A year of transition Annual Report 2000/2001 k Contents

4 A year of transition 12 Where the money went 16 Across the UK and round the regions 80 Making sure our grants work 86 Becoming more targeted 88 A more open organisation 96 The view from outside 100 Our grants programmes 102 National and local decision making 108 Where to find us 110 Looking after public money Who we are Community Fund – Lottery money making a difference

Since we started making grants in In the last year we have made major 1995, we have established changes; one of which is the ourselves as an essential and change of our name and identity. effective funder of a huge range of Our new name – Community Fund – charitable, philanthropic and and strapline – Lottery money benevolent organisations. But no making a difference – show that we organisation can afford to stand still: give money from a fund raised by we are constantly trying to improve the Lottery and that we want to what we do. make a difference with our grant- making. The new name will support our aim of targeting charities and voluntary groups, big and small, national and local.

We are an independent, decentralised and local organisation. We are open, accessible to all and transparent in our policies and practices. Though we cannot give grants to every group that applies to us, we do get vital funds to groups and people others might not reach.

The Community Fund gets 4.7 pence from every £1 spent on the Lottery. That is 16.7 per cent of all the money that goes to the ‘good causes’.

Marie Donaghy Chairperson for STEER

2/3 Diana Brittan Nigel Pittman k Chair Chief Executive (from March 2001)*

Over the past year, our grants have Important steps have been taken supported cross-UK projects as varied towards achieving these goals as the Venture Trust’s scheme for during 2000/2001, which in many young people at risk of offending, and ways has been a year of transition. A year of Deafblind UK’s new National Centre for Outwardly, the most visible change Deafblindness. Altogether, in the has been the launch of our new financial year 2000/2001, we helped to operating name – the Community fund 9,724 projects large and small, Fund. This signals our aim to be local and national, with grants totalling more approachable and accessible transition £375m. This annual report gives a at community level. At the same time picture of just how much is being we have introduced a range of achieved country by country and initiatives, beginning to streamline At the Community Fund, it is our job to use region by region, and shows the range the application process as a whole Lottery money to make a real difference to the of inspiring work being carried out by and make applying for relatively the organisations we support. small amounts of money more lives of those at greatest disadvantage in society, straightforward. and to improve the quality of life in the community We recognise that the funds available as a whole. to us to make grants with are The biggest step in grant-making shrinking. This is due to our using up was the merging in April 2001 of our the reserves of money built up for us two main programmes – Community by the Lottery before we started involvement and Poverty and making grants, to falling sales of disadvantage – simplifying National Lottery tickets, and to our applications. Within the unified share of Lottery money being reduced programme we introduced more local to provide for the New Opportunities flexibility for our regional and country Fund in 1998. We face a fall from a committees to determine their own peak of £450m in 1999/2000 to funding priorities. In addition, our new around £215m by 2003/2004. So, our programme for grants for projects up top priority is to make the money go to £60,000 is designed to make the further and work harder. We particularly applications for smaller schemes less want to target it as effectively as complicated. Initially launched in two possible at a country and regional England regions and Scotland, it will level to tackle disadvantage among be available throughout the UK by those in greatest need. April 2002. 4/5 Two specialist programmes are Equality is a major consideration, extending the range of projects we both in our grant-making and the support in the UK and overseas. Our way we recruit and support our staff. new Research grants programme, We made progress over the past launched in June 2001, sets out to year, and integrating equal promote health and social well opportunities into our day-to-day being, with a yearly budget of three work is a key part of our long-term per cent of our grant income strategy. In November, the Chair of (currently some £8m). Under our the Scotland Committee, Kay International grants programme, we Hampton, and the Director for allocated £26.6m in 2000/2001 for Scotland, Adrienne Kelbie, signed up UK charities working in the to the Commission for Racial Equality developing world representing seven Leadership Challenge – and as per cent of our grant income. Chair and Chief Executive we shall do the same this year. This year Wales and Northern Ireland have joined in the highly Work is underway on developing our successful Awards for All scheme, strategic plan for 2002/2007, which the programme for small groups, must ensure that we can improve providing grants of between £500 our effectiveness against the and £5,000. At the other end of the background of declining funds. Our scale, in March we awarded one of approach will be to build on the our largest grants ever – a sum of successful foundations already £1.4m to the British Trust for established for regional targeting. In Conservation Volunteers. future, grant-making will be largely refocused so that a higher proportion We are constantly looking for ways of money goes to tackle to work more closely with other disadvantage within defined groups Lottery distributors, making it easier and geographic areas. A similar idea for organisations to apply for Lottery is being adopted in a joint £150m grants. In February, Chris Smith, initiative with the New Opportunities Secretary of State for Culture, Media Fund. Starting in April next year, this and Sport launched the joint Lottery will target around 50 areas of high distributors hotline (on 0845 275 disadvantage throughout the UK that 0000) and website gateway (at: have so far received relatively little www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk). funding from the National Lottery. We also continued to deliver the Out of School Hours Childcare As the process of change continues, programme for the New we will allocate resources to develop Opportunities Fund. new ways of working while making sure that as much money as possible is available for grants. There are equally important balances to be struck between working in partnership and maintaining our independence, and between covering the whole of the UK while encouraging decision making within the countries and regions. Diana Brittan Chair

6/7 We will continue to minimise In 2000/2001 there were major bureaucracy while safeguarding changes at senior management robust systems for accountability level. Stephen Bubb, Director of and effectiveness. Over the past Personnel and Administration, left to year, the improvement in our become Chief Executive of ACEVO methods of monitoring grants and (the Association of Chief Officers of ensuring that they are properly Voluntary Organisations), and Janet spent has been acknowledged by Paraskeva, Director of England, took the Public Accounts Committee of the post of Chief Executive of the the House of Commons. Their report Law Society. The new Director of issued in February followed Personnel is David Fielding, formerly publication of the National Audit Human Resources Director at the Office Report, which we were London Borough of Lewisham, and pleased to note contained no the new Director for England is severe criticisms. Richard Gutch, formerly Chief Executive of Arthritis Care. Timothy Hornsby, our first Chief Executive, retired in March after six We would like to take this opportunity years during which his energy and to thank all our staff for their commitment helped to establish a commitment, dedication and solid reputation for the Community enthusiasm during this year of Fund. We would also particularly like transition. We also gratefully to thank outgoing Board members acknowledge the role of the charities, Bill Osborne, Anne Clark, Barbara voluntary and community groups with Lowndes, Tessa Baring and Noel whom we work so closely. Stewart, all of whom have made a valuable contribution and brought a There is much still to be done, but distinctive and important dimension together we can make an to our work. increasingly effective contribution to the wellbeing of society, including We welcome seven new Board some of its most vulnerable members – our new Deputy Chair, members. We are determined to Valerie Strachan, formerly Chairman keep up the momentum of the of UK Customs and Excise, joined by important changes introduced this Rhiannon Bevan, Douglas Graham, year. When we launched our new 1. Deafblind UK Jimmy Kearney, Maggie Lee, Sheila name, we added a line that sums up £765,187 over one year Jane Malley and Ben Whitaker. what we are all about, and we shall continue to be guided by it: Lottery money making a difference. The new National Centre for Deafblindness will be a state-of-the-art, fully accessible building which is needed to cope with the increasing demand for services. As well as being the charity’s head office, it will also house a major research and information facility.

Diana Brittan Nigel Pittman Chair Chief Executive (from March 2001)*

October 2001

* Nigel Pittman, on secondment from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 8/9 has been appointed Chief Executive until a permanent appointment is made. 2. The Venture Trust £362,012 over two years “Through our course of challenging outdoor activities, disadvantaged and excluded young people and young offenders learn more about themselves, and how they deal with others. They learn to take responsibility for their own actions and to take control of their lives.” Ian Price Manager

10/11 £22.1m 602 grants £30.2m 1,092 grants £17.7m 480 grants

£18.0m 714 grants £31.5m 796 grants £20.4m 744 grants

£20.3 647 grants k £28.4m 890 grants £26.4m 725 grants £47.9m 1097 grants 1,092 grants £22.1m 802 grants £23.8m 880 grants Where the 714 480 grants grants 796 money went grants 744 grants In 2000/2001 we awarded 9,724 grants totalling £374,501,878. We received 18,817 applications asking for £1,072,256,069. 647 grants

890 grants We awarded grants under our two grants under the Awards for All 725 grants main grants programmes – programme. In Wales and Northern 602 grants Community involvement and Poverty Ireland we made awards under our and disadvantage. We made grants Small grants scheme. 1,097 under our International grants grants programme. We also ran two By 31 March 2001, the total amount 802 grants schemes for small groups who want we have awarded since 1995 was 880 grants small grants. In England and £1,920,939,687 to 41,414 projects. Scotland we co-operated with the other Lottery distributors to give

£15.7m 50 grants £23.4m 94 grants £26.6m 111 grants 12/13 Total number of grants awarded under each programme in 2000/2001 International grants programme The International grants programme Grants programme Amount Number of is for UK-based charities and awarded (£) grants voluntary organisations working Community involvement 197,900,006 1,461 abroad or carrying out development work in the UK. Grants were Poverty and disadvantage 126,461,107 869 announced in September 2000. Total main grants programmes 324,361,113 2,330 There were seven main funding themes in the programme. Awards for All (England and Scotland) and Small grants scheme The following tables break down (Wales and Northern Ireland) 23,503,460 7,283 grants by project focus and International grants programme 26,637,305 111 the continent where the project is working. Total 374,501,878 9,724

Groups of people who will benefit In the Awards for All programme and from our grants Small grants scheme, young people Under our two main grants were the largest group to benefit, Project focus Amount Number programmes, people on low with 1,816 grants worth £5.9 million. awarded (£) of grants incomes were the largest single Promotes sustainable and more secure livelihoods 3,498,783 14 group to benefit, with 813 grants Other major beneficiaries included: awarded worth £108.7 million. Improves environmental management 1,123,388 5 Older people 1,318 grants worth £3.8 million Improves access to housing, healthcare and education 11,531,247 41 Other major beneficiaries included: People on low incomes Enables marginalised people to influence opinion 2,942,191 13 Disabled people 1,010 grants worth £3.3 million 584 grants worth £75.6 million Disadvantaged people living in Promotes and protects human rights 2,200,006 12 Unemployed people rural areas Enhances understanding of development 1,469,485 10 355 grants worth £53.4 million 900 grants worth £2.9 million Carers Disabled people Strengthens position of women and girls 3,872,205 16 231 grants worth £32.6 million 826 grants worth £2.7 million Total 26,637,305 111 Families in need 276 grants worth £32.2 million A breakdown of the ethnic Older people background of those who will 287 grants worth £31.7 million benefit from our grants can be found People with mental illness under the Equality and diversity 180 grants worth £24.5 million section on page 91. Continent Africa 9,637,071 46 Ages of people who will benefit Middle East 2,142,572 7

£m % of moneyNo of grants % of grants Asia 6,157,481 23

Children 0-14 16.9 1,512 Caribbean 536,608 1

Young people 15-25 42.6 1,153 Central and Eastern Europe 4,016,196 14

People 26-59 50.2 983 Central and South America 2,677,892 10 UK 1,469,485 10 Older people 60+ 14.5 887 Total 26,637,305 111 All ages 250 5,189

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19 18 round the 16 17 5 4 21 regions 23 12 1 22 25 20 We are a decentralised organisation in our grant- 24 making and ways of working. Being close to 28 community groups and local charities on the 3 13 27 26 ground means that we can be more responsive 29 to local need and therefore more effective in our 30 grant-making. In the following pages we outline what has been going on in each country and each 31 England region during 2000/2001 as well as hearing about some of the people whose lives were improved by Lottery money in 2000/2001. 1 2 12 13 32 33

16/17 Note: Numbers show the location of projects featured in this report Wales £22,073,178 in 602 grants

Elisabeth Watkins Roy Norris Chair, Wales Committee Director for Wales

In Wales our funding priority is In the latter part of the year we put community transport and this priority much effort into preparing for the is at the forefront of many projects. launch of the Awards for All

This was especially true in isolated programme in Wales, with the Julian Hawkins rural communities, where people Heritage Lottery Fund and the New benefited from schemes that made Opportunities Fund. certain services, which are often taken for granted, more available. We will continue to work closely with the voluntary sector and the National During the year we reached the Assembly to make sure that our milestone of having distributed service meets the long-term needs £100 million in grants, and this of Wales. was celebrated at the Royal Mint, Llantrisant. At the Llanelli National Eisteddfod, 3. Black Environment Network we joined with the four other Welsh Lottery distributors to organise a £153,508 over three years highly successful drop-in session where members of the public could People from minority ethnic groups living in Cardiff, question us about the various grant schemes available. Swansea, Newport and the Valleys are supported by this project. It helps people on low incomes We forged links with the National who live in urban and inner city areas where poor Assembly for Wales, and all the Lottery distributors in Wales had a housing, health problems, environmental pollution meeting with the Culture Minister to and lack of recreational and educational look at ways of working together. opportunities create a cycle of deprivation.

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4. Children’s Cancer Support Group £31,861 over three years “We support parents and families of children with cancer, or who have had cancer. We will use our new especially adapted people carrier to take children and their families on outings and to hospital. The carrier will also be used by an outreach worker who visits families in times of difficulty.” Erica Handley Family Liaison Officer

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5. Go Sport 2000 Sports Club for the Disabled £4,515 over six months Thanks to this club disabled people can enjoy sporting activities at an affordable price. They can now enjoy riding these new hand-cycles which can be controlled by the hands instead of the feet.

22/23 Scotland £30,146,462 in 1,092 grants

Kay Hampton Adrienne Kelbie Chair, Scotland Committee Director for Scotland

One of the issues we have In October we hosted a conference in addressed this year has been the Glasgow entitled ‘Taken for granted: lack of development support available racial equality in grant-making?’ at to groups who want to apply to us. which we invited Black and minority Between January and March of this ethnic groups to challenge us and tell

year staff and Scotland Committee us if our processes were Dan Tuffs members met with each local discriminating against them. What authority and Council for Voluntary they had to tell us was enlightening. Service in Scotland. We all signed up We publicly accepted the to a Three Way Agreement which Commission for Racial Equality’s agreed a local action plan to Leadership Challenge, making a encourage applications and support formal commitment to use our applicants. As a result we can now influence inside and outside the refer both first time and organisation to combat the harmful unsuccessful applicants to their local effects of racism, whether intentional 6. The Action Group – Real Jobs authority or CVS for help in or otherwise. developing their application. Midlothian Project £231,614 over three years Last year only six out of 88 school leavers from special needs schools in the Lothians entered paid employment. With the help of this project one hundred and forty young people will gain the skills they need to get and keep jobs.

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7. Friends of the Earth Scotland, AEJ (Agents of Environmental Justice) Project £298,553 over three years While environmental damage is a global concern it is also a serious problem for many local communities. Thanks to this project people who want to improve their environment can gain the knowledge and skills they need to influence the planning and decision- making process. Two thousand five hundred people will benefit directly and there will be far wider benefits.

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8. Emmaus Glasgow £12,000 over one year “We are a small charity which has set up a self-supporting recycling business run by a community of 20 homeless people. We are carrying out a feasibility study to decide where to set up this exciting community business venture. By working collectively for themselves and helping others in need, homeless people will have the opportunity to move forward. As one person in Glasgow said: ‘You find other abilities you have inside yourself. You can help others to realise something’.”

Allan Grant Development Officer

28/29 Northern Ireland 9. Thai Cultural Society £17,740,321 in 480 grants £4,880 over six months The Thai community in Northern Ireland is a small but growing minority. Most of those arriving in Belfast are young women who have never been away from home before and face an entirely different way of life. They can meet at the social centre to discuss their problems and enjoy and Jimmy Kearney Ann McLaughlin share cultural evenings and exchanges with the Chair, Northern Ireland Committee Director for Northern Ireland wider community.

