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Main Fund 2009

Arts, culture & heritage

A Foundation - £50,000
Towards revenue costs over two years for the programme of activities focused in Liverpool.

Afrique Performs - £4,962
Towards new approaches to multi-media narrative theatre and to improve the skills and profile of the creative artists producing the show 'Blue Black Sister'.

Aldeburgh Music - £122,432
Towards LAB (Education and Technology) residencies and core costs over three years.

Anjali Dance Company - £74,250
Towards the salary of the resident dance artist over three years to work with people with learning difficulties.

Anne Peaker Centre for Arts in Criminal Justice - £60,000
Towards core costs over three years.

Artists First - £10,000
Towards core costs over two years to enable a group of artists with learning difficulties to continue to develop their work by meeting their access and artisitc needs.

ArtsEkta - £59,771
Towards the salary and costs of the administrator over three years.

Aune Head Arts - £19,500
Towards exhibition, touring and education costs for the Triparks Project exploring rural life across the UK.

Border Arts 2000 - £7,500
Towards the cost of workshops in the lead up to a large community arts event.

Cahoots NI - £17,930
Towards the cost of a six week touring programme of performances of 'The Honeypot' to 30 special needs schools.

Candoco Dance Company - £72,000
Towards a programme of development over two years to addresses a gap in integrated dance provision and develop Candoco's ambitions for creative growth, professional development, engagement and participation.

Cape Farewell - £82,950
Towards a programme of work with emerging artists working with three UK universities over three years.

Cardboard Citizens - £150,000
Towards core costs over three years.

Cascade Theatre Company - £30,000
Towards three theatre and arts intergenerational community projects across Cornwall over three years.

Church Buildings Council - £50,000
Towards a conservation grants scheme.

City Arts (Nottingham) Ltd - £20,745
Towards core costs and the salary of the creative manager to tackle social exclusion and widen access to the creative sector.

Civic Society Initiative - £32,200
Towards the salary of the civic society initiative co-ordinator.

Cockpit Arts - £60,000
Towards the salary of the business development manager over three years to provide business support to early stage crafts businesses.

Corali Dance Company - £41,241
Towards the salary of the artistic director over two years.

Creswell Heritage Trust - £42,812
Towards the salary of an audience participation officer over two years to widen inclusion of former coalfield communities in the cultural heritage of Creswell Crags and develop capacity to manage the new museum and education centre.

Dance East - £50,000
Towards the artistic and programming costs of the Spiegel Tent tour of East Anglia.

Danceworks UK - £30,000
Towards research and audience development of family friendly productions over two years.

Deveron Arts - £46,230
Towards the salaries of six apprentices over three years.

Endymion Ensemble Ltd - £6,654
Towards core costs of an education, recording, commissioning and performance project.

Farfield Mill Arts & Heritage Centre - £40,000
Towards the salary of the exhibitions and audience development officer over two years.

Fevered Sleep - £27,856
Towards the research, development and devising costs of 'The Forest', a theatrical work for children.

Frantic Assembly - £40,000
Towards costs over two years of 'Ignition' a national initiative developing new ways of increasing young men's involvement in the arts and improving their health through physical theatre.

Fuel - £65,000
Towards costs over three years of three major public performances.

Green Estate Ltd - £50,000
Towards the salary of the business manager over two years to promote urban regeneration.

Hackney Music Development Trust - £60,000
Towards project, production and education team costs over three years for a programme of raising primary pupils aspirations and attainment, predominantly those from BAME backgrounds.

Highland Buildings Preservation Trust - £70,000
Towards the salaries of two additional members of staff over two years.

Horse & Bamboo Theatre - £59,014
Towards a programme of performances for young families over three years.

Kids in Museums - £13,000
Towards the salary of an administration assistant and office rental costs.

Kinetika Art Links International - £30,000
Towards the costs over three years of expanding the Bloco Summer School, for young people.

Leach Pottery - £46,200
Towards the salary of the lead potter over three years.

Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art Ltd - £40,000
Towards project delivery costs over two years for 'On the Street' to engage hard to reach youth in redesigning redundant buildings and/or land.

Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod - £28,200
Towards the costs over two years of a package of interventions required to underpin greater financial sustainability.

Macrobert Arts Centre - £50,000
Towards mentor and artists' fees for the mPOWER project, inspiring young people aged 12-17 to realise their creative potential.

