Grants made in 2008

Main Fund

A Clean Sweep - £63,746
Towards the expansion of a social firm that employs people with learning difficulties, over two years.

About with Friends - £43,000
Towards running costs over three years to expand beneficiary and volunteer numbers and to develop income earning services to strengthen AWF's financial position.

ADFAM National - £383,975
Towards the salaries of a stakeholder involvement co ordinator, administrator and running costs of the new membership support project over five years, to develop Adfam into a national, umbrella organisation for self-help/peer support groups and services, and professionals from other disciplines working with families.

Age Concern Lancashire - £45,000
Towards the salary of an employment advisor and a programme of work over three years aimed at helping over 50s into work or volunteering activity.

Alternatives Activity Centre - £5,700
Towards the engagement of a suitable consultant to undertake a detailed feasibility study in relation to a potential new charity shop initiative.

Anawim - £73,764
Towards the salary and immediate costs over two years of the project manager of the Anawim project which works with vulnerable women.

Anti-Apathy - £75,900
Towards core costs and to the salaries of the creative director and project manager over three years to support its growing platform of innovative projects.

Aqoon Community Education and Training Services - £30,600
Towards the salary of an outreach worker, workshop, management, dissemination and other modest associated project costs, to pilot a school/parent/educational agency liaison programme to benefit 50 newly arrived Somali children living in Leicester with learning difficulties/behavioural needs.

ARC Stockton Arts Centre Ltd - £40,250
Towards salary and project costs over three years to develop a theatre group aimed at young asylum seekers and refugees aiming to increase their skills and reducing exclusion.

Arcola Theatre - £120,000
Towards developing the artistic programme over two years.

ArtsMill - £5,800
Towards the salary of a gallery administrator.

Bail for Immigration Detainees - £104,017
Towards revenue costs, including the salary of the legal officer and manager over three years.

Barbara Melunsky Refugee Youth Agency Ltd - £105,000
Towards the salaries of two youth support workers and the rental of office space over two years and a fund to support youth activities where young refugees work together to improve their lives and the lives of other refugees.

Basantu Outreach Project - £20,000
Towards core costs over two years.

Bath Preservation Trust Ltd - £12,000
Towards fees for the preparation of the business plan.

Believe to Achieve - £14,220
Towards an additional programme of confidence developing activities for children aged 5 to 11 years from deprived communities in Wolverhampton.

Bradford Study Support Network - £35,852
Towards tutor and project costs of one-to-one study support for 68 minority ethnic families in Bradford over two years.

British Trust for Ornithology - £180,000
Towards the salary and travel costs of the co-ordinator over five years for the 'Bird Atlas 2007-11'. An estimated 50,000 volunteers will assess changes in distribution and numbers of the UK's birds.

Britten Sinfonia Ltd - £40,000
Towards the annual series of evening concerts in Norwich, over two years.

Building Bridges in Burnley - £25,000
Towards the charity’s revenue shortfall.

Bungay Arts & Theatre Society - £60,000
Towards salaries and costs over two years to widen activities.

Calthorpe Project - £20,000
Towards core costs over two years, to run horticultural and food growing sessions for a number of marginalised and vulnerable groups within the community to reduce isolation and increase skills.

Cambridge SOFA - £45,000
Towards the salary of the volunteer development worker over two years.

Campaign for Better Transport Charitable Trust - £300,000
Towards core costs over three years to deliver better public transport across the UK.

Campaign to Protect Rural England - £130,740
Towards the salary of a campaign manager over three years.

Care & Repair England - £78,116
Towards the salary of a housing action support officer over two years to work aiming to improve the housing and living conditions of older people.

Catch 22 Magazine CIC - £40,000
Towards the salary of the director over three years and towards two projects.

Catch21 Productions Ltd - £5,000
Towards consultancy fees necessary to develop a business and marketing plan.

Cerebral Palsy Sport - £98,656
Towards the costs of delivering sport and recreational opportunities over three years for children with Cerebral Palsy.

Change Ashby Now - £40,250
Towards the salary of a project manager over two years to oversee youth work and develop a programme of activities in addition to expanding income generation opportunities at The Hub.