Managing expectations has been a We have recruited an Equality key issue for the Community Fund in Officer, who will report regularly to Northern Ireland in the last financial the Equality Commission on how we year. The demand for grants within are meeting the requirements of the the community and voluntary sector scheme. Copies of the draft scheme in Northern Ireland has far are available by contacting the outstripped the amount of money Community Fund office in Northern available. 2000/2001 saw the Ireland or via our website: greatest pressure yet on our budget, www.community-fund.org.uk with requests for £80 million on a budget of £17 million. Awards for All was launched in Northern Ireland in March 2001. The As a result, the Northern Ireland scheme is supported by four of the Committee had many difficult Lottery distributors, Arts, Sports, decisions to make. Unfortunately, a Heritage and Community Fund with significant number of good projects the New Opportunities Fund joining did not receive funding due to in September 2001. insufficient funds. Consequently, our average grant size has reduced Our thanks to Noel Stewart, who and we have made it clear that we chaired the committee so ably for are unlikely to make grants three years. over £250,000.

Running throughout the year, Equality Action Planning has been one of our key tasks. We have submitted our draft Equality Scheme to the Equality Commission for approval and adoption. This will ensure that equality becomes an integral element of our grant-making and policies and procedures.

30/31 Dan Tuffs 10. Foyle Search and Rescue £90,000 over one year “We provide call out search and rescue cover 24 hours a day and carry out shore and bridge patrol. Twenty seven per cent of suicides in Londonderry/Derry City are by drowning. Our teams of volunteers frequently stop people from taking the final leap. In 1999 51 people were rescued from drowning in the River Foyle, mostly men under the age of 40. We are building new headquarters with a launch pad for the search and rescue boat and a base for the look-outs who patrol the bridges.” Harry Boyle Chairperson

32/33 11. Open Arts Dan Tuffs £78,438 over two years A range of music, drama and visual arts workshops are provided at Open Arts. New activities include a choir, print-making courses and exhibitions, and drama courses leading to a tour around day centres.

34/35 England 12. Federation of Groundwork Trusts – £23,428,355 in 94 grants ‘Environments for Everyone’ £322,994 over three years “Our Trusts work in deprived areas to improve their local environments, the lives of local people and the profitability of local businesses. This funding means more opportunities for under-represented groups to get involved, including minority ethnic Richard Martineau Richard Gutch, communities; people with disabilities; and older Chair, England Committee Director for England people. The programme includes training local people to represent their communities in decision-making and encouraging others to get The strength of the Community Each region is served by a regional Fund’s grant giving in England is our office, headed by a Regional involved in environmental action.” ability to take the fullest advantage of Manager. Regional staff include our regionalised structure. In each of officers who assess applications and Yvonne Gilligan National Programmes the nine England regions Regional monitor grants, support staff and Awards Committees are appointed regional development officers who Manager, Groundwork UK consisting of local people with an work with the voluntary sector. in-depth understanding of the various needs of the voluntary sector, its As a decentralised organisation with strengths and weaknesses, where local grant-making committees, we support is needed and how resources can fund smaller, grass root should be targeted. Members of community groups who otherwise these committees not only make the find it difficult to get access to Lottery final decisions on grants in their money for their vital projects. We will regions, but they often act as our continue to target those areas and ambassadors, attending meetings, those groups in greatest need. talking to the sector and acting as advisers and conduits of information. The England Committee, as distinct Undoubtedly their collective wisdom, from the RAC, gives grants to experience and commitment organisations whose work covers represents a considerable asset for more than one region, often the Community Fund. We would like delivering an England-wide service. to thank Deryk King who served as It also takes an overview of any the Chair of the West Midlands until England-wide issues facing the December 2000 and for his very voluntary sector, commissions valuable contribution to our work. It research and ensures that the was also gratifying that Steve Page, a Community Fund in England is RAC member in the South West was an efficient and cost-effective awarded an MBE for his work with the grant-maker. Community Fund. (For a full list of RAC members, please see page104-106).

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13. Musicspace Trust £167,832 over three years Musicspace offers music therapy for people with learning difficulties and mental health problems. They are building on their success by extending their work to other parts of England – an example of how Lottery money gives small groups the chance to spread their ideas and services to many more people, making the transition from a local to a national organisation.

38/39 North East £18,009,092 in 714 grants

Professor John Clarke Peter Deans Chair, Regional Awards Committee Regional Manager

During the year we ran a number of We continued to work closely with briefings to applicants, particularly the New Opportunities Fund,

in those areas which have had few processing and managing all the Russell Baston Lottery grants. Two such areas were grants for them under their Out of Redcar and Cleveland, and School Hours Childcare Programme. Gateshead, and we were able to boost In the year 2000/2001 this amounted the number of successful applications. to £41,086,622 to 1,205 childcare projects across the UK.

During the year, we have made grants of all shapes and sizes which we believe are making a real difference to communities across the North East. The total value of grants 14. North East Post Adoption made in our region since we started amounts now to some £100 million Service (PAL’s) – a huge amount. £182,243 over three years Parents and children who have gone through the adoption process often suffer from low self-esteem and depression. Thanks to this project people with similar experiences can support each other and adopted children and their birth parents can use the mediation service to be re-united.

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15. Lynemouth Community Trust £76,696 over two years Lynemouth is a pit village in Northumberland. The closure of the colliery accelerated the village’s decline, epitomised by the shutting down of the Lynemouth Inn. The Trust bought the pub and transformed it into a community centre offering a range of activities. The building has been reinstated at the centre of the community.

42/43 North West £31,485,328 in 796 grants

Clive Lloyd Andy Freeney Chair, Regional Awards Committee Regional Manager

We carried out community based We continue to give one-to-one campaigns in two of our priority surgeries to potential applicants Dan Tuffs areas – Pendle and Knowsley – twice a month. We recently which involved working in evaluated these and found that most partnership with local authorities and groups who attended the surgeries key voluntary sector organisations. found them informative and helped Early indications suggest that them decide whether they should applications from these areas have apply to us. increased in quantity and quality. In fact, we were so successful in attracting successful applications from groups in Pendle that it is no longer a priority area. 16. Halton and District Citizen’s Advice Bureaux Service The top three priorities for development work last year were £189,080 over two years women, voluntary sector development and refugees. We “As personal debt increases, there is more increased the amount of funding to all these groups. demand for advice on looking after your money. We advise young people, low-paid workers and those facing redundancy on budgeting and managing their debts. We will also look at ways in which private, statutory and voluntary organisations can work together to reduce debt in the area.” Hitesh Patel District Manager

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17. Knowsley Council for Voluntary Service £299,319 over three years Small voluntary groups can improve and develop their services by getting advice on fundraising, IT and training.

46/47 Yorkshire and the Humber £20,356,189 in 744 grants

18. Youth Clubs North Yorkshire £172,186 over three years This project will tackle rural poverty and isolation among young people in North Yorkshire. It will Elaine Appelbee Lisa Smith improve the opportunities of 2,000 people by Chair, Regional Awards Committee Regional Manager advising them on careers and personal issues and giving them the chance to do voluntary work to During the year we successfully We ran over 60 development build up their skills and teamwork. targeted Black and minority ethnic sessions in and around the region. communities, grass roots The evaluation of the Priority Area organisations, rural areas and people Initiative, Brass for Barnsley, on low incomes. demonstrated the value of the initiative, highlighting the importance of good links with agencies supporting the voluntary and community sectors in the region.

We used the lessons learned from the Brass for Barnsley initiative to help identify other priority areas, feeding the information into the strategic planning process. The Regional Awards Committee played a full part in this as in other advisory roles. Russell Baston

48/49 19. Home and Dry £239,554 over three years Many young homeless people in Scarborough are attracted to the town by fond memories of happy holidays, but the reality can be a nightmare. Through this project homeless people can find supported accommodation and be referred on to services that can help with problems such as mental illness and drug and alcohol abuse.

50/51 Russell Baston East Midlands £20,250,258 in 647grants

Joe Allen Carol Townend Chair, Regional Awards Committee Regional Manager

We continued to target funding to We now give better feedback to those in greatest need and have disappointed applicants. This has fostered our work with Black and resulted in better applications where minority ethnic groups who informed appropriate, and a more positive us that they felt alienated by our understanding of our decisions. We assessment process. We now visit all also make sure that our decisions on Black and minority ethnic applicants. the eligibility of applicants are Julian Hawkins consistent and correct.

We have built on a good relationship between grant staff and applicant groups, increasing goodwill as well, we believe, as more successful project outcomes. This relationship will be particularly valuable in the years ahead as we concentrate our 20. Tools for Self Reliance resources more. £85,969 over three years We have been working closely with the regional Funders’ Forum, which The group runs workshops for disabled and hosted an ‘Easy Money’ conference unemployed people and people with learning where the barriers to obtaining disabilities. They collect tools, bicycles and funding were debated. typewriters, repair them and send them for use in developing countries. New workshops are being set up in community centres in Northamptonshire.

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21. Choices about Health for Ashfield Teenagers (CHAT) £200,140 over three years Young people can visit CHAT’s coffee-bar drop-in centre for information and advice on matters like pregnancy, drugs and sexual health. CHAT also give presentations in schools on bullying and healthy eating, and will be widening their services to other venues.

54/55 West Midlands £28,439,980 in 890 grants 22. Seeds of Hope £256,759 over three years Solihull is widely seen as an affluent part of the West Midlands. But Kingshurst in the north of the borough which this project serves has many social and economic difficulties. The newly refurbished building will be used by a range of John Caiger Fran Jones Chair, Regional Awards Committee Regional Manager community groups.

Because we know we will have less Our work with the other Lottery money available to spend in the distributors and the Regional Cultural future, we reviewed our regional Consortium continues. Following a priorities and published more conference we organised in March detailed information about the types 2000 we are working together to see of projects we want to fund. how we can support multi-use community buildings. In July we introduced monthly briefings at our regional office for We are now using mapping software possible applicants. These have to analyse the spread of grants been popular, with positive across the region and identify comments from those attending. We patterns and trends. We share this also introduced a set of plain information with voluntary and language briefing sheets about our statutory agencies and will use it to policies and programmes to coincide inform our regional priorities for the with our change of name to next strategic plan. Community Fund.

Black and minority ethnic groups have been targeted by using specific media, proactive publicity and meetings. We have visited these groups to discuss applications and give detailed individual feedback Julian Hawkins when applications have not been successful.

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23. South Staffordshire Council for Voluntary Service (Rural Mental Health Project) £269,284 over three years “Even before the recent outbreak of foot-and-mouth, the agricultural industry was in a state of crisis. Recent events have highlighted the need to support the emotional and mental well-being of farmers, farmworkers and allied professionals. Our team provides a flexible, discreet and confidential approach to mental health support.” Chris Coates Project Co-ordinator

58/59 Eastern £26,440,102 in 725 grants 24. Bedford Housing Link £471,415 over three years “We run two hostels for homeless people in Bedford, but we recognise the need for long term solutions to the problems of homelessness. We give homeless people the confidence to become Liz Harlaar Lynn Morgan independent, so that they can cope with paying Chair, Regional Awards Committee Regional Manager bills and rent when they are re-housed and not become homeless in the future.” We are particularly aware that this We have continued to hold helper Mark Boscher Chief Executive region does not attract much funding seminars around the region, and the from other sources and so any gaps feedback from these is consistently in our funding will not be filled by positive. Our regional media work money from other grant givers. and promotion work with target During the year we identified the audiences, including MPs, has been gaps in our grant giving and have well received, in large part due to the been working with voluntary sector involvement of members of the organisations and local authority Regional Awards Committee. development officers to make sure that our funding reaches those who need it most yet are still missing out. As a result, we have been especially targeting Black and minority ethnic groups to give them a better chance of success when applying for funding. Julian Hawkins

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25. Mepal Outdoor Centre Charitable Trust £76,525 over three years The challenging high ropes adventure course builds up the self-confidence and team skills of young people with learning difficulties. Activities like log walks, balance beams and a parachute jump provide enjoyment in a safe environment.

62/63 26. Step Forward London £92,489 over one year £47,915,775 in 1,097 grants Step Forward gives training, advice and work experience to young people living in Tower Hamlets, mainly from the local Bangladeshi and Somali communities. “I am delighted that Step Forward will finally be able to refurbish their premises. They provide an Anne Page Janice Needham essential and innovative service to young people Chair, Regional Awards Committee Regional Manager helping them to overcome their difficulties so that they can make real positive changes in their lives.”

We improved the geographical We started giving oral feedback to distribution of our grant-making, with unsuccessful applicants. This has Oona King MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, a closer match between grants and proved valuable in generating better patron of Step Forward levels of deprivation. We put a applications as well as increasing particular effort into attracting good goodwill. We are evaluating the applications from Dagenham and difference our grants have made by Barking, and Greenwich. Our commissioning a research project on efforts paid off and have given us our funding of refugee communities some useful pointers to our future in London. This will be published in funding priorities. autumn 2001.

We have been active in publicising our work in various media in the capital, and in communicating our key messages to London politicians and opinion formers. Julian Hawkins

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27. Earls Court Homeless Families Project £140,942 over three years This advice and information project houses a drop-in family centre and a playgroup. Increased support will be provided for refugees and asylum seekers on housing, welfare benefits, immigration law and availability of school places for refugee children who have yet to be offered places by the local authority.

66/67 South East £22,091,464 in 802 grants 28. Asian Women’s Helpline £175,261 over three years The helpline was set up because of the high incidence of domestic violence against Asian women. Non-English-speaking Asian women are at a disadvantage when seeking help if the only John Whitaker Dorothy Buckrell way to communicate is through a family member. Chair, Regional Awards Committee Regional Manager Now Asian women can now talk about their circumstances in their own languages in a culturally sensitive and supportive environment. We have concentrated our funds on We are keen to get closer to the projects that help people to deal with voluntary sector. We have regular problems before they become too events at which speakers from difficult. As a result we have targeted voluntary organisations talk about groups working with homeless current issues. Our staff are better people throughout the region and informed as a result and develop a funded many successful greater understanding of the applications. Similarly, we have voluntary sector in their region. Such assisted groups supporting refugees information also helps us identify the and asylum seekers by funding areas of need which have so far projects at the main ports of entry, at missed out on our funding. Gatwick Airport and in Kent. Throughout the year we placed a number of staff volunteers with community groups and we are looking into ways that the whole regional team can get involved in volunteering locally. Julian Hawkins

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29. Kent Refugee Support Group £291,671 over three years Newly-arrived refugees need information, training and advice to help them deal with the immediate problems they face on arrival, such as housing, welfare benefits and finding a job. They can get this from the new information clinic and social centre. 70/71 South West £23,794,268 in 880 grants

Brian Tanner John de la Cour and Pippa Warin Chair, Regional Awards Committee Regional Managers

During the year the South West We also developed our collaborative

Lottery Funders Partnership links with voluntary and statutory Julian Hawkins significantly advanced its work by funders from across the region. We issuing its first newsletter for regional held a seminar in February to strategic bodies and making a series discuss our shared interests and our of presentations. We followed this by research on mapping grants to commissioning research on issues deprived areas in England. shared by all the distributors – reaching our target groups in Better communication with all who Plymouth, an area of low take-up of might benefit from our money was Lottery money. achieved by a round of visits to the editors of leading regional media outlets in the months leading up to the launch of our new identity in 30. North Devon Young Farmers April 2001. £42,185 over three years This emphasis during the year on improving our collaboration and “Since the first case of foot-and-mouth disease communication with others has been particularly important because we was confirmed, life in rural North Devon has have a high application rate and low changed beyond all recognition. The disease put a budget per head. We believe we stop to the social life that went on through have laid some important building community groups such as the Young Farmers blocks for changing times ahead. Clubs (YFC). Our development worker will train young people in building up the local YFC network as an important part of the recovery process for rural communities.” Mark Goodman County Organiser

72/73 31. Project COSMIC £212,772 over three years The new mobile unit, called ORBIT (On the Road Broadening IT), will give community groups and young people in rural areas of Devon, Dorset and Somerset the chance to access information technology and training.