Manchester Victoria Baths Trust - £19,637
Towards staff costs over two years for the facilitation of activities aimed at engaging local people.

Mull Theatre - £26,700
Towards the costs a tour throughout the Highlands and Islands.

Music in the Round - £45,544
Towards a series of chamber concerts and education activity in Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham.

National Churches Trust - £50,000
Towards the cost of developing a new website to promote information about church building conservation and maintenance.

No Handbags Theatre Unlimited - £27,000
Towards the salary of the artistic director to oversee the pioneering of the "Scratch" process for people with learning difficulties.

NYOS - £49,500
Towards a programme of education and training for young jazz musicians across Scotland over three years.

Opera North - £90,000
Towards a programme over three years of new cross-artform work in the Howard Assembly Room.

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - £100,000
Towards 'Night Shift' a late night concert format for new audiences, over three years.

Paragon Ensemble Ltd - £30,000
Towards the salary of the creative director over two years to support a music programme for young people, vulnerable adults and new migrant communities in Scotland.

Pyramid of Arts - £15,000
Towards running costs over two years to bring professional artists and musicians together with people with learning disabilities.

Rewrite - £19,100
Towards the core costs of the Newspaper Theatre Project.

Royal Northern College of Music - £65,605
Towards the salary of the project manager and lead musicians involved in the Music for Health Programme over three years.

Scottish Ballet - £94,894
Towards the apprenticeship scheme over two years.

Scottish Churches Architectural Heritage Trust - £30,000
Towards a grant fund for the repair and restoration of Scottish church buildings.

Sedbergh Book Town Literary Trust - £10,000
Towards core costs and developing new projects to enhance education and leisure.

Seven Leeds CiC - £45,000
Towards the salary of the creative programmer and director of this purpose-built independent arts venue over two years.

Shetland Arts Development Agency - £65,355
Towards the professional fees over two years of the lead artists, lighting designer and the project assistant to create public light works - bringing traditional crafts together with new technologies.

Sion Mills Building Preservation Trust - £43,698
Towards the salary and costs of a new director over three years.

Sistema Scotland - £150,000
Towards salaries and costs over three years to develop children's orchestras in Raploch using Venezuela's El Sistema methodology.

Soho Theatre - £15,000
Towards the costs of the community led project "Soho Steets".

Spacex Gallery - £30,000
Towards the salary of a project co-ordinator and programme costs.

Spitalfields Music - £90,000
Towards the costs over three years of a programme to embed work within the local community.

Square Chapel Centre for the Arts - £30,000
Towards core costs over two years.

SS Great Britain Trust - £86,586
Towards the salary and training of a curator at the Brunel Institute over three years.

St George's Bristol - £90,000
Towards the cost of a new education and community programme over three years.

Stan Won't Dance - £20,000
Towards the cost of six one-week residencies for 14-35 year olds which will run alongside Babel.

The Co-operative Heritage Trust - £57,683

Towards the salary of the community outreach officer over three years to maintain the public profile of the Rochdale Museum and target new audiences during a period of closure for refurbishment.

The Firebird Trust - £20,817
Towards the cost of piloting and developing a new type of musically and culturally diverse orchestra.

The Memorial Arts Charity - £50,000
Towards the salary of the director over three years to promote and support activity associated with the crafting of memorials, in particular letter carving in stone, wood, brick or metal.

The Public Catalogue Foundation - £240,000
Towards the cost over three years of creating the digital content for the 'Your Paintings' website.

The Sage Gateshead - £150,000
Towards the costs over three years of delivering the Community Music Trainee and Apprentice programme to nurture promising music leaders.

The Tank Museum - £79,000
Towards staffing costs over two years for a programme to develop visitor engagement at the museum.

The Travelling Gallery - £33,000
Towards exhibitions over three years.

Them Wifies - £41,643
Towards the salary of the general manager over three years, to help implement a development plan and build capacity.

Vanishing Point Theatre Company Ltd - £10,000
Towards the cost of Shared Resources: Space 11, a creative hub and capacity building project supporting emerging solo artists and small theatre companies in Glasgow.

Wooden Canal Boat Society - £30,000
Towards the salary of a development worker over two years to enable them to become more sustainable.

Citizenship or community development

Article 1 - £20,000
Towards core costs over two years to provide asylum advice to Darfuris in the UK, to affect policy, and to raise awareness of asylum issues.

