The City Bridge Trust - Registered Charity 1035628

Grants


Recent Grants

Grants Approved in June 2009

Reference Organisation and Website Purpose of Grant
WORKING WITH LONDONERS
ACCESSIBLE LONDON
9471 Community Transport Association UK
www.ctauk.org
£90,000 over two years (£60,000; £30,000) towards the continued strategic development of community transport services across Greater London.
9467 Kentish Town Community Centre
www.ktcc.org.uk
£50,000 towards the access elements of the redevelopment of Kentish Town Community Centre.
9381 Old Coulsdon Centre Trust
www.occftr.org
£17,500 towards the purchase of an accessible minibus.
9351 St Peter's Church, Notting Hill
www.nottinghillchurch.org.uk
£50,000 towards access improvements at St Peter's Church, providing space for a wide range of activities serving the local community.
BRIDGING COMMUNITIES
9402 Asian Resource Centre Croydon
www.arccltd.com
£62,900 over two years (£31,500; £31,400) to run six community peer development programmes.
9527 Cancer Research UK
www.cancerresearchuk.org.uk
£25,000 towards the project costs of involving several hundred young people from East London in the 'East Meets West' fashion show in January 2010.
9368 City of London Festival
www.colf.org
£105,000 over three years (£30,000; £35,000; £40,000) towards the 'Open Playing Field' arts leadership and participation project.
9430 Cricket Foundation
www.cricketfoundation.org.uk
www.chancetoshine.org
£180,000 over three years (3 x £60,000) towards the costs of the StreetChance programme in London.
9371 Faith Matters
www.faith-matters.org.uk
£54,000 over two years (2 x £27,000) towards the costs of a project working to build relations between the Muslim and Sikh communities in west London.
9515 Interfaith Action
www.interact-uk.org.uk
£20,000 towards a third and final year of a university students' inter-faith project.
9346 West Hampstead Women's Centre (WHWC)
www.whwc.co.uk
£89,300 over three years (£28,900; £29,800; £30,600) towards the salary and associated running costs of a part-time (2.5 days per week) volunteer development worker to engage women from different communities in joint projects that bridge cultural divides.
IMPROVING LONDONERS' MENTAL HEALTH
9328 Homeless Link
www.homeless.org.uk
www.endhomelessness.org.uk
£77,000 over two years (£38,000; £39,000) towards the salary and running costs of a project to improve mental health services to homeless agencies and their clients.
9326 Ormiston Children & Families Trust
www.ormiston.org
£59,500 over two years (£35,100; £24,400) towards the 'London Links' project supporting the mental health needs of children who have a parent in prison.
9333 Rephael House
www.rephaelhouse.org.uk
£24,000 over three years (£7,500; £8,000; £8,500) towards costs of counselling for young people with various mental health problems.
9332 Southside Partnership
www.southsidepartnership.org.uk
£113,000 over three years (£38,000; £37,000; £38,000) for the salary and associated support costs of a full-time intensive support worker.
9411 Studio Upstairs £48,750 over three years (£16,250; £16,250; £16,250) towards the studio managers' salaries for the therapeutic arts programme.
9352 Warrior Programme
www.warriorprogramme.org.uk
£45,000 over three years (£20,000; £15,000; £10,000) towards the salary and on-costs of a programme manager to develop the organisation's therapeutic programme.
9376 Women and Girls Network
www.wgn.org.uk
£103,500 over three years (£32,500; £32,500; £38,500) towards the salary and associated running costs of a programme to train women from refugee communities as counsellors to support women from their own and other communities who have experienced gender-related violence.
9392 Women's Therapy Centre £59,000 over 3 years (£18,000; £20,000; £21,000) towards the costs of a therapeutic service for female refugees.
LONDON'S ENVIRONMENT
9338 Bankside Open Spaces Trust (BOST)
www.bost.org.uk
£67,000 (£34,000; £33,000) towards a community gardening and education programme.
9363 Capital Clean-up Campaign Partnership (CCCP)
www.london21.org
£24,000 towards the 'Clean-up, Green-up' campaign.
9396 Insect Arts Club
www.pestival.org
£19,750 towards the costs of 'Pestival 2009'.
9379 Roots and Shoots
www.rootsandshoots.org
£120,000 over three years (3 x £40,000) towards the director's salary.
9384 South London Botanical Institute
www.slbi.org.uk
£50,000 over three years (£16,300; £16,700; £17,000) for the salary and on costs of an environmental education programme.
OLDER LONDONERS
9410 Arachne Greek Cypriot Women's Group
www.arachne-group.org
£45,500 over two years (£22,500; £23,000) towards a health project for older people from London's Greek and Greek Cypriot community.
9423 Holborn Community Association £104,900 over three years (£35,100; £34,900; £34,900) towards the salaries and running costs of an activities programme for older people.
9306 Redbridge Carers Support Service
www.rcss.org.uk
£93,000 over three years (£32,000; £30,000; £31,000) for the salary of a part-time support worker plus running costs for a project supporting older carers.
9529 St Augustine's Community Care Trust
www.homelinkdaycare.co.uk
£60,000 over three years (£20,000; £20,000; £20,000) towards running costs of the Homelink Day Respite Service for older people.
9472 Urban Partnership Group
www.upg.org.uk
£25,000 for a third and final year towards the salary costs of a full-time elders' project co-ordinator plus some activity costs.
POSITIVE TRANSITIONS TO INDEPENDENT LIVING
9329 Kith & Kids
www.kithandkids.org.uk
£74,500 over two years (£37,000; £37,500) towards the costs of a service supporting young disabled people into adulthood.
9372 Only Connect UK
www.onlyconnectuk.org
£79,200 over three years (3 x £26,400) towards the salary of a resettlement officer supporting ex-offenders to re-settle in the community.
9356 Spinal Injuries Association (SIA)
www.spinal.co.uk
£108,000 (£37,000;£35,000;£36,000) towards a London community peer support worker.
STRENGTHENING THE THIRD SECTOR
9418 Consortium of Bengali Associations
www.cba-uk.org.uk
£98,500 over 3 years (£32,000; £32,800; £33,700) towards the salary and associated running costs of a female development officer providing capacity building to Bengali women's organisations across London.
9414 Hackney Voluntary Action
www.hackneyvoluntaryaction.org.uk
£45,000 towards a third year's costs for the volunteer centre manager.
9369 Volunteer Bureau of Barking and Dagenham £21,300 towards salary and running costs of training and support for volunteering, with particular emphasis on the engagement of minority ethnic groups.
STRATEGIC INITIATIVES
9558 Centre For Accessible Environments
www.cae.org.uk
£128,000 over 3 years (£15,000; £55,000; £58,000) towards the continued funding of an access and sustainability officer post to assist the voluntary and community sectors in London.
9566 The City Bridge Trust
www.citybridgetrust.org.uk
£6,000 towards an End Child Poverty event at Mansion House in November 2009.
TOTAL GRANTS APPROVED ON 4 JUNE 2009: £2,443,100