Chemicals, Health, and Environmental Monitoring Trust - £113,700
Towards the salary of the director and two projects to benefit UK wildlife conservation over three years.

Cheshire Wildlife Trust (CWT) - £74,000
Towards the salary of a new head of conservation over two years to stabilise and rebuild the work of this Wildlife Trust.

Children in Scotland - £103,470
Towards the salary for an early years' policy officer over three years to make a lasting impact on Scottish early years policy, provision and practice.

Chrysalis Arts Development - £44,550 Towards six artists' residencies based with North Yorkshire collections and heritage sites including professional support and exhibitions over 19 months.

Citizen Organising Foundation - £155,241 Towards the salary and costs of a project officer and rent/office costs over three years.

Citylight - £56,500 Towards the salary of a project worker over two years to support female victims of sex trafficking and female sex workers.

CleanupUK - £50,000 Towards the salary of the chief executive over two years to support volunteer litter-collecting groups.

Climate Outreach Information Network - £30,000
Towards the core activities of COIN over two years.

Community Money Advice - £40,000
Towards the salaries of two key employees over two years during CMA's step-change development, to expand capacity in response to the enormous and growing demand for debt advice.

Community Network - £45,539
Towards the salary of a new project manager over two years to expand the use of teleconferencing as a means of overcoming loneliness and isolation.

Council for Education in World Citizenship - Cymru - £58,225
Towards the salary of a project officer over three years for the development of philosophy for children in Welsh Schools.

Council for Scottish Archaeology - £15,843
Towards the salary of a volunteer co-ordinator over three years for the Volunteer Outreach Project. Piloting a scheme to train and support a network of volunteers as 'archaeological demonstrators' to lead practical workshops in mainstream and special schools in Midlothian.

Cove Park - £105,000
Towards a residency programme over three years.

Cued Speech Association UK - £39,089
Towards the salary of the CEO, administrator, co-ordinator, fundraiser and overhead costs to build capacity and maximise the longer term impact of Cued Speech Associations work.

Dada-South - £60,000
Towards the costs of a deaf and disabled artists' advisory network over three years.

Deafinitely Theatre - £44,411
Towards the development of new work over three years.

Derby Quad Ltd - £75,000
Towards the launch event and the costs of the Format and the Film Commissioning project over three years.

East Durham Partnership - £75,000
Towards the salary and costs of the social enterprise manager post over three years.

ECPAT UK - £88,852
Towards the salary of a parliamentary officer over three years.

Every Child a Chance Trust - £40,000
Towards evaluation costs and national roll out of Every Child a Reader, a programme for 6-9 year olds who are struggling to learn to read.

Ex Cathedra - £50,000
Towards the cost over two years of running the organisation’s 40th anniversary programme to affirm Birmingham as a city of choral excellence.

Faith in Community (Scotland) - £66,662
Towards the salary of the community profiler over three years to equip people from deprived areas to develop and analyse qualitative and quantitative data and to use it to drive community development programmes.

Family Friends - £10,000
Towards core costs and the salary of the family & volunteer co-ordinator on the befriending and mentoring scheme which helps hard-to-reach disadvantaged families.

Federation of Stadium Communities - £70,748
Towards the salary of a development manager over two years to broker partnerships between major sports clubs and their local communities.

Finchley Children's Music Group - £10,000
Towards the cost of staging a children's opera.

firstsite - £100,000
Towards the costs over three years of firstsite's Artist Space programme, a dedicated space to house interplay between artists and audience in the creative process.

Fishing for Litter South West - £38,332
Towards the salary of a part time project co-ordinator and additional evaluation costs over two years.

Forum for the Future - £240,000
Towards core staff and overhead costs of the sustainable Bristol region project.

Foxglove Covert Local Nature Reserve - £16,000
Towards the costs of creating a wet meadow area, with board walk and hide.

Froglife - £6,700
Towards the cost of a consultant to facilitate organisational restructuring.

FunderFinder - £60,000
Towards the cost of developing web-based services which will increase access and convenience for grant-seekers trying to identify appropriate trust funding.

