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Grants made in 2021
Grants supporting organisations led by, or working alongside, communities in Africa
Organisation |
Location |
Project |
Grant |
Anglican International Development |
South Sudan |
Working with partners in Juba, AID runs a micro-finance initiative for women.
|
£5,000 |
Berhan Lehetsanat |
Ethiopia |
To help fund a savings and loans scheme that benefits families with disabled children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
|
£4,800 |
CESA Uganda |
Uganda |
To provide savings and loans for women-headed households in rural Kavunga, Uganda.
|
£5,000 |
Garden of Hope |
Kenya |
To continue a training and mentoring programme for young people in the Kibera Slum, Kenya , and to provide cash for business start-ups.
|
£5,000 |
Kisumu Disabled Self help Group (KIDSEG) |
Kenya |
To provide Covid-safe employment opportunities for disabled people in Kisumu, Kenya
|
£5,000 |
Organisation for Community Action |
Uganda |
To support a women-led business making reusable sanitary products in Lira Uganda
|
£5,000 |
Riana Development Network |
Kenya |
To develop agribusinesses with women and young people from disadvantaged communities in Homa Bay Kenya
|
£4,000 |
We See Hope |
Kenya |
To set up vocational training for street children who come into the 'transit town' of Nakuru, Kenya and are otherwise prey to drug gangs.
|
£2,333 |
Zena Launch Pad |
Uganda |
To support women-led micro-businesses in Busoga Uganda to gain access to UK and US markets.
|
£4,000 |
|
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Total of nine grants |
£40,133 |
Grants supporting organisations working with families affected by domestic abuse, in Great Britain
Organisation |
Location |
Project
|
Grant |
Chrysalis Centre for Change |
North West |
To support women whose children are on Child Protection Plans or who have lost custody of their children because of domestic abuse.
|
£5,000 |
First Light South West |
South West |
To help fund Tell Me, a mentoring service for survivors of domestic abuse.
|
£3,000 |
DAVSS |
South East |
To help fund existing services providing confidential advice to survivors of domestic abuse.
|
£3,000 |
Glow (part of Honeycomb Charitable Services) |
West Midlands |
To run the Recognise and Reconnect parenting programme for domestic abuse survivors
|
£5,000 |
New Leaf Support |
Swale |
To support the core costs of a domestic abuse charity that offers a range of services to families in Kent.
|
£4,000 |
Norfolk Community Law Service |
East Anglia |
To support a free legal advice service that is working in partnership with local domestic abuse charities in Norfolk.
|
£3,000 |
Staying Put |
Bradford |
To help fund an online craft group that is a safe space for women affected by domestic abuse to meet peers during lockdown.
|
£2,000 |
The Dash Charity |
South |
To support core costs of charity that offers help to families affected by domestic abuse
|
£3,000 |
Women's Health Matters |
Leeds |
To help fund support groups for young women and pregnant women who are affected by domestic abuse
|
£4,000 |
|
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Total of nine grants |
£32,000 |
Grants supporting organisations working with prisoners and ex-offenders in Great Britain
Organisation |
Location |
Project
|
Grant |
2makeit |
South East |
To support the core costs of creative programmes for prisoners when their workshops had to go online during lockdown.
|
£1,500 |
3 Pillars |
South East |
To support the core costs of mentoring service that uses rugby coaching to mentor young former offenders
|
£2,500 |
A Band of Brothers Leamington Spa |
East Midlands |
ABOB helps young male offenders with rehabilitation, using a programme of peer mentoring with a range of role models.
|
£2,500 |
AVID |
UK |
To help fund a training programme for volunteers joining AVID's support work with immigrations detainees.
|
£2,000 |
HALOW |
East Midlands |
To help fund Jolly Tots, a programme that facilitated parent-child contact during lockdown.
|
£2,000 |
Jericho Road |
Nottingham |
Support for women prisoners and ex-offenders who have been sex workers.
|
£1,500 |
Kairos Women Working Together |
West Midlands |
To help fund a prison in-reach and resettlement project, for women needing to find routes out of sex work and addiction.
|
£3,000 |
Lifecycle UK |
South West |
To help fund BikeBack, a programme offering training in bike mechanics and work placements to prisoners.
|
£2,000 |
Nepacs |
Durham |
To support the core costs of an online volunteering project to help support prisoners during court visits
. |
£4,000 |
New Bridge Foundation |
England and Wales |
To help fund a befriending and mentoring service that went online during lockdown.
|
£3,000 |
Resume Foundation |
East Midlands |
To help fund Project Venture which offers mentoring and training to ex-offenders who want to start their own business.
|
£4,000 |
Sixty One |
South West |
To run MentorMe, a project that brings prisoners and former offenders together with volunteers trained to listen and advise.
|
£4,000 |
Soft Touch Arts |
East Midlands |
To help fund Cre8tive TV, a prisoner-led programme of arts activities delivered via TV to prisoners when confined in their cells.
|
£3,000 |
The Upper Room |
London |
To support UR4Driving - a project that teaches former offenders to drive in return for their efforts as volunteers.
|
£3,000 |
|
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Total of fourteen grants |
£38,000 |
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