Birmingham & Solihull Women's Aid - £70,599
Towards the salary of a part-time worker plus activities and running costs over three years to tackle female genital mutilation.

Black Association of Women Step Out - £68,641
Towards the salary of a part-time outreach worker to work with communities to tackle female genital mutilation.

Bolton Solidarity Community Association - £62,030
Towards the salary of a part-time project worker plus project running costs over three years to tackle female genital mutilation.

Building Bridges Training - £10,000
Towards core costs while the organisation moves
Towards financial sustainability.

Bulwell Community Toy Library - £54,385
Towards the salary over three years of a new family link worker.

Camden Garden Centre Ltd - £72,739
Towards the salary of the head of social enterprise development and training over two years.

Carers UK - £150,000
Towards salaries and development of policy and campaign work over three years.

Changing Tunes - £131,597
Towards core costs including the salary of the director over three years.

Cherry Tree Partners - £19,000
Towards the building/project manager salary over two years to co-ordinate a programme of activities to improve the area of Romiley and provide services for local people of all ages.

Claremont West Family Centre - £30,000
Towards core costs over three years to provide courses and activities that will give parents and children the opportunity to learn together in a safe, caring and respectful environment.

Community Transport Association UK - £339,560
Towards grant funding to eight community transport organisations and a contribution to the costs over three years of a programme that will strengthen their operational and financial capacity.

Core Arts - £32,400
Towards the cost of employing a part-time events organiser over three years to help with events to support people with mental health problems.

Cornwall Advocacy - £67,624
Towards the salaries and costs over two years of two part-time specialist advocates to support parents with learning difficulties.

CROP - £77,000
Towards costs over three years of two parent support workers to support parents and carers whose children have been targeted and groomed into sexual exploitation by pimps and traffickers.

Culpeper Community Garden - £15,000
Towards core costs over two years of maintaining a community garden.

Demos Ltd - £29,500
Towards research costs for a Power Map identifying how much influence people have and to generate debate from this.

Dress for Success London - £90,000
Towards core costs over four years, especially client dressing and volunteer manager salary costs.

Ebony Horse Club - £59,590
Towards the salary of the director over three years, to improve the quality of life through horse riding for people in south London.

Envision - £141,321
Towards the salary and costs of the head of communications and policy over three years.

Faith Based Regeneration Network UK - £45,000
Towards the salary of a programme manager over eighteen months to trial and embed new programmes of support to benefit faith based organisations.

FORWARD - £126,946
Towards the salary of the youth co-ordinator and other project costs over three years to tackle female genital mutilation.

Futures Unlocked - £38,000
Towards the salary of a new part-time in-reach worker over two years to enable the community chaplaincy to be extended to a greater number of prisoners.

Germination - £8,000
Towards salary and running costs of developing the 'Our Future' project to engage young people and maintain momentum over the summer.

Granby Somali Women's Group - £66,341
Towards the salary of a project worker and a contribution
Towards project costs over three years to tackle female genital mutilation.

Grandparents Plus - £110,000
Towards the salary and costs of the of policy and research manager over three years.

Home-Start Sheffield - £66,088
Towards the salary of the part-time co-ordinator and overhead costs over three years to support vulnerable first time mothers in developing secure attachments with their children.

Home-Start UK - £131,261
Towards the costs over three years of the 'Innovation Fund' to encourage, support and disseminate innovatory practice within local schemes.

Just Another Dance Event - £50,000
Towards business development work at JADE's service for young people over three years.

Kidscape - £19,000
Towards programme development, piloting, evaluation and dissemination costs.

Kushti Bok - £4,000
Towards core costs for an organisation representing the needs and concerns of Gypsies and Travellers across Dorset

Leicester Chinese Community Centre - £50,524
Towards costs over three years to support and develop the services provided to help the integration of local Chinese people in Leicestershire.

LGBT Centre for Health and Wellbeing - £54,000
Towards the salary and costs over two years of a project worker to work with volunteers to address current gaps in services and reduce social isolation for older lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.

Magic Me - £73,290
Towards the salary of the project director over three years to enable the charity to develop and extend its inter-generational work in Tower Hamlets.

Muslim Scout Fellowship - £52,350
Towards development of thirty further Muslim scout groups in deprived areas over two years.

National Care Farming Initiative (UK) - £110,000
Towards the salary and costs of a development manager over three years to enable the development of care farming as a 'movement' in the UK.