74/75 Julian Hawkins UK and International £42,331,106 in 61 grants

Diana Brittan Gerald Oppenheim Chair, UK Committee Director for UK and Corporate Planning

The UK Committee awards grants to We continue to improve our grant charities with projects covering the giving. The Research grants UK. It also makes the decisions for programme was re-launched in June two specialist programmes for UK- 2001, and the first decisions are based charities: the Research grants expected in Spring 2002. The programme, for charities carrying out International grants programme will social and medical research, and the re-open in Spring 2002. It is also International grants programme, which likely that the UK committee will allocates Lottery money for British refocus its grant giving priorities for charities working overseas. During those larger charities working within 2000/2001, the UK committee the United Kingdom in order to awarded £15.7 million (Main grants fund projects which deal with longer programme only), plus £26.6 million term needs. under the International programme.

Since 1996, the UK committee has awarded £109.1 million to UK charities working overseas. Our policy has been to support projects with long- 33. International Community of Women term benefits, funding charities with Living with HIV/Aids an in-depth knowledge of the complex issues facing the most £99,577 over two years disadvantaged people in other less well-developed parts of the world. The Women with HIV in Central America are type of schemes funded include those dealing with sustainable particularly vulnerable, because they are likely to agriculture, improved medical care, be stigmatised and their access to treatment is making education more accessible, limited. These women will now be able to meet strengthening the role of women in and discuss HIV-related issues and learn how to the developing world and giving advice and support to those at the lobby policy makers and service providers to margins of their societies. improve services.

76/77 Rajendra Shaw/Traidcraft

32. Traidcraft Exchange £139,183 over two years Investment decisions can have an effect on the developing world. Traidcraft want to influence UK corporate investors to change their business practices in ways that promote fair trade.

78/79 Monitoring Evaluation We made over 9,000 grants in the It is important that grant givers financial year to 31 March 2001. This evaluate the impact of their grants, brings our total grant-making from either on the beneficiaries of projects 1995 to more than 41,700 grants. funded, or on the efficiency of voluntary sector organisations which We attach terms and conditions to they support. every Main grants programme award and these form the basis of our During 2000/2001, we drew up an monitoring. We review how each evaluation strategy and have organisation has performed against commissioned research to evaluate k agreed milestones and check that the difference our funding has made the conditions attached to the grant in the following areas. have been observed at the end of • Community halls. each year. Organisations are required • Voluntary sector development. to submit yearly progress reports. • Projects that benefit people from Black and minority ethnic As part of our monitoring we visit communities. projects, including those funded under our International grants We will select a range of grants for Making sure programme. During the year, we this research. visited a number of organisations in India, Nepal, Vietnam, Cambodia Our new application pack asks and Thailand. groups to specify what difference they think their project will make, our grants Additional monitoring takes place on and how they will go about larger grants. achieving it. We will also ask grant- holders to tell us at the end of the For the Small grants scheme and grant how well they have succeeded. Awards for All programme, In this way, we hope to evaluate work monitoring procedures can include whether or not our grants have made visits, phone calls, reports from a difference to those at greatest independent referees and end of disadvantage in society. We receive our income from the National Lottery. grant reports. As it is public money, we must have procedures to End of grant monitoring reports make sure that we can account for what we reviewed show a steady spend. As we want our grants to make a improvement in the proportion of difference, we monitor every grant we make and completed projects judged as delivering key tasks satisfactorily. are putting in place an evaluation system to In the first year of operations measure their impact. (1995/1996) 73 per cent were judged satisfactorily rising to 82 per cent in 2000/2001.

With organisations whose tasks are not being satisfactorily delivered, we agree an action plan to improve performance.

80/81 34. Bosnia and Herzegovina Refugee Network £66,790 over three years, awarded March 1999 This organisation which is based in Birmingham, supports and promotes Bosnian Community Associations in the UK. Our grant pays for a Development Officer who looks for educational, training and volunteering opportunities for Bosnian refugees in England. The development officer who runs the project is a former refugee. Monitoring information provide shows that in the project’s first year 35 clients found places on English language courses, 25 on higher education courses, and 15 training in other subjects. Sixteen clients found volunteer posts, and 14 got paid jobs. This project aims to help 450 people: 195 who cannot speak English, 225 who have lost confidence to look for work, and 30 lone parents.

82/83 Julian Hawkins 35. The Women’s Centre £250,000 over three years, awarded September 1997 In 1982 a group of women came together in Londonderry/Derry City to talk about their concerns about the lack of information available to women, their lack of access to education, training and job opportunities and issues of violence. From these beginnings the Women’s Centre developed. After much searching, they found a permanent base and took over a bomb-damaged building in the centre of the city. Our grant contributed towards the renovation and refurbishment of the premises, where women can follow a range of educational activities in an attractive, safe and effective environment. Education and training are now available full time at the centre, and the number of women taking courses is increasing in line with predictions. With a newly refitted IT suite, the centre ran a number of courses for women entitled ‘Demystifing Computers’, which were accredited by the Open College Network. At the outset the group planned to help 5,050 women by the end of the project. Their most recent figures, for the period January – December 2000, show that it has far exceeded its target, with a total of 14,625 women using the facilities.

84/85 Dan Tuffs Focusing our funding Priority areas: geographic targeting Having funding priorities gives a Some parts of the UK have high sharper focus to our local levels of deprivation but low grant-making. It allows us to target numbers of applications and grants. resources in geographical areas or to In these areas we are trying to beneficiary groups with particularly increase the quantity and quality of high levels of disadvantage. To applications and grants by targeting identify needs we use the our work. Aiming to increase grants Government’s published indices of made in these areas, we vary our deprivation as well as drawing on development work according to local the results of consultations with conditions and needs. k other stakeholders. Brass for Barnsley was the first of Each country and region has such priority area initiatives, but there different published funding priorities. have been a number of others, In 2000/2001 a total of 1,524 grants including Pendle’s Cash for under our main grants programmes Communities in the North West, to the value of £203,125,439 South East’s Fair Chance in East addressed these funding priorities Kent, and the Redcar and Cleveland across the UK, representing 65 per initiative in the North East. cent of grants made under our main grants programmes and 54 per cent Pendle’s Cash for Communities and of the total grant money awarded. East Kent’s Fair Chance brought notable improvements in application Although all Community Fund rates. There were other gains too. The grant-making units work within a Pendle initiative involved a wide and Becoming national framework, there has to be representative group of stakeholders some flexibility in this framework to from the local community, and a take account of differing local database of local community patterns of need and local provision. organisations was developed as a Various measures to improve the shared resource for the area. We have more quality of our grant-making have learned lessons and developed tools been introduced and we have made which will be used in similar initiatives more consistent the basis for elsewhere. Fair Chance followed the identifying priority areas for funding. same pattern. targeted When assessing applications for Although Redcar and Cleveland did funding, we now estimate whether the not have the large scale gaps in its proposed project meets the needs of voluntary and community sector Focussing our funding a targeted group and not just whether infrastructure of other target areas, it falls within a funding priority. We there was a low awareness of our In April 2000, when the application packs for the have also developed a consistent policies and programmes. We two main grants programmes, Poverty and approach for assessing projects for worked with fundraisers, local disadvantage and Community involvement, were particular beneficiary groups. authority officers and others, and updated, details of funding priorities for each increased applications and awards. country and each region were included.

86/87 Equality and diversity We train staff about the relevant Equal opportunities form an integral equalities legislation for their work, part of our work. We are committed use of appropriate language and to equality, fairness, accessibility, strategies to fight discrimination and openness and accountability in our ensure good practice. We aim to grant-making and in the way we supply a supportive environment for recruit and support our staff. Over staff who are more likely to meet the last year, we made progress in discrimination in the course of their implementing equal opportunities in work. During the last year we a number of areas of our business. reviewed our equality training programme and recruited a new set k Our drive to bridge the ‘promise to of trainers who will be responsible practice gap’ has created an ethos of for training Board, Country shared responsibility across the Committee and RAC members. organisation to achieve set equality targets. In line with external We are working towards the developments in the area of equality development of a mainstream and equal opportunity we have equalities strategy which will refocused the work of our Equalities integrate equal opportunities into our A more Advisory Group, which advises staff everyday work. Over the next five and Board members on equalities years, we plan to focus on key areas issues. It reviews and monitors of inequality. We will continue to initiatives on equalities and has monitor relevant equality statistics recommended that this year’s and develop policies that will open Equality Action Plan for 2001–2002 widen access to our funds and will concentrate predominantly on address inequalities within our race equality; timely in relation to policies and practice. the amendment to the Race organisation Relations Act 2000. A key strand of our equalities work revolves around the Commission for We publish our values in our Applicants’ Charter, Racial Equality’s Leadership Kay Hampton which sets out our commitment to giving a high Challenge. (See report on the work of Chair, Scotland Committee and the Scotland office on page 24.) Our the Equalities Advisory Group quality service. We aim to be accessible, open Chair, Chief Executive, Board members and accountable in our grant-making and in the and Directors will also be signing up way we work. We want to give a fair chance to to the Challenge in due course. everyone who applies to us. We aim to be Another important initiative is the courteous, helpful and efficient in all our dealings Northern Ireland Equality Scheme. with the public. (See report on the work of the Northern Ireland office on page 30.)

88/89 Recruitment figures 2000/2001

Permanent staff 34 34 Women Ethnic minority 23 Disabled Other

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Overall total 55 37 Women 8 Ethnic minority 0 Disabled White BritishWhite IrishIrish travellersOther whiteAsian or Asian BritishBangladeshiPakistaniIndianAny other Asian 273750937 7366 276857769 Black or Black British 807853814867 864529813 Black 233437 CaribbeanBlack African 7252Any other Black 541486 854819916Chinese or 32% 233 Chinese British 5593 2307364 5324574 ethnic backgroundMixed 5 27542123 535752 1285466Range of 14671 minority ethnic groups 9 50% 856378 1739079Any other ethnic background 264759 13819917 2 1236613 52 223 1675203Not specified 426 869257 32% 3182984 18 48 22768436 not on beneficiary ethnicity were Figures Note: 87602 for collected 7379490 the 5131410 345184 143 57 25 39 1038144 6 4981929 29% 23 49% 38103805 14 152 3378907 6613781 419 105 536 5988019 1 2868932 7 12603982 88% 55% 14626052 25 86 30912081 62% 275 23% 428361 31% 98 50 76 267 2% 37 82% 1038 52% 26% 833 63% 36% 53% 50% 26% 25% 156795526 6 21% 25% 58% 31% 35% 71% 55% 52% 1663 59% 50% 20% 51% 57% 62% 52% 20% 18% 50% Ethnic background ofEthnic background people who will benefit from our grants 90/91 Our Welsh Language Scheme • All our publications appeared at the Database of awards Register of interests The Welsh Language Act 1993 same time in English and Welsh. Our awards database allows users to We require all Community Fund places a duty on us to treat the • All standard letters, press releases find details of all of the awards that Board and committee members, Welsh language and the English and circulars in Wales were we have made. It provides advanced staff, assessors and members of language on an equal basis. Our issued bilingually. search options, making it easy to advisory panels to declare any Welsh language scheme was • All telephone and text phone tailor a search to your needs. relevant interests under our Code of approved by the Welsh Language calls to the Wales office were Ethics. The register of declared Board in May 1998. A bilingual answered bilingually. Database of press releases interests and hospitality declarations publication detailing the scheme • Either Welsh-speaking staff were All Community Fund news is posted is available for public inspection by was published in January 1999. present, or we provided translation on the website, and our database of writing to the Director of Personnel facilities at all our public meetings. press releases allows users to and Development. The Welsh language scheme • 66 per cent of our publications search through all our news releases. explains how our Welsh language were produced in a bilingual Transparency and accountability services will be provided. It is format, including our first bilingual Information about our grants We are covered by the procedures of monitored regularly by staff at the application pack. programmes and application forms the Parliamentary Ombudsman. We Wales office. • More information in Welsh was The site provides detailed also operate the Government’s Code available on our website. information about each of our grants on Access to Information. The standard targets in our • No complaints were received programmes, and allows users to Applicants’ Charter are applied to regarding our Welsh download application forms and Dealing with complaints both languages and are closely language provision. essential guidance notes. It also We have a clear procedure to make monitored. We aim for consistency in gives details of who to ask for further it easy for applicants and other the standard of services available in Copies of our Welsh Language information and help. members of the public to make all our offices, regardless of whether Scheme are available from the Wales complaints, set out in our leaflet, these services are delivered in office and on our website at: Regional information How to complain. If you think that Welsh or English. www.community-fund.org.uk or Our regional pages provide we have not dealt with your www.cronfa-gymunedol.org.uk information about the Community complaint satisfactorily, you have the Initial contact with all users in Wales Fund in your area, including contacts, right to have your complaint is bilingual, and the client establishes Accessibility regional priorities, and latest news. considered by our Independent their preferred language for www.community-fund.org.uk Complaints Reviewer, Clive Wilson. correspondence. Staff in the Wales Our new website was launched with Jobs with us Here is his report on the year office are also ready to respond to a our new name and identity on 9 April Job opportunities with us are now 2000/2001. change in the language used during 2001 – a radical step forward in posted on our website. You can the course of correspondence. making us a transparent and modern download job advertisements, I completed two reviews during my organisation. Our site contains a application forms and guidance notes, third year as Independent The Director for Wales submits an number of features which reflect our and learn more about how we work. Complaints Reviewer. One arose annual progress report on the commitment to open and accessible from a Community Fund decision to implementation of the scheme to the grant-making. The site contains Welsh and English refuse a grant because of the way Welsh Language Board, which invaluable information about us that will language supported the organisation had managed an monitors our performance against be of use to applicants, the media, We are committed to the Welsh earlier grant. I found that the our published objectives and targets. Government and the general public. language scheme. As part of that Community Fund had failed to make They also consider any complaints commitment our website is available it clear at the time its concerns about about our Welsh language provision. Accessibility features in both Welsh and English the earlier grant or to give the There have been some notable Our site is available in both a text-only languages, allowing users to access organisation adequate opportunity to achievements during 2000/2001. and an enhanced format to cater for information and application forms in respond to them. As a result, the users with different needs. The text- their preferred language. organisation had been unfairly only site features no pictures or frames, treated. The Community Fund making it fast-loading and suitable for accepted my findings and confirmed users with software such as Braille to the organisation concerned that readers or text-to-speech browsers. any future application would be The enhanced site makes use of considered on its merits, without photographs and pictures, enhancing reference to the earlier grant. I was the user’s experience of the site. also told that it was now Community 92/93 Fund policy to inform organisations the Community Fund to consider at the time where it considered that giving the organisation a final chance there had been a breach of grant to raise the funds. It agreed to do so. conditions, and what consequences would or might follow; and that it Both these complaints highlighted recognised that grant-holders the importance, in terms of natural needed clearer guidance on what justice, of seeing that organisations constituted breaches. Finally, the properly understand the nature of Community Fund agreed that, in any allegations made against them, responding to complainants, it would or other concerns that might put their always expressly inform them of my grants in jeopardy (except where to role, rather than relying on them to do so might prejudice an find out about it from the How to investigation for example where complain leaflet. there was suspicion of fraud or other illegality) and that they have My second review related to a adequate opportunity to respond complaint from an organisation before final decisions are taken. whose grant had been terminated because of an alleged breach of That does not mean that grants grant conditions and was faced with should not be suspended, as a having to repay that part of the grant prudent, precautionary step before it had already spent (it was a capital investigations are complete. In my grant for a community centre). view, however, the Community Fund needs to take care that suspension I found that the decision to terminate in these circumstances is always a had been properly taken as a considered and proportionate consequence of a serious breach. response and that it is not simply However, I criticised the Community triggered automatically on receipt Fund for failing adequately to tell the of allegations. organisation the nature of the original allegations (from a third party) or that In my Report for 1999-2000, I its investigation of them had been suggested that the Community Fund halted because of a separate, serious should consider publishing some breach which the Community Fund analysis of the complaints it had had discovered (and which led to the received. I believe that most public suspension of the grant). I cleared organisations now regard such the Community Fund from the charge information as part of the process of that it had failed to act impartially or accountability. I hope that the had taken too long to complete its Community Fund will now decide to investigation. The breach had do so without further delay. entailed failure to secure agreement to a significant extension to the building as approved when the grant was made. I found that, prior to termination of the grant, the Community Fund had not done Clive Wilson enough to ensure that the Independent Complaints Reviewer organisation understood that it could try to raise the extra cash required and that, had it done so, the extension Roman Polom might have been approved. I invited Treasurer, Polish Day Centre 94/95 for the Elderly “Shelter currently has three projects The Community Fund has made a being supported by the Community huge contribution to the voluntary Fund. Our first grant was for sector. The application process – the ‘Homeless to Home’, our innovative form, project assessments, scheme that is supporting homeless professionalism of the staff – forces families that have recently been charities to think carefully about the re-housed. It was an exciting design of their projects and clarify development for Shelter and at the what is achievable and what is not. time it was the largest grant ever This ‘best practice’ model ensures awarded by the Community Fund. wider thinking within organisations ‘Homeless to Home’ is now in its about designing new project work, k third successful year, and the regardless of whether it is supported projects in Bristol, Birmingham and by the Community Fund. The Sheffield continue to provide multiplier effect of the Community practical support to families by Fund has also promoted the helping them to resettle in their new professionalism of other funders in homes and communities, thereby the sector. It is becoming minimising the risk of becoming increasingly obvious that many of the homeless again. other large charitable funders have borrowed the clear format and It has been an inspiring project for structured assessment process to everyone at Shelter and even more ensure best use is made of their so for the families we have been charitable giving. able to help. The Community Fund has provided these families with a At Shelter we wish the Community The view fresh start and an opportunity to Fund the very best with their less build for the future. In the short term bureaucratic application process and it has enabled parents to provide the new smaller grant giving their kids with a decent and safe programme. We are sure this home environment, which should simplified process will encourage from after all be a basic right for everyone even more well targeted projects living in this country. which will ultimately benefit those who most need them.”

