The City Bridge Trust - Registered Charity 1035628

Grants


Recent Grants

Grants approved in June 2008

Reference Organisation and website Purpose of grant
MAIN GRANTS
ACCESS FOR DISABLED PEOPLE
8526 Hammersmith and Fulham Community Transport Project
www.hfctp.co.uk
£97,500 over three years (£35,000; £32,500; £30,000) towards the salary and on-costs of a new deputy manager post.
8641 London Corinthian Trust
www.linden-house.org
£70,000 for the capital costs of providing access facilities to Linden House.
8690 Mencap Waltham Forest
www.wfmencap.org.uk
£60,000 over three years (£19,600; £20,000; £20,400) towards the salary and on-costs of a full-time family services manager.
LONDON'S ENVIRONMENT
8666 Campaign for Better Transport
www.bettertransport.org.uk
£127,500 over three years (£40,000; £42,500; £45,000) towards a project improving London's environment through reduced traffic and air pollution.
8524 Friends of the Earth Trust
www.foe.co.uk
£135,000 over three years (3 x £45,000) towards an environmental justice project in three east London boroughs.
8782 Furniture Aid South Thames
www.furniture-aid.co.uk
£22,000 for a second year's support of the project manager's salary costs.
8771 Wandsworth Work and Play
www.workandplayscrapstore.org.uk
£16,000 towards part of the salary and on-costs of the project's full-time development worker.
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
8723 Ideas Foundation
www.ideasfoundation.org.uk
£36,700 towards a second year's funding of a project for young fathers through innovative media projects across London.
8767 Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers £12,000 for a third and final year towards the salary costs of a day centre worker and some rent, activity and volunteer costs of a project supporting asylum-seeking families in Peckham.
8572 Youth2Youth
www.youth2youth.co.uk
£38,000 over three years (£12,500; £12,500; £13,000) towards the costs of recruiting and supporting young volunteer helpline advisors.
OLDER PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY
8643 Abbey Community Centre
www.abbeycc-kilburn.org.uk
£24,000 over three years (£9,000; £9,000; £6,000) towards the salary and running costs of the Good Neighbours Scheme to maintain social links for isolated and vulnerable older people.
8439 Age Concern Croydon
www.ageconcerncroydon.org.uk
£132,000 over three years (£42,000; £44,000;£46,000) for the salary costs of a positive ageing co-ordinator (21hrs); a supporting independence advisor (14hrs); and a handyperson/personal safety advisor (7hrs) plus some running costs of the Positive Ageing Project.
8777 Age Concern Kensington & Chelsea
www.ackc.org.uk
£78,800 over three years (£28,300; £25,000; £25,500) towards the part-time (21 hours) salary and associated running costs of an information caseworker.
8448 Greater London Forum for Older People £85,000 over three years (3 x £27,000) for the salary and associated costs of a full-time ethnic elders outreach worker for London plus a sum of £4,000 in year 1 to purchase professional support to set up appropriate internal financial accounting systems if required.
8521 Lewisham Citizens Advice Bureau Service £150,000 over three years (3 x £50,000) for the salary costs of a full-time older people's project worker and associated running costs.
8627 Southall Day Centre
www.southalldaycentre.org.uk
£103,200 over three years (£33,550; £34,400; £35,250) towards the costs of a casework, home visiting and support service for older isolated people, principally living in LB Ealing.
8589 United Anglo Caribbean Society
www.uacs.org.uk
£90,000 over three years, (3 x £30,000) towards the provision of services for older people from the west London Caribbean community.
STRENGTHENING THE VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY SECTOR
8770 Community Links Bromley
www.communitylinksbromley.org.uk
£42,920 for a third and final year of the salary costs of developing a funding information and advice service.
MAIN GRANTS TOTAL: £1,320,620
SMALL GRANTS: IMPROVING SERVICES FOR OLDER PEOPLE
8741 Association of Blind Asians
www.aba-uk.org
£14,200 over two years (£1,200; £13,000) to purchase IT equipment and towards a part time salary, together with capacity building support of £1,750 (5 days equivalent).
8720 Ilays £15,640 over two years (£7,820; £7,820) to meet the salary of a part time project worker and running costs to develop activities for Somali older people, together with capacity building support to the value of £2,100 (6 days equivalent).
8740 Mission Dine Club £20,000 over two years (£10,000; £10,000) towards the salary of a part-time co-ordinator and general running costs of weekly club activities for older and disabled members, together with capacity building support to the value of £2,100 (6 days equivalent).
8733 Polish & Eastern European Christian Family Centre
www.peec.org.uk
£10,012 over two years (£4,930; £5,080) towards the running costs of weekly lunch club activities for older people, together with capacity building support to the value of £1,400 (4 days equivalent).
8729 SSAFA-FH (London City East Division)
www.ssafa.org.uk
£20,000 over two years (£10,000; £10,000) towards core running costs to continue and expand assistance to older people in London, together with capacity building support of £1,050 (3 days equivalent).
8737 Sudan People's Support Association £20,000 over two years (£10,000; £10,000) towards the salary of a part-time worker and running costs of weekly activities for older people from the Sudanese community, together with capacity building support to the value of £1,750 (5 days equivalent).
SMALL GRANTS TOTAL: £99,852
TOTAL GRANTS APPROVED IN JUNE 2008: £1,420,472