The City Bridge Trust - Registered Charity 1035628

Grants


Recent Grants

Grants Approved in April 2008

Reference Organisation And Website Purpose of Grant
MAIN GRANTS
ACCESS FOR DISABLED PEOPLE
8322 Bishopsgate Institute
www.bishopsgate.org.uk
£100,000 towards the disability access elements of the refurbishment of the Institute.
8484 CandoCo Dance Company
www.candoco.co.uk
£24,800 over one year towards a project increasing access to the arts for young disabled people in London.
8426 Drake Music Project
www.drakemusicproject.org
£21,000 over one year for the costs of a programme to train and support disabled musicians as music tutors to disabled young people in London.
8596 Ealing and Brentford Consolidated Charity
www.e-bcc.org.uk
£70,000 towards the access feature of a new community centre in West Ealing.
8670 Eye Music Trust
www.colourscape.org.uk
£30,000 over three years (3 x £10,000) towards the design and build of a mobile arts and music installation for disabled people and to tour it in London schools catering for children with special needs.
8534 Hillingdon Community Transport Ltd £47,250 towards the purchase of a fully accessible minibus.
8478 Mayhew Animal Home
www.mayhewanimalhome.org
£100,000 towards disability access works, enabling the Centre to broaden its community activities.
8511 Merton and Sutton Crossroads £96,000 over three years (£31,000; £32,000; £33,000) towards the costs of the Children's Services Project.
8462 Richmond Mencap Ltd
www.richmondmencap.org.uk
£28,250 over two years (£14,120; £14,130) towards half the cost of a full-time post and associated running costs of a Service Development Officer.
8470 Roundabout
www.roundabout.nildram.co.uk
£135,000 over three years (3 x £45,000) for the salary of a full-time Project Director and associated costs.
8468 Waltham Forest Community Transport
www.wfct.co.uk
£105,000 over three years (£37,500; £35,000; £32,500) towards the costs of a Development and Marketing Manager.
LONDON'S ENVIRONMENT
8551 Arcola Theatre Production Company
www.arcolatheatre.com
£71,900 over two years (£35,900; £36,000) towards the post of a Sustainability Projects Manager to help deliver Arcola Energy.
8663 FairPensions (Fairshare Educational Foundation)
www.fairpensions.org.uk
£71,550 over two years (£35,050; £36,500) as a contribution towards the salary of the Director of Investor Engagement.
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
8614 ChildLine
www.childline.org.uk
£102,000 over 3 years (£33,000, £34,000, £35,000) towards the costs of a Counselling Supervisor supporting telephone counsellors at ChildLine London.
8597 CORE Trust £75,000 over three years (£30,000; £25,000; £20,000) towards the salary and running costs of the CoreKids project providing therapy treatments to children whose parents are problem users of drugs and alcohol.
8427 Tower Hamlets Summer University
www.summeruni.org
£150,000 over three years (£47,500; £49,500; £53,000) to develop accreditation modules for innovative forms of youth volunteering.
OLDER PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY
8598 Advocacy Voice £23,000 over one year towards the provision of an advocacy service for older people with learning difficulties living in care homes in Harrow, Ealing and Hillingdon.
8479 CASA Alcohol Services £88,000 over three years (£29,500; £28,500; £30,000) towards the part-time salary (17.5 hours) and associated running costs of a Counsellor/Project Worker providing a specialist intervention service for older people with alcohol problems in Camden and Islington.
8593 Greenwich & Bexley Cottage Hospice
www.cottagehospice.org.uk
£75,000 towards family and day care facilities at the hospice.
8541 Help the Aged
www.helptheaged.org.uk
£45,000 over 3 years (£15,000, £15,000, £15,000) towards the salary cost of a HandyPerson helping older people in Hackney.
8642 Ingestre Road Community Centre £66,420 over three years (£22,340; £21,800; £22,280) towards the salary and associated costs of running the Good Neighbour scheme.
8528 Irish Elderly Advice Network £10,860 towards the part-time salary and associated running costs of an outreach advice service for older Irish people in east London.
8486 Time & Talents Association
www.timeandtalents.org.uk
£90,000 over three years (£30,000; £30,000; £30,000) towards the salary and programme costs for a Group Development Worker for older people.
8605 TLC Care Services £135,000 over 3 years (£45,000, £45,000, £45,000) for a Stroke Development Manager's salary in London.
8564 The Victory Services Association
www.vsc.co.uk
£34,000 towards the costs of refurbishing a one bedroom respite facility for older Londoners.
STRENGTHENING THE VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY SECTOR
8654 Bexley Voluntary Service Council £98,200 over three years (£32,000; £33,000; £33,200) towards the salaries and running costs of the Volunteer Support Project.
8682 Community Organisations Forum
www.towerhamlets.org.uk
£75,000 over two years (2 x £37,500) towards a programme of capacity building support for small organisations with an emphasis on groups from local black and minority ethnic communities.
8471 Crossroads Association
www.crossroads.org.uk
£141,000 over three years (£46,000; £47,000; £48,000) for the salary of a full-time Business Adviser (London) and associated running costs.
8459 Federation of City Farms & Community Gardens
www.farmgarden.org.uk
£120,000 over three years (3 x £40,000) towards the continued sustainability and development of city farms and gardens across London.
8590 Hackney Council for Voluntary Service
www.hcvs.org.uk
£150,000 over three years (3 x £50,000) towards a project providing BME and small organisations with capacity building in social, economic and environmental sustainability.
8552 Imkaan
www.imkaan.org.uk
£120,000 over three years (3x £40,000) for a training and information officer post to improve services to minority ethnic women experiencing various forms of domestic and gender violence.
8454 Islington Voluntary Action Council (IVAC)
www.ivac.org.uk
£129,000 over three years (£42,000; £43,000; £44,000) towards small group development work in LB Islington.
8649 Lambeth Voluntary Action Council (LVAC)
www.lambethvac.org.uk
£135,000 over three years (£38,500; £47,500; £49,000) towards the full-time salary and related running costs of a Volunteer Development Officer to increase the quantity and improve the quality of volunteering opportunities in Lambeth.
8483 London Advice Services Alliance (LASA)
www.lasa.org.uk
£55,000 over one year to enable organisations to be more effective in their use of ICT, in collaboration with the City Bridge Trust.
8629 Mind (National Association for Mental Health)
www.mind.org.uk
£150,000 over three years (3 x £50,000) towards the full-time salary and associated running costs of a London Quality Development Worker working with local Mind associations across London to improve quality standards.
8658 Princess Royal Trust for Carers
www.carers.org
£174,000 (£56,000, £58,000, £60,000) over three years towards salary costs of the London Development Manager developing the capacity of carer support services.
8749 Volunteer Centre Greenwich
www.volunteersgreenwich.co.uk
£75,000 over 2 years (2 x £37,500) for the salary costs of an Assistant Director.
EXCEPTIONAL GRANTS
8758 Broadway
www.broadwaylondon.org
£60,000 over three years (3 x £20,000) towards a project in partnership with the BARKA Foundation to assist people from the A10 Accession countries who are sleeping rough in the City and East End.
STRATEGIC INITIATIVES
8768 Small Grants Capacity Building www.citybridgetrust.org.uk £100,000 for a programme of capacity building consultancy.
8759 Institute for Voluntary Action Research
www.ivar.org.uk
£20,000 to evaluate the impact of the "Improving Services for Older People" programme.
MAIN GRANTS TOTAL: £3,277,230
SMALL GRANTS: IMPROVING SERVICES FOR OLDER PEOPLE
8717 1st Framework
www.1stframework.org
£7,920 over two years (£3,960; £3,960) to meet the costs of rehearsal space for the over 60's theatre group, together with capacity building support to the value of £1,400 (4 days equivalent).
8700 Barnet Elderly Asian Group £14,000 (£7,000; £7,000) over two years towards the salary of a part time co-ordinator's post (18hrs p.w) to continue weekly activities for elderly Asian people, together with capacity building support to the value of £1,750 (5 days equivalent).
8713 Ellenborough Table Tennis Club
www.ellenboroughttc.com
£8,805 over two years (£5,790; £3,015) towards capital and running costs of three weekly sessions for older people, together with capacity building support of £1,400 (4 days equivalent).
8646 Redbridge Indian Social Klub (RISK) £7,120 (£3,560; £3,560) over two years towards weekly activities for older people from the Indian community, together with capacity building support to the value of £1,400 (4 days equivalent).
SMALL GRANTS TOTAL: £37,845
TOTAL GRANTS APPROVED IN APRIL 2008: £3,315,075