The City Bridge Trust - Registered Charity 1035628

Grants


Recent Grants

Grants approved in March 2007

Reference Organisation and Website Purpose of Grant
MAIN GRANTS
ACCESS FOR DISABLED PEOPLE
7563 (AHOY) Adventure, Help & Opportunities for Youth
www.ahoy.org.uk

£95,000 to purchase a catamaran to be fitted to fully accessible standards.
7771 Disability Network Hounslow
www.disabilitynetworkhounslow.org
£78,000 over three years (3 x £26,000) for the salary of part-time (17.5hrs) Deaf Projects Co-ordinator plus some running costs of a project offering support to the Hounslow Deaf community.
7622 Maypole Project www.themaypoleproject.co.uk £24,750 over three years (£8,000; £8,250; £8,500) for a part-time Key Worker to support families with a child with disabilities.
7814 Sutton Borough Citizens Advice Bureaux Service
www.suttonadvice.org.uk
£95,000 towards disability access improvements at Sutton Borough CABx' Carshalton and Wallington Branch.
LONDON'S ENVIRONMENT
7760 EcoActive Education Services www.ecoactive.org.uk £87,000 over three years (£28,500; £29,000; £29,500), for an Educator for Sustainable Development for schools and community groups in Hackney and surrounding Boroughs.
7788 Redbridge Green Fair Association £15,000 over two years (£5,000; £10,000) towards the environmental theme of this community festival.
7938 Sutton Borough Citizens Advice Bureaux Service
www.suttonadvice.org.uk
£1,550 towards an environmental audit of Sutton Borough Citizens Advice Bureaux three centres across Sutton.
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
7744 Bromley Churches Housing Action £51,280 over three years (£16,280; £15,000; £15,000 plus £5,000 for and independent evaluation) towards a lodgings project for young homeless people.
7751 Encompass - Daniel Braden Reconciliation Trust
www.encompasstrust.org
£15,000 towards the costs of a programme encouraging increased religious and cultural understanding amongst young people.
7768 Grandparents Association
www.grandparents-association.org.uk
£30,000 towards a third and final year of a mediation project involving grandparents and extended families.
OLDER PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY
7775 Age Concern Brent £120,000 over three years (£45,000; £40,000; £35,000) towards the salary and associated running costs of two part-time Advice and Information workers.
7817 Blythe Neighbourhood Council
www.masbro.org.uk
£46,000 over two years (2 x £23,000) towards the salary costs of a full-time Elders' Project Co-ordinator.
7787 Cranford Good Neighbours Scheme £30,000 over three years (3 x £10,000) towards the running costs of the Cranford Good Neighbours Scheme.
7796 Ethiopian Development Association £58,750 over three years (£19,200; £ 19,500; £20,050) towards the salary and associated running costs of a lunch club and advice work service for older people from the Ethiopian community in north london.
7654 Patmos Area Community Conservation Association £20,700 over two years (£10,200; £10,500) for an inclusion, health, fitness and exercise programme for elderly people in the Vassall area.
7791 Peel Institute
www.peelinstitute.org.uk
£100,500 over three years (3 x £33,500) for the salaries of two part-time (31 hrs) Support Workers to provide a programme of non-statutory social and health-related activities for older people.
STRENGTHENING THE VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY SECTOR
7766 London Voluntary Service Council
www.lvsc.org.uk
£90,000 (£30,000, £30,000, £30,000,) towards The Personnel and Employment Advice Service ( PEACe) supporting and advising small groups on employment law and Human Resource management in London.
7627 Merton Unity Network £24,600 over two years (£12,100; £12,500) to increase the hours of the Development Manager's post and build MUN's capacity to facilitate increased participation and development of minority ethnic groups in LB Merton.
7786 Reach Volunteering
www.reach-online.org.uk
£128,000 (£45,000, £41,000, £42,000) towards the costs of a worker promoting the sustainability of London's voluntary organisations through diagnostic advice of skills gaps and matching with volunteers in London.