Galgael Trust - £55,000
Towards the costs of the Navigate the Future programme to empower disadvantaged people.

Gayle Mill Trust Ltd - £20,000
Towards core costs in the first year of operation.

Gemin-i.org - £168,211
Towards the salaries of the primary sales and schools officers and associated project costs of expanding Rafiki into primary schools.

Grapevine (Coventry and Warwickshire) Ltd - £90,050
Towards the salary of a community connections worker and associated costs to build positive and two-way relationships between people with a learning disability and others in their communities.

Green Alliance Trust - £225,000
Towards core policy work over three years to advance the economics and politics of the environment.

Greenwich & Docklands Festivals - £50,000
Towards the costs of a programme of work for the Greenwich and Docklands Festivals.

Greenwich Citizen Advocacy Project - £61,823
Towards the salary of the advocacy development worker over two years to ensure that parents with a learning disability receive more equitable assessments, support and services leading to improved outcomes for families locally and nationally.

Hastings & Rother Trust Ltd - £60,000
Towards core costs over three years to develop this trust's role as a community anchor.

Haven Products - £33,000
Towards the salary of a project development worker over three years to increase the opportunities for 45 of Haven's employees with disabilities to experience and sustain work in mainstream settings.

Health and Happiness in the Highlands - £37,294
Towards the health awareness project over two years to raise awareness Highlands wide of health issues faced by adults with a learning disability.

High Bickington CPT Ltd - £50,430
Towards the revenue shortfall over three years while the Trust becomes financially self sustaining through its community owned property development activities.

Hillside Clubhouse - £30,000
Towards the salary of a part-time clubhouse worker over two years to develop an external catering project to offer real work and training opportunities for people with mental health problems.

Inquest - £150,000
Towards revenue costs over three years for casework and policy work on the deaths of children and young people in prison and of prisoners with mental health and/or drug and alcohol problems.

Institute of Criminal Policy Research (ICPR) - £25,000
Towards the research and dissemination costs of an investigation into a Sentencing Commission.

Institute of Welsh Affairs - £75,000
Towards the salary of a junior researcher over three years.

Interest Link Borders - £50,000
Towards the salary of the co-ordinator to support the transition befriending programme for young people with learning difficulties, and other associated project costs over three years.

International Centre for Prison Studies (ICPS) - £150,000
Towards the staffing and running costs over three years of a programme of work to influence the debate about penal policy.

International Futures Forum - £20,000
Towards the costs of producing and testing kitbags to develop a new way of building psychological capacity and alleviating mental health problems.

International Institute for Environment & Development - £72,000
Towards the salary of a project manager over 18 months for the Greenhouse, a sustainable voluntary sector building.

Intoart - £43,959
Towards the salary of the director over two years, and the costs of evaluation.

Islington Play Association - £20,000
Towards project costs for a multi cultural play project which will catalogue and circulate games from around the world played by children from Islington's diverse ethnic communities.

Jackson's Lane Community Centre - £10,000
Towards the costs of a feasibility study.

Jumpstart Kidz Ltd - £2,700
Towards the salary of a part time development worker to enable the organisation to increase its revenues and reduce reliance on grant funding.

Kainos Community - £160,980
Towards the salary of the operations director to enable the 'Challenge to Change' programme to expand into more prisons over three years.

Kids Stop Community Interest Company - £5,200
Towards the costs of marketing materials and salary of a new post to increase outreach work and earned income.

Kilcooley Women's Education & Development Group - £60,000
Towards the salary and costs of the director over two years.

Landlife - £74,888
Towards the development of new conservation ideas and practices over three years.

Leicester Credit Union Ltd - £50,000
Towards the costs over two years of launching credit union bank accounts, to meet the needs of the community, promoting improvements in financial inclusion and financial and economic wellbeing.

Little Angel Theatre - £54,000
Towards a professional training and development programme for puppeteers and puppet-makers over three years.

Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland - £750,000
Towards a new £10m fund for vulnerable 14-19 years olds. Grant over three years.

