The City Bridge Trust - Registered Charity 1035628

Grants


Recent Grants

Grants Approved In January 2010

Reference Organisation And Website Purpose Of Grant
WORKING WITH LONDONERS
ACCESSIBLE LONDON
9733 Arts Depot Trust Limited
www.artsdepot.co.uk
£77,000 over three years (£26,500; £25,500; £25,000) towards the costs of providing additional arts activities for young disabled people.
9705 Caryl Jenner Productions Ltd (trades as Unicorn Theatre)
www.unicorntheatre.com
£114,000 over three years (3 x £38,000) for the costs of supporting disabled young people to take advantage of the full range of opportunities available at the Unicorn Theatre.
9685 Florence Nightingale Museum Trust
www.florence-nightingale.co.uk
£24,750 for a fully accessible lavatory, an induction loop for the new museum audio guide, and staff training in disability awareness.
BRIDGING COMMUNITIES
9668 Anne Frank Trust UK
www.annefrank.org.uk
£120,000 over three years (3 x £40,000) towards the costs of a young ambassadors programme.
9662 Germination
www.germination.co.uk
£43,200 over two years (£21,400; £21,800) towards 'Neighbourhood Stories', a 2 year film project uniting young people in Newham from different communities.
9714 Royal Fusiliers Regimental Museum Trust £25,000 over two years (2 x £12,500) towards a project to promote active citizenship and inter-racial understanding in Tower Hamlets.
9671 Tower Hamlets Parents Centre £37,330 over three years (£12,430; £12,325; £12,575) to provide ESOL classes to women from BME communities in Tower Hamlets.
IMPROVING LONDONERS' MENTAL HEALTH
9757 Black Women's Rape Action Project
www.womenagainstrape.net
£60,000 (3 x £20,000) towards salary and associated running costs of a project which improves the mental health of women from refugee and asylum seeking communities who have survived rape and sexual violence.
9715 Blackfriars Settlement
www.blackfriars-settlement.org.uk
£75,000 over three years (3 x £25,000) towards a community outreach project for people with mental health problems.
9655 Helen Bamber Foundation
www.helenbamber.org
£12,000 (£7,000, £5,000) towards the cost of a Creative Arts Programme involving traumatised London refugees in a musical performance.
9665 Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture
www.torturecare.org.uk
£96,000 (3 x £32,000) towards the core costs of multi-disciplinary therapy for adults in London who have survived torture.
LONDON'S ENVIRONMENT
9723 A Rocha UK
www.arocha.org.uk
£35,000 over two years (£20,000; £15,000) for the salary and on costs of a part-time project manager to develop a community garden located in Southwark.
9656 Millennium Tapestry Company Limited
www.goldentapestry.com
www.mk40visiontapestry.com
£50,000 over three years (£30,000; £8,000; £12,000) towards the involvement of young Londoners in the River Thames tapestry project.
9750 Vauxhall City Farm
www.vauxhallcityfarm.org
£91,000 over three years (£30,000; £30,500; £30,500) for the salary of a part-time (30hrs) education co-ordinator and a seasonal education worker (15 hrs, April-September) and associated core costs.
OLDER LONDONERS
9701 Jewish Deaf Association
www.jewishdeaf.org.uk
£105,000 (3 x £35,000) towards the running costs of services for older deaf and deafblind people.
POSITIVE TRANSITIONS TO INDEPENDENT LIVING
9782 Dyscover Ltd
www.dyscover.org.uk
£9,300 to deliver a further 40 specialist support sessions for aphasic people in the Kingston area, for a third and final year.
9563 Safe Ground
www.safeground.org.uk
£16,300 towards the costs of an arts based project enabling constructive communication between children of offenders, their fathers and the community in London.
STRENGTHENING THE THIRD SECTOR
9606 National Council for Voluntary Organisations
www.ncvo-vol.org.uk
£40,000 over one year towards a project helping third sector organisations in London develop knowledge, understanding and capacity to use ICT more effectively in their work.
9725 Refugee Council
www.refugeecouncil.org.uk
£64,500 (£31,500; £33,000) over two further years for a fundraising and support service for smaller refugee community organisations.
EXCEPTIONAL GRANTS
9780 London Action Trust (Greater London Domestic Violence Project)
www.gldvp.org.uk
£107,000 over two years (£53,000; £54,000) towards the salary and associated running costs of a development officer developing and co-ordinating services for children and young people affected by domestic and sexual violence across Greater London.
9654 London Voluntary Service Council
www.lvsc.org.uk
£60,000 over two further years (2 x £30,000) towards the costs of the PEACE network.
STRATEGIC INITIATIVES
9809 Improving Services for Older People grants programme
www.citybridgetrust.org.uk
£12,000 for a second evaluation and an event.
TOTAL GRANTS APPROVED ON 21 JANUARY 2010: £1,326,880