportunities.

Sound Bites - £27,199
Towards the salary over three years of a part-time delivery worker for a health-food-related social enterprise.

Spitalfields City Farm - £29,272
Towards the salary of a part-time director over two years to increase sustainability through streamlining existing enterprises and developing new ones including a cafe, garden centre outlet, farm shop and a location hire and events management business.

Springboard Community Enterprise - £48,235
Towards the salary of a project worker over three years to help people with mental-health disabilities in South West London to secure and maintain supported work.

St Giles Trust - £80,800
For the costs over two years of an approved evaluation of the Prison Peer Advice Services to establish its value and develop operating systems to enable its wider roll out.

Street North East Ltd - £75,000
Towards the costs over three years of a client relationship manager to support micro businesses in the North East.

Thames Reach Bondway - £140,000
Towards the salary of a development worker, beneficiary costs and running costs over three years to develop a painting and decorating social business that provides training, employment and volunteering opportunities to homeless and socially excluded people.

The 1990 Trust - £65,000
Towards the development costs of a trading arm enabling the Trust to become more financially self sustaining.

The Bridge Centre Trust - £44,000
Towards the salary of a centre manager to redevelop a former secondary school as a self-sustaining community resource, funded through the rental of small business units.

The Credit Union of Bournemouth Ltd - £74,094
Towards the salary over three years of an outreach worker, who will recruit and train volunteers to help make basic financial services more accessible to people living in the most disadvantaged communities in Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch.

The Enterprise Fund Ltd - £50,000
Towards revenue support to promote the economic and social development of the Manchester areas by providing loans to entrepreneurs who are struggling to raise commercial loans from mainstream lenders.

The Keyfund Federation (TKF)
100,000
Towards core costs over three years to enable the charity to develop a new model of expansion in its work with young people.

The Linksill and North Tyneside Community Development Trust - £58,797
Towards the employment over three years of a business development officer and an administrator to develop additional enterprise activity which will lead to long-term sustainability.

The Network (Worcestershire) - £80,000
Towards the costs over two years of an expansion plan that will enable the organsiation to become financially self sustaining whilst offering a greater number of training places and employment opportunities.

The Peepul Centre - £106,110
Towards the salary of a head of operations over two years to establish the innovative Peepul Centre, a large BME-led social enterprise in Leicester.

The Village Garden (Broughshane) Ltd - £75,473
Towards the salary and costs over two years of a development manager to develop financial self-reliance and provide support to the local voluntary and community sector.

The Young Foundation - £100,000
Towards core costs over two years.

Transform Drug Policy Institute - £113,851
Towards the salary of a director over three years to enable Transform to continue its drugs policy work.

Voice UK - £71,379
Towards the salary of a development manager to maximise Voice UK's training and consultancy potential, generating a net revenue stream through sales.

West Bromwich African Caribbean Resource Centre - £62,154
Towards the salary over two years of an experienced caseworker who will provide employment related support to 100 people per year, of which 50 will secure paid employment.

Wholefood Planet Norwich Ltd - £58,772
Towards the salary of a business manager, rent and rates, to establish a social firm selling wholefood produce and providing job opportunities for people with learning difficulties and/or mental health problems.

Witness - £50,000
Towards the salary of an information and education officer to take forward the commercialisation of new and existing products, to maximise existing markets, explore new ones and increase the level of self-generation income.

Women Like Us - £40,000
Towards core costs to provide flexible employment and enterprise opportunities and support for women returners, including a job-brokerage service.

Women's Employment Enterprise and Training Unit - £70,000
Towards a programme of short training courses, work shadowing initiatives and recruitment support over two years providing 200 women with the skills and confidence to secure employment.

Working for Opportunities Trust - £96,000
Towards the core costs over three years to support disabled people into paid employment.

Grants approved under £20,000

Action for Differently Abled People in Tynedale - £20,000
ADAFM National - £13,750
Awel Amen Tawe - £20,000
Bathford Enterprise for All - £7,000
BEAP Community Partnership - £3,500
Belle Isle Family Centre Ltd - £20,000
Brain & Spinal Injury Charity (BASIC) - £20,000
Brent Homeless User Group - £5,875
Chandos Children's Learning Centre - £7,000
Clowne Enterprise Ltd - £14,499
Co-active - £13,500
Community Dialogue - £20,000
Compass (Peterborough) Ltd - £19,520
Disability Wessex - £4,770
Disabled Living Manchester - £1,500
East Camp Trust - £18,700
ECHO - £10,000
Finance ReDirect - £20,000
Food for Thought Glasgow - £20,000
Furniture Plus - £13,000
Furniture Project (Stranrear) Ltd - £10,312
Greysteel Community Enterprises - £5,000
Groundwork West London - £20,000
Heanor Parish Church Salcare - £8,000
Help the Hospices - £20,000
Highfields Community Partnership - £13,813
IACD - £2,577
Initiatives for Social Entrepreneurs - £20,000
Inspire at St Peter's Ltd - £20,000
Just the Job Environmental Enterprises - £20,000
Kainos - £15,000
Longheath Community Care & Church Centre - £8,000
Love and Joy Ministries - £17,909
Luqman Foundation - £20,000
Manchester Jewish Communities Centre - £9,000
May-Tag Ltd - £9,000
North Somerset People First - £20,000
Pack-it North Ltd - £20,000
Pentreath Industries Ltd - £19,500
Portsmouth Savers Credit Union - £11,522
RCI - £6,105
Senscot - £15,000
Sign - £18,000
Springbank Community Association - £20,000
Spruce Carpets Ltd - £10,000
St Barnabas Community Centre - £10,000
Strathpeffer Community Association - £11,000
The An Viet Foundation - £18,732
The Baring Foundation - £20,000
The Centre for Innovation in Voluntary Action - £19,480
The Dialogue Trust - £4,970
The Lenton Centre - £19,888
The Loft Youth Project - £15,000
The Social Enterprise Coalition (SEC) - £20,000
Watch Us Grow - £16,000
Welcombe Community Shop and Post Office - £12,885
Westray Development Trust - £17,882
Young Co-operatives - £20,000
Your Say Advocacy - £7,000

Total value of grants: £7,627,721
Number of grants: 139

Loans

Leeds City Credit Union (LCCU) - £250,000
Towards two new offices at Seacroft and Armley to enable Credit Union loans to be made to financially excluded members.

Total value of loans: £250,000
Total number of loans: 1

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