The City Bridge Trust - Registered Charity 1035628

Grants


Recent Grants

Grants Approved in March 2010

Reference Organisation And Website Purpose Of Grant
WORKING WITH LONDONERS
ACCESSIBLE LONDON
9792 City Mission Community Project £43,900 to install a passenger lift and associated capital works to make the new premises accessible.
9832 Hornchurch (St Andrew) Parochial Church Council
www.parishofhornchurch.co.uk
£40,000 towards the costs of making the North Street small community hall accessible.
IMPROVING LONDONERS' MENTAL HEALTH
9817 Project For Advocacy Counselling & Education (PACE)
www.pacehealth.org.uk
£115,000 over three years (£38,000; £38,000; £39,000) for the salary and associated costs of a youth service manager.
LONDON'S ENVIRONMENT
9824 Architecture Foundation
www.architecturefoundation.org.uk
£23,900 over two years (£15,900; £8,000) towards an education programme consisting of three Urban Pioneers projects for 16-19 year olds, and one Urban Sages project for participants aged 65 and over.
9866 Deen City Farm
www.deencityfarm.co.uk
£28,000 for a third and final year towards the salary and equipment costs of the Growing Gardens project.
9825 Federation of London Youth Clubs (London Youth)
www.londonyouth.org.uk
£100,000 over two years (2 x £50,000) for the salary of a project co-ordinator and associated running costs of a project to engage, educate and support young people as environmental champions.
OLDER LONDONERS
9853 Advocacy First
www.advocacyfirst.com
£30,000 for a third and final year's contribution to the elderly people's advocacy service, targeting those with dementia or Alzheimer's disease, conditional upon a satisfactory monitoring report for the previous grant.
9819 Age Concern Lewisham & Southwark
www.acls.org.uk
£100,000 over three years (£33,000; £33,000; £34,000) for the salary costs of the healthy living co-ordinator for work with those aged 65+.
9850 Age Exchange Theatre Trust
www.age-exchange.org.uk
£100,000 over two years (2 x £50,000) for the salary and running costs of a reminiscence programme for older people living in residential care. The project will also incorporate reminiscence training for care staff.
9781 Bexley Crossroads Care Limited
www.crossroadscarebexley.org.uk
£120,000 over three years (3 x £40,000) towards the costs of a part-time project leader, associated running costs and some care hours for a support service for people with dementia and their carers.
9837 Home Live Art
www.homeliveart.com
£11,000 over three years (£5,000; £3,000; £3,000) towards a new innovative music and intergenerational project -'"Ida Barr's Mash Up'.
9769 Institute for Public Policy Research
www.ippr.org
£79,975 (£77,795; £2,000) towards the costs of a report, briefing papers and seminars on the future needs of older Londoners.
9803 Parkside Community Project £15,000 over three years (3 x £5,000) for a programme of activities to support the physical and mental health of isolated and/or housebound older people.
9826 Redbridge Concern for Mental Health
www.rcmh.org.uk
£105,000 over three years (3 x £35,000) towards a befriending service for socially-isolated people with dementia living in the London Borough of Redbridge.
9764 Southwark Pensioners Centre £23,400 over two years (£12,570; £10,830) for the development and delivery of a training programme to promote positive ageing.
9801 St Hilda's East Community Centre
www.sthildas.org.uk
£93,000 over three years (3 x £31,000) for the salary costs of an older people's project co-ordinator.
9828 St Johns Community Development Project
www.stjohnscdp.org.uk
£24,240 as a third and final year's contribution towards the part-time salaries of a senior citizens co-ordinator and assistant.
9740 Waltham Forest Asian Seniors Club £53,580 over three years (3 x £17,860) towards the costs of a healthy living project for Asian elders.
POSITIVE TRANSITIONS TO INDEPENDENT LIVING
9843 Community Service Volunteers
www.csv.org.uk
£150,000 over three years (£47,000; £61,000; £42,000) towards the salary and related running costs of a volunteering project for young people with moderate learning disabilities making the transition to adulthood.
STRENGTHENING THE THIRD SECTOR
9808 Community Links Bromley
www.communitylinksbromley.org.uk
£90,000 over two years (2 x £45,000) for the support and continued development of the funding information and advice service.
9786 Council for Ethnic Minority Voluntary Sector Organisations
www.cemvo.org.uk
£80,000 over two years (2 x £40,000) towards the salary and associated running costs of an outreach network worker supporting CEMVO's pan-London capacity building network.
9761 Play Association Hammersmith and Fulham
www.playassociationhf.org.uk
£19,000 as a third and final year's contribution towards the salary and associated running costs of a development worker providing capacity building services to play organisations in Hammersmith & Fulham.
9810 Victim Support London
www.vslondon.org
£80,000 over two further years (2 x £40,000) towards the delivery of a training programme for victim support schemes across London.
TOTAL GRANTS APPROVED ON 18 MARCH 2010: £1,526,102