Newcastle Society for Blind People - £30,000
Towards core costs over three years to enable the organisation to plan new services and respond to current need.

Our Way - £51,824
Towards the costs over two years of establishing a friendship/dating project for young people with learning difficulties in rural areas.

Park Community Action - £22,500
Towards two core posts over two years.

Penhaligon's Friends - £33,000
Towards the salary of the team leader/training co-ordinator over three years to provide a countywide bereavement service.

Pilotlight - £145,000
Towards the costs over three years of expanding the work of Pilotlight into Wales.

Plunkett Foundation - £729,413
Towards the continuation of the Village Core programme over three years supporting the establishment of community owned village shops across the UK.

Prisoners Abroad - £25,000
Towards resettlement team salary costs over two years to help ex-prisoners returning from abroad.

Prudhoe Community Partnership - £51,778
Towards the salary of the Enterprising Prudhoe project officer over three years to provide additional capacity and increase income.

Radio Regen - £9,909
Towards the salary of a part-time administrator.

Refugee Radio - £18,490
Towards core costs of the Desert Island Discs project for isolated migrants, asylum seekers and refugees.

Saheli Asian Women's Project - £84,600
Towards the salary of a forced marriage worker over three years to deliver outreach support services to women in Greater Manchester.

Somali Development Services Ltd - £84,800
Towards the salary of a part-time worker, trainers' fees, activities and running costs over three years.

Speakers' Corner Trust - £60,000
Towards the salary and costs of the director over two years to help reclaim public space as a platform for public discussion and debate.

Spice Innovations - £99,759
Towards the salary and costs of the development manager over three years to develop a new UK-wide social enterprise that supports organisations to increase levels of citizen engagement through time-banking.

St Giles Trust - £22,990
Towards evaluation costs to assess the case for employing peer advisors to reduce re-offending and influence policy.

Sunlight Development Trust - £103,015
Towards the salary and costs over three years of the operations manager.

The Comfrey Project - £10,000
Towards core costs over two years for this community allotment project which supports refugees and asylum seekers to improve health and wellbeing.

The House on the Corner Community Project - £22,500
Towards core costs over two years to extend family support.

The Koestler Trust - £90,000
Towards the costs over three years of improving communication with offenders, ex-offenders and the public.

The Lewes Pound - £28,800
Towards the salary of a part-time co-ordinator over two years.

The Mental Health Foundation - £146,940
Towards the salary of the project manager and costs over two years to support an inquiry into improving mental health in old age.

The Mentor Foundation - £75,000
Towards the salary of the programme manager over three years to focus on preventing drug misuse amongst children and young people.

The Princess Royal Trust for Carers - £70,000
Towards a programme over three years aimed at increasing the availability and quality of support to carers of people with mental health problems.

The Women's Centre for Blackburn & District - £11,000
Towards the salary of the counselling/volunteer co-ordinator and some core costs.

Traveller Law Reform Project - £70,000
Towards the salaries and costs over three years of two part-time posts to further policy work.

Trust Women's Project - £75,000
Towards the salary over three years of the project manager, to offer support and opportunities to women involved in, exploited through or exited from prostitution in South London

Trust Youth - £37,020
Towards the salaries and costs of the project manger and London co-ordinator posts over two years.

UK Citizens Online Democracy - £67,500
Towards the salary over three years of a software developer to engage more people in civic and democratic life via the internet.

Upper Room (St Saviour's with St Mary's) - £75,000
Towards 'UR4 driving' project costs over three years to reduce recidivism and improve the employability of young ex-offenders by teaching them to drive in return for voluntary work redistributing surplus supermarket food.

Volunteer Centre - Nuneaton & Bedworth - £20,000
Towards the costs of a volunteer management training programme and forum over two years.

Volunteer Centre Sutton - £46,337
Towards the salary of a part-time mentoring co-ordinator over three years to oversee a programme to support vulnerable 'Looked After' children with multiple and complex needs who have suffered significant trauma.

West Harton Churches Action Station Ltd - £20,000
Towards core costs over two years to help the organisation to continue providing a range of important services to local residents in its role as a community hub.

Working Chance - £60,000
Towards the salary of the employer liaison officer and a contribution
Towards core costs over three years.

Worldwide Alternatives to Violence Trust - £451,173
Towards the salary and costs of the general manager over five years.