Anna Lubliner outside Senior Trust Fundraiser at Shelter

We are an organisation that listens to and learns from helpful advice and criticism. So we asked two very different charities to give their views on how we should move on in the coming years. They talk about the way in which our funding has transformed their organisations and the people they help.

96/97 “As the national patient group for disability. But haemophilia remains people with haemophilia, the Society incurable, and learning to manage was delighted to be awarded a three the condition and the lifelong year project grant last year to treatment required is demanding and develop a new service for Scotland. often stressful for families. The Thanks to the grant, we will be community still struggles also with taking a significant step forward as the aftermath of the contaminated an organisation by employing a blood tragedy which has left many development worker for Scotland and infected with hepatitis and HIV opening a new base for our patient contracted from contaminated group in Glasgow. Up until now our treatment products in the past. work in Scotland has been largely reliant on the efforts of volunteers – Making our application to the most of whom are affected by Community Fund – it was still the haemophilia or a similar bleeding National Lottery Charities Board when disorder themselves. we started – was a lengthy process and quite demanding for a fairly small Our aim in the new initiative is not to organisation with only one fundraiser. replace volunteers – but to empower We were helped by the fact that the more people with haemophilia and Society was very clear in its aims for their family members to become this project, and had spent time involved in the organisation with the discussing and planning this support of our new development important organisational development worker. This move has been inspired before we submitted the application. by feedback from our members in Scotland who wanted the Society to The rigour and thoroughness with have a stronger identity and a which our application was judged physical presence in Scotland. As a commanded our respect, although national, London-based organisation, we may not have actually enjoyed most of the Society’s contact day-to- every minute of it at the time! The day with the haemophilia community result was certainly worth the effort. It tends to be via telephone and is a real bonus that the project grant email/website. Our Scottish worker covers almost all the costs of the will be able to develop much closer work so enabling us to start the links with the community and build project now rather than having to opportunities for contact through peer spend additional time fundraising support networks, local information before we can begin – as so often events, activities for children and happens when funders only families around Scotland. contribute part funding to a project.”

This will make a real difference for Karin Pappenheim Peter Tottman people living with this lifelong Chief Executive Secretary at Willgate Village Hall, Essex inherited bleeding disorder. Thanks Haemophilia Society (UK) to modern treatment methods, children growing up with haemophilia today have a far better chance of leading a normal life than past generations who often missed out on education and employment opportunities through illness and

98/99 In April 2001, at the time of our from Black and minority ethnic groups; change of name and our rebranding, and those with learning difficulties. we made a number of significant changes to the way we operate. We International grants programme reduced the two existing main Under this programme we will fund grants programmes to one, we development projects that address the began the roll out of a brand new causes of poverty and inequality and programme for grants of up to make a significant improvement to the £60,000 and announced a new lives of some of the most vulnerable continuous international grants people in the world. We support programme and a new continuous projects run by voluntary organisations k research grants programme. based in the UK, working in partnership with organisations abroad. Main grants programme We also fund development education This is for projects that help people projects in the UK. Previous grants in who are unable to play a full part in this programme have achieved great economic, social and community life. success in the developing world and We want to support projects that have been greeted as fine examples tackle severe, long-term and of long-term aid making a huge complex needs, especially if they difference to a large number of people. are working to prevent or reduce future disadvantage. We will re-open this programme in spring 2002. For the first time this Although it is a UK-wide programme will run continuously, programme, we have different with no closing date for applications. funding priorities for Wales, Our grants Scotland, Northern Ireland, each Getting an application pack England region and for projects Call 0845 791 9191 (Minicom: 0845 working throughout England. These 755 6656) or, visit our website at: are listed in the country and www.community-fund.org.uk regional leaflets that come with the programmes application pack. Awards for All Awards for All is a grant programme Grants for projects costing up for small groups involved in arts, to £60,000 sports, heritage and voluntary and We aim to have grants programmes suitable for The application form for this community activities, who want all parts of the voluntary sector – charities and programme is shorter than for our grants of between £500 and £5,000. community groups applying for small, medium and Main grants programme and The scheme is funded by National large grants for small, medium and large projects decisions are made more quickly. Lottery distributors in England, Wales, It has the same aim as our main Scotland and Northern Ireland. in all parts of the UK; charities working in the programme and country and regional developing world and in Central and East Europe; funding priorities also apply. Getting an application pack medical and social research charities. Calling 0845 600 2040 (Minicom: Research grants programme 0845 755 6656) or, visit our website We want to fund high quality medical at: www.awardsforall.org.uk research and social research to promote well being. Our funding Further details about all our priority for at least the first year of this programmes can be found in the programme is promoting social Our grants programmes leaflet, inclusion. We particularly want to available from your local Community support projects working to benefit Fund office, or downloadable from young people; older people; people the website. 100/101 Board members and committee members

Diana Brittan Paul Cavanagh Lorne MacLeod Chair Northern Ireland Scotland and Finance UK, Policy and Finance Committee Committees Committees Research Steering Douglas Graham Sheila Jane Malley k Group Scotland, UK and Audit Northern Ireland and Committees UK Committees Valerie Strachan Deputy Chair Kay Hampton Richard Martineau UK, Policy and Finance Scotland and Policy England, Policy and Committees Committees, Equalities Audit Committees Advisory Group, Elaine Applebee Research Steering James Strachan England Committee Group UK Committee Chair of Yorkshire and Humber RAC Prof Jimmy Kearney Elisabeth Watkins Northern Ireland, Wales, Policy and Rhiannon Bevan Policy and Finance Finance Committees National Wales Committee Committees, Equalities Advisory Group, Benjamin Whitaker Steven Burkeman Research Steering England and UK England, UK and Group Committees Personnel Committees and local Maggie Lee Jeff Carroll UK and Personnel Wales, UK, Personnel Committees decision and Audit Committees Board members who left during the year

Noel Stewart William Osborne Tom Jones making Left September 2001 Left December 2000 Left July 2000 Tessa Baring Sir Adam Ridley Amanda Jordan Left July 2001 Deputy Chairman Left July 2000 Left July 2000 Anne Clark Ron Partington Left July 2001 Amir Bhatia Left July 2000 Left July 2000 Barbara Lowndes John Simpson Left July 2001 Left July 2000

102/103 Co-opted country London Anne Page Michael Bieber Loraine Martins Jeremy committee members Chair Anne Bogod Lara Mitchell Rosenblatt Sara Llewellin Barbara Riddell These are not full Board members, appointed by the Secretary of State, but are appointed by open recruitment to bring local knowledge to our grant-making.

Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Paul Cavanagh Lorne MacLeod Margaret Dennis North East (from April 2001 to (From November 2000 September 2001) until August 2001) Aled Sion Professor Victoria Andrew Leo Gillen Peter Slark John Clarke Susan Bevan Stephen Hilton Simon Underwood Patrick McShane Vicky Patterson Dr Glyn Williams Chair Anne Galbraith Tafazzal Hussain Betty Weallans (from November 2000) Dr Janet Gale Pauline Nelson Alan Wilson Louis Orange John Wilkes

Regional awards North West Clive Lloyd CBE Alan Chapman Jean Gadsby Salim Sameja Chair Dennis Crook Carneen Viveen Taylor committee members Bill Egerton McCarron-Holmes Anthony Evans Carol Neale as at 31 July 2001

East Midlands South East

Joseph Allen Parvin Ali Craig Kershaw Ros Rowley John Whitaker Dharam Ahuja Martin Gray John Murray Chair Geoff Birch Basil Ludford- Sandra Sellers Chair David Alfred Jean King Dr Alan Rogers Valerie Dwyer Thomas Joan Yarnell Simone Baker The Revd Canon Antony Weller Marion Forsyth Amarjit Raju Rosalind Chislett Hugh Marshall Graham Collings

Eastern South West

Elizabeth Harlaar Keith Andrew Peter Conniff Bhartiben Tailor Chair Anthony Barnes Peter Griggs Michael Talbot Brian Tanner CBE Francine Bennett Teresa Kippax Ann Robinson Jean Beswarick Jane Smith Alistair Wakeley Chair Jenny Craig Steve Paget MBE Henrietta Rose Claire Blamey Jean Smith-Myrie Jason Whyborn Jan Crawley Mahmood Patel Lisa Shaw-Williams Ann Khambatta Amanda Ratsey Jay Talbot

104/105 West Midlands

John Caiger MBE Mel Akers Paul Burgess Jackie Redding Chair Caroline Anson Monica Coke Nadia Shaw Linda Averill Bill Hall Carol Thompson David Bird Professor Upkar Thom Webb Pardesi

Yorkshire and the Humber

Elaine Appelbee Waheed Akhtar Linda Grant Helen Platts Chair Tim Close Melanie Hunter Amanda Neelam Vas Patel Richardson Devesher Robert Pitt Ian Strong Phil Ward

International Grants Independent Advisory Panel

Adrian Sindall Catherine James Houston Neil Thin CMG Budgett-Meakin Mukami McCrum Tina Wallace Chairman Alun Burge Pramilla Emma Crewe Senanayake

Management team

David Fielding Barry MacDonald Nigel Pittman Director of Personnel Director for Finance Chief Executive (interim) and Development Ann McLaughlin Peter Woodward Richard Gutch Director for Director of Director for England Northern Ireland Information Services

Paul Hensby Roy Norris Director of Director for Wales Communications Gerald Oppenheim Carol A Home Adrienne Kelbie Director for UK and Manager, Tak Tent Cancer Support, Glasgow Director for Scotland Corporate Planning

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108/109 Report by the Director of Finance

1. Income for the year under review 4. Grants paid during the year were 7. We give grants for both capital 10. Operating costs included £1.6 was £310 million (1999/00 £294 £380 million, nine per cent higher and revenue expenditure. Payment million VAT, as we are unable to million), of which £257 million came than the previous year, leaving £549 commitments can extend for up to recover VAT on goods and from the National Lottery (1999/00 million of grant commitments three years for main grants services purchased. £245 million), and £53 million from outstanding at the end of the year, programmes and five years for investment and other income together with the £33 million international grant programmes. As 11. Capital expenditure during the (1999/00 £49 million). outstanding offers. successive rounds of grants are year was £0.5 million, covering IT and made, the liabilities extending into office equipment, fixtures and fittings. 2. We made grant commitments 5. Income is held in the National future years will accumulate and this (offers that were accepted) of £357 Lottery Distribution Fund until it is will ensure a steady reduction in the 12. Assessment work was million in the year under review, 32 required to pay grants or meet Fund balance. We plan grant offers undertaken on behalf of the other per cent less than in the previous operational expenditure. The balance over our programme of grant rounds Lottery Distributors as part of a year. These covered our sixth grants held in the Fund at the end of the so that the projected cash outflow in generic small grants scheme in programme, Community year was £487 million, which is less each future year remains within the Scotland and England, working with involvement, our seventh programme than the £549 million committed in expected income from the Lottery, Arts and Sports Councils, the Poverty and disadvantage, our fourth respect of grants and the £33 million leaving only a reasonable margin for Millennium Commission, and the International grants programme, our outstanding offers. contingency purposes. Heritage Lottery Fund. In Wales, Small grants scheme, and the small grants work was undertaken Awards for All programme. This latter 6. Investment income is earned on 8. Our total expenditure covers the on behalf of the Heritage Lottery scheme was operated in partnership the balance in the National Lottery cost of assessing nearly 34,500 Fund and the Millennium with other Lottery distributors in Distribution Fund, contributing £34 applications, managing over 28,000 Commission, and in Northern Ireland England and Scotland. We also million to our income for the year live grants, developing policies, on behalf of the Millennium made a further £33 million of grant available for grant giving. Lapsed procedures and IT systems, together Commission. The other Distributors offers which have become and revoked grant commitments with associated management and were re-charged the costs calculated commitments since 31 March 2001. contributed a further £14 million administration. The operating cost according to The Treasury “Fees and income. There was other income of figure for the year of £27 million Charges Guide” and this re-charge is 3. The level of grants made has £5 million. represented nine per cent of annual included in Investment in other declined due to a reduced share of income available for grant giving. income. income from the National Lottery following the establishment of the 9. The proportion of the number of New Opportunities Fund and due to applications being awarded grants, the running down of cash balances at 47 per cent was nine per cent Barry MacDonald built up from the National Lottery lower than the previous year. The Director of Finance before the establishment of the average time between receipt of Community Fund’s programmes. application and communication of This downward trend will continue decision was equivalent to 76 in future years. working days, a rise from 56 working days last year. This rise is due to rephasing of workloads and committee meetings during the introduction of a new IT system.

110/111 Performance We are keen to measure our performance against targets so that we against targets can ensure continuous improvement of our policies and procedures.

Indicator Achievement Indicator Achievement

1 Accessible and open grant-making 4 Making a difference

1.1 Annual Report on consistency Met 4.1 Report on monitoring forms sent Met of criteria marking. out, returned, reviewed, and visits made. 1.2 Reports on number of applications Met received, amount asked for, success 4.2 Report on the number of jobs created. Met rates, grant staff recommendations overturned by decision 4.3 Report on percent of grant budget Met making Committees. awarded to different programmes.

