Most years we distribute around £500,000 in about 90 grants.
In 2007/08 grant sizes ranged between £500 (single year grant) and £9,000 (over 3 years) with 83% of grants being awarded for more than one year.
See below for examples of recent grants:
Association For Shared Parenting - £6,000 over 3 years for running costs of a Saturday contact centre in Birmingham that enables children to meet the parent they no longer live with.
Birth Companions Ltd - £9,000 over 3 years as core funding of providing volunteers to support women who are pregnant or giving birth while in detention in Holloway prison.
Brecknock Access Group - £6,000 over 3 years towards co-ordinating a network of groups of disabled people, who campaign for improved access to all types of facilities.
Care Link West Midlands - £6,000 over 3 years towards costs of supporting refugees with mental health problems living in Smethwick.
Caring For Carers Association - £7,500 over 3 years towards running costs of a weekly support group for elderly, ethnic minority carers in Hammersmith & Fulham.
Gainsborough Traveller Initiative - £6,000 over 3 years towards educational support for Traveller young people and their parents.
HEAL - £7,500 over 3 years towards costs of support groups for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse in Colchester.
Joseph Trust - £6,000 over 3 years towards running costs of work with young offenders and those at risk, through practical animal husbandry and horticulture near York.
Kairos WWT - £9,000 over 3 years towards support for women involved in street prostitution in Coventry.
Kent Refuge Help - £6,000 over 3 years for training and travel expenses for volunteers who are supporting immigration detainees in Dover.
Llandrindod Wells & District Volunteer Bureau - £6,000 over 3 years for salary costs of co-ordinating a volunteer transport service, mainly for isolated elderly people, in Powys.
NORDDIS - £7,500 over 3 years towards costs of providing information and advice to disabled people through an outreach service covering rural North Dorset.
North London Action for the Homeless - £6,000 over 3 years for a drop-in support centre for homeless people in Hackney.
Pathways to Health - £3,000 towards a service in Brighton providing therapies for people with mental health problems, drug dependency and HIV.
Radford Visiting Scheme - £6,000 over 3 years towards a volunteer befriending service for elderly and disabled people in inner-city Nottingham.
ShOUT! Youth Group - £4,000 over 2 years towards a weekly support group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender young people in Merton.
Tameside African Refugee Association - £7,500 over 3 years for running costs of a weekend supplementary school.
West Somerset Disability Association - £7,500 over 3 years towards costs of IT tuition for people with disabilities in Minehead.
Page updated Aug 08