WORLDwrite - £70,671
Towards the salary over three years of the assistant director, to run 'WORLDbytes', an experimental online news magazine channel run by young disadvantaged volunteers.

Yemeni Community Association in Sandwell Ltd - £20,000
Towards core costs over two years.

Youth Action Northern Ireland - £30,000
Towards the salary over two years of the Out and About worker responsible for outreach to young lesbians in rural Northern Ireland.

Education

ActionAid - £75,000
Towards the salary of the manager, trainer, policy officer and programme costs of a tailored education programme for migrants and refugees in the UK.

Asha Women's Centre - £90,475
Towards the costs over three years of training provision for disadvantaged women who lack the confidence and self esteem to access mainstream provision.

Bag Books - £74,837
Towards the salary of the director of services and associated costs over three years.

Bamboozle Theatre Company - £25,000
Towards touring costs for a new interactive drama production.

Border Crossings - £7,000
Towards the education programme costs.

Cambridge Music Festival - £13,320
Towards the cost of participatory workshops and concerts for pre-school children, their parents and teachers.

CDI Europe - £15,000
Towards the cost of a feasibility study to assess the demand and potential impact of using technology as a way of improving skills and education.

Centre of the Cell - £83,444
Towards the salary of a new learning and access facilitator over three years to support young people's learning.

City Year - £300,000
Towards the costs over three years of piloting the City Year programme, a youth service to support the learning of disadvantaged children in London.

Communities Empowerment Network - £15,306
Towards the costs of an evaluation of the service provided.

Drake Music Scotland - £23,000
Towards the costs of sessional musicians to introduce the Figure Notes notation system across Scotland.

Helm Training - £28,666
Towards the salary of a link worker and a contribution
Towards sessional crèche trainer worker costs over three years.

Institute of Historical Research - £105,755
Towards the costs over two years of 'History & Policy',which aims to improve the quality of public policy through increasing the understanding of history.

KidsOut - £37,523
Towards the salary and costs of a part-time project co-ordinator over two years to create a bank of stories in the 20 languages most commonly spoken by children with English as an additional language.

Ludus Dance - £20,805
Towards development costs of a new model of performance-based dance in early years education.

Media Standards Trust - £150,000
Towards core costs over three years to raise awareness about news standards.

MyBnk - £145,000
Towards the costs over three years of expanding financial education work in London and the South East.

NAPA - £67,455
Towards the cost of a training project over three years to provide employees in care homes with the skills needed to provide a diverse range of activities for residents.

National Children's Bureau - £65,717
Towards salaries and project costs over two years for research which aims to better understand childminding as a form of childcare and to support childminders in developing new approaches to their work in the context of the Early Year's Foundation Stage.

National Literacy Trust - £25,000
Towards the salaries over two years of the corporate relationship manager and web development manager working on a project to improve attitudes
Towards reading and raise literacy standards.

Northdale Horticulture - £28,495
Towards the salary of the manager over two years.

Plaza Community Cinema - £61,236
Towards the salary of the education manager over three years to enable the continued development of the education programme.

Policy Studies Institute - £22,000
Towards research into the factors affecting children's independent mobility.

Primetimers - £17,500
Towards the cost of a feasibility study for the Civil Society University concept.

Ride High - £36,000
Towards the salary of the part-time centre manager's salary over two years.

Rideout (Creative Arts for Rehabilitation) - £50,000 To pilot a creative learning programme for young offenders in the West Midlands over three years.

RISE - £3,575
Towards the salary of the researcher to enable the existing project to include an evaluation of the impact of recent changes to the admissions' code on the fairness of schools' admission procedures.

Royal College of Music - £109,372
Towards the salary of a project manager and lead musician costs over three years for a project evaluating the impact of individual instrumental tuition on the well being of the over 55's in day care and other settings.

SAFC Foundation - £120,522
Towards project costs over three years for two new programmes, 'Goal' and 'Going for Goal' which offer a practical, stimulating learning environment for disengaged children and young people in Sunderland.

SENAC - £74,739
Towards the salary of a part-time education policy worker over three years and core costs to provide an advocacy service for children with special educational needs in Northern Ireland.

Sticky Fingers Early Years Arts - £15,000
Towards the costs of an arts project working with young children to regenerate areas near Newry's canal banks.

Stoke City Community Programme - £105,000
Towards the costs over three years of providing support courses to young people aged 16 to 18 years who are not in employment, education or training.