1.3 Make applications available on disk. Met 5 Operating efficiently

2 Geographic equity 5.1 Average cost per application to be Met at £578 less than £850. 2.1 Report on distribution of funds Met by budget allocation formula. 5.2 Average cost per grant in Met at £580 management to be less than £1,000. 2.2 Report on awards made on Met funding priorities. 5.3 Operating costs to be less than Met 10 per cent of income. 3 Reflecting diversity 5.4 Assessment processing times to Met at 93 and 56 3.1 Value of awards to be not less than Met be 95 working days main grants and respectively 10 per cent to small, medium and large 57 working days small grants. organisations, banded as under £15K, £15K to £100K, over £100K. 5.5 Report on age of Met outstanding applications. 3.2 Report on range of activities funded Mainly met [Most offices and beneficiaries reached. have reported on 5.6 Report on numberof assessments Met range of activities and and grants in management per beneficiaries]. grant officer.

3.3 Number and value of awards Met [The Community Fund 5.7 Report on the number of grants with Met to minority ethnic groups awarded 11 per cent by payments locked over six months old. to be in proportion to census data. value and 14 per cent by number to organisations 6 Managing the organisation effectively providing benefits targeted at minority ethnic groups 6.1 Reports on staff turnover and Met compared with 6 per cent staff sickness. of the population].

112/113 Summary financial statement

Introduction The following summary financial Statement of the Comptroller and Basis of opinion This Summary financial statement is statement should be read in Auditor General to the Board and I have conducted my work in a summary of the Community Fund’s conjunction with the Chairman’s Chief Executive accordance with the Auditing full annual accounts as set out in message, Chief Executive’s report I have examined the Summary Guideline – “The auditors’ statement “Community Fund Financial and the Finance Director’s report financial statement set out on pages on the summary financial Statements for the Year to 31 March which mention, to the extent 116 and 117 which has been statement” adopted by the Auditing 2001”, which should be consulted for applicable, any important future prepared in the form and on the Practices Board. a full understanding of the results of developments and contain a basis set out at note 3 on page 117. the Board and its state of affairs. This summary financial review. Opinion document may be obtained from the Respective responsibilities of the In my opinion the summary financial Director of Finance. Board, the Chief Executive and statement is consistent with the full the Auditors financial statements and foreword of The report by the Comptroller and The Summary financial statement is the Community Fund for the year Auditor General on the annual financial the responsibility of the Board and ended 31 March 2001 and has been statements for the year ended 31 the Chief Executive. My responsibility properly prepared on the basis set March 2001 was unqualified. is to report to you my opinion on its out in note 3 of the summary preparation and consistency with the financial statement. full financial statements and foreword.

John Bourn Comptroller and Auditor General 27 September 2001

National Audit Office 157-197 Buckingham Palace Road Victoria, London SW1W 9SP

114/115 Summary financial statement for the year to 31 March 2001

£ million £ million Note 1 Board Members Income and expenditure 2000/01 1999/00 The Members of the Board during 2000/01 are shown on page 103. Their total remuneration which consists of fees and taxable expenses (travel and Income from the National Lottery 257 245 subsistence) received in the year was £211,000. Last year their remuneration Investment and other income 53 49 was £174,000. Total income 310 294 Note 2 Grant commitments £ million £ million Grant commitments made in the year 357 527 2000/01 1999/00 Operating expenditure 27 28 Total expenditure 384 555 Grant commitments outstanding at start of year 586 420 Grant commitments made in the year 357 527 Retained deficit for the year -74 -261 Grant commitments paid in the year -380 -349 Grant commitments lapsed or revoked -14 -12

Balance sheet as at 31 March 2001 Grant commitments outstanding at year end 549 586 Fixed assets 3 5 Investment balance at the Note 3 Governing regulations National Lottery Distribution Fund 487 599 The summary Financial Statement has been prepared in accordance with Other current assets 17 7 Section 251 of the Companies Act 1985 and the Companies (Summary Current liabilities -13 -6 Financial Statements) Regulations 1995 (SI 1995 – 2092) as far as it is relevant. Total assets less current liabilities 494 605 Note 4 Represented by: Grant commitments 549 586 The value of gifts given by the Board was nil, and that of gifts received by Retained surplus brought forward 19 280 the Board members and staff was £3,732. Retained deficit for the year -74 -261 494 605 Note 5 Operating expenditure in detail for the year £ million 2000/01 Cash flow Funds drawn down from the National Lottery Staff and Assessors 15.8 Distribution Fund 404 373 Consultants 0.4 Payment of grants -380 -349 Professional fees 0.4 Payment of operating costs -19 -24 Research 0.1 Other income 4 4 Telemarketing 0.6 IT supplies and support 2.4 Net cash inflow from operating activities 9 4 IT systems development 1.0 Purchase of fixed assets 0 -3 Grant publications and communications 1.7 Increase in cash 9 1 Office Expenses 1.0 Accommodation 2.5 On behalf of the National Lottery Charities Board (legal name of the Depreciation 1.4 Community Fund), who approved the Summary Financial Statement on 25 September 2001. Total operating expenditure 27.3

Note 6 Tax and notional interest for both years shown are less than £1m, hence the Net income/(cost) for the year retained is the same before and after tax and notional interest when rounded as above. Nigel Pittman Lady Brittan Accounting Officer Chair 116/117 Statutory background

The Community Fund – the operating name of (ii) The Board shall devise and abide by a Policy directions that smaller organisations, as well as local ones, the National Lottery Charities Board – was procedure for handling potential conflicts of The Community Fund is a non-departmental have the opportunity to apply for grants of up to established as a Non-Departmental Public Body interest which may arise in the evaluation of public body and therefore operates under policy £5,000 in a simple way. Our development and by the National Lottery etc Act 1993, as applications by the Board or individual directions issued by our sponsor department, the publicity work helps to ensure that a wide range amended by the National Lottery Act 1998, which members of that Board. This procedure, Department for Culture, Media and Sport. The of activity within our defined programmes and came into force on 2 September 1998. The Act together with a statement confirming the policy directions set out the principles with which strategy is supported. specifies the share of the National Lottery to be arrangements that have been applied, should we must comply. They are revised from time to received and it regulates the appointment of be provided to the Secretary of State for time; the current directions were issued in C. The need to have regard from the outset to: committees for grant-making. The Secretary of Culture, Media and Sport (“the Secretary of February 1999. i the interest of the UK as a whole; State is given power under the Act to give State”) before the distribution of any funds ii the interests of the different parts of the UK; directions as to the matters to be taken into under section 25 of the Act, and thereafter at There are 10 directions. These are set out below and account in grant-making and the conditions the beginning of each financial year. with a note about our compliance with them. iii the relative population sizes of, and under which any money is distributed. The appropriate socio-economic factors Secretary of State issued Policy Directions in Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State A. The need to ensure that money is distributed applicable to, the different parts of the UK; September 1995 and Financial Directions in May for Culture, Media and Sport ACB Ramsay A only for charitable (whether or not charitable in and, in addition, to consider the interests of 1997 with revised versions of both issued in Group Head in the Department of Culture, Media law), benevolent or philanthropic purposes. organisations with a base in the UK and February 1999. These remain in force and have and Sport. working overseas; and to distribute grants in not been amended in the last year. The All the awards made by the Community Fund go the light of these considerations. Community Fund has complied with these to charitable, philanthropic or benevolent directions throughout the financial year organisations which are checked for eligibility. Our grant-making committees ensure that the 2000/2001 in every material aspect. These include charities registered with the interests of different parts of the UK, the UK as Charity Commission in England and Wales and a whole, and organisations based in the UK those recognised as charitable for tax purposes and working overseas are represented in our Financial directions The directions have been complied with by the Inland Revenue in Scotland and Northern grant-making strategy. The four country National Lottery etc Act 1993 (as amended by as follows: the National Lottery Act 1998). Ireland. Philanthropic and benevolent committees and the nine Regional Awards organisations must have the attributes of charity Committees in England deal with grants in their (i) We have implemented procedures throughout to meet the legal tests, ie, they must have areas, and the UK Committee makes grants for Financial directions to be issued to the National the organisation to ensure the requirements of nothing about them which is against the concept projects which benefit all countries of the UK, Lottery Charities Board (the legal name of the the Statement of financial requirements are of charity, and they must act for the public benefit research grants, and projects abroad. Community Fund) under Section 26(3), (3A) & (4). followed. We maintain an internal audit service and not for private or mutual benefit. to check on a sampling basis that all officers We allocate our budget on the basis of and departments are following the agreed (i) The National Lottery Charities Board (“the B. The need to ensure that the Board, in the population weighted by socio-economic factors procedures, and to ensure these procedures Board”) shall comply with the requirements policies it adopts from time to time and taking that take account of need in the different are properly documented and disseminated. contained within the Statement of Financial into account its assessment of needs and any countries and regions. There are separate The full Statement of financial requirements Requirements attached as an Annex to these priorities it has identified in its strategy, and allocations for research and international can be obtained from the Community Fund’s directions when carrying out its functions taking reasonable steps to publicise widely the grants programmes. Director of Finance. under section 25 of the National Lottery etc. availability of grants, achieves over time the Act 1993 (“the Act”) as amended by the distribution of money: (ii) We maintain a register of interest for all Board National Lottery Act 1998 (“the 1998 Act”). D. The needs of children and young people. members and all staff. Where any committee Wherever specified in that Annex, the Board i to a reasonably wide spread of recipients, During 2000/2001, we made 2,665 grants worth decisions are taken which would possibly give must obtain the consent of the Secretary of including small organisations and those £59,522,331 which benefited children and rise to a conflict of interests, the Chair of the State before carrying out certain activities. organisations operating purely at local level young people. meeting ensures that disclosure is made and and; the committee member leaves the room while ii across a reasonably wide range of charitable E. The need to further the objectives of the item in question is discussed. Procedures (whether or not charitable in law), benevolent sustainable development. are also in place to prevent any member of and philanthropic activity. Sustainable development is an important factor in staff from assessing an application from an our grant-making. We continue to research and organisation they are connected with. The We take all reasonable steps to publicise our develop an environmental policy which will cover application of these procedures has been grants programmes. We have an application form our own grant-making practices and policies. notified each year to the Secretary of the State. that covers our Main grants programme and Grants for projects up to £60,000, which are F. The need to set specific time limits on the designed to enable a wide spread of potential periods in respect of which grants are applicants to submit grants applications. The payable, whether for capital or Awards for All programme is designed to ensure revenue expenditure.

118/119 We generally make grants for up to three years The need to ensure it has such information as it (five years in the case of projects overseas). considers necessary to make decisions on each Organisations receiving grants can reapply for a application, including independent expert advice grant for up to another three years, though these where required. applications are assessed in competition with new projects and only part of the grant-making The application forms for grants collect budget is allocated to reapplications. information about applicants and their projects which are then assessed in accordance with our G. The need: guidance and procedures in order for decisions i in all cases for applicants to demonstrate the to be made. We use expert advisers on financial viability of the project for the period international development work and medical and of the grant; wider social research to support our decision ii where capital funding is sought, for a clear making on those grant programmes. We also business plan incorporating provision beyond take advice from other advisors if grant the period of the grant for associated running applications so require (for example, expert k and maintenance costs; financial advice). iii in other cases, for consideration to be given to the likely availability of other funding to meet any continuing costs for a reasonable period after completion of the Lottery award, taking into account the size and nature of the project, and for Lottery funding to be used to assist progress towards viability wherever possible.

These matters are covered in our assessment procedures.

H. The desirability of working with other organisations, including other distributors, where this is an effective means of delivering elements of its strategy.

We work in co-operation with the other Lottery distribution bodies on a number of common List of issues, ensuring that we continue to improve our policies and procedures. One such example is the joint distributor website and telephone helpline launched by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport in February 2001. We take the lead on the Awards for All programme. grants over We also consult regularly with other Lottery distributors on matters of common interest as well as with the charitable and wider voluntary community sector. i The need to ensure that its powers to solicit applications under Section 25(2A) (of the £100,000 National Lottery Etc., Act 1993, as amended) are used in connection with the pursuit of strategic objectives. The financial directions issued by the Secretary of Our first Strategic plan, laid in Parliament in May State require us to include in our annual report a 1999, sets out priorities for grant-making in each country of the UK and each England region, as complete list of grants of £100,000 and over made well as setting our overall objectives in grant- making. Solicitation powers available to the during the financial year. Community Fund will be used if required by our strategy for grant-making and in furtherance of our own research needs.

