The City Bridge Trust - Registered Charity 1035628

Grants


Recent Grants

Grants approved in March 2006

Reference Organisation and website Purpose of grant
MAIN GRANTS
ACCESS FOR DISABLED PEOPLE
6832 DEAFAX
www.deafax.org
£120,000 over three years (3 x £40,000) towards an Information and Communications Technology project for young Deaf people from Black and Minority Ethnic communities in London.
6971 Hoffmann Foundation for Autism
www.hoffmannfoundation.org.uk
£29,000 comprising: £24,000 for refurbishing an arts studio for autistic adults and £5,000 for fundraising support.
7098 Independent Panel for Special Education Advice (IPSEA)
www.ipsea.org.uk
£30,000 for a third and final year to provide tribunal advice and representation to parents of children with special education needs in London.
7009 Kingston Centre For Independent Living
www.ipsea.org.uk
£105,000 (£34,000; £35,000; £36,000) to increase take up of services by disabled people from minority ethnic groups and to promote their involvement in their development.
6995 Little Angel Theatre
www.littleangeltheatre.com
£26,500 over three years (£10,400; £10,700; £5,400) towards a subsidised ticket scheme benefiting disabled children in the boroughs of Islington, Hackney and Tower Hamlets.
6966 London Centre for Spirituality
www.spiritualitycentre.org
£60,000 towards the cost of providing disabled access facilities at St Edmund the King Church. The grant is payable to the Parochial Church Council of St Edmund King and Martyr, and St Mary Woolnoth.
6992 Sutton Centre for Independent Living & Learning
www.scill.org.uk
£72,000 over three years (3 x £24,000) towards the salary of the Employment Project Co-ordinator and some running costs of the Employment Support Service.
7010 Whitechapel Art Gallery
www.whitechapel.org
£159,000 towards the cost of making the Whitechapel Gallery and adjacent Library building fully accessible.
LONDON'S ENVIRONMENT
6751 Food for All
www.foodforall.org.uk
£24,800 over two years (£15,400; £9,400) towards the salary of a part-time worker and materials to develop an environmental education garden.
7143 Forum for the Future (London Sustainability Exchange)
www.lsx.org.uk
£200,000, final year of grant to provide a focus for exchanging information on sustainable development and good practice in the capital.
6889 Green Space - London Parks and Greenspaces Forum
www.lpgsf.org.uk
£126,000 over three years (£46,000; £40,000; £40,000) towards ongoing costs of promoting best practice and co-ordinated approaches to London's green spaces.
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
7012 Archway Project £29,240 for a third and final year of developing and implementing monitoring and evaluation systems for work with young offenders and those at risk.
6994 Depaul Trust
www.depaultrust.org
£132,000 over 3 years (42,000; £44,000; £46,000) for the salary and related costs of managing and developing resettlement services for London's young offenders.
7007 Hackney Quest
www.hackneyquest.org.uk
£10,800 towards the costs of providing 20 anti crime/weapons workshops to young people in Hackney.
OLDER PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY
6886 Castlehaven Community Association
www.castlehaven.org.uk
£99,500 (£31,500; £33,500; £34,500) towards the salary of a Project Manager overseeing Castlehaven Community Association's work with older people.
7061 Counsel and Care for the Elderly
www.counselandcare.org.uk
£130,000 (£41,200, £43,200, £45,600) for the salary costs of an advice worker advising older Londoners.
7004 Enfield Asian Welfare Association £71,000 over three years (£23,000; £23,600; £24,400) to meet the salary and associated costs of a part time project manager.
7005 Furzedown Project
www.furzedownproject.org
£109,000 over three years (£35,000, £36,000, £38,000) towards the salary and associated running costs of a Home Visiting Scheme Co-ordinator.
6887 Immanuel House - Community Training Centre
www.immanuelhouse.co.uk
£24,500 over two years (£12,250; £12,250) to run four introductory and four advanced computer courses for older people.
6984 Starthere
www.starthere.org
£124,000 (£63,000, £30,000, £31,000) towards the salary costs of an organisation providing information on a range of disability and social welfare issues.
6841 Volunteer Reading Help
www.vrh.org.uk
£28,550 over two years (£17,950; £10,600) to enable older people to volunteer in primary schools across London.
7006 West Wickham and Shirley Baptist Church £10,000 towards refurbishing a kitchen to run a luncheon club for elderly residents of Croydon and Bromley.
STRENGTHENING THE VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY SECTOR
6990 Sutton Centre for Voluntary Service
www.suttoncvs.org.uk
£60,000 over two years (2 x £30,000) towards the salary of a Community Network Co-ordinator supporting small voluntary and community groups in Sutton.
7103 Voluntary Action Westminster
www.vawcvs.org
£69,360 over three years (£16,430; £25,580; £27,350) towards developing infrastructure support for voluntary and community projects in the City of London.
7144 Volunteer Action Tower Hamlets
www.towerhamlets.org.uk & www.vath.org.uk
£70,000 over two years (2 x £35,000) for a further and final contribution to the salary of the Manager and associated running costs.
6953 Waltham Forest Sub-Committee of the Pre-school Learning Alliance
www.pre-school.org.uk
£28,500 for financial training and payslip service for voluntary sector early years education providers in Waltham Forest.
EXCEPTIONAL GRANT
6865 London Citizens
www.londoncitizens.org.uk
£114,000 over three years (£37,000; £38,000; £39,000) for the salary of a South London Community Organiser.
STRATEGIC INITIATIVES
7128 Association of Charitable Foundations (ACF)
www.acf.org.uk
£3,000 towards the production and evaluation of a jargon busting glossary.
TOTAL GRANTS APPROVED IN MARCH 2006 £2,065,750
Note: No Small Grants were awarded in March as this scheme is currently closed to new applications. A new Small Grants scheme will be launched shortly.