Studio 3 Arts - £28,000
Towards the costs over three years of six projects to encourage young and older people to meet, develop trust and understanding, regenerate communities and build social networks.

The National Centre for Young People with Epilepsy - £120,000
Towards the salary of an educational psychologist over three years to improve educational support for young people with epilepsy.

The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain - £60,000
Towards the salary of the student support worker over three years.

The Place2Be - £102,067
Towards the salary over two years of the transition years training development manager, the evaluation officer and marketing costs.

The Poetry Slam - £6,770
Towards project costs of the Bristol 'InterSchool Poetry Slam'.

The Reading Agency - £48,000
Towards the salary of the project manager to develop, deliver and collect evaluation data for a new adult literacy programme and to cover costs for the tutor and library staff.

The Roundhouse Trust - £150,000
Towards core costs of the youth programme over three years.

TreeHouse - £90,000
Towards the cost over three years of developing a national training programme for professionals working with autistic children.

University of Cambridge - £23,500
Towards the costs of monitoring the impact of The Primary Review and promoting its key messages to policy makers.

University of East London - £29,964
Towards the salary of the project officer and associated costs over eighteen months.

Venture Scotland - £120,000
Towards the salary of a development worker and a contribution to management, evaluation and other project costs over three years.

Volunteer Reading Help - £150,000
Towards the salary over three years of the volunteer service manager to implement the organisational sustainability plan.

Environment

10:10 - £70,000
Towards the salary of the director and a contribution to core costs for a campaign to cut CO2 emissions by 10% in 2010.

Association for Environment Conscious Building - £46,454
Towards the salary of a part-time research director over three years.

Bearsted Woodland Trust - £75,000
Towards costs over two years of research and a guide to the management of new broadleaf woodlands for conservation.

Black Environment Network - £16,647
Towards project costs to integrate social, cultural and environmental concerns in the context of sustainable development.

Butterfly Conservation - £123,167
Towards the salary of the head of regions over three years to co-ordinate and expand landscape scale projects across the UK.

Campaign for National Parks - £67,121
Towards the costs over three years of the effective transition to National Park status for the South Downs.

Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales - £96,100
Towards the salary of a policy officer over three years to improve capacity to engage with strategic policy issues.

Christian Aid - £49,093
Towards research and other costs for a green industrial strategy.

Close the Door Campaign - £21,500
Towards the salary of a researcher and the costs of producing a report for retailers to encourage and support retailers to keep their doors closed while using heating or air conditioning.

Ecological Continuity Trust - £131,818
Towards the salary and costs of the director over three years.

EcoNexus - £54,800
Towards research and core costs over two years.

European Environmental Citizens' Organisation for Standardisation - £12,445
Towards capacity building in standardisation among environmental organisations in the UK.

European Federation for Transport and Environment - £27,090
Towards research and data analysis costs over two years.

Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens - £250,000
Towards core costs over five years.

Green Thing Ltd - £74,500
Towards developing their reach and impact over two years.

Mourne Heritage Trust - £56,557
Towards costs over three years of the Silent Valley SAC Enhancement and Interpretation Programme, a ranger based project to provide a co-ordinated approach to conservation and visitor engagement.

National Council for the Conservation of Plants & Gardens - £72,229
Towards the costs of a definitive list of cultivate plants and methodology for assessing their vulnerability and extinction threat over three years.

New Caledonian Woodlands - £77,340
Towards the salary of a part-time education officer over three years.

Permaculture Association - £30,000
Towards the costs over three years of the local food project to create a new England-wide, publicly accessible food-focused permaculture learning and demonstration network.

Prestwood Nature - £2,917
Towards the salary of a part-time post to assist development of integrated conservation policy.

Radnorshire Wildlife Trust Ltd - £47,042
Towards the salary of the project officer and costs over three years to involve local people in conservation of uncharismatic species on the River Marteg.

Resolve - £33,900
Towards research and publication costs of a new approach to alternatives to growth.

Scottish Crofting Foundation - £45,000
Towards the crofting resources programme over three years.

Scottish Environment LINK - £36,985
Towards staff and campaign costs to support the development of a fit for purpose Marine Bill in Scotland.

Scottish Native Woods - £149,546
Towards the costs of the Aspen project over five years.

SeaWeb - £150,000
Towards core costs and the 'Good Catch' initiative over three years.

Sheffield General Cemetery Trust - £30,000
Towards core posts over three years to improve the cemetetery.

