The City Bridge Trust - Registered Charity 1035628

Grants


Recent Grants

Grants approved in April 2006

Reference Organisation and website Purpose of grant
MAIN GRANTS
ACCESS FOR DISABLED PEOPLE
7083 Arts Interest Group
www.artsinterestgroup.org.uk
£14,500 over one year towards the running costs of a project enabling disabled and frail older people to visit art exhibitions in Central London.
7112 Battersea Central Methodist Mission
www.batterseamission.info
£1,500 for an access audit.
6888 Christ Church with St Philip, Worcester Park
www.xcsp.org.net
£60,000 towards building works to provide for a fully accessible community hall in Sutton.
6976 Croydon Accessible Transport
www.croydonct.org.uk
£44,800 towards a 16 seat accessible minibus.
7052 Greenwich Citizen Advocacy Project
www.gcap.org.uk
£56,000 over two years (2 x £28,000) towards the salary and running costs of providing an advocacy service for parents with learning disabilities in Greenwich.
7224 Harington Scheme
www.harington.org.uk
£35,000 for a third and final year's contribution to the salaries of a part-time Teamleader and a full-time Officer within the Recruitment and Employment Team.
7028 Havering Community Transport Ltd £24,000 towards the purchase of a fully accessible 16-seater minibus.
7089 L'ARCHE Lambeth Community
www.larche.org.uk
£20,000 towards purchase of a people carrier, specially adapted to accommodate wheelchairs.
6986 Pirate Club
www.thepiratecastle.org
£90,000 towards provision of access for disabled people to the existing building and the proposed extension of the Pirate Club.
7086 Rosetta Life
www.rosettalife.org
£75,000 over three years (3 x £25,000) towards the establishment of a digital arts project for the benefit of hospice patients in Greater London.
6967 South Bank Centre
http://www.rfh.org.uk/
£200,000 towards disabled access to the Royal Festival Hall Education Centre.
7106 St. Francis Hospice
www.stfrancishospice.co.uk
£43,000 towards salaries to provide complementary therapies to people with life limiting conditions in outer East London.
7065 St. Luke's Kenton Grange Hospice (Harrow and Brent) Ltd
www.stlukes-hospice.org
£30,000 for a third year towards the provision of a culturally sensitive bereavement and patient/carers support service for people in Brent and Harrow.
7014 St. Martin-in-the-Fields Parochial Church Council (PCC)
www.smitf.org
£250,000 towards disabled access to the community and social care areas of the redevelopment of the St Martin-in-the-Fields site.
6965 Together
www.together-uk.org
£110,000 over three years (£36,000; £37,000; £37,000) for the salary of a Service User Development Manager for people with a mental disability and their carers, plus a contribution to volunteers' expenses.
7071 Vietnamese Mental Health Services £27,000 for a third and final year's contribution to the salary of the Finance/Administration Officer and associated running cost.
7033 Westway Community Transport
www.westwayct.org.uk
£70,000 for the purchase of two wheelchair-accessible alternative fuel minibuses.
LONDON'S ENVIRONMENT
7041 Environmental Law Foundation (ELF)
www.elflaw.org
£60,000 over three years (£25,000; £20,000; £15,000) towards the salary of a solicitor to provide legal, technical and planning advice and representation for London communities with environmental concerns.
7090 Independent Photography
www.independentphotography.org.uk
£39,000 over two years (£18,000; £21,000) for a project using mixed media to support the involvement of people in environmental issues and planning on the Greenwich Peninsula.
6956 Restore Community Projects
www.restorecommunityprojects.org
£100,000 over three years (£40,000; £35,000; £25,000) towards the core costs of ReStore's furniture recycling operation.
7125 Sustain (Alliance for Better Food and Farming)
www.sustainweb.org
£60,000 over two years (£30,000, £30,000) towards the costs of a Hospital Food Project Officer in London.
7088 Wandsworth Work and Play £28,840 over two years (£14,240; £14,600) towards salary and running costs of a community scrap scheme in Tooting.
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
7063 Brent Adolescent Centre £85,000 over three years (£33,000; £27,000; £25,000) to support young people with mental health problems in Brent.
7051 Childlink Adoption Society
www.adoptchildlink.co.uk
A grant of £65,000 (£30,000, £20,000, £15,000) towards the salary and on costs of an Adoption Support Practitioner for London families.
7031 Coram Family £108,600 over three years (£37,000, £35,300, £36,300) towards the cost of an Information Data and Monitoring Officer for a project working with black young men in Camden.
7026 Naz Project London
www.naz.org.uk
£93,000 (£32,000, £30,000, £31,000) towards the recruitment and salary costs of a Co-ordinator, training Peer Educators to deliver sexual health information to teenagers.
7149 U-Turn
www.uturnproject.co.uk
£72,500 (£23,100, £24,200, £25,200) towards the salary costs of the Director's post supporting young women coerced into prostitution.
OLDER PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY
7158 Age Concern Croydon
www.ageconcerncroydon.org.uk
£29,200 towards salaries and running costs of an outreach advisory service for older people in Croydon.
7062 Age Concern Newham www.ageconcernnewham.org.uk £49,600 over two years (£24,850; £24,750) towards supporting older people discharged from hospital in Newham, including the costs of an external project evaluation.
7044 Age Concern Northolt, Greenford and Perivale £57,450 over three years (£18,950; £20,500; £18,000) towards a transport service to enable elderly Ealing residents to take part in day centre activities.
6968 Federation of Patidar Associations
www.patidars.org
£40,000 over three years (£13,000; £13,000; £14,000) for the salary of a part-time Elders Group Co-ordinator.
7172 Horn of Africa Refugee Welfare Group £14,400 towards the costs of an outreach project helping elders from Somali and other Horn of Africa communities.
6997 Inkerman Housing Association £50,000 over three years (£16,000; £17,000; £17,000) towards a care service providing support to frail elderly people in Kensington & Chelsea.
STRENGTHENING THE VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY SECTOR
7147 Charities Evaluation Services
www.ces-vol.org.uk
£120,000 0ver three years (3 x £40,000) towards a training programme in monitoring and evaluation and quality assurance.
7035 Community Links Bromley
www.communitylinksbromley.org.uk
£80,000 over two years (2X £40,000) for the salary costs of developing a funding information and advice service.
7146 Croydon Voluntary Action
www.cvalive.org.uk
£98,000 over nine months to provide interim funding for a community accountancy project serving five South London boroughs.
7008 Ealing Community and Voluntary Service (Ealing CVS) £69,200 over three years (£16,200; £26,000; £27,000) towards the salary and associated running costs of a Funding and Development Manager.
7015 Merton Voluntary Service Council
www.mvsc.co.uk
£146,000 over three years (£47,000; £49,000; £50,000) towards the salary and associated running costs of a Development Worker developing the capacity of small groups in Merton.
7145 National Council for Voluntary Organisations
www.ncvo-vol.org.uk
£60,000 for a third and final year towards the costs of the Collaborative Working Unit.
7107 Orient Regeneration Limited
www.o-regen.co.uk
£24,000 towards the salary of a Training & Development Officer for a third and final year.
TOTAL GRANTS APPROVED IN APRIL 2006 £2,700,590