Grants made in 2007
Education
Grants approved over £20,000
5x5x5 - £60,000
Towards the salary of the co-ordinator over three years to support the expansion of early years' development work in the arts in 35 settings in the South West of England. Auditory Verbal UK - £90,000
Towards the salary of a family liaison officer over three years to offer specialised support to help children with hearing impairments. Baytree Centre - £58,960
Towards a tutor, creche, evaluation and other associated project costs to improve the literacy and speaking skills of 40 hard to reach female learners in the London Borough of Lambeth by evaluating a new teaching approach. Birkbeck College - £200,000
Towards outreach and curriculum elements designed to extend higher education to hard-to-reach adults by taking Birkbeck's programme to East London over four years. Campaign for Learning - £175,835
Towards the salary of a project manager, administration costs and project materials to develop the capacity of small voluntary organisations to deliver family learning programmes. Canterbury Christ Church/United Kingdom Literacy Association - £75,986
Towards project and staffing costs to improve teachers' knowledge and experience of literature. Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching - £85,000
Towards professional development materials for teachers of Maths. Clean Break Theatre Company - £150,000
Towards the delivery of tailored learning programmes over three years for 150 female ex-offenders. Early Education - £59,747
Towards the salary of a project director over fifteen months to support the development of talking skills in children under five (with learning difficulties) and English as their second language. Eastfeast - £60,000
Towards the costs of a programme exploring use of outdoor space for teaching in primary schools. Family Links - £54,941
Towards the costs of a randomised control trial of the Family Links parenting programme. First Taste - £60,000
Towards the costs over two years of running 30 sessions in 14 care homes plus evaluation costs, and to offer informal intergenerational learning opportunities for about 300 hard to reach older people, 45 care workers and 72 secondary aged children in Derbyshire. Jacari - £37,330
Towards the salary of a co-ordinator to expand the organisation's reach over two years to improve the literacy, language, communication and social skills of 800 BME children in Oxford who do not speak English as their first language. Kids - £75,000
Towards the salaries of five transitional workers across five regions to support 60 children making educational transitions nationally. KPMG Foundation - £250,000
Towards the costs of a literacy programme for children aged 5-11 with reading difficulties in England and Wales. Lifeskills - £40,125
Towards the salary of the project co-ordinator over two years to support a programme for 50 young people at risk of exclusion. London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Council - £73,673
Towards the salary of a project manager, training of teachers, consultancy fees, and the production of a video to improve teaching skills of teachers in running classroom talk. London Symphony Orchestra Ltd - £45,000
Towards musician and workshop leader fees and celebratory performance costs to offer 160 people with learning difficulties informal music learning opportunities. Mentoring for Educational Achievement - £44,296
Towards the salary costs of a lead mentor, resources and volunteer expenses over two years to raise aspirations and achievements of 135 young people annually. Moving On With Life & Learning - £74,622
Towards the salary of a part-time tutor over three years to work with students who are excluded from statutory provision and to develop a programme of learning to improve communication and life skills for 20 adults with learning disabilities, using a person-centred approach and involving peer advocates to build students' self-confidence. National Foundation for Educational Research - £90,000
Towards the costs of running a version of HEARTS in 2008-9 with six more higher education institutions. New Education Trust - £100,000
Towards the costs of staff and infrastructure to deliver a programme over three years to improve the social skills and emotional wellbeing of young people who are not confident learners and to assess which children need support to help improve their behaviour. Northern Ireland Childminding Association - £44,576
Towards the salary of a part-time co-ordinator over two years to research, develop and evaluate training for childminders to meet children's learning and development needs. Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education - £168,000
Towards the salary and running costs of a programme of professional development, and materials to establish a pilot project to support teachers build up a set of skills and competencies in dealing with diversity. P3 - £42,679
Towards the salary of an exclusion worker over two years to enable 100 young people excluded from school to re-engage with education. PAMIS/Profound & Multiple Impairment Service - £60,027
Towards the salary of the director over two years to improve educational opportunities for 500 young people with profound and multiple disabilities in Scotland. Post Adoption Centre - £90,000
Towards the salary of a part-time project worker over three years to improve the behaviour of adopted schoolchildren so that they can increase educational attainment. Prisoners' Education Trust - £60,000
Towards the salary and running costs of a policy, research and training manager to champion the vital role learning plays in the successful resettlement of offenders by acting as an information exchange, developing policy and engaging in research and training. RISE - £51,073
Towards project costs to provide an up-to-date analysis of secondary school admissions criteria and practices in England for admissions in 2008/09 in light of the new legislative and regulatory context. Safe Ground Ltd - £75,000
Towards training for organisations delivering personal development and family learning for male prisoners. Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts - £30,000
Towards the core costs of the British Dyslexic Association. School-Home Support - £151,494
Towards a development manager to grow new earned income streams through the marketing of new training and consultancy programmes and the implementation of quality assurance and impact evaluation plans. Scottish Adult Learning Partnership - £90,000
Towards the salaries over two years of three staff and to recruit 600 'hard to reach' people to local learning opportunities by creating opportunities for existing learners to become promoters of learning. Screenreader.net CIC - £55,000
Towards providing 4,000 people with learning difficulties access to a talking computer that will interface with existing learning disabilities educational software. Shakespeare Schools Festival - £30,000
Towards the resources and support required to enable the participation of 30 special schools in the Shakespeare Schools Festival 2008. Stonewall - £68,727
Towards the salary of an education co-ordinator to provide training to teachers and to develop policy and practice to reduce homophobic bullying in schools in 57 local authorities. Survivors' Poetry - £60,000
Towards the salary of a project co-ordinator over two years to run a poetry mentoring scheme for 60 adults with mental health difficulties to support and encourage 25-30 emerging writers to enter the wider literary community and help train other members of the organisation. The Brightside Trust - £40,000
Towards the costs over two years of developing an online mentoring/learning programme to raise levels of educational achievement among children in care. The Campaign for Drawing - £81,000
Towards the salary of the director over three years for the preparation and production of training materials and the maintenance of a digital archive. UK Career Academy Foundation - £200,000
Towards project costs over three years to enhance the quality of vocational education for young people aged 16-19 in the UK. UK Youth - £250,000
Towards the costs of the curriculum development officer and project costs over three years to support the development of new provision for schools excludees in Hampshire. University of Birmingham School of Education - £48,757
Towards research, administration, training and DVD development costs to increase the number of literacy resources and activities for children/adults with severe learning disabilities in public libraries nationally. University of Cambridge - £53,371
Towards the salary of a an additional research associate for the duration of The Primary Review, and some additional project costs. University of Chichester - £35,000
Towards the salary of a researcher and evaluation costs to extend and evaluate a story telling programme that aims to develop the reading skills of 180 primary aged children with severe behaviour and literacy problems, from 30 schools and to improve their relationships with their parents/carers. WAC Performing Arts & Media College - £95,509
Towards the salaries of a project co-ordinator and tutor, management and other course delivery costs over three years to enable 40 young adults not in education, employment or training to re-engage with learning and successfully enter further education, apprenticeship or employment. Wai Yin Chinese Women Society - £60,614
Towards the salary of a family learning co-ordinator and part-time tutor over two years to run 10 hours per week of classes for 38 weeks per year to provide learning opportunities for Chinese parents and carers in Greater Manchester. Willow, The North Hull Women's Centre - £42,409
Towards the salary of a part-time women's support worker to improve the confidence and skill levels of Black and Minority Ethnic women and to raise the community's understanding of BME groups.
Willowfield Parish Community Association - £45,000
Towards the salaries of a family support worker and children's worker to run the programmes over three years, and some resource costs to help 400 disadvantaged families better support their children's learning.
Grants approved up to £20,000
Association for Education and Ageing - £19,500
Barons Court Community CLIC - £13,132
Bradford City Farm - £9,997
Camden Women's Aid - £11,722
Capacity Consultants - £11,950
Carnegie UK Trust - £9,900
Centre for Literacy in Primary Education - £19,250
Children's World Charity - £18,900
Creative Connections - £11,017
Darnall Forum - £20,000
Diversity Hub - £20,000
Double Elephant Print Workshop - £8,367
Downright Excellent - £15,000
Greenwich & Lewisham Young People's Theatre - £19,898
Harmony Training Ltd - £9,000
Human Scale Education - £7,000
Institute for Philanthropy - £10,000
Institute of Education - £19,640
Involve - £18,000
Involve - Voluntary Action in Mid Devon - £19,984
Island House Community Centre - £20,000
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust - £15,000
Kensington Housing Trust - £20,000
Kidscape - £20,000
Lancashire Global Education Centre - £20,000
LCDP - £19,966
Learn English at Home - £20,000
Llanhilleth Institute - £13,942
London Centre for Leadership in Learning - £20,000
Manchester Metropolitan University - £20,000
Migrants Resource Centre - £20,000
Music and the Deaf - £8,900
National Education Trust - £18,000
National Foundation for Educational Research - £3,550
National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) - £8,214
Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship - £19,800
Nippa - The Early Years Organisation - £7,500
North Staffs Special Adventure Playground - £20,000
North Tyneside District Disability Forum - £20,000
Open Roads To Learning - £20,000
Outlook Training Organisation - £8,800
Oxford Brookes University - £18,970
Peaceworks - £20,000
Pilton Equalities Project - £20,000
Re-Entry - £20,000
Remembering Education - £640
Research Autism - £9,411
Royal Institution of Great Britain - £20,000
SAPERE - £20,000
Sherbourne Youth Resource Centre - £20,000
South London Refugee Association - £20,000
St John with St Mark C E Primary School - £20,000
Synectics Education Initiative - £19,500
The Charterhouse Group - £19,500
The Cooke e-Learning Foundation - £19,750
The Dandelion Trust for Children - £20,000
The Edge Foundation - £2,000
The Edge Foundation - £20,000
The Foundation for Social and Economic Thinking - £20,000
The Garden Science Trust - £10,084
The Lighthouse Group - £19,138
The Pentalk Network Ltd. - £20,000
The Performing Arts Labs Ltd - £1,000
The Phoenix Education Trust - £20,000
The Phoenix Education Trust - £10,000
The Pilgrims' Association - £19,950
The Reader - £20,000
The Score Project - £12,375
The Skillshop Ltd - £10,000
The World Food Project - £5,980
Tower Hamlets Parents Centre - £12,500
Toxteth Learning - £20,000
TreeHouse - £10,000
Universal Leonardo - £20,000
Waltham Forest Bilingual Group - £3,302
Wingate & Station Town Family Centre - £20,000
Total value of grants: - £5,168,780
Number of grants: 124
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