London Wildlife Trust - £170,928
Towards the salary of the three core biodiversity conservation posts over three years.

Lost Chord - £75,000
Towards the costs of interactive musical sessions in 20 residential homes over three years to stimulate responses from dementia sufferers.

Manchester International Festival - £72,500
Towards the costs over 18 months of a new programme inspiring cultural innovation across Manchester.

Margrave Communications Ltd - £30,000
Towards communications support for the Primary Review.

Marine Conservation Society - £50,000
Towards the launch and first year of the major MSC litter champions campaign to promote local practical action to tackle the increasing levels of marine litter.

MED Theatre - £68,000
Towards a community based theatre project delivering Dartmoor Elements, a two-year integrated participatory performing arts and education programme on climate change for communities and visitors in the National Park.

Miracle Theatre Trust Ltd - £60,000
Towards the salary of a tour co-ordinator and production and touring costs over three years.

Missing People - £92,910
Towards the costs over three years of the Runaway Helpline, a confidential freephone service for young people who have run away or have been forced to leave home.

National Literacy Trust - £90,000
Towards the salaries of the project director and the information and communication officer over three years.

National Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland - £84,358
Towards the salary of the project researcher and a contribution to general project costs over three years.

New Heights - Warren Farm Community Project - £20,000
Towards the core costs over two years, during a period of rapid development.

New Writing South - £20,000
Towards the salary of the operations manager/deputy director.

North Highland Forest Trust - £87,733
Towards the salaries of the biodiversity forester and part time support staff over three years, promoting sustainable management of biodiversity-rich woodlands.

Old Museum Arts Centre - £128,614
Towards the salary and costs of a project support manager and marketing costs over three years.

openDemocracy - £7,500
Towards the Migrant Voice project to bring unheard voices and the testimonies of the lived experience of refugees in Britain into the public debate during Refugee Week 2008.

Optimum Population Trust - £19,100
Towards the production of two reports on population and environment.

Oriel Davies Gallery - £60,000
Towards a three year programme of exhibitions, residencies and tours.

People & Planet - £21,000
Towards the salary and overheads of a festival stewarding social business to guarantee funds for their environment and global poverty campaigns.

People's Trust for Endangered Species - £50,000
Towards the salary of an orchard mapping officer and costs of data purchase over two years to map England's traditional orchards and raise public awareness of their importance as a habitat for rare species and as a heritage landscape feature.

Pesticide Action Network UK - £73,788
Towards the costs of a Pesticide Free Park Programme over two years working with London boroughs challenging them to be pesticide free in their maintenance of public parks and green spaces.

Philharmonia Orchestra - £132,535
Towards the UK tour of PLAY.orchestra, the world's first 'virtual orchestra' reaching communities across the UK.

Polka Theatre - £40,000
Towards the costs of two theatre/educational collaborations with the Natural History Museum and the Science Museum over two years to test out ways to create the best new theatre for children with integrated education projects.

Pori Natur a Threftadaeth - £99,350
Towards the salary of the project co-ordinator and marketing costs, plus biodiversity monitoring over three years.

Positive News Publication - £5,000
Towards the costs of running a week-long residential environmental journalism course for 16 disadvantaged young people in partnership with The Arvon Foundation.

Prisoners' Advice Service - £75,000
Towards the salary and costs of the managing solicitor over three years.

Project North East - £141,594
Towards staff and costs over two years of developing a distance learning management programme for voluntary and community organisations.

PRS Foundation - £20,000
Towards a fourth round of the joint commissioning fund with the Performing Rights Society Foundation and Scottish Arts Council.

Quicksilver Theatre - £14,425
Towards creating an innovative, interactive performance installation, made for and with an integrated audience of disabled and able-bodied three - five year-olds to improve communication skills.

Radstock Museum - £3,000
Towards the costs of writing a Business/Income Development Plan.

ReCOM Ltd - £16,877
Towards the establishment of two new computer clubs for vulnerable adults.

Responsible Nano Forum - £30,000
Towards the start up costs of the Responsible Nano Forum which links NGOs, consumers and business, to engage and communicate with the general public and support the responsible development of nanotechnologies.