7648 Social Enterprise London Community Interest Company
www.sel.org.uk
£96,000 over eighteen months (£57,700; £38,300) to provide intensive management development support to organisations which have the potential to become sustainable through social enterprise. Some participating organisations to be based in the LB Haringey.
7843 Thames Reach
www.thamesreach.org.uk
£136,000 over 18 months for an action research project developing an ICT resource for homelessness agencies to better meet the needs of clients.
7803 Voluntary Action Westminster www.vawcvs.org £59,000 over two years towards the salary and associated running costs of a capacity building officer.
LEADERSHIP AND RECONCILIATION
7871 Alif Aleph UK
www.aauk.org
£50,000 for the salary and running costs of an educational bridge building initiative between Jewish and Muslim schools in London subject to officers approving independent financial arrangement systems.
7875 The Barbara Melunsky Refugee Youth Agency Ltd
www.refugeeyouth.org
£60,000 over two years (2 x £30,000) towards youth-led activities and projects and to enable Refugee Youth to evaluate, deepen and disseminate its learning.
7883 Beatbullying
www.beatbullying.org
£60,000 over two years (£22,600; £37,400) towards a programme tackling inter-faith bullying in six London boroughs.
7879 The Council of Christians and Jews
www.ccj.org.uk
£50,000 over two years (2 x £25,000) towards salary costs of a co-ordinator to help build capacity of local inter-faith groups working with young people in London.
7889 Eastside Young Leaders' Academy
www.eyla.org.uk
£60,000 over two years (2 x £30,000) towards developing youth leadership programmes with 14 - 17 year old African-Caribbean boys.
7890 Leap Confronting Conflict
www.leaplinx.com
£60,000 over two years (2 x £30,000) towards an inter-generational community mediation project in LB Redbridge.
7899 London Citizens
www.londoncitizens.org.uk
£60,000 over 2 years (£30,000; £30,000) towards the salary and project costs of an education officer involving sixth forms and student unions in community volunteering and civic engagement.
7878 Muslim Mediation Service £40,000 over two years (2 x £20,000) towards a community mediation project involving young Muslims.
7894 Three Faiths Forum
www.threefaithsforum.org.uk
£48,000 (£24,000 £24,000) towards the costs of youth leadership and parliamentarians of different faiths together in spirit of reconciliation, facilitating young leaders into political arena.
MAIN GRANTS TOTAL: £1,890,130
SMALL GRANTS: IMPROVING SERVICES FOR OLDER PEOPLE
7681 The Art of Community £6,900 to facilitate a series of group painting workshops in a day centre for older people based in Islington, together with capacity building support to the value of £1,050 (3 days equivalent support).
7515 Connaught Stroke Club £7,100 over two years (£3,450; £3,650) to hire accessible coaches for outings and trips for disabled members, together with capacity building support to the value of £1,400 (4 days equivalent support).
7653 Friends of the Atrium £4,000 to meet the costs of weekly exercise classes over two years (£2,310; £1,690) and to purchase equipment, together with capacity building support to the value of £1,050 (3 days equivalent support).
7669 Islington Pensioners Forum £20,000 over two years (£8,570; £11,430) towards the salary of a part time administrator and associated costs of producing a monthly newsletter, together with capacity building support to the value of £1,750 (5 days equivalent support).
7596 Moorlands Community Development Project £20,000 over two years (£10,000; £10,000) to improve and expand a programme of activities for older people, together with capacity building support to the value of £2,450 (7 days equivalent support).
7645 West London Somali Society £10,000 over two years (£5,000; £5,000) towards running costs of a weekly Somali Elders Lunch club, together with capacity building support to the value of £1,750 (5 days equivalent support).
SMALL GRANTS TOTAL: £68,000
TOTAL GRANTS APPROVED IN MARCH 2007: £1,958,130