Welfare Grants
Please see below for a detailed list of grants made since April 2011 for sums over £4,000. We also make smaller grants but these are not listed seperately.
Social and Medical
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Advocacy for All |
£10,000 |
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Towards 1:1 support for people with learning disabilities and/or autism in Bexley and Bromley to access the wider community. |
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Autism London |
£10,000 |
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Towards social skills groups and individual coaching to improve job seeking and retention skills. |
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British Stammering Association |
£9,000 |
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Towards information and training for people who stammer, to help them seek employment. |
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Calvert Trust |
£10,000 |
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Towards activity breaks for children and adults from London with learning disabilities. |
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Disability Partnership |
£7,000 |
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Towards training and support for two special schools in London to achieve 'best practice' for work with children with complex physical learning disabilities. |
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Harrow Churches Housing Association |
£10,000 |
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Towards provision of housing and support for women ex-offenders and their children. |
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Heart n Soul |
£5,000 |
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Towards events designed to meet the needs of young disabled people, their families and friends. |
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Jumbulance Trust |
£10,000 |
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Towards a new purpose built vehicle that provides holiday transport for people who are seriously ill or disabled. |
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Kith and Kids |
£10,000 |
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Towards a project that will create long term accommodation and employment for autistic young adults. |
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Limes Community and Children's Centre |
£5,000 |
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Towards day trips for disabled children and young people from Waltham Forest. |
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Music in Hospitals |
£7,500 |
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Towards live music concerts for sick and disabled people in hospitals and hospices in London. |
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Nehemiah Project |
£7,500 |
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Towards a supported housing programme for male ex-offenders with addiction problems. |
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Richard House Children's Hospice |
£8,000 |
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Towards palliative care and play therapy sessions. |
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Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers |
£8,000 |
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Towards a range of services at a day centre in Peckham for refugees and asylum seekers. |
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Spitalfields Crypt Trust |
£15,000 |
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Towards a programme of development and training for people in recovery from homelessness and addiction. |
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St. Cuthbert's Centre |
£5,000 |
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Towards salary costs for the Centre Manager. |
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St. Giles Trust |
£10,000 |
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Towards community volunteering experience for female ex-offenders and support in finding work for them. |
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Sue Ryder Care |
£15,000 |
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Towards the end of life community care service in Islington. |
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Wessex Children's Hospice Trust |
£10,000 |
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Towards salary costs of a carer at Jacksplace; a new hospice for young adults in Hampshire. |
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Community and General Welfare
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Camden Volunteer Bureau |
£10,000 |
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Towards recruiting and training people to volunteer as trustees for organisations working in areas of high deprivation. |
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Emmaus Greenwich |
£10,000 |
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Towards salary costs of a Workshop Supervisor to work with homeless people. |
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Havelock Family Centre |
£10,000 |
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Towards the refurbishment and extension of the Centre. |
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Kingston Churches Action on Homelessness |
£5,000 |
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Towards the temporary winter night shelter. |
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Passage |
£10,000 |
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Towards Welfare Rights Workers to support homeless clients in claiming the benefits which they are entitled to. |
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Praxis Community Projects |
£10,000 |
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Towards a new IT and web based system for learning English. |
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Quaker Social Action |
£15,000 |
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Towards providing affordable household goods to people on low income. |
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St. Paul's Church, Hammersmith |
£10,000 |
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Towards the building of a community centre. |
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U Turn Women's Project |
£6,000 |
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Towards an education project for vulnerable women. |
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Youth Work
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Alford House |
£10,000 |
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Towards an open-access evening youth club. |
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Arts for All |
£10,000 |
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Towards a creative club for disadvantaged children and young people in London. |
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Avenues Youth Project |
£10,000 |
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Towards a targeted project engaging boys who are at risk of getting involved in gang activities. |
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Blackfriars Settlement |
£12,500 |
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Towards a youth support targeted transition project for young people identified as at risk of offending/already offending. |
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Girlguiding Middlesex Northwest / Willow Tree Centre |
£7,500 |
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Towards a new training block for use by all youth groups, including those with special needs. |
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Highbury Vale Blackstock Trust |
£10,000 |
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Towards educational, recreational and development provisions for disadvantaged young people. |
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Leaside Trust |
£8,000 |
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Towards an outdoor activities programme that gives inner-city young people the skills and opportunities to improve their lives. |
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Oasis Children's Venture |
£15,000 |
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Towards the re-construction of a Walter Segal building to provide indoor play space. |
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Samuel Lithgow Youth Centre |
£5,000 |
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Towards salary costs of the Centre Manager. |
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Siblings Together |
£10,000 |
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Towards a programme to enable separated siblings in care to have regular contact with each other. |
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Westminster House Youth Club |
£15,000 |
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Towards an after school project. |
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Care for the Elderly
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Action on Elder Abuse |
£5,000 |
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Towards a free-phone helpline. |
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Age UK Camden |
£10,000 |
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Towards support for frail and isolated older people. |
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British School of Osteopathy |
£5,000 |
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Towards community clinics for older people on a low income. |
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Entelechy Arts |
£10,000 |
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Towards activities for isolated older people. |
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Queen's Crescent Community Association |
£12,000 |
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Towards a healthy living programme for isolated older people. |
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RampAge Holiday Project for Senior Citizens |
£7,500 |
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Towards accessible transport to provide holidays for elderly residents of Hammersmith and Fulham. |
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Sudbury Neighbourhood Centre |
£10,000 |
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Towards training for staff and volunteers. |
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