The City Bridge Trust - Registered Charity 1035628

Grants


Recent Grants

Grants approved in July 2006

Reference Organisation and website Purpose of grant
MAIN GRANTS
ACCESS FOR DISABLED PEOPLE
7331 Bexley Accessible Transport Scheme (BATS)
www.bexleyct.co.uk
£25,000 for a third year's contribution to the core salary costs of providing a community transport scheme in Bexley.
7285 Bromley Mind
www.bromleymind.org.uk
£55,000 over two years (£28,000; £27,000) for the salary of a Skills Development Worker and some running costs for a project equipping people with independent living skills.
7130 Community Transport Association UK (CTA UK)
www.communitytransport.com/
£175,000 over three years (£60,000; £55,000; £60,000) towards the strategic development of a sustainable community transport sector in London.
7324 Credo
www.credoceramics.org
£51,800 over three years (£17,250; £17,000; £17,550) towards salary costs to set up outreach creative arts programmes for people recovering from ill mental health in Bromley.
7304 Downs Baptist Church £50,000 towards access improvements to church hall to allow greater community use, to be awarded in two stages (£5,000, £45,000). The first payment is to be for consultancy, and the second payment for capital costs.
7372 Ealing Centre for Independent Living £110,600 over three years (£40,800; £35,400; £34,400) to manage disability access information to improve the offer of services available to disabled people.
7316 HemiHelp £6,800 to re-develop website to improve communication with families and professionals.
7265 New London Orchestra
www.nlo.co.uk
£29,400 over three years (3 x £9,800) towards a series of music workshops for deaf children in primary and secondary schools in London.
7337 Parochial Church Council of St James' Church, Merton £800 to commission an independent access audit for the Church Hall.
7423 Sangam Association of Asian Women £64,000 towards a programme of access works at the community centre.
7320 South West London Law Centres £130,000 over three years (£42,000; £43,500; £44,500) towards salary and associated costs to offer specialist legal services for disabled people in six South-West outer London boroughs.
7326 WinVisible (Women with visible and invisible disabilities) £24,750 as a third and final year's contribution towards the salary and associated running costs of a worker providing information and advocacy services to disabled women across London.
LONDON'S ENVIRONMENT
7124 Women's Environmental Network Trust
www.wen.org.uk
£150,000 over three years (3 x £50,000) for the salary of a London Groups Co-ordinator and associated costs for a project developing and supporting local environmental groups.
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
7317 Environmental Vision - "envision"
www.envision.org.uk
£107,000 over three years (£33,000; £35,000; £39,000) towards a new youth-led volunteering programme for young people.
7298 Foyer Federation
www.foyer.net
£15,000 over three years (3 x £5,000) towards the cost of developing programmes for young people in Foyers to become Learning Ambassadors for others.
7218 Refugee Arrivals Project, (RAP)
www.refugee-arrivals.org.uk
£108,000 over three years (£35,000; £36,000; £37,000) for the salary of a specialist Youth Worker and some running costs of a project working with young refugees and asylum seekers.
7243 Shooting Star Trust
www.shootingstar.org.uk
£117,800 (£38,500, £39,000, £40,300) towards the salary costs of an outreach care nurse for life-limited children in North West London.
7335 Spare Tyre Theatre Company
www.sparetyretheatrecompany.co.uk
£40,000 (£29,000; £11,000) towards a programme addressing homophobia and prejudice against non-traditional family life.
7333 Tech4all
http://www.tech4all.org.uk/
£15,000 for a third year's support for a voicemail system for young homeless people, subject to the receipt of a satisfactory monitoring form for year 2.
7305 Tolerance in Diversity
www.tid.org.uk
£60,000 (3 x £20,000) towards a programme enabling young people to become active in peer mediation and conflict resolution.
7159 Until the Violence Stops £75,000 over three years (3 x £25,000) towards drama workshops for young people exploring issues of domestic violence and relationships.
7283 WellChild
www.wellchild.org.uk
£22,500 over three years (3 x £7,500) towards the salary of a volunteering co-ordinator for sick children in Tower Hamlets.
OLDER PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY
7236 Age Concern Havering
www.ageconcern.org.uk
£90,000 over three years (3 x £30,000) for the salary of a Volunteer Co-ordinator and some running costs for the volunteering project.
7289 Arts Express
www.arts-express.co.uk
£26,800 over three years (£8,800; £9,000; £9,000) for a project taking isolated older people to Kent and Sussex to paint from landscape.
7216 Ascension Community Trust £60,000 over three years (£18,000; £21,000; £21,000) towards salary and running costs of a luncheon club for elderly people in Newham.
7367 Carers' Support (Bexley)
www.carerssupport.org
£53,400 over three years (£7,800; £22,450; £23,150) to fund the salary of a part-time welfare benefits worker to tackle poverty and the effects of poverty on older people.
7340 Confederation of Indian Organisations U.K.
www.cio.org.uk
£79,000 over a final two years (£39,000; £40,000) for the salary and running costs of a project addressing the health of older South Asian people in London.
7134 Entelechy Arts Limited
www.entelechyarts.org
£62,000 (£32,000; £30,000) for an arts based inter-generational programme led by older people.
7293 St Joseph's Hospice
www.stjh.org.uk
£108,000 over three years (3 x £36,000) towards complementary therapies for terminally ill people in East London.
STRENGTHENING THE VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY SECTOR
7287 Alcohol Concern
www.alcoholconcern.org.uk
£46,000 over two years (£30,000, £16,000) towards the salary costs and costs of materials of a service providing training and information on commissioning services in London.
7092 Development Trusts Association (London Region)
www.dta.org.uk
£104,900 over 3 years (£34,400; £35,000; £35,500) towards the costs of development support to local community trusts in London
EXCEPTIONAL GRANTS
7211 Maytree Respite Centre Ltd ("Maytree")
www.maytree.org.uk
£60,000 over 2 years (£30,000, £30,000) towards the salary of the Deputy Director's post.
MAIN GRANTS TOTAL: £2,191,755
SMALL GRANTS: IMPROVING SERVICES FOR OLDER PEOPLE
7329 The Cause 2000
www.thecause2000.com
£20,000 over two years (£10,000; £10,000) towards the salary of a part time worker and running costs to develop services for older people along with capacity building support to the value of £2,100 (6 days equivalent support).
7275 Connaught Opera
www.maria-arakie.com
£20,000 (£10,000; £10,000) over two years to perform 80 concerts for older people across London, together with capacity building support to the value of £2,450 (7 days equivalent support).
7276 Hillingdon and District Competitions A grant of £1,725 for one year towards an annual bowls competition in 2007 aimed at older people, together with capacity building support to the value of £1,050 (3 days equivalent support).
7346 Parkinson's Disease Society - Wandsworth Branch
www.parkinsons.org.uk
£19,480 over two years (£9,600; £9,880) towards the salary and associated costs of a part time community support worker in Wandsworth, together with capacity building support to the value of £2,100 (6 days equivalent support).
7321 Voluntary Car Service for Hillingdon £5,000 over two years (£2,500; £2,500) towards core running costs, along with capacity building support to the value of £2,450 (7 days equivalent support).
7328 The Welcome Women's Club £2,000 over two years (£1,000; £1,000) towards the core running costs of club activities, together with capacity building support to the value of £1,050 (3 days equivalent support).
SMALL GRANTS TOTAL: £68,205
TOTAL GRANTS APPROVED IN JULY 2006: £2,191,755