Somerset Wildlife Trust - £47,991
Towards staff and consultancy costs of implementing a new finance system and to create a sustainable business model for the future.

Surfers Against Sewage - £23,000
Towards the cost of the 'Protect our Waves' campaign.

Tees Valley Wildlife Trust - £49,880
Towards project costs over two years to create and restore ponds in the Tees Valley to provide habitats for fresh water biodiversity, using experimental research methods and a model partnerships approach.

The British Documentary Film Foundation - £30,000
Towards the costs of evaluating the impact of the film 'The End of the Line'.

The Grasslands Trust - £98,918
Towards the salary of the director of conservation over three years.

The North Harris Trust - £36,000
Towards the salary of a conservation ranger over three years.

The Otesha Project UK - £20,000
Towards core costs over two years to support young, emerging leaders to address major social and environmental problems in the UK.

The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales Ltd - £17,451
Towards the cost of financial and management support.

The Wildscreen Trust - £60,000
Towards the salary of the director of the Arkive Project over three years, a centralised, permanent digital online library of wildlife images and films.

Tomorrow's Company - £25,000
Towards the costs of producing a business guide to the UK's low carbon economy.

Ulster Wildlife Trust - £25,560
Towards continuation of two marine posts to deliver devolved legislation and planning for implementation of a fit for purpose Marine Bill in Northern Ireland.

University of Southampton - £20,000
Towards the cost of data extraction, travel and administration costs for river temperature data.

University of York - £69,975
Towards research and field work costs to determine changes in composition of seabed habitats around the UK over the last 200 years.

Wildlife Trust Wales Office - £21,875
Towards salary costs to deliver a fit for purpose Marine Bill in Wales.

Human rights and conflict resolution

British Irish Rights Watch - £84,788
Towards the salary of the researcher and related project costs over three years to support bereaved families and individuals.

Centre for Crime and Justice Studies - £74,433
Towards staff research and dissemination costs over two years.

Engender - £68,940
Towards salaries and campaign costs over two years.

FORWARD - £135,000
Towards the salary of the executive director and overhead costs over three years to support FORWARD in playing a lead role in combating female genital mutilation in the UK.

Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group - £66,927
Towards the salary and costs over three years of one of the detainee support workers to enable emotional and practical support to be given to immigration detainees at Gatwick Airport.

Hammersmith and Fulham Community Law Centre - £67,790
Towards the salary and costs of a part-time immigration caseworker for child asylum seekers plus the fees of policy promotion and dissemination over two years.

Impetus Trust - £325,000
Towards a criminal justice funding partnership over four years to enable funders to work together to source and fund three voluntary organisations to increase their impact in this sector.

Kent Refugee Help - £15,000
Towards core costs over two years to assist detainees in obtaining legal help to secure their release.

Local Crime Community Sentence - £25,095
Towards the writing and launch of a handbook and other resources to improve public confidence in sentencing and to raise awareness of the effectiveness of community penalties.

Magic Carpet - £24,668
Towards the costs over two years of 'Say-NO-2-Bullying' a theatre project through which people with learning disabilities can challenge bullying.

Make Justice Work - £25,000
Towards the costs of the first year of a campaign to raise public awareness of the costliness of imprisoning low level offenders and of the ineffectiveness of short term sentences.

Music in Detention - £90,000
Towards the salary of the director over three years to develop and sustain music-making in Immigration Removal Centres.

Not Shut Up Ltd - £10,000
Towards the costs of creative writing workshops in London's prisons and producing a magazine to showcase prisoners' talent.

Object - £18,000
Towards costs of the 'Stripping the Illusion' campaign to ensure appropriate licensing of lap dancing clubs and public and political awareness.

Onside Independent Advocacy - £55,424
Towards the continuation of a specialist advocacy service for parents with learning difficulties over two years.

Reprieve - £69,090
Towards the salary of the communications manager over two years to oversee a programme of awareness raising and implementing the communications strategy.

Restorative Justice Consortium - £50,000
Towards core costs over two years.

Scottish Consortium on Crime and Criminal Justice - £30,000
Towards core costs over three years for its work on influencing criminal justice policy.

The Derwent Initiative - £75,000
Towards a 'creative fund' over three years to enable the creation of solutions for the prevention of sexual offending.