120/121 Wales Vision 21 (Cyfle Cymru) £852,360 Welsh Housing Aid Ltd £517,547 Trust £283,179 The Wanderers Youth Club £263,147 LinkNet £261,016 Voluntary Action Merthyr Tydfil £514,462 NEWVOL £486,072 Eithinog Edinburgh Voluntary Organisations Council £260,490 Comhairle Nan Leonard Cheshire £459,658 Community Development Foundation Sgoiltean Araich (CNSA) £258,169 Mure Hall Millenium Committee £444,571 Alzheimer’s Disease Society £420,203 Newport Action for the £257,940 Aberdeen Action on Disability £250,115 HOPE £248,120 Single Homeless £416,686 Special Needs Advisory Project Cymru Community Service Volunteers £247,617 Partners in Advocacy £247,505 £414,881 The Rest Bay Convalescent Hotel £414,200 Llanharan Centre for Independent Living in Glasgow £247,345 Wellbank and District Community Development Project Ltd £382,784 Radnor Support Project Amenities Association £244,509 Abbeyview Day Centre £236,264 The Ltd £380,167 Maescar Community Hall Committee £371,262 SCOVO Action Group £231,614 Newtonhill Community Hall Association £231,200 £347,360 West Glamorgan Forum £322,595 Save The Family Ltd £321,115 Poolewe Village Hall Committee £230,000 Edinburgh Women’s Training Mewn Cymru – A Network for Black and Minority Ethnic Women £315,683 Centre £220,307 Scottish Human Rights Trust £218,926 Port Glasgow National Federation of Community Organisations £309,092 Rhydlewis Elderly and Disabled Resource Centre £216,643 Glasgow Simon Village Hall £300,463 XL Wales £297,126 Ceredigion Association of Community £211,948 Tonad Chaluim Chille Ile £200,000 Knowetop Voluntary Organisations £284,414 Newtown and District Dial A Ride Community Farm £199,172 Mecopp – Minority Ethnic Carers of Older £274,732 Llangennith Parish Hall £273,765 Neuadd Gymuned Talsarnau People Project £199,142 Family Resource Network £198,785 Community £270,950 Community Transport Association UK £269,912 Harriet Davis Led Action and Support Project, Stevenston £196,939 Dundee Repertory Seaside Holiday Trust for Disabled Children £244,759 Amman Valley Theatre Ltd £195,732 Play and Care Entrust £195,506 Dumfries and Enterprise £240,000 Rhondda Cynon Taff People First £232,434 Bobath Galloway Council On Alcohol £194,655 Scottish Association of Citizens Children’s Therapy Centre Wales £229,622 Antur Waunfawr £221,380 Advice Bureau £193,658 The Ethnic Minorities Law Centre £190,354 One Merthyr Tydfil Crossroads Care Attendant Scheme £199,341 Women’s Parent Families Scotland £189,196 Fife Employment Access Trust Aid Monmouthshire Ltd £198,820 Carmarthen and District Crossroads £188,413 VONEF Ltd £188,279 Eric Liddell Centre Ltd £186,347 New Care Attendant Scheme £194,748 Community Foundation in Wales Pitsligo Community Business Ltd £185,850 Circles Around Dundee £193,311 Phillipstown Residents and Community Association £192,795 £184,192 Parkhead Citizens Advice Bureau £182,234 Argyll and Bute Hindu Cultural Association £192,589 NEWVOL £190,933 Gwendraeth Citizens Advice Bureau £180,991 Gatehouse Young Men’s Christian Valley Community Enterprise Ltd £190,029 British Deaf Association Association £179,591 Gatehouse of Fleet YMCA £179,591 Partnership £188,000 Voluntary Action Merthyr Tydfil £184,395 Youth Action Flintshire Housing Ltd £179,365 Barra Citizens Advice Bureau £178,565 Govan £183,438 Pembrokeshire Carers Outreach £181,491 Clydach Vale Youth Programme Co-ordinating Committee £178,015 Castlemilk Community Centre £177,830 Vale of Clwyd Mind £177,259 Llamau Ltd Budgeting Services £175,620 Douglas Valley Rural Activity Partnership £170,410 New Sandfields Sustainable Regeneration Ltd £166,098 (DVRAP) £175,460 Cornerstone Society for the Mentally Handicapped Monmouth Youth Project £164,396 Senghenydd Youth Drop in Centre Ltd £173,703 EQUAL SAY £173,543 Orkney Pre-School and Play £161,295 Royal National Institute for Deaf People £158,179 Glyndwr Association £170,563 Fowlis Easter Hall Committee £170,000 The Women’s Aid £158,032 Horton Village Hall £156,510 Cymorth I Ferched Parents Support and Education Centre £166,743 Deaf Connections Ynys Mon Womens Aid £155,425 Black Environment Network £153,508 £163,136 Volunteer Centre – Stirling £163,012 Deerness Community Croesyceiliog Community Association £152,129 Brecon and District Centre £163,000 Open Secret £161,935 Women Onto Work £160,823 Disabled Club £147,021 Newport Mind £146,933 Mid and West Wales 31st Ayrshire (Loans) Scout Group £159,198 Shetland Volunteer Alcohol and Drug Advisory Service £143,027 Age Concern Cymru (Wales Development Agency £157,985 Lunnasting Public Hall £156,103 Gigha Council for the Elderly) £142,582 Wales Council for the Elderly £135,298 Public Hall £155,449 Victim Support Scotland £155,162 Council of British Welsh Initiative for Supported Employment £133,284 Home-Start County Pakistanis (Scotland) £153,873 East Lothian Voluntary Organisation Borough of Wrexham £132,811 Neath and District Citizens Advice Bureau Network £153,176 Chest, Heart and Stroke Association Scotland £127,878 Brecknock and Radnor Crossroads Ltd £126,890 SEREN £152,900 North Lanarkshire Volunteering Development Agency £147,837 £125,749 Brymbo and Broughton Computer Group £124,653 Powys Cumnock Parent and Family Support Group £144,748 Muirhead and Association of Voluntary Organisations £120,711 Pembrokeshire Birkhill Millennium Hall Committee £143,770 Gordon Rural Action Crossroads Ltd £118,620 Bridgend Association of Voluntary £143,727 Munlochy Hall Management Committee £141,937 Dundee Organisations £118,385 Cardiff and The Vale Parents Federation Community Language Advisory Group £140,854 Lung Ha’s Theatre £117,967 Tukes £117,816 After Adoption, Post Adoption Services Group £140,388 Invercairn Community Hall £136,090 Carers Action £117,485 The Pembrokeshire Tanyard Management Trust £113,264 Renfrew District £134,804 Scottish Disabled Ramblers £134,318 Pyramid Trust Cymru £111,749 Treharris Boys and Girls Club £110,500 Engender £133,070 Middlebie Community Centre £128,555 The Tullochan Swansea and Brecon Diocesan Council for Social Responsibility Trust £128,310 South Lanarkshire Credit Union Network £128,226 £107,395 Swansea Women’s Aid £104,326 South Montgomeryshire Cambuslang New Opportunities £126,809 Midlothian Befriending Volunteer Bureau £102,115 Llansilin Play Scheme and Community Group Scheme £123,354 Argyll Council for Voluntary Organisations £119,998 £101,547 Canolfan Cynghori Ynys Mon Citizens Advice Bureau £100,059 Legal Advice Clinic £119,893 Shelter, the National Campaign for Scotland Voluntary Action Lochaber £490,336 Queens Cross Workspace Homeless People Ltd £119,771 Scottish Community Care Forum Ltd £453,529 Kyleakin Community Hall Committee £414,000 Templar Arts £118,962 Clydesdale Citizens Advice Bureau £118,693 North Highland and Leisure Centre £407,023 Tarbrax Village Hall Trust £364,468 Forest Trust £116,766 Bute Advice Centre £116,391 Haemophilia Society Highland Community Care Forum £354,533 Glasgow National Lottery (The) £114,168 Fife Community Interpreting Service £113,889 Central Rough Sleeping Consortium £343,871 Seaboard Memorial Hall Scotland Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre £113,487 East Fife Womens Aid Committee £328,904 Applecross Community Hall £328,639 Turning Point £113,275 Fablevision Ltd £112,818 Link In Association £111,724 Lochaber Scotland £312,793 Young Women’s Christian Association – Scottish Environmental Group £111,665 Deaf Connections £109,925 Possil Milton National Council £309,474 Opening £300,030 Friends of the Earth Community Renewal Ltd £109,061 Borders Scrap Store £107,584 Central Scotland £298,553 Aberdeen Cyrenians £297,701 Scottish Marriage Care Scotland Council on Alcohol £105,713 Angus Citizens Advice Bureau Ltd £296,456 Scottish Human Services Trust £288,979 Lothian Homes £103,780 Kincardine and Deeside Voice £102,986 The Knoydart 122/123 Foundation £101,799 North West Training Centre Association £100,005 £366,424 The Advice Services Alliance £356,535 Ovingdean Hall School Northern Ireland East Belfast Independent Advice Centre £337,224 £341,251 NCVO £331,051 Society for Horticultural Therapy £326,420 Omagh Community House £311,567 Workers’ Educational Association Council for the Protection of Rural England £310,912 The Fortune Centre (Northern Ireland) £310,967 Northern Ireland Volunteer Development of Riding Therapy £300,000 Catholic Housing Aid Society (CHAS) Agency £275,204 Multi-Cultural Resource Centre £254,028 Northlands £299,839 First Key £294,277 Pre-School Learning Alliance £279,051 Life £244,841 N I Old People’s Welfare Council Ltd £222,883 Northern Ireland Education Centres £269,709 National Institute of Adult Continuing Rape Crisis Association £218,026 Lifestart Templemore £215,575 Education £263,717 United Religions Initiative (UK) £252,525 Parents for Strabane and District Caring Services £198,447 Foyle Downs Syndrome Inclusion £247,713 Mental Health Media Council £228,667 Women In Trust £190,744 Belfast Women’s Training Services £189,135 St Patricks Prison £226,543 Playlink £224,633 Foundation Training Company Ltd Conference, Society of St Vincent de Paul Dungann £187,772 Community £221,700 Limbless Association £204,824 Royal National Institute for the Network Portadown £174,953 British Deaf Association £174,671 Belfast Blind £204,602 Rights of Women £199,726 National Endometriosis Travellers Education and Development Group £174,637 Arthritis Care Society £198,462 Inside Out Trust £193,953 National Centre for £172,829 Simon Community Northern Ireland £172,214 The National Deaf Volunteering £193,271 Empty Homes Agency £191,545 The Over the Wall Children’s Society £171,809 Caring Breaks Ltd £171,101 Blackie Gang Camp £189,667 Crossroads Association £189,091 Dyslexia Community Groups Association £170,981 Lenadoon Community Forum Institute Bursary Fund £186,180 Motor Neurone Disease Association £170,229 Greater Shankill Alternatives Ltd £170,169 Seymour Street £185,090 SANE £181,959 Apex Charitable Trust Ltd £178,472 Parenting Craft Workshop £161,850 Parents Advice Centre £158,603 Northern Education and Support Forum £175,885 Elizabeth Fitzroy Homes Ireland Fostercare Association £157,694 “Women Too” Windsor Women’s £175,497 National Centre for Volunteering £170,023 Workplace Centre £157,430 Mind Yourself! £155,403 Association of Chief Officers Education Development £167,879 Musicspace Trust Ltd, The £167,832 of Voluntary Organisations NI £150,345 Drumgor Detached Youth Work Lockerbrook £163,495 The Manic Depression Fellowship £163,298 Project £150,337 Ballylaw Regeneration Group £148,825 Organisation of Strode Park Foundation for Disabled People £161,744 Federation of the Unemployed £145,141 The Bridge Community Association £143,887 Stadium Communities £160,376 The Swimming Teachers Association Ltd Childline £143,803 Deaf Senior Citizens (NI) £140,871 Naiscoil an Loiste £159,228 Royal National Institute for Deaf People £156,793 Happy Days Uir £140,785 Upper Springfield Development Company Ltd £137,510 Childrens Charity £156,000 ACT £150,060 Directory of Social Change Youth Action Northern Ireland £135,924 Upper Springfield Development £145,328 Ability UK £142,180 Grandparents’ Federation £140,159 Uphill Company Ltd £134,965 The Dunclug Partnership £132,090 Tower Creche Ski Club of Great Britain £139,672 National Institute of Adult Continuing Association £130,412 Garvagh Development Trust £129,500 Northern Education £134,677 Free Form Arts Trust £132,268 InContact (National Ireland Community Addiction Service Ltd £125,781 South Armagh Rural Action on Incontinence) £127,534 RSI Association (Repetitive Strain Women’s Network £125,359 Down’s Syndrome Association £125,354 Injury) £122,499 Association of Parents, Relatives and Friends of Community Evaluation Northern Ireland £125,071 The Greater Twinbrook Camphill £122,125 National Federation of Detached Youth Workers and Poleglass Community Forum £124,377 Shopmobility Belfast Ltd £120,456 Life Education Centres £116,060 Self Advocacy in Action £123,975 Hilltop and Glenluce Care Ltd £122,804 Broughshane and £113,144 Surf Life Saving Association of Great Britain £112,200 District Community Association Ltd £121,001 The Speedwell Trust Alzheimer’s Disease Society £108,690 Community Service Volunteers £120,749 Cairde Bunscoil Phobal Feirste (Naiscoil Bhreandain) £119,979 £106,220 Revolving Doors Agency £104,000 National Asthma Campaign Greencastle Community Association £117,794 Roden Street Community £100,141 North West NSPCC £962,777 Alternatives (MDC) Ltd £753,163 Development Group £115,990 Cushendall Development Group £115,793 St Peter’s Church Parochial Church Council £738,341 East Lancashire Strathfoyle Women’s Activity Group £113,809 Northern Ireland Hospice £726,766 The Greenbank Project £645,612 West Cumbria Community Development and Health Network £111,169 Keady Women’s Council for Voluntary Service £629,972 Age Concern Barrow and District Group £110,414 NIAPN Northern Ireland Anti Poverty Network £110,346 £541,943 Preston Women’s Refuge Ltd £464,052 Rainhill Village Hall Mid Skegoneill Community Group £108,829 Community Work Education £449,714 Larkhill Centre Community Association £445,733 Cliburn and Training Network (CWETN) Ltd £108,764 Derry Travellers’ Support Village Hall £438,605 Lancashire Association of Clubs for Young People Group £108,399 Coleraine Women’s Aid £105,520 Age Concern £420,548 Drugline – Lancashire £410,223 Salford Council for Voluntary Cookstown £104,805 Conway Education Centre £103,278 The Greater Service £409,349 The Bridge Project Company Ltd £408,212 Jibcraft Twinbrook and Poleglass Community Forum £102,620 Accord Catholic £393,688 Alcohol and Drug Services £389,385 Manchester Marriage Counselling Service £101,972 South West Belfast Community Environmental Resource Centre Initiative Ltd £383,111 VISYON £380,530 Forum £100,774 Omagh Womens Aid £100,617 England Wide Princes Kirkbampton Village Hall £377,008 Bangladesh Association and Trust Volunteers £1,054,355 Stonewall Lobby Group Ltd £892,643 Community Project £356,214 Drugline – Lancashire £343,723 Ulverston Asylum Aid £654,728 Sustain: The Alliance for Better Food and Farming and North Lonsdale Citizens Advice Bureau £342,421 Cumbria Rural £648,821 National Federation of Youth Action Agencies £596,870 Citizens Advice Bureau £329,129 Arkholme Parish Hall and Institute National Council for Voluntary Youth Services £592,060 DrugScope £321,780 The Samaritans Of Carlisle £320,632 Lancashire wide Network £512,224 Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE) £497,579 for Minority Ethnic Women £316,940 South Lakeland Voluntary Society Consortium of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Voluntary and Community for the Blind £310,185 Age Concern Wirral £308,605 Knowsley Council £487,957 National Association of Councils for Voluntary Service for Voluntary Service £299,319 Pendle Action For The Community £486,319 Family Welfare Association £469,137 ADDACTION £462,999 £298,297 Queens Road Neighbourhood Project £298,084 Catholic The National Society for Epilepsy £458,157 School for Social Caring Service £284,023 Bolton Lads and Girls Club £279,924 Springhill Entrepreneurs £445,189 United Response £443,650 Community Hospice (Rochdale) £275,462 Merseyside Community Mental Health Development Foundation £442,733 National Association of Victim Services £275,000 Christ Church Youth and Community Centre £273,917 Support Schemes £433,563 POPAN (Prevention of Professional Abuse Ormside Mill Residential Centre Ltd. £258,524 Voluntary Action Cumbria Network) £413,310 National Schizophrenia Fellowship £401,062 Royal £240,695 Just Drop-In Youth Info and Advice Ltd £231,296 Blacon National Institute for Deaf People £395,085 The Police Foundation Project £218,080 Congleton District Council for Voluntary Service 124/125 £207,312 Lancashire Advocacy Development and Support Service Agency Ltd £159,470 Debt Advice within Northumberland £157,549 £205,287 Pukar Disability Resource Centre £197,602 Warrington Council Arthurs Hill Asian Residents Association £155,812 Skills for People for Voluntary Service £195,852 Bolton District Council for Voluntary £155,648 Hartlepool Carers £154,754 Battle Hill Community Service £195,843 Tameside Blind Association £192,160 Halton District Development Project £153,052 Nightstop Teesside £149,003 Care in Citizens Advice Bureaux Service £189,080 Spurgeon’s Childcare Durham £148,945 Banks of the Wear Ltd £145,187 Owton Fens £188,239 1st Bramhall Scout Group £187,604 Leasowe Women’s Centre Community Association £143,285 Gateway into the Community £143,136 £186,393 Home-Start West Lancashire £185,802 Drug Advice and Northumberland County Blind Association £142,923 Scotswood Area Support In Hulme £185,459 The Willow Project £184,927 The Greenbank Strategy Ltd £142,109 Royal Society for Mentally Handicapped Children Project £184,014 All Children Together (North West) Ltd £181,032 Irish and Adults £139,768 Northumbria Youth Association £139,625 Community Care Manchester £177,799 Bolton Childrens Opportunity Derwentside Citizens Advice Bureau £137,408 Hart Village Hall Group £177,504 Orrell Park Advice Centre £176,920 Youthpoint £176,821 Association £136,800 Tynedale Voluntary Action £135,000 Fenham Salford Mental Health Services Citizens Advice Bureau £175,977 Cancer Association of Residents £133,482 Brunswick Young People’s Project Resource Store £175,282 Salford Link Project £174,035 Carlisle People £130,495 Glendale Gateway Trust £129,072 The Wharton Trust £128,120 First Ltd £172,013 Blackpool Advocacy £169,857 Community Integrated Butterknowle Village Hall Association £125,595 British Association of Care £163,259 Home-Start Southport and Formby £161,710 Lancashire the Hard of Hearing £123,007 New Marske Community Association Council for Voluntary Youth Services £161,085 National Schizophrenia £122,097 Tyneside Rape Crisis Centre £121,870 Tyne Central Council St Fellowship £156,429 Signpost Young People’s Advice, Info, and Vincent de Paul Society £119,236 Independent Living Project £117,301 Counselling £152,484 Salford Women’s Aid £151,898 The Ireby Globe Scotswood Natural Community Garden Home of Drift Permacult Hall £151,173 English Churches Housing Group Ltd £148,285 Knowsley £115,598 Teesside Play and Education Resource Centre £114,934 Pensioners Advocacy and Information Service £147,479 Hyndburn and Pennywell Youth Project £113,244 The Art Studio £112,577 Sunderland Ribble Valley CVS £144,727 Cumbria Community Foundation £142,630 Support for Parents With Disabilities £110,695 Gateshead Council on Dingle Multi-Agency Centre Ltd £142,451 Bebington Council for Disability £110,058 Community and Voluntary Sector Organisations Voluntary Service £138,761 Oldham Metropolitan Citizens Advice Bureau Sedgefield CAVOS £109,863 Stockton and District Advice and £137,141 Down’s Syndrome Association £137,123 Wirral Independent Information Service £108,470 Washington Citizens Advice Bureau Living and Learning £136,786 St John’s Community Centre £135,669 £107,863 Family Help £106,626 Middlesborough Refuge £104,663 Kirkdale Victim Support Scheme £128,142 Kendal and South Lakes Stockton Residents and Community Group’s Association Ltd £104,034 Shopmobility £127,673 Women’s Domestic Violence Helpline, Burnley Middlesbrough Council for Voluntary Development £103,314 West View and District £127,259 Toxteth Health and Community Care Forum Advice and Resource Centre Ltd £101,956 Credit Union Development £126,668 Allerdale Disability Association £121,815 Centre 63 £121,243 Initiative for Middlesbrough CUDIM £101,400 East Durham Community Community Service Volunteers £120,997 Childline £120,410 13th Transport £101,009 Yorkshire and the Humber Henshaw’s Society for Bebington (St Barnabas) Scout Group £119,038 Age Concern Carlisle Blind People £490,500 Kendray and Worsbrough Community Partnership and District £118,390 Cumbria County Scout Council £117,158 Holy Spirit £343,423 Bradford and Leeds Community Accounting Service £311,837 Parish Church £117,100 National Eczema Society £116,286 Crewe and BTCV £290,723 Sheffield Community Transport £290,000 Healthy People Nantwich CVS and Volunteer Bureau £116,075 Alzheimer’s Society – Vale Campaign Barnsley and District £288,041 Artlink for Lincolnshire and Royal Branch £115,998 Association for the Mentally Infirm and Elderly Humberside £280,364 Shelter, the National Campaign for Homeless £114,927 Mersey Volunteer Bureau £114,325 Alzheimer’s Disease Society People Ltd £264,830 KIDS £259,260 NOMAD Homeless Advice and £113,754 Humpty Dumpty Nursery £112,905 Citizen Advocacy Support Unit £256,319 Home and Dry £239,554 Foundation Housing Macclesfield District £110,710 Halton and District Womens Aid £232,665 Scarborough and District MENCAP £230,178 Hunton and Association £110,360 Clock Face Community Group £104,628 City Arrathorne Village Hall £227,563 Ossett War Memorial Community Centre Project Ltd £103,631 North East The Hartlepool Hospice Ltd Centre £220,379 Womens Health Matters £212,905 Choices and Rights £500,000 Bishop Auckland Community Partnership £400,000 Fawdon Disability Coalition £210,721 Calderdale Citzens Advice Bureau £210,647 Community Association £330,398 South Hetton and District Community Pitsmoor Citizens Advice Bureau £210,455 South Yorkshire Funding Association £260,000 The Hope Foundation Ltd £252,384 Gateshead Advice Bureau £206,624 Agewell in Sheffield Ltd £204,750 Keighley Voluntary Organisations Council £246,866 The Community Council Of Work Safe Project £199,169 York People First 2000 £198,599 Craven Northumberland £243,370 The Prince’s Trust £230,248 Langridge Domestic Violence Forum £197,996 Voluntary Action – Leeds £196,310 Initiative Centre Ltd £226,092 Family Service Units £219,131 Newcastle- Aston Springwood HSA £195,838 ‘Five Towns Plus’ Hospice Fund Ltd upon-Tyne Council for Voluntary Service £214,080 Durham Rural £191,932 Quest for Economic Development Ltd £190,833 Disability Community Council £214,012 North of England Refugee Service Information Service for Children and Young People £190,728 Hull Council £209,911 Hartlepool Women’s Aid £208,789 Hartlepool Voluntary of Disabled People £189,335 Association for People With Physical Development Agency £199,820 North Benwell Black Residents Support Disabilities £186,304 Ryedale Special Families £185,854 Sheffield Group £199,198 Scotswood Area Strategy Ltd £194,789 Alnwick Young Association for the Voluntary Teaching of English £183,597 Sheffield People’s Association £185,121 North East Post Adoption Service Advice Centres Group Educational Trust £180,289 Voluntary Action £182,243 Durham Rural Community Council £180,439 OK4 Young Barnsley £176,406 Big Issue in the North Trust £174,670 The National People’s Centre £179,858 Skillshare £173,994 M E North East £170,507 Deaf Children’s Society £174,480 Boothferry District Citizens Advice 1st Barnard Castle Scout Group £170,000 The Lazarus Centre £169,911 Bureau £173,204 Sheffield Women’s Education and Training Centre Community Balance £169,860 Alzheimer’s Society – Teesside Branch £172,918 Peasholme Centre York £170,800 Workers’ Educational £168,688 Alzheimer’s Society North Tyneside £168,200 Southwick Association – Yorkshire North £170,698 Foundation Housing £166,316 Neighbourhood Youth Project £165,579 North Tyneside Citizens Advice Community Service Volunteers £164,682 Royal National Institute for the Bureau £165,108 Central Residents Association Ltd £164,700 Cowpen Blind £164,476 Haxby and Wigginton Youth and Community Association and Kitty Brewster Community Assoc. £161,210 North East Nightstop £164,259 Doncaster Advocacy £163,216 Alzheimer’s Society £162,667 126/127 Black and Asian Community Project £161,490 Hambleton Citizens £144,032 LINKS – Chesterfield and NE Derbyshire CVS and Action Advice Bureau £161,455 West Yorkshire County Scout Council £160,390 £142,127 Carers of Leicestershire Action and Support Project (CLASP) Voluntary Action North Lincolnshire Ltd £159,588 Royal Society for £141,075 Derbyshire Community Foundation £135,558 Our Vision Our Mentally Handicapped Children and Adults £157,637 Welwick Parish Hall Future £131,443 Project Rahnama £128,557 Stamford Volunteer Bureau £157,067 Attercliffe and Darnall Community Enterprises Ltd £156,513 £127,841 Sturton-le-Steeple Village Hall Management Committee Bradford People First £155,611 Selby District Association of Voluntary £127,344 Derbyshire Unemployed Workers’ Centres £126,719 Home-Start Service £152,345 Open Performance Centre £149,071 Contact £148,975 South-West Lincolnshire £124,329 Alternatives Activity Centre £118,540 Sheffield Family Service Unit £148,035 12th Halifax Sea Scout Group SERVE £118,000 Langley Mill and Aldercar Community Resource Centre £147,511 Withernsea and Holderness Play Action £147,207 Scarborough £117,068 Ollerton and District Economic Forum £117,030 St John Women’s Aid £143,986 Cherry Tree Community Association £143,985 Ambulance in Northamptonshire £116,940 Eastwood and District Sheffield Chinese Community Centre £140,390 Leeds Racial Citizens Advice Bureau £116,661 Daventry Area Community Transport Harassment Project £140,030 Barnsley Domestic Violence Group £115,845 Belgrave Playhouse £115,625 Chase Action Group Ltd £112,423 £139,617 Rotherham Crime Reduction Programme Trust Ltd £139,567 Boston Citizens Advice Bureau £111,294 Council for Voluntary Service Saint Cuthbert’s Home from Hospital Project £138,201 Down’s for Melton Borough £110,319 Age Concern Hinckley and Burbage Syndrome Association £137,155 BCAT The Black Sexual Health £110,060 Hinckley Homeless Group £109,141 Northamptonshire ACRE Organisation £136,444 Heeley Health Project £135,945 Harrogate £106,800 Glossopdale Furniture Project £105,173 Friary Drop-In Ltd Citizens Advice Bureau £135,381 Sheffield Children’s Scrapstore £105,096 Charnwood School for Parents £101,872 Home-Start Lincoln £128,877 Bilbrough Village Hall Council of Management £125,880 £101,295 Lacey 4-11’s Kids Club Association £100,121 William Snarey Ryedale Council for Voluntary Action £125,726 Hull Play Resource Centre Trust £100,000 West Midlands St Paul’s Community Project Ltd £645,130 Scrapstore £123,583 Bentham Development Trust £122,170 Sheffield Sydenham Neighbourhood Initiatives Ltd £571,902 Stonham Housing Gypsy and Traveller Support Group £119,956 The Rainbow Centre Association Ltd £554,800 Acorns Childrens Hospice Trust £471,824 Age £119,542 Thorne and Moorends Citizens Advice Bureau £119,403 Child Concern Worcester and District £453,000 The HUB Hazelwell £442,751 Helpline £117,310 Woodthorpe Forum £115,152 Greenfields Family Birmingham Stirling Sea Cadets Unit 39 £438,036 Stoke-on-Trent Centre £109,249 Charities Information Bureau £104,671 DIAL Doncaster Citizens Advice Bureau £432,000 Bromsgrove and District Citizens £102,922 Highgate Community Base £100,941 Womenspace £100,002 Advice Bureau £390,310 Oswestry and District Helpmates £384,858 East Midlands Erewash Voluntary Action CVS £395,633 Family First Ltd North Staffordshire Racial Equality Council £367,000 The Villages £393,895 Indian Community Centre Association £376,582 Council for Community Enterprise Co Ltd £347,633 Relate Birmingham Marriage Voluntary Service Northampton and County £362,689 Age Concern Guidance £330,238 HCI Birmingham Ltd £327,037 Dudley Racial Equality Leicestershire and Rutland £325,000 Community Council of Lincolnshire Council £325,490 Time Out Project £300,490 Bethel Chapel £300,211 £308,127 Norwell Village Hall £304,915 Nottingham Hostels Liaison West Bromwich African Caribbean Resource Centre £290,738 Headway Group £303,041 Northampton Soup Kitchen £302,847 Corby Community Coventry and Warwickshire £285,838 East Staffordshire Racial Equality Transport £298,706 1st Dinting Scout Group £293,444 Royal Council £279,848 Redditch Council for Voluntary Services £277,939 Leicestershire Rutland and Wycliffe Society for Blind £282,343 Polish Midland Indian Association £275,000 Wood End Village Hall (Community Benevolent Fund £275,000 Leicester College of Further Education Centre) £268,088 Seeds of Hope £256,759 CLD Youth Counselling Trust Corporation £273,454 East Midlands Voluntary Sector Forum (EMVSF) £255,590 Young People’s Support Scheme £254,978 National Energy £270,726 Royal School for the Deaf Derby £260,175 Special Needs Action £254,905 Association of Community Development Agencies Integration Project £243,380 Play and Learn in Safety (P.A.L.S) £243,054 (ACDA) £241,867 Advice Rights £239,273 Coventry Community Advocacy CVS for Blaby District £226,837 South Derbyshire Council for Voluntary Ltd £237,813 Stoke-on-Trent Citizens Advice Bureau £231,242 Small Service £223,068 Chesterfield, Bolsover and NE Derbyshire Community Heath Community Forum Ltd £219,259 Birmingham Institute for the Deaf Transport £213,456 Scredington Village Hall £208,998 Derbyshire Dales £212,826 Age Concern Warwickshire £201,600 Dudley Metropolitan Council for Voluntary Service £207,086 East Midlands Black and Borough Victim Support Scheme £200,226 Chase Terrace Scout Group Minorities Voluntary Sector Forum £206,357 East Midlands Voluntary £199,000 Newcastle Volunteer Bureau £195,527 New Horizons – Burton Sector Forum (EMVSF) £205,670 CHAT Choices about Health for £194,340 Worcestershire Racial Equality Council £193,486 Wyre Forest Ashfield Teenagers £200,140 Gedney Hill and District Memorial Hall Dial A Ride £192,171 Moccas Village Hall £190,241 Brumcan Ltd £188,498 Committee £198,667 Corby and District Volunteer Bureau £195,523 St Albans Community Association £186,909 North Staffordshire Racial Leicester Mediation Service £195,207 British Red Cross Society Equality Council £186,788 Age Concern Malvern and District £185,397 £191,758 Wellingborough Afro-Caribbean Association £188,798 East Benn Partnership Centre £180,300 Holy Cross Community Centre Midlands Voluntary Sector Forum (EMVSF) £187,634 BTCV £185,454 £180,000 Birmingham Womens Advice and Information Centre Ltd Nottingham Community College £184,500 Discern £184,365 Hope £178,655 Sandwell Sikh Community and Youth Forum £177,167 South Centre Ltd £183,786 Lincoln and District Citizens Advice Bureau Staffordshire Council for Voluntary Service £176,941 North Staffordshire £182,687 Corby Citizens Advice Bureau £177,506 Melton Borough Mind £175,747 Herefordshire Users Group £175,233 Nuneaton and Citizens Advice Bureau £177,318 Wellingborough Volunteer Bureau Bedworth Disability Group £173,993 Fenny Compton Village Hall £176,290 Mansfield Council for Voluntary Service £176,106 CORE £173,000 Mercia M S Therapy Centre £167,743 Voluntary Action Stoke- £171,011 Welfare Rights Advice Service £169,849 Northamptonshire on-Trent £167,469 Worcestershire Racial Equality Council £167,214 ACRE £168,916 Umbrella £167,249 Diocese of Nottingham £166,711 Wellington Heath Memorial Village Hall Committee £167,207 Regional Derby Children’s Seaside Home £165,000 Burton Overy Village Hall Action West Midlands (RAWN) £167,009 Birmingham Voluntary Services £164,500 Derby Law Centre £162,998 Stapleford Volunteer Bureau Council £166,096 Beat the Cold £165,966 Rugby Rape or Sexual Abuse £162,606 CEFET £152,296 Centre Place £150,366 Northampton Support Group £165,170 St John’s Methodist Church – Advice Centre Volunteer Bureau £149,685 Glapthorn Village Hall £145,793 Enterprise £161,790 1st Gobowen Scout Group £159,900 Black Country Housing Training Project Ltd £145,665 Bangladesh Youth and Cultural Shomiti and Community Services Group Ltd £158,248 Parochial Church Council 128/129 of St John the Evangelist £158,000 First Step – First Stop for Families Treatment £182,865 Cambridge Volunteer Centre £182,067 North Herts with Under 5’s £157,035 Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Support Project People First £181,380 Norfolk Elders Advocacy Alliance £180,377 1st (Wolverhampton) £154,521 North Herefordshire and Tenbury Area CVS Dickleburgh Sea Scout Group £179,914 Stevenage Citizens Advice £154,503 Royal National Institute for Deaf People £153,927 Age Concern Bureau £179,742 The Voluntary Network £177,887 Thurston