Rising Status Ltd. - £68,500
Towards the salary of the director of A Space over three years and core costs.

Riverside Credit Union Ltd - £51,188
Towards the salary of the product development and marketing manager over two years, to progress plans for a prepaid Visa card for members.

Royal National Theatre - £150,000
Towards a pilot programme over two years of participatory, digital and new media activities.

Rushmere Commoners - £12,000
To carry out heathland restoration within the fringe of Ipswich over three years, involving local community groups and schools in habitat and species recording and investigating the site's cultural history.

Rutland Pink Glove Support Services - £45,000
Towards the salary of a development manager over two years to enable expansion of service delivery, leading to financial sustainability.

Salford City Council - £81,168
Towards the salary of a volunteering and training manager at Ordsall Hall over three years.

Scottish Borders Community Orchestra - £20,000
Towards salaries and overheads over two years.

Scottish Environment LINK - £75,000
Towards core funding over three years.

Scottish Information Literacy Project - £41,598
Towards the salary of the project officer, subsistence and dissemination costs to further develop the draft National Information Literacy Framework in Scotland; to reach more beneficiaries of a wider age range.

Sedbergh Book Town Literary Trust - £12,000
Towards the second Festival of Ideas in Sedbergh (England’s Book Town).

Sense About Science - £127,028
Towards the salary and costs of the programme manager over three years.

Shelter - £300,000
Towards the costs over three years of the pilot Knowsley Child Support Service aimed at meeting the needs of homeless children and thereby breaking the cycle of inter-generational homelessness.

Sikh Community Care Project (SCCP) - £10,000
Towards the cost of establishing and running a youth development initiative over two years.

Soil Association - £397,881
Towards developing membership over three years to increase unrestricted core income.

Sound Affairs - £15,000
Towards the development of an innovative, collaborative, music and dance piece and its performance predominately in Wales.

Sounds New - £5,000
Towards the costs of an annual contemporary music festival.

South Bank Centre - £220,000
Towards the costs over two years of the first phase of 'Standard Bearers: Great Works for Young People' .

South Downs Council for Voluntary Service - £15,443
Towards the salary of the part time trustee development officer and to strengthen the management and governance of local voluntary groups.

South West Foundation - £60,000
Towards the Foundation's Small Grant Programme over two years, giving grants to rural organisations with an income of less than £15,000 in rural areas.

St Peter's Community & Advice Centre - £41,600
Towards project costs and risk assessment training over two years for a new project that will support, advise and guide Bangladeshi women affected by domestic violence.

Stour Valley Arts - £50,000
Towards the salary of the assistant curator over three years, and a contribution to commission costs.

SuperGay - £3,500
Towards the festival costs, aiming to reduce the impact of marginalisation and exclusion for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community in Middlesborough.

Sustainable Brampton - £20,000
Towards the salary of a volunteer co-ordinator over two years to develop community self-reliance in this 'Transition Town'.

Tate Gallery - £70,000
Towards "Fifth Floor" a seven week long exhibition whose content and organisation will be shaped by local communities and visitors working in partnership with artists.

The Avison Charitable Trust - £70,000
Towards costs over two years.

The Blind in Business Charitable Trust - £75,000
Towards the salary and costs of a project worker over three years to give blind school leavers the confidence and skills to find work.

The Bridge Church - £57,107
Towards the salaries of existing café staff over two years, whilst working to become more financially self-sustaining and increase social benefit.

The Carers Centre - £57,730
Towards the salary of an outreach worker and associated project costs over three years to identify and support young adult carers (aged 16-25) to overcome the disadvantages they face.

The Clive Project - £76,802
Towards the salary of the family and friends service co-ordinator and evaluation costs over three years. To enable family members, including children, affected by early onset dementia to live more fully.

The Community of Congolese Refugees in Great Britain - £33,263
Towards volunteer expenses over three years for those volunteering with the refugee community organisation whose aim is to assist Francophone Africans and small community groups in London.