The Forgiveness Project - £75,000
Towards the salary over three years of a project co-ordinator to assist with the preparation for exhibitions and workshops in prisons and schools to share the personal journeys of victims and perpetrators of crime, injustice or atrocity.

The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture - £90,000
Towards the salary over three years of a children's law and policy advisor to improve outcomes for child victims of torture through legal, policy and campaigning work.

User Voice - £50,000
Towards the salary and costs of the chief executive over two years.

Women in Prison - £75,000
Towards the salary of a community support worker over three years to provide culturally specific advice and support to BAME women offenders and ex-offenders.

Prevention or relief of poverty

Birmingham Rathbone - £75,000
Towards the salaries of two additional job coaches over three years to support the Earners to Learners project assisting adults with mild to moderate learning difficulties, as they enter the labour market.

Blue Sky Development & Regeneration - £78,480
Towards the salary and costs of the recycling supervisor over two years to manage ex-offender employees in recycling centres within six West London boroughs.

Bodmin Road Church - £47,271
Towards the costs of the drop-in centre and services over three years.

Carillon Broadcasting Ltd - £39,000
Towards the cost of a part-time skills co-ordinator and core costs over two years.

Caring Support Ltd - £33,800
Towards the pilot of a cluster based person centred planning model of care services which offers flexibility, independence, choice and control to older and disabled people living at home.

Child Poverty Action Group - £156,487
Towards the salary of the head of programmes over three years to expand CPAG's policy work and increase their impact.

Emmaus Hampshire - £48,610
Towards core costs over three years until the Emmaus communities social enterprises become self-sustaining.

Every Disabled Child Matters - £100,000
Towards the salaries, running costs and overheads over two years of the campaign to secure long-term sustained investment in services for disabled children.

Hastings Furniture Service - £75,000
Towards the costs over three years to establish volunteer support and training in the new store in Bexhill.

In Kind Direct - £115,599
Towards the salary and costs of the warehouse manager over three years.

Iranian Community Centre - £69,655
Towards the salary and costs of the business support adviser over three years to provide advice and support for refugees seeking employment or self employment.

Nottingham Credit Union - £30,000
Towards the cost of introducing, over two years, a credit union bank account in Nottingham.

Pollokshaws Parish Church - £40,160
Towards the costs over three years of a development worker to work with the local community and voluntary organisations to effectively identify and tackle local needs.

Simon on the Streets - £76,258
Towards the costs of the Continuity Support Project over three years for homeless people in Leeds to find ways of achieving positive outcomes with homeless individuals.

SIREN - £58,000
Towards the cost over two years of setting up a woodworking unit to employ disadvantaged local people.

Social Finance Ltd - £29,272
Towards research and development costs of the Disabled Child Finance Facility.

Streetwise Opera - £83,821
Towards the salary of the administrator over three years and project costs.

The Furniture Mine - £22,145
Towards the training and salary of a workshop assistant to increase operational capacity of the domestic appliance repair workshop.

The Rix Centre - £50,889
Towards the costs of developing, trialling and disseminating highly accessible interfaces for ICT use by people with complex disabilities, through use of innovative 'symbol recognition' software and webcams.

The Women's Budget Group - £20,000
Towards the salary of the project officer and the costs of a consultant to help the organisation develop a business plan.

Vision Housing Consultancy Services Ltd. - £75,000
Towards core costs over three years.

Volunteer Bureau for Tendring - £20,000
Towards the costs of the 'Helping & Guiding Hands' project that helps disadvantaged, disabled and elderly people with transport and home maintenance.

Other charitable purposes

Changing Faces - £150,000
Towards core costs over three years.
Cumberland Lodge £5,000 Towards the cost of a seminar on drug policy.

Disaster Action - £60,000
Towards core costs over three years.
Institute for Voluntary Action Research £40,000 Towards core costs and the director's salary over two years.

Maytree - £120,000
Towards the salary of the director over three years to make the organisation sustainable and its replication viable.
Spinal Injuries Association £51,891 Towards salary and costs over three years of the part-time head of outreach services.

Storybook Dads - £20,000
Towards core costs over two years for an organisation that maintains contact between prison inmates and their children.

UK Drug Policy Commission - £1,055,000
Towards core costs over three years to enable UKDPC to consolidate and develop their work influencing drug policy and to create a legacy.

Working Families - £139,217
Towards the salary of a parliamentary and policy officer over three years.

Total - £19,344,668

No of Grants - 286


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