The City Bridge Trust - Registered Charity 1035628

Grants


Recent Grants

Grants Approved In July 2009

Reference Organisation and Website > Purpose of Grant
WORKING WITH LONDONERS
ACCESSIBLE LONDON
9426 Barnet Mencap
www.barnetmencap.org.uk
£93,000 over three years (£31,000; £31,000; £31,000) for the salary and running costs needed to increase participation levels for people with learning disabilities/difficulties and improve and develop sporting opportunities for them in Barnet.
9493 Bermondsey Artists' Group
www.cafegalleryprojects.org
£50,000 towards refurbishment works to make Dilston Grove a fully accessible venue fit to offer art and learning centred in the community.
9459 Bridge for Social Communication
www.thebridgecharity.org.uk
£15,000 over three years (£5,000; £5,000; £5,000) towards a programme of sports and team activities for children with social communication difficulties.
9446 Enfield Community Transport
www.enfieldcommunitytransport.co.uk
£16,200 towards 50% of the costs of a new accessible minibus
9506 Mildmay Community Partnership
www.mildmaycp.org.uk
£50,000 towards the capital costs of disabled access facilities.
9451 Parish Church of St Alban, Protomartyr, Romford £19,700 towards the costs of making the church hall at the Parish Church of St. Alban, Romford accessible
9487 West House & Heath Robinson Museum Trust (HRMT) £50,000 towards the costs of making the refurbished West House fully accessible.
BRIDGING COMMUNITIES
9460 JAN Trust
www.jantrust.org.uk
£55,000 over two years (2 x £27,500) towards a programme of basic English language tuition.
9550 London Symphony Orchestra
www.lso.co.uk
£180,000 over three years (£55,000; £70,000; £55,000) towards the 'on track' programme for young people in East London.
9458 Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation
www.radar.org.uk
£80,000 over two years (2 x £40,000) towards the costs of a leadership development programme for disabled Londoners.
9475 Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust
www.stephenlawrence.org.uk
£90,000 over 3 years (£30,000, £30,000, £30,000) towards the costs of a project developing youth ambassadors and helping them to engage with policy makers in South East London.
IMPROVING LONDONERS' MENTAL HEALTH
9491 Age Concern Camden www.ageconcerncamden.org.uk £114,000 over three years (3 x £38,000) for the salary and related costs of a part-time (17.5 hrs) Group Therapist delivering a project to support older people suffering from mental health problems.
9445 Barnet Law Service
£90,800 over three years (£30,800; £30,000; £30,000) towards the salary and associated costs of legal advice and support to homeless people suffering with poor mental health.
9415 Concord Prison Trust
www.concordprisontrust.org.uk
£43,500 (£13,400, £13,800, £16,300) over three years towards the salary costs of an administrator and a counselling project with prisoners in Pentonville and Belmarsh prisons.
9406 Nafsiyat
www.nafsiyat.org.uk
£71,000 (£42,000, £20,000, £9,000) over 3 years towards the salary costs of therapists providing culturally appropriate psychotherapy with families in north London.
9422 Shpresa Programme www.shpresaprogramme.com £105,000 over 3 years (3 x £35,000) towards a support programme for Albanian-speaking refugee women experiencing trauma.
LONDON'S ENVIRONMENT
9485 Friends of Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park
www.urbanecology.org.uk
£17,500 over three years (£5,700; £5,800; £6,000) towards an environmental education and habitat enhancement programme.
9582 Furniture Aid South Thames
www.furniture-aid.co.uk
£23,000 for a third and final year's contribution to the salary of the project manager.
9437 Learning Through Landscapes (LTL)
www.ltl.org.uk
£75,000 over three years (£27,500; £27,900; £19,600) towards the 'Fruit-full Schools' project in London.
OLDER LONDONERS
9486 Advocacy in Barnet
www.advocacyinbarnet.org.uk
£108,000 over three years (£49,000, £39,000, £20,000) towards the salary costs of a project developing a network of older volunteer advocates in Barnet and neighbouring boroughs.
9504 Iraqi Association
www.iraqiassociation.org
£17,500 towards a third and final year of a service for older members of the Iraqi community.
9456 Teddington Old Peoples Welfare Association £11,550 over two years (£5,670; £5,880) towards the provision of weekly activities for older people.
POSITIVE TRANSITONS TO INDEPENDENT LIVING
9455 St Giles Trust £123,000 over three years (3 x £41,000) for the salary and support costs of a full-time employment support worker to assist the resettlement of prisoners returning to/living in London.
STRENGTHENING THE THIRD SECTOR
9495 Camden BME Alliance
www.camdenbmealliance.org.uk
£72,000 over two years (£38,000; £34,000) for the salary of a part-time (3 days per week) quality assurance fficer and running costs of a programme to support Black and Minority Ethnic and Refugee (BMER) voluntary and community organisations in Camden to implement quality assurance systems.
TOTAL GRANTS APPROVED ON 2 JULY 2009: £1,570,750