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Grants made in 2017
Grants supporting organisations working with, or led by, communities in Africa
Organisation |
Country or region |
Project |
Amount |
AFFORD |
Africa |
To support sustainable livelihoods projects run by five community groups: DIFN (Nigeria); HIRDA-UK (Somalia), RIANA (Kenya), WHEAT MST (Ethiopia) and Bunyoro Kitara Development Association (Uganda)
|
£ 11,000 |
Anglican International Development |
South Sudan |
Working with partners in Juba, AID runs a micro-finance initiative for women.
|
£ 5,000 |
Dandora Dumpsite Rehabilitation Group (DADREG) |
Kenya |
To help women and young people who are scavenging in a polluted Dandora dump, Nairobi, to get jobs or set up businesses.
|
£ 5,000 |
Mango Tree |
Kenya |
For an aquaculture project in Homa Bay providing livelihoods for former fishermen affected by declining fish stocks in Lake Victoria.
|
£ 5,000 |
Midpro Initiatives /Afrinspire |
Uganda |
To provide capital to help young people, in Mbale Region, set up small businesses when they complete a vocational course.
|
£ 5,000 |
War Child/KATI |
Uganda |
To support a business training and microfinance project for young people in northern Uganda.
|
£ 5,000 |
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Total spent on Africa grants |
£ 36,000 |
Grants supporting organisations working with families affected by domestic abuse
Organisation |
Country or region |
Project |
Amount |
Bede House |
London |
Providing one-to-one and group support to women in London whose complex needs make them especially vulnerable to domestic abuse.
|
£ 3,000 |
Broxtowe Women's Project |
East Midlands |
To core fund an organisation that runs a range of support services for women affected by domestic abuse in Nottingham.
|
£ 4,000 |
Domestic Abuse Safety Unit |
Wales |
Working in Flintshire to support female immigrants and their children coping with domestic abuse
|
£ 2,000 |
Family Lives |
England |
To offer a volunteer-led befriending service for single mothers who have escaped abusive relationships in Nottingham
|
£ 3,500 |
Family Rights Group |
UK-wide |
To develop UK-wide advice services for families whose children are involved with Childrens Services as a result of domestic abuse.
|
£ 5,000 |
Flag DV |
England |
To help fund a free legal advice service for people coping with domestic abuse, and to recruit volunteers from the legal profesion.
|
£ 3,500 |
HACRO |
England |
To help fund the 'Caring Dads' programme, supporting perpetrators to improve their relationships with their children
|
£ 2,000 |
Julian House |
South West |
To run a Freedom Programme for women affected by domestic abuse in Somerset
|
£ 3,500 |
Multi-Cultural Family Base |
Scotland |
To provide support for women with young children, in BAME communities in Edinburgh, who are suffering because of domestic abuse.
|
£ 4,000 |
PHOEBE |
England |
Working in Suffolk to support BAME women experiencing domestic abuse, as well as other complex problems.
|
£ 4,000 |
Splitz |
South West |
To help fund the Elephant in the Room project which helps children and mothers to rebuild relationships after domestic abuse.
|
£ 4,869 |
St Michael's Fellowship |
England |
To run a domestic abuse support service for young parents, helping to raise awareness of how abuse affects family relationships.
|
£ 3,500 |
Trinity Winchester |
Southern |
To run Breaking Free, a project based on the Freedom Programme, specifically for abused women in Hampshire.
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£ 4,200 |
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Total spent on family grants |
£ 47,069 |
Grants supporting organisations working with prisoners and ex-offenders
Organisation |
Country or region |
Project |
Amount |
Changing Tunes |
England and Wales |
To run music projects with prisoners who have the opportunity to gain a BTEC certificate in 5 prisons.
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£ 4,000 |
Create |
Eastern |
To support 'Inside Stories', a project at HMP Peterborough, where prisoners, working with professional artists, create books for their children.
|
£ 2,000 |
Friends of the Cotswolds |
South West |
Supporting prisoners at HMP Leyhill by providing work placements in stonemasonry and blacksmithing
|
£ 1,000 |
Lifecycle UK |
South West |
To run 'Bike Back', a scheme teaching prisoners to repair bikes for resale.
|
£ 2,000 |
Open Gate |
North east |
To run a volunteer-led mentoring service for women prisoners preparing to leave HMP Low Newton
|
£ 2,000 |
Oswin Project |
North East |
To support work training and local job placements for prionsers leaving HMP Northumberland |
£ 2,000 |
Peninsula Initiative, South West Community Chaplaincy |
South West |
Core costs for work on through the gate mentoring and support for prisoners in the South West.
|
£ 2,000 |
Prison Choir Project |
England |
To set up choirs in several prisons with professional musicians.
|
£ 2,000 |
Recoop |
England |
To support older prisoners and ex-offenders though mentoring schemes and support groups, giving practical advice on rehabilitation.
|
£ 1,000 |
Red Café (part of Linden Church Trust)
|
Wales |
To support women returning to the Swansea area from HMP Eastwood Park |
£ 2,500 |
Sandwell African Women's Association |
West Midlands |
To support 'Femex-Offenders Club' - a support group for women refugees leaving prison.
|
£ 3,858 |
SOFA Project |
South West |
To support the provision of work placements for older prisoners from HMP Leyhill at SOFA's furniture repair workshops.
|
£ 2,000 |
Soft Touch Arts |
England |
To run a visual arts project of young adults with poor mental health in HMP Leicester.
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£ 2,000 |
Unlock |
England |
To provide a helpline run by ex-offenders who are trained to advise peers facing barriers having left prison.
|
£ 2,500 |
Why me? |
UK |
To expand a restorative justice project with offenders in HMPs Send, Coldingley and Wandsworth.
|
£ 2,000 |
Yarls Wood Befrienders |
South East |
To fund a team of volunteers supporting the women detainees at Yarls Wood,
|
£ 4,000 |
YMCA Exeter Community Projects |
South West |
To fund the Perspectives Programme which offers mentoring support for prisoners who need accommodation and jobs on release
. |
£ 2,000 |
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Total spent on penal grants |
£ 38,858 |
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