The City Bridge Trust - Registered Charity 1035628

Grants


Recent Grants

Grants approved in July 2008

Reference Organisation and website Purpose of grant
MAIN GRANTS
ACCESS FOR DISABLED PEOPLE
8852 Bexley Accessible Transport Scheme (BATS)
www.bexleyct.co.uk
£20,000 for a fifth and final year towards the salary costs of core staff.
8837 Bromley Association of People with Disabilities - BATH
www.bath-disability.org
£35,000 for a third and final year's support towards the salary and on-costs of a development manager for the community transport service in LB Bromley.
8844 Haringey Shed
www.haringeyshed.org
£15,000 for a third and final year's contribution towards the costs of ensuring the full integration of young disabled people into the organisation's productions.
8675 Limehouse Town Hall Consortium Trust
www.limehousetownhall.org.uk
£98,700, comprising £95,000 towards the cost of an accessible lift at the refurbished town hall and £3,700 for access consultation work.
8525 Refugee Therapy Centre
www.refugeetherapy.org.uk
£75,000 towards the costs of making the new premises accessible.
8567 Richmond Borough Association for Mental Health £72,570 over three years (£25,570; £23,000; £24,000) towards the salary of a Volunteer Co-ordinator and running costs for a programme to encourage participation in arts and leisure.
LONDON'S ENVIRONMENT
8582 New Economics Foundation £45,000 for one year only for the costs of developing practical approaches to supporting and sustaining local shopping areas in London.
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
8587 ARP
www.arp-uk.org
£122,000 over three years (£39,000; £41,000; £42,000) for the salary costs of a full-time service co-ordinator for the Young People, Alcohol and Domestic Abuse project.
8850 Marsha Phoenix Memorial Trust
www.marshaphoenix.org.uk
£70,000 towards the costs of refurbishing a hostel for homeless young women.
8420 The Mentor Foundation UK
www.mentoruk.org
£114,000 over three years (3 x £38,000) for the salary costs of the London Youth Involvement project.
8748 St John Ambulance
www.sja.org.uk
£150,000 over 3 years (3 X £50,000) to run training programmes for young people in four east London boroughs in preparation for the first aid needs of London 2012.
8820 Tower Hamlets Education Business Partnership
www.thebp.org
£59,500 over two further years (2 x £29,750) for a project to keep 'at risk' young people in school.
OLDER PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITTY
8846 Westminster Advocacy Service for Senior Residents
www.wassr.org
£90,000 over two years (2 x £45,000) towards the full-time salary and associated running costs of the post of London operations manager.
STRENGTHENING THE VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY SECTOR
8496 British Association of Settlements and Social Action Centres
www.bassac.org.uk
£150,000 over three years (3 x £50,000) to deliver developmental capacity building programmes to eleven cohorts of chief executives of community anchor organisations.
8545 Volunteers in Action Southwark
www.volunteercentres.org.uk
£120,000 over three years (£39,000; £40,000; £41,000) for the salary and related costs of promoting good volunteering practice in Southwark.
EXCEPTIONAL GRANTS
8445 Elephant Jobs
www.crispej.org.uk
£87,500 over three years (£25,000; £35,000; £27,500) towards the revenue cost of the roll-out of the Fonesforsafety project across London.
STRATEGIC INITIATIVES
8860 Leonard Cheshire Disability £15,000 towards Track Ability.
8657 Refuge
www.refuge.org.uk
£133,600 for the first year salary and project costs of auditing services for children affected by domestic violence across London.
MAIN GRANTS TOTAL: £1,472,870
SMALL GRANTS: IMPROVING SERVICES FOR OLDER PEOPLE
8756 CareNet
www.healthconcerns.org.uk
£12,530 over two years (£6,805; £5,725) towards developing services for older people to encourage community participation, together with capacity building support to the value of £1,750 (5 days equivalent).
8747 Clapham Park Over 50s Social Club £10,000 over two years (£5,000; £5,000) towards weekly coffee mornings and a monthly lunch club for older residents of the Clapham Park Estate, together with capacity building support to the value of £1,750 (5 days equivalent).
8744 Council for Older People
www.cfophackney.org.uk
£18,670 over two years (£9,335; £9,335) for the salary of a part-time project officer to continue to campaign and develop services to improve the lives of older people in Hackney, together with capacity building support to the value of £1,750 (5 days equivalent).
8778 Elmwood Community Centre £10,000 over two years (£5,000; £5,000) towards running costs of weekly activities for older people, together with capacity building support to the value of £1,400 (4 days equivalent).
8746 Lewisham Pensioners Gazette £6,510 over two years (£3,545; £2,965) towards producing a quarterly newsletter and equipment, together with capacity building support to the value of £1,400 (4 days equivalent).
SMALL GRANTS TOTAL: £57,710
TOTAL GRANTS APPROVED IN JULY 2008: £1,530,580