The City Bridge Trust - Registered Charity 1035628

Grants


Recent Grants

Grants approved in February 2008

Reference Organisation and website Purpose of grant
MAIN GRANTS
ACCESS FOR DISABLED PEOPLE
8512 Anna Freud Centre
www.annafreudcentre.org
£93,300 over three years (£35,350; £28,250; £29,700) to develop and evaluate 'Kidstime' a family-based support service for the children of parents with serious mental health problems.
8561 Bexley SNAP
www.bexleysnap.org.uk
£88,000 over three years (£28,000; £29,000; £31,000) for the salary of a part-time (28hrs) family services co-ordinator plus some running costs.
8600 Chicken Shed Theatre Company
www.chickenshed.org.uk
£5,000 to conduct an access audit into both the physical and operational environment of Chicken Shed's work.
8694 Disability Action in the Borough of Barnet £35,000 for a third and final year's support towards an advice project for disabled people in LB Barnet.
8623 Headway - The Brain Injury Association
www.headway.org.uk
£100,000 over three years (£40,000, £40,000, £20,000) towards the running costs of a programme supporting carers of brain injury survivors in London.
8324 Lewisham Community Transport Scheme
www.lewishamctscheme.org.uk
£55,000 over two years (£30,000; £25,000) towards the costs of an operations and training officer to enable the further development of community transport in the borough.
8696 National Autistic Society
www.nas.org.uk
£150,000 (£50,000, £50,000, £50,000) towards the salary and related project costs of a London regional programme, training parents of children with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to understand and manage the condition.
8400 Newham Community Transport £97,500 over three years (£35,000; £32,500; £30,000) towards the costs of a business development officer.
8415 One-To-One (Enfield)
www.one-to-one-enfield.co.uk
£70,500 over three years (£23,000; £23,500; £24,000) towards a programme enabling people with learning difficulties to play an active role in developing arts and leisure opportunities.
8443 Parents for Children
www.parentsforchildren.org.uk
£50,000 over one year towards the salary and related running costs of a service to enabling foster and adoptive parents of disabled children short-term respite care breaks.
8434 Parents of Autistic Children Together (P.A.C.T.)
www.pact-uk.co.uk
£68,000 over three years (£22,000; £22,400; £23,600) for the salary of a part-time (25hrs) family support worker and some running costs for a project supporting families affected by autistic spectrum disorders.
8384 Parents of Ealing Self-Help Training Scheme (P.E.S.T.S.) £33,850 over three years (£10,850; £11,280; £11,720) towards the salary of the part-time project manager.
8407 St Swithun's Parochial Church Council
www.stswithuns.org
£65,000 towards disabled access to the church hall.
8601 Three Wings Trust
www.projectchildren.org.uk
£40,900 over two years (£19,900; £21,000) towards the salary of an information and advice co-ordinator and the running costs of a family support service.
LONDON'S ENVIRONMENT
8489 Thames Explorer Trust
www.thames-explorer.org.uk
£50,550 over two years (£25,750; £24,800) towards the salary and associated running costs to develop a multi-sensory, environmental river education resource.
8538 Walworth Garden Farm
www.walworthgardenfarm.org.uk
£20,354 for a third and final year's support of a part-time education officer and costs for the School Orchards project.
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
8509 Beis Brucha Mother and Baby Home £21,000 over three years (3 x £7,000) towards the salary and related running costs of a senior project officer supporting the needs of new young mothers aged under 21 years.
8387 Bexley Women's Aid
www.bexleywomensaid.org.uk
£90,000 (3x£30,000) for a post supporting children affected by domestic violence in Bexley.
8621 Feltham Community Chaplaincy Trust
www.felthamcommunitychaplaincy.org
£99,000 (£32,000, £33,000, £34,000) towards the salary and associated costs of a befriending scheme supporting young people at Feltham Young Offenders Institute and in their communities across London.
OLDER PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY
8381 Adfam National
www.adfam.org.uk
£100,000 over three years (£40,000; £40,000; £20,000) towards the salary and associated running costs of a project supporting grandparents raising their grandchildren as a result of parental substance misuse.
8409 Age Concern Hammersmith and Fulham £109,500 over three years (£36,500; £35,800; £37,200) towards the salary and related running costs of a co-ordinator to develop a Living Well project for older people in Hammersmith and Fulham.
8674 Bishop Creighton House Settlement £104,000 over three years (£35,000; £34,000; £35,000) towards the costs of the Homelink service.
8494 Carers Support Harrow
www.carers.org/harrow
£30,000 over two years (2 x £15,000) for an additional 10 hours per week salary costs of an older carers' worker plus some running costs.
8612 Contact the Elderly
www.contact-the-elderly.org.uk
£62,500 over 2.5 years (£25,000; £25,000; £12,500) towards core costs of services for older, isolated people across London.
8444 Havering Crossroads Limited £75,000 over three years (3 x £25,000) toward a respite care service for older people with dementia and their carers living in LB Havering.
8710 Irish in Greenwich
www.irishingreenwich.com
£21,700 over two further years (2 x £10,850) for the salaries of two Elders Outreach Workers to provide services to elderly people for an additional one day per week.
8396 Society of Genealogists
www.sog.org.uk
£60,000 over three years (3 x £20,000) towards an older people's family history project.
8562 St. Johns Community Development Project
www.stjohnscdp.org.uk
£24,400 over one year towards the salary and associated running costs of a part-time (24 hours) senior citizens co-ordinator organising a weekly programme for older people.
STRENGTHENING THE VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY SECTOR
8708 Evelyn Oldfield Unit
www.evelynoldfield.co.uk
£42,000 for a fourth year contribution towards the salary and related costs of organisational development training for refugee community organisations.
8584 Islington Volunteer Centre
www.islingtonvolunteer.org.uk
£51,000 over two years (£25,000; £26,000) towards the salary and related running costs of a part-time (21 hours per week) project manager to continue a best practice project.
8725 Volunteer Network Centre Newham £68,000 over a further and final two years (2 x £34,000) for the salary and running costs of a volunteer development and training project.
MAIN GRANTS TOTAL: £1,980,950
SMALL GRANTS: IMPROVING SERVICES FOR OLDER PEOPLE
8431 Belvedere Community Forum £6,720 over two years (£3,360; £3,360) to meet the costs of weekly keep fit classes for older people, together with capacity building support to the value of £1,400 (4 days equivalent support).
8576 Somali Integration Team (SIT) £12,000 (£6,000; £6,000) over two years towards developing weekly activities for older women, together with capacity building support to the value of £1,750 (5 days equivalent).
8309 Somali Welfare Trust £12,820 over two years (£6,460; £6,360) to meet the running costs of an older women's project, together with capacity building support to the value of £1,750 (5 days equivalent support).
8450 Uxbridge Old People's Welfare Association £20,000 over two years (£10,000; £10,000) towards the salary of a part time assistant cook and running costs of weekly activities, together with capacity building support to the values of £2,100 (6 days equivalent support).
SMALL GRANTS TOTAL: £51,540
TOTAL GRANTS APPROVED IN FEBRUARY 2008: £2,032,490