The City Bridge Trust - Registered Charity 1035628

Grants


Recent Grants

Grants approved in October 2007

Reference Organisation and website Purpose of grant
MAIN GRANTS
ACCESS FOR DISABLED PEOPLE
8185 Breathing Space at the London Buddhist Centre (LBC)
www.lbc.org.uk
£50,000 towards access adaptations at Breathing Space.
8315 Centre 70 £4,500 for the cost of commissioning an independent access audit.
8202 Community Focus
www.communityfocus.org.uk
£75,000 over three years (£30,000; £25,000; £20,000) towards the costs of a marketing and development officer.
8261 Haven House Foundation
www.havenhouse.org.uk
£90,000 over three years (3 x £30,000) for the salary and supervision costs of an activity co-ordinator.
8300 Holy Cross Centre Trust
www.hcct.org.uk
£3,500 towards an access audit and other access advice to inform future plans for improving the accessibility of the Holy Cross Centre.
8253 NOFAS-UK
www.nofas-uk.org
£24,000 (£8,000, £8,000, £8,000) towards the costs of support groups for families and carers of children and young people affected by Foetal Alcohol Syndrome in London.
LONDON'S ENVIRONMENT
8277 Camden and Westminister Refugee Training Partnership £23,400 over 18 months (£15,400; £8,000) towards an environmental training programme for refugees and asylum seekers in Camden and Westminster with a focus on waste minimisation and recycling.
8336 In Kind Direct
www.inkinddirect.org
£35,000 for a fifth, and final, year's support of core costs to enable the delivery of recycled goods to London charities.
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
8248 Alternatives Trust East London
www.altel.org.uk
£21,000 over three years (3 x £7,000) towards a programme of life skills training for young parents in Newham.
8328 Children's Society
www.childrenssociety.org.uk
£99,000 (£43,000, £33,000, £23,000) towards the salary costs of a worker working with young runaways in Lambeth.
8313 City YMCA, London
www.cityymca.org
£102,000, (£34,000, £34,000, £34,000) for match-funding a sexual health service for young people in Islington, South Hackney and the City of London.
OLDER PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY
8245 Age Concern London
www.aclondon.org.uk
£120,000 (£60,000, £60,000) towards the salary costs of a worker training three Age Concerns' workers and volunteers in ensuring that all their services are fully accessible to black and minority ethnic communities in Kensington& Chelsea, Bromley and Hackney.
8133 Barnet Carers Centre
www.barnetcarers.org
£61,500 over three years (£20,000; £20,500; £21,000) towards the costs of an information and advocacy service for older carers in Barnet.
8260 Camden Arts Centre
www.camdenartscentre.org
£24,000 (£8,000, £8,000, £8,000) towards the costs of an arts group and courses for older people in North London.
8126 Centre For Armenian Information & Advice
www.caia.org.uk
£46,500 over three years (£15,000; £15,500; £16,000) towards the costs of a part-time health advocacy and outreach worker (18 hrs per week), together with a contribution towards the associated running costs.
8205 Dyscover Ltd
www.dyscover.org.uk
£17,800 over two years (£8,750; £9,050) to support outreach work with older dysphasic people in the London Borough of Kingston.
8320 Finsbury and Clerkenwell Volunteers
www.finsburyvolunteers.org.uk
£42,000 over three years (3 x £14,000) for the salary costs of a part-time (17.5 hrs per week) Volunteers Organiser.
8219 Green Candle Dance Company
www.greencandledance.com
£84,000 (3 x £28,000) towards the costs of an older people's community dance worker.
8276 Open Age
www.openage.org.uk
£60,000 over three years (3 x £20,000) towards the costs of the Director's salary.
8256 Turkish Cypriot Women's Project
www.tcwp.org.uk
£105,000 over three years (3 x £35,000) towards the salary and associated running costs of an Elders Support Worker.
MAIN GRANTS TOTAL: £1,088,200
SMALL GRANTS: IMPROVING SERVICES FOR OLDER PEOPLE
8257 Avenue Road Bowls Club £7,465 towards the renovation/refurbishment of clubhouse roof, together with capacity building support to the value of £1,750 (5 days equivalent support).
8314 Education and Skills Development Group £18,710 (£9,380: £9,330) over two years to meet the salary of a part time elderly support worker (10 hours per week) and associated costs, together with capacity building support to the value of £1,750 (5 days equivalent support).
8243 London Indian Elders Group £6,000 over two years (£3,000; £3,000) towards the running costs of weekly activities, together with capacity building support to the value of £1,400 (4 days equivalent support).
8284 Nevill Close Residents Association £5,000 over two years (£2,500; £2,500) towards running costs of monthly social activities for older people, together with capacity building support to the value of £1,400 (4 days equivalent support).
SMALL GRANTS TOTAL: £37,175
TOTAL GRANTS APPROVED IN OCTOBER 2007: £1,125,375