The Devon Child Assault Prevention Project - £5,000
Towards the fees of a consultant to undertake strategic planning with staff and trustees that work with children to develop self protection strategies and reduce their vulnerability to abuse.

The Funding Network - £120,000
Towards core costs over three years.

The Holburne Museum - £150,000
Towards revenue funding during the closure for capital refurbishment over three years.

The Opera Group - £48,592
Towards the salary of the executive producer over 15 months.

The People and Work Unit - £101,386
Towards the salary of a community development worker over three years to develop a model of community based support, guidance and encouragement for people to progress into and through further and higher education.

The Pier Arts Centre - £120,000
Towards the centre's core costs in its first three years of operation in its enlarged building.

The Poetry Translation Centre Ltd. - £40,000
Towards the costs over two years of six high-profile poets from Africa and Asia, and their British poet-translators.

The Prince's Trust - £118,309
Towards the salary of the national project manager and mentor training and evaluation costs over two years.

The Prospects Foundation - £20,000
Towards the salary of a part-time development worker over two years to oversee the 'Local Action: Global Impact' programme which will enable disadvantaged communities to address the threat of climate change and benefit from its opportunities, utilising a community leadership model.

The Samling Foundation - £50,000
Towards the salary of a general manager and sustainability planning consultancy costs over two years to expand beneficiary numbers and geographic reach and to improve the financial sustainability of this organisation.

The Shark Trust - £113,648
Towards the salary of the director of conservation over three years to deliver shark conservation objectives through science, education, influence and action.

The Small Charities Coalition - £70,000
Towards the salary of a small charities co-ordinator, and running costs over two years to develop and pilot support for small charities and develop this new organisation.

The Young Composer of Dyfed - £30,000
Towards the costs over three years of improving musical composition in schools in Dyfed.

The Young Vic Theatre - £270,000
Towards a programme of international collaborations over three years.

Theatre Sans Frontieres - £5,000
Towards costs related to the London run of "Like Water for Chocolate".

Tinderbox Theatre Company Ltd - £72,000
Towards a programme of new writing initiatives over three years.

Tree of Life Centre, Wythenshawe - £50,000
Towards the salary of the business development director over three years.

UK Association of Gypsy Women - £51,245
Towards the salary and costs for a policy development worker over three years to improve communication between the gypsy community and local and central government.

Undercurrents Foundation - £35,000
Towards staff costs over two years of training 30 citizen journalists.

University of Cambridge - £162,475
Towards printing and disseminating the final report of the Primary Review.

University of Liverpool - £90,000
Towards the salary of a training manager over three years for the national roll out of the Get Into Reading Project.

University of Newcastle - £73,725
Towards the salary of a research assistant on marine protected areas.

WAG Screen - £19,980
Towards a filmed dramatisation of the poem, 'The Lady of Shalott' for Lincoln's Museum and its unique three-screen auditorium for Tennyson's bicentenary, 2009.

Watts Gallery - £117,000
Towards the salary of the marketing manager and costs over two years.

Westminster Befriend A Family - £10,000
Toward core costs to provide befriending, mentoring and family support to families with children aged 0-8 years.

WFA Media & Cultural Centre - £20,721
Towards course costs and deaf sign interpretation costs.

Wilfred Owen Association - £5,000
Towards a series of events in Shrewsbury to commemorate the 90th anniversary of Wilfred Owen, and the signing of the 1918 armistice.

Wiltshire Wildlife Trust - £174,661
Towards revenue, marketing and infrastructure costs of the WWT’s North Wiltshire farming enterprise over three years.

Womankind Worldwide - £25,000
Towards the shortfall of the costs of an animated film 'Once Upon a Time There Were Two Little Girls' to deter women from being trafficked for sexual exploitation.

Women Like Us - £37,768
Towards the costs of research and development work to pilot a new referral service for women who are out of work but need hard skills training plus information on childcare, housing and benefits issues, in order to enter employment.

Women's Aid Federation of England - £90,000
Towards the salary and costs of the press and publicity co-ordinator over three years to raise awareness and improve public understanding of domestic violence.

Total - £13,296,513

No of grants 183

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