The City Bridge Trust - Registered Charity 1035628

Grants


Recent Grants

Grants Approved in September 2009

Reference Organisation and website Purpose of Grant
Working with Londoners
Accessible London
9554 Graeae Theatre Company
www.graeae.org
£90,000 over three years (3 x £30,000) towards a participative programme of street arts for disabled people.
9570 The Showroom Gallery Ltd
www.theshowroom.org
£40,000 towards the costs of providing disabled access to the gallery.
9598 St Barnabas Church, Woodford Green
www.stbarnabaswoodfordgreen.org
£50,000 towards building works to improve disabled access provision to the community hall at St. Barnabas Church.
9578 Victoria Park Harriers & Tower Hamlets AC
www.vphthac.org.uk
£3,000 for architect and QS fees to produce accurate designs and costings towards improving disabled access at the club premises.
9500 Walthamstow Cricket, Squash and Lawn Tennis Club Ltd
www.stowcc.org
£70,000 towards access improvements at the Walthamstow Cricket, Squash and Lawn Tennis Club's club house and grounds.
Bridging Communities
9481 Clement James Centre
www.clementjames.co.uk
£96,000 over three years (£32,000; £32,000; £32,000) towards the costs of English language classes within the 'Communicate' programme.
9542 Oval House - Christ Church (Oxford)
United Clubs
www.ovalhouse.com
£62,400 over three years (£20,000; £20,800; £21,600) towards 'We are London', an arts programme bringing young refugees and young people from host communities together.
9649 Restorative Justice Consortium
www.restorativejustice.org.uk
£82,000 (£32,000, £28,000, £22,000) towards part of the salary costs of the chief executive's salary for promoting and supporting the delivery of restorative justice in London.
Improving Londoners' Mental Health
9579 Hackney Bereavement Service
www.hackneybereavement.org
£16,000 (£8,000; £8,000) over two years towards extending an online counselling service for older people who are speakers of other languages.
9521 The Place2Be
www.theplace2be.org.uk
£111,000 over three years (£35,000, £37,000, £39,000) towards salary costs of a London development manager supporting and expanding mental health services for children in London.
9553 TAGEERO
www.tageero.org.uk
£120,000 over three years (3 x £40,000) towards the salary and associated running costs of an outreach mental health worker to work with people from the Somali community in Hillingdon who have a range of mental health issues.
9564 Vietnamese Mental Health Services £75,000 over three years (3 x £25,000) for the salary of a part-time (20hrs) information officer and the running costs of mental health information services in Vietnamese and Chinese languages.
9478 Young Minds Trust
www.youngminds.org.uk
£44,500 over two years (£21,800; £22,700) towards a London outreach service providing training and support to young people, parents and professionals, on mental health and emotional well-being.
9442 Youthreach
www.youthreach.org.uk
£28,800 over two and a half years (£9,600 to March 2010; 2×£9,600 thereafter) towards the salary costs of a counselling service for young people in crisis.
London's Environment
9548 Kentish Town City Farm Ltd
www.ktcityfarm.org.uk
£115,500 over three years (£37,500; £38,500; £39,500) for the salary and project costs of an Education Development Officer.
9501 Metropolitan Public Gardens Association
(MPGA)
www.mpga.org.uk
£16,500 over three years (3 x £5,500) towards the salary and associated running costs of an advisory service sharing information and best practice on improving London's public gardens, thereby increasing London's biodiversity and public understanding of environmental issues.
Older Londoners
9494 Royal Air Forces Association
www.rafa.org.uk
£90,000 over three years (3×£30,000) towards the training costs of Honorary Welfare Officer across Greater London.
9555 The Volunteer Link Scheme
www.volunteerlink.org.uk
£15,000 over three years (3 x £5,000) towards a befriending service for frail older housebound people in Ealing.
Positive Transitions to Independent Living
9525 Action Disability Kensington & Chelsea
www.adkc.org.uk
£144,500 over three years (£48,000; £47,500; £49,000) towards the salary and project costs of a support group for disabled people managing individual budgets.
9551 Apex Charitable Trust Limited
www.apextrust.com
£50,000 over two years (2 x £25,000) towards the salary costs of the LEARN project.
Strengthening the Third Sector
9590 Eaves Housing For Women
www.eaves4women.co.uk
A final grant of £40,000 over two years (2×£20,000) towards capacity building support for organisations supporting women from minority communities affected by domestic and sexual violence.
9580 Heart of the City
www.theheartofthecity.com
£157,500 over three years (3 x £52,500) towards the salary and other costs of a project developing corporate social responsibility within the City Fringe boroughs, for the benefit of local voluntary organisations and individuals.
9441 Time Banking UK
www.timebanking.org
£110,000 (£41,000, £36,000, £33,000) towards the development costs of the London Time Bank Network to support local time banks, north and south of the river.
Strategic Initiatives
9650 The City Bridge Trust
www.citybridgetrust.org.uk
£30,000 for an external evaluation of the Trust's 'Young People and Parents Tackling Violence' special edition grants programme.
Exceptional Grant
9588 London Civic Forum
www.londoncivicforum.org.uk
£93,000 over two further years (2 x £46,500) towards the continuation of the Big Opportunity Programme.
TOTAL GRANTS APPROVED ON 10 SEPTEMBER 2009: £1,750,700