The City Bridge Trust - Registered Charity 1035628

Grants


Recent Grants

Grants Approved in March 2009

Reference Organisation And Website Purpose Of Grant
WORKING WITH LONDONERS
ACCESSIBLE LONDON
9156 Archway Project £15,750 for the capital costs of improving access for disabled people.
9427 London Jewish Cultural Centre
www.ljcc.org.uk
£2,875 for an access audit of Ivy House.
9400 PCC of The Ascension Hanger Hill with West Twyford St Mary
www.churchoftheascension.org.uk
£3,795 for a disability access audit of the Church of the Ascension, Hanger Hill, in connection with development of its west end as community space.
BRIDGING COMMUNITIES
9297 Pan Intercultural Arts
www.pan-arts.net
£25,000 for a third year's support for a youth arts project addressing issues of race, crime and identity.
9335 Women's Centre Sutton
www.suttonwomen.co.uk
£24,500 over two years (£11,900; £12,600) towards the provision of ESOL classes targeting women from BME and refugee communities who are isolated and not in a position to access mainstream provision.
IMPROVING SERVICES FOR OLDER PEOPLE
9122 Farsophone Association in Britain
www.farsophone.org.uk
£20,000 over two years (£10,000; £10,000) to meet the salary of a part-time development worker (two days a week) and towards running costs to continue and develop a cultural and befriending club for older Farsi speakers, together with capacity building support to the value of £2,100 (6 days equivalent support).
9127 Southwark Explorers Club £6,500 over two years (£3,250; £3,250) towards transport and running costs of monthly activities for older people, together with capacity building support to the value of £1,750 (5 days equivalent support).
9118 Wadajir Somali Community £15,000 over two years (£7,500; £7,500) for the salary of a part-time co-ordinator (8 hrs p.w.) and towards increasing and developing lunch club activities for older Somali women, together with capacity building support to the value of £1,750 (5 days equivalent).
OLDER LONDONERS
9298 Association of Eritrean Jeberti in the UK (AEJUK) £18,800 over two years (£8,940; £9,860) towards the salary and associated running costs of an older people's forum promoting healthy lifestyles. Funding in Year 2 conditional on sufficient other funds having be raised to ensure the Trust is not the organisation's largest funder.
POSITIVE TRANSITIONS TO INDEPENDENT LIVING
9207 Worldwide Volunteering For Young People
www.wwv.org.uk
£100,000 over three years (£32,500; £33,500; £34,000) to promote and support volunteering opportunities for disabled young Londoners.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND PARENTS TACKLING VIOLENCE
9288 Copenhagen Youth Project
www.cyproject.org
£24,000 over 18 months towards the costs of providing a series of workshops to build young people's skills in avoiding violence.
9139 Everyman Project
www.everymanproject.co.uk
£75,000 (£25,000, £25,000, £25,000) over 3 years towards the salary costs of staff helping adults in families break cycles of domestic violence so that they can offer support and protection to the children.
9214 National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
www.nspcc.org.uk
£50,000 over 2 years (£25,000, £25,000) towards the costs of a practitioner supporting young people involved in gangs or victims of domestic violence and anger management in Tower Hamlets.
9232 Rape & Sexual Abuse Support Centre
www.rasasc.org.uk
£64,500 over three years (£21,000; £21,500; £22,000) for a part time post and associated costs of a psychotherapist to work with sexually abused young women and to provide a support group for parents.
9263 Shoreditch Youth Network (SYN)
www.shoreditchyouthnetwork.co.uk
£10,570 to provide 20 personal safety workshops to young people attending youth provision in Hackney (of which £9,000 is for the session/trainer costs and £1,570 is for administration costs).
9190 Sure Start Hounslow £125,000 over 3 years (£45,000, £45,000, £35,000) towards the salary costs of a domestic violence parenting support worker in Hounslow.
9245 Wandsworth Women's Aid
www.wandsworthwa.org.uk
£23,000 over three years (£7,450; £7,650; £7,900) for art and drama therapy sessions with children affected by domestic violence.
TOTAL GRANTS APPROVED ON 26 MARCH 2009: £604,290