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

Advocacy for All

£10,000

Towards 1:1 support for people with learning disabilities and/or autism in Bexley and Bromley to access the wider community.

Autism London

£10,000

Towards social skills groups and individual coaching to improve job seeking and retention skills.

British Stammering Association

£9,000

Towards information and training for people who stammer, to help them seek employment.

Calvert Trust

£10,000

Towards activity breaks for children and adults from London with learning disabilities.

Disability Partnership

£7,000

Towards training and support for two special schools in London to achieve 'best practice' for work with children with complex physical learning disabilities.

Harrow Churches Housing Association

£10,000

Towards provision of housing and support for women ex-offenders and their children.

Heart n Soul

£5,000

Towards events designed to meet the needs of young disabled people, their families and friends.

Jumbulance Trust

£10,000

Towards a new purpose built vehicle that provides holiday transport for people who are seriously ill or disabled.

Kith and Kids

£10,000

Towards a project that will create long term accommodation and employment for autistic young adults.

Limes Community and Children's Centre

£5,000

Towards day trips for disabled children and young people from Waltham Forest.

Music in Hospitals

£7,500

Towards live music concerts for sick and disabled people in hospitals and hospices in London.

Nehemiah Project

£7,500

Towards a supported housing programme for male ex-offenders with addiction problems.

Richard House Children's Hospice

£8,000

Towards palliative care and play therapy sessions.

Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers

£8,000

Towards a range of services at a day centre in Peckham for refugees and asylum seekers.

Spitalfields Crypt Trust

£15,000

Towards a programme of development and training for people in recovery from homelessness and addiction.

St. Cuthbert's Centre

£5,000

Towards salary costs for the Centre Manager.

St. Giles Trust

£10,000

Towards community volunteering experience for female ex-offenders and support in finding work for them.

Sue Ryder Care

£15,000

Towards the end of life community care service in Islington.

Wessex Children's Hospice Trust

£10,000

Towards salary costs of a carer at Jacksplace; a new hospice for young adults in Hampshire.

 

 

Community and General Welfare

Camden Volunteer Bureau

£10,000

Towards recruiting and training people to volunteer as trustees for organisations working in areas of high deprivation.

Emmaus Greenwich

£10,000

Towards salary costs of a Workshop Supervisor to work with homeless people.

Havelock Family Centre

£10,000

Towards the refurbishment and extension of the Centre.

Kingston Churches Action on Homelessness

£5,000

Towards the temporary winter night shelter.

Passage

£10,000

Towards Welfare Rights Workers to support homeless clients in claiming the benefits which they are entitled to.

Praxis Community Projects

£10,000

Towards a new IT and web based system for learning English.

Quaker Social Action

£15,000

Towards providing affordable household goods to people on low income.

St. Paul's Church, Hammersmith

£10,000

Towards the building of a community centre.

U Turn Women's Project

£6,000

Towards an education project for vulnerable women.

 

 

Youth Work

Alford House

£10,000

Towards an open-access evening youth club.

Arts for All

£10,000

Towards a creative club for disadvantaged children and young people in London.

Avenues Youth Project

£10,000

Towards a targeted project engaging boys who are at risk of getting involved in gang activities.

Blackfriars Settlement

£12,500

Towards a youth support targeted transition project for young people identified as at risk of offending/already offending.

Girlguiding Middlesex Northwest / Willow Tree Centre

£7,500

Towards a new training block for use by all youth groups, including those with special needs.

Highbury Vale Blackstock Trust 

£10,000

Towards educational, recreational and development provisions for disadvantaged young people.

Leaside Trust

£8,000

Towards an outdoor activities programme that gives inner-city young people the skills and opportunities to improve their lives.

Oasis Children's Venture

£15,000

Towards the re-construction of a Walter Segal building to provide indoor play space.

Samuel Lithgow Youth Centre

£5,000

Towards salary costs of the Centre Manager.

Siblings Together

£10,000

Towards a programme to enable separated siblings in care to have regular contact with each other.

Westminster House Youth Club

£15,000

Towards an after school project.

 

 

Care for the Elderly

Action on Elder Abuse

£5,000

Towards a free-phone helpline.

Age UK Camden

£10,000

Towards support for frail and isolated older people.

British School of Osteopathy

£5,000

Towards community clinics for older people on a low income.

Entelechy Arts

£10,000

Towards activities for isolated older people.

Queen's Crescent Community Association

£12,000

Towards a healthy living programme for isolated older people.

RampAge Holiday Project for Senior Citizens

£7,500

Towards accessible transport to provide holidays for elderly residents of Hammersmith and Fulham.

Sudbury Neighbourhood Centre

£10,000

Towards training for staff and volunteers.