Village Hall Tamworth £153,494 The North Staffordshire Polish Day Care Centre £177,869 Brundall Memorial Hall £174,800 Wintercomfort for the £153,317 U.K. Asian Women’s Centre £151,559 Age Concern Hereford Homeless £174,131 Peterborough Council for Voluntary Service £172,821 and Worcester £149,295 Regional Action West Midlands (RAWN) Fordham Pre-School £171,009 Howard Garden Social and Day Care £146,689 Crimestoppers Trust £145,920 South Shropshire Voluntary Centre £167,998 Waterbeach After School Playscheme £167,258 Natural Action £142,826 Warwick District Council for Voluntary Service £142,088 High £164,565 West Norfolk and Fenland Support Group for the Blind Coventry Voluntary Service Council £141,228 Home-Start Nuneaton £159,968 Watford Council for Voluntary Service £159,946 Holiday £141,053 Walsall Community Church £139,802 Sexual Abuse and Rape Explorers £158,039 The Assist Trust Ltd £157,649 The Bedfordshire John Advice Centre £137,177 The Digbeth Trust £136,519 Kinnerley Parish Hall Howard Society £157,602 Limpenhoe Village Hall £156,139 Maldon and and Halston Field £136,000 Oswestry and District Helpmates £135,650 District Neighbour Mediation Service £155,800 Basildon, Billericay and African Caribbean Project £135,009 Tamworth Community Service Wickford Council for Voluntary Service £154,433 Aldreth Community Council £134,097 Shropshire Disability Consortium £129,514 Birmingham Association £153,336 Basildon Mediation £150,621 Bedford and District Voluntary Services Council £129,245 Ballingham Old School Hall Mencap £149,485 Community Development Agency for Hertfordshire Steering Committee £124,993 Walsall Black Sisters Collective £122,562 £149,075 Lowestoft and District Volunteer Bureau £147,275 The Trust for the Parish Premises of Great Ness £122,003 Home Start Crimestoppers Trust £145,920 Shenfield Parish Hall £142,900 Stafford and District £121,806 Handsworth Play and Community Bus Bedfordshire Pilgrims Housing Association Ltd £140,971 Branching Out Association £120,785 Workers Educational Association West Mercia £138,601 Community Advocacy Project £138,450 Gladstone District District £120,747 Staffordshire Association for the Welfare of the Blind Community Association £136,621 New Orford Town Trust £132,500 The £120,079 Sandwell Council of Sikh Gurdwaras £118,389 Wolverhampton Befrienders for Mental Health and Learning Disability £130,780 St John Neighbourhood Mediation Service £117,381 Sahara Centre £116,630 Ambulance, County Of Cambridgeshire £129,000 Herts Aid £127,759 Potteries Housing Association Ltd £112,285 Parkinson’s Disease Society Bosnia and Herzegovina Community Association Bedfordshire £127,273 of the United Kingdom, Worcester £111,170 Wolverhampton Volunteer Weston Colville Hall Reading Room and Recreation Ground £126,116 Bureau £109,795 Herefordshire Mind Association £107,735 The Rights: The Luton TUC Centre for the Unemployed £122,739 Southend- Borrowers Toy Library £106,687 Ledbury Youth First £106,474 Home- on-Sea Guild of Help and Citizens Advice Bureau £120,981 Mellis Start Worcester £106,228 Green Gate Network £106,009 The Moira Memorial Hall £120,727 Sawtry and District Care and Resource Jayne Cafe Project For Young People £105,370 Headway Black Country Organisation £119,714 Ipswich and District Citizens Advice Bureau £103,495 Eastern Emmaus St Albans £498,645 Rural Community Council £115,318 Industrial Workshop Trust Fund £113,136 North Avenue Youth of Essex £488,155 Tabor Centre for Physically Handicapped Adults Centre, Chelmsford £112,571 Cambridge Homeless Partnership £112,567 £479,892 Bedford Housing Link £471,415 Southend Women’s Aid Thurrock Citizens Advice Bureau £112,519 Community Service £457,383 East Suffolk Advocacy Network £448,960 Eaton Vale Activity Volunteers £112,020 North Hertfordshire Council for Voluntary Service Centre Ltd £440,895 Garboldisham Village Hall Management Committee £109,134 The Norwich and Norfolk Racial Equality Council £108,682 £437,969 Stevenage Youth Training Scheme Ltd £406,733 Bourn Village Wymondham Attleborough and District Citizens Advice Bureau £107,551 Hall Charity £397,000 South Ockendon Community Forum £364,151 Castlepoint Association of Voluntary Services £102,221 St Michael and Young People Taking Action £350,085 Suffolk Carers Ltd £329,514 All Angels £100,000 London The Incorporated Mansfield House Forest Heath Voluntary Organisations Forum £326,829 The University Settlement £915,724 Off the Streets and into Work £693,000 Michaelhouse Centre Cambridge Ltd £299,855 Tendring Council for London Advice Services Alliance Company Ltd £489,217 Shed 22 Ltd Voluntary Services £291,100 Age Concern – Essex £275,339 Sound Base £475,063 Tower Hamlets Alcohol Services £463,903 Hounslow Voluntary Studios Trust £270,090 Epping Forest Council for Voluntary Service Sector Forum £407,441 Women and Health £381,476 Streetwise Youth £263,356 Maple Grove Community Pre-school £261,575 Doddington £375,000 Bromley Advocacy Alliance £368,011 Wandsworth Citizens Village Hall Committee £260,539 Speaking Up £249,547 Great Yarmouth Advice Bureaux Ltd £364,409 West Indian Standing Conference and Waveny Contact for Special Needs Group £246,945 Relate, £349,493 Hackney Community Transport £345,262 Westminster Peterborough and District £246,330 Cambridge Women’s Resources Children’s Society £329,721 London Play £319,738 London Voluntary Centre £245,835 Waldringfield Village Hall Committee £240,707 Service Council £305,404 Southwark Muslim Women’s Association Salhouse 2000 £240,000 Norfolk Deaf Association £234,813 Stevenage £303,318 Deptford Action Group for the Elderly £294,800 Bow Nursery Council for Voluntary Service £234,760 Age Concern Norfolk £234,483 Centre £283,244 African Health for Empowerment and Development – Cottered Village Hall £232,000 Cambridgeshire Police Shrievalty Trust AHEAD £282,403 Lambeth Voluntary Action Council £269,493 Thornhill £224,821 Braintree District Voluntary Support Agency (BDVSA) £209,015 Neighbourhood Project £263,016 Ethnic Minority Partnership Agency, All Saints’ Centre for Employment and New Directions Ltd £207,611 East Barking and Dagenham £262,427 Women’s Resource Centre £260,559 Herts Voluntary Sector Development Agency £205,978 Yielden Institute Borough of Barnet Society for Mentally Handicapped Children £256,926 £201,613 Essex Trust For Rehabilitation and Assistance £198,604 Voluntary Action Lewisham £256,876 Kingston Voluntary Action Tendring and Colchester Advocacy Scheme for Older People £194,680 £252,199 Choices 4 All £251,985 Islington Community Transport Ipswich Furniture Project £194,276 Norwich Young Men’s Christian £251,415 African Community Involvement Association £245,234 National Association Ltd £193,096 Bosnia and Herzegovina Community Newpin £237,456 Children’s Discovery Centre East London £233,326 Association Herts £189,724 Pre-School Learning Alliance £189,207 Royal Volunteers in Action Southwark £230,682 SRC Greenwich Ltd £230,644 Society for Mentally Handicapped Children and Adults £189,163 Suffolk Ealing Mencap £229,500 Ivybridge Link £225,398 Federation of London Association of Voluntary Organisations £186,677 Ormiston Children and Youth Clubs £212,577 Educare for North Kensington £211,943 World Families Trust £186,000 Alcohol and Drug Addiction Prevention and University Service (UK) £209,426 Age Concern Barking and Dagenham 130/131 £208,936 National Council for the Welfare of Prisoners Abroad £208,652 Resource Unit for Supplementary and Mother-Tongue Schools £141,831 Kilburn Youth Resource Centre £207,925 The Working Well Trust Earls Court Homeless Families Project £140,942 Polari Housing £202,063 Greenwich Citizens Advice Bureaux Ltd £198,937 Communities Association £140,432 Docklands Outreach Company Ltd £140,000 Empowerment Network £198,823 Brent Deaf People’s Group £198,735 Housebound Learners Association Wandsworth £139,104 WinVisible Greenwich Co-Operative Development Agency Ltd £198,716 London £136,747 Ethiopian Advice and Support Centre £136,611 Leap Action Trust £198,682 New Directions Camden £198,435 Cypriot Elderly Confronting Conflict £136,457 Dial Waltham Forest £136,198 Somaliland and Disabled Group £198,130 Creative and Supportive Trust Ltd £197,866 Health and Education Project £135,243 Black and Ethnic Minority Laburnum Boat Club £197,815 Eaves Housing for Women Ltd £197,603 Community Care Forum £134,954 Akina Mama wa Afrika £133,701 Working with Words Ltd £195,049 Refugee Support Centre £194,834 Yad Sutton Centre for Independent Living and Learning £133,004 Barking Voezer Helping Hand Society £194,802 Greater London Standing and Dagenham Council for Voluntary Service £132,169 Bromley Mencap Conference on Old People’s Welfare £194,634 409 Project Ltd £194,230 £132,144 Reform Corporation £132,075 Blythe Neighbourhood Council Haringey Play Association £194,056 Naz Project £193,187 Stopover £132,000 Havering Citizens Advice Bureau £131,736 London Tamil Lewisham Ltd £192,377 Barking and Dagenham Citizens Advice Bureaux Centre £130,250 Iranian Association £127,971 Hounslow Law Centre Ltd £191,806 St Martin-in-the-Fields Social Care Unit £191,722 Hackney £127,817 West and North West London Vietnamese Association £127,607 Muslim Women’s Council £190,581 Aim Hi £190,434 Weavers Community Victim Support London £126,711 Ezer Leyoldos £126,386 Meanwhile Trust £190,375 Ealing Crossroads Care Attendant Scheme £189,055 Gardens Community Association £125,740 Greenwich Housing Rights Uplift £188,593 New Economics Foundation £188,235 Kingston and Ltd £125,617 Thames View Community Project £125,578 Community District Welcare Association £188,121 Migrant Organisations’ Link-Up £125,014 Wimbledon Civic Forum £124,750 Planning Aid for Development Agency £187,639 Skilltrain Ltd £187,094 Richmond-upon- London £124,689 St James’ House £124,299 Kurdish Disability Thames Council for Voluntary Service £186,911 Malawi Education and Organisation £123,921 Victory Youth and Community Association Water Foundation £186,653 The Woodland Trust £186,586 Tamil Relief £123,918 Home – Start Southwark £123,801 Mind In Ealing and Centre £186,026 Bexley Women’s Aid £185,314 Gharweg Advice, Training Hounslow Ltd £123,586 Autism London £123,447 Learn English at Home and Careers Centre £184,386 Threshold Centre Ltd £184,121 James £122,867 National Schizophrenia Fellowship £122,621 London – Irish Baimba Kabia Foundation Trust £183,572 Lewisham Community Women’s Centre £122,223 Caxton Youth Trust £121,658 Bangladeshi Transport Scheme £183,307 Positive Care Link £181,700 Charlton Toy Womens Society £120,986 Home-Start Haringey £119,926 The Bethany Library £180,807 The Kipper Project £180,665 Westminster House Youth Project £119,670 Community Service Volunteers £117,942 Carers Club £180,546 Roots and Shoots £180,036 Family Welfare Association Information and Support Service £117,421 African Refugee Community £179,966 Greenwich Association of Disabled People CIL £179,546 Health and Research Organisation £115,769 Newham Community Croydon Mencap Ltd £178,215 Alzheimer’s Society – Bromley £178,050 Transport £113,512 Hillingdon Shopmobility £112,434 Wandsworth and Shaheed Udham Singh Asian Community Centre £176,895 The Merton Law Centre Ltd £111,777 Sudanese Peoples Support Association Consortium of Bengali Associations £175,763 Detainee Support and £111,236 Cricklewood Homeless Concern £110,636 The South East Help Unit £174,503 Royal Association in Aid of Deaf People £174,320 London Community Foundation £109,000 Age Concern Hillingdon Barnet Multicultural Community Centre £174,191 Redbridge Money £108,717 Greenwich Mencap £108,125 Action Disability Kensington and Advice and Debt Counselling Centre £173,454 Somers Town Community Chelsea £107,995 Core Arts £107,635 Kingston Voluntary Action Association (Camden) £172,155 Lewisham Refugee Network £171,933 £107,125 The East London Somali Youth and Welfare Centre £106,627 African Caribbean Family Mediation Service £171,224 Choice Support Hounslow Community Transport £106,405 St Michael’s Community £170,628 Croydon Community Bus £170,519 Disablement Association of Centre £105,938 The Positive Place £102,667 Ahkom Health £102,480 Barking and Dagenham £170,503 Volunteers Greenwich £167,332 Brookside Community Association £101,931 The Blackfriars Settlement Womens Health £165,565 The Migrants Resource Centre £162,845 Field £101,876 Iranian Association £101,015 Horn Reflections £100,394 Community Association £162,710 Welcare Community Projects £162,127 Furniture Aid South Thames £100,000 Dignity Care Ltd £100,000 South Marylebone Bangladesh Society £161,950 Afghan Association of London East The Royal Philanthropic Society £488,172 Age Concern Margate £161,898 Orient Regeneration Ltd £161,634 Studio 3 Arts £161,381 £483,271 The Fellowship of St 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Havering and Barking Marriage Guidance Co. Ltd £213,395 Sidley Community Association £206,000 Eastleigh Community £152,102 Home-Start Enfield £151,306 The Metro Centre Ltd £151,053 Services £202,141 World Education Berkshire £201,183 The PCC St John Breaking Free £150,531 London Wildlife Trust £150,164 Kurdish the Evangelist, Merrow £200,000 Brighton and Hove Racial Equality Community Centre £150,000 Sudbury Neighbourhood Centre Service £199,506 Oxford Unemployed Workers and Claimants Union (Middlesex) Ltd £150,000 Yad Voezer Helping Hand Society £149,077 £198,714 Drayton Parslow Village Hall £197,127 Brighton Oasis Project Newham Action Against Domestic Violence £148,791 Female Prisoners £191,563 Wealden Federation of Voluntary Organisations £187,611 Welfare Project and Hibiscus £147,730 The Action Trust for Blind and Portsmouth Citizens Advice Bureau £186,148 Kent Association for the Disabled People £146,952 Losanganya L Analengo de London £146,598 Blind £183,338 The Sunshine Centre £180,141 Adur Council for Voluntary Asian Women’s Advisory Service £145,496 Age Concern Lewisham Service £178,019 Oxford Development Education Centre £175,930 Asian £144,705 Riverpoint £144,104 Islington Mencap £143,721 The Maisie Women’s Helpline £175,261 East Oxford Community Association Sheed (FHA) Trust £143,626 Community Self Build Agency £143,480 £171,159 Skidz – The Wycombe Motor Project £166,866 Hastings Trust 132/133 £164,464 Slough Refugee Support £164,387 Trustees of Otterbourne Environmental Network £171,208 The Royal Philanthropic Society Village Hall Committee £162,776 Maidstone Citizens Advice Bureau £170,354 Help and Care £169,432 Swindon Coalition of Disabled People £161,055 Adur Carers Association £161,020 Maidstone Crossroads Care £168,862 Single Parent Action Network £168,127 Yate Parochial Church Attendant Scheme £160,574 Andover and District Citizens Advice Council £167,585 Working Advocacy in North Devon £163,357 Newent Bureau £159,933 Hangleton and Knoll Project £159,771 Oxfordshire Opportunity Group £159,726 Plymouth TUC Unemployed Workers’ Centre Association for Young People £157,673 Home Start Butser £156,399 £159,525 Bristol and District People First £159,423 Horizons (Plymouth) Capel Community Association £152,000 Vale and South Oxfordshire £158,908 Sunningmead Community Association £156,650 Wootton Crossroads £151,364 Guild Care £150,201 Canterbury and Faversham Courtenay Village Hall £150,000 Long Ashton Community Association Forum for Mental Health £149,005 Reigate and Redhill YMCA £147,828 £148,983 SAVAGE £147,313 Dorset Drug and Alcohol Advisory Service SAVAGE £147,313 Trustees, Hillside Scout Camp £146,974 Lancing and £146,674 Committee of Management of Instow Village Hall £141,827 Sompting Citizens Advice Bureau £146,856 East Hampshire Housing Barnstaple Poverty Action Group £141,083 Awaz Utaoh £137,914 Down’s Association £146,583 Surrey Association of Youth Clubs and Surrey Syndrome Association £137,123 Gloucestershire Aids Trust £136,861 PHAB Ltd £145,032 Leysdown Village Hall Management Committee Cascade Theatre in Education Company £136,660 Gloucestershire £144,308 Tunstall Memorial Hall £144,181 Norton Village Hall £141,157 Council on Alