The City Bridge Trust - Registered Charity 1035628

Grants


Recent Grants

Grants Approved in January 2009

Reference Organisation and website Purpose of grant
WORKING WITH LONDONERS
ACCESSIBLE LONDON
8957 Bradians Trust £50,000 towards disability access.
9172 Hampstead Theatre
www.hampsteadtheatre.com
£19,200 over 2 years (£11,200; £8,000) towards the provision of a range of activities and services for disabled people designed to increase the attractiveness and accessibility of Hampstead Theatre's productions and facilities for audiences with disabilities.
9315 House of Illustration
www.houseofillustration.org.uk
£3,000 towards access advice and consultancy for the House of Illustration's new centre in King's Cross.
9208 London Bubble Theatre Company
www.londonbubble.org.uk
£5,000 for an access audit, disability awareness training for staff, and consultation with disability groups.
9313 Parochial Church Council of St Mary, Stoke Newington
www.stmaryn16.org
£2,000 towards an access audit on the Old Church building at Stoke Newington parish church.
9193 St Patricks Community Outreach
www.stpatricksoho.org
£50,000 towards the installation of a passenger lift and accessible toilets in a church-based community centre in Soho.
BRIDGING COMMUNITIES
9154 Changemakers Foundation
www.changemakers.org.uk
£75,000 over three years (3 x £25,000) towards the costs of a programme to recruit, train and support young Londoners as community leaders.
9321 London Citizens
www.londoncitizens.org.uk
£81,000 over two years (£40,000; £41,000) for a further and final two years' salary costs for the South London Community Organiser project.
9145 Southwark Muslim Womens Association
www.smwa.org.uk
£68,500 over three years (£22,000; £22,500; £24,000) towards the part-time salary (two days per week) and project costs of an initiative to build bridges between communities and faiths by building the confidence and skills of Muslim women to provide information about their culture and religion.
IMPROVING LONDONERS' MENTAL HEALTH
9299 Hillingdon Mind Enterprises
www.hillingdonmind.org.uk
£105,000 over three years (£34,500; £35,000; £35,500) towards the salary and running costs of a project to engage, support and empower older people from the Asian communities in Hillingdon.
9140 Stuart Low Trust
www.slt.org.uk
£30,000 over three years (3 x £10,000) towards the general manager's salary.
IMPROVING SERVICES FOR OLDER PEOPLE
8938 African & Caribbean Disablement Association (ACDA) £14,000 over two years (£7,000; £7,000) towards the running costs of an elders creative project for older African and Caribbean people with a disability, together with capacity building support to the value of £1,750 (5 days equivalent).
9098 Courthouse Community Centre
www.jamyang.co.uk/repayingthekindness.html
£19,100 over two years (£9,550; £9,550) towards 'Repaying the Kindness Project' for older carers, together with capacity building support to the value of £1,400 (4 days equivalent support).
9106 Enfield Turkish Cypriot Association
www.etca.org.uk
£14,900 over two years (£7,450; £7,450) for the salary of a part-time support worker (5 hrs p.w) and towards the weekly costs of lunch club activities for older Turkish speaking people, together with capacity building support to the value of £1,750 (5 days equivalent).
9096 Kollun
www.kollun.org.uk
£10,000 over two years (£5,000; £5,000) towards the running costs of a healthy living project for older Bangladeshi women, together with capacity building support to the value of £1,750 (5 days equivalent).
9101 Newham Chinese Association £20,000 over two years (£10,000; £10,000) to meet the salary costs of a part-time worker (2 days per week); towards running costs of lunch club activities; including in year 1 £1,200 for the purchase of computer equipment, together with capacity building support to the value of £1,750 (5 days equivalent).
9102 Vassall Elderly Project £10,800 over two years (£5,300; £5,500) over two years towards improving and developing weekly activities for Caribbean older residents living in the Vassall ward area, together with capacity building support to the value of £2,100 (6 days equivalent).
LONDON'S ENVIRONMENT
9092 Green Thing (Green Thing Trust for Green Thing Limited)
www.dothegreenthing.com
£25,000 to support Green Thing's mission in London to promote a greener life and greater environmental awareness among Londoners.
9044 Long Lane Pasture Trust £16,700 towards the purchase and installation of a fence, gate, platform, path and seat anchors at Long Lane Pasture.
OLDER LONDONERS
9350 Age Concern Hackney
www.ageconcernhackney.org.uk
£50,000 over two years (2 x £25,000) for a final two years' contribution to the chief officer's salary costs.
9128 Age Concern Sutton
www.ageconcernsutton.org.uk
£126,000 over three years (£41,000; £42,000; £43,000) for an assessment and support service 'navigator brokerage' for older people in Sutton.
9188 Queens Crescent Community Association (QCCA)
www.qcca.org.uk
£64,350 over three years (£24,850; £23,200; £16,300) towards a part-time (17.5 hours) project co-ordinator and other costs for the provision of an activities programme for older people, aged 65+ living in the Gospel Oak area.
9325 St Johns Community Development Project
www.stjohnscdp.org.uk
£26,000 over one year towards the salaries and associated running costs of a part-time senior citizens co-ordinator and assistant.,
9212 Volunteer Reading Help
www.vrh.org.uk
£14,660 for a third year's support for an older people's volunteering project in schools.
POSITIVE TRANSITIONS TO INDEPENDENT LIVING
9135 Ethiopian Community in Britain
www.ethiopiancommunity.co.uk
£63,000 over three years (£20,400; £21,000; £21,600) towards the part-time salary of a young people's support worker assisting young refugees and asylum seekers from the Ethiopian community in transition from being in care to adulthood.
9090 National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society
www.rheumatoid.org.uk
£54,000 over three years (3 x £18,000) for the costs of providing support through a comprehensive volunteering and network programme to Londoners suffering from rheumatoid arthritis.
9129 Prisoners Abroad
www.prisonersabroad.org.uk
£90,000 over 3 years (£30,000, £30,000, £30,000) towards the salary costs of a resettlement worker to arrange for the resettlement of ex-prisoners returning to London from abroad.
STRENGTHENING THE THIRD SECTOR
9089 EIRIS Foundation
www.charitysri.org
£23,700 over one year towards the salary and associated running costs of a project raising awareness and understanding of ethical investment amongst charities.
9149 Interlink Foundation
www.interlink-foundation.org.uk
£80,000 over two years (2 X £40,000) towards the salary and related running costs of 2 part-time Development officers to support Orthodox Jewish community organisations improve their organisational and management skills.
9339 London Advice Services Alliance (LASA)
www.lasa.org.uk
www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk
£100,000 over two years (£55,000; £45,000) towards the 'Building Bridges to ICT Excellence' project helping organisations to be more effective in their use of ICT, in collaboration with the City Bridge Trust.
9343 Voluntary Action Westminster
www.vawcvs.org
£64,700 over a final two years (£33,000; £31,700) for the salary and related costs of a part time capacity building officer for third sector organisations in the City.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND PARENTS TACKLING VIOLENCE
9215 Anna Freud Centre
www.annafreudcentre.org
£90,000 over 3 years (£40,000, £30,000, £20,000) to develop and evaluate an intervention for young people to prevent them from becoming involved in violence and to support those already involved or victimised in London.
9249 Camden Black Parents & Teachers Association
www.cbpta.com
£75,000 (£25,000, £25,000, £25,000) over 3 years towards the salary costs of workers advising and supporting parents of children at risk of violence and bullying in four London boroughs.
9217 Catch22 Charity Limited www.rainercrimeconcern.org.uk £120,000 over three years (3 x £40,000) for the salary of a full-time family support worker plus a contribution to running/operational costs.
9218 CHANCE UK
www.chanceuk.com
£119,500 (£38,700, £39,800, £41,000) over three years towards the salary costs of a ParentPlus manager working with families of primary school children identified as at risk of violent behaviour and anti-social tendencies in Hackney and Islington.
9243 Chinese Information and Advice Centre
www.ciac.co.uk
£30,000 over two years (2 x £15,000) towards the salary of the Sunflower Support Programme co-ordinator and some running costs.
8880 Communities Empowerment Network
www.compowernet.org
£16,920 over 2 years (£8,460, £8,460) towards the costs of a pupil reintegration worker in Lambeth
9276 St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace
www.stethelburgas.org
£15,000 to develop 'Youth Refusing Violence', a programme of non-violent strategies in schools and youth clubs in east London.
9196 Working With Men
www.workingwithmen.org
£145,000 over three years (£46,000; £49,000; £50,000) for the salary of a full-time conflict resolution development worker and running costs of a programme for boys and young men.
TOTAL GRANTS AWARDED IN JANUARY 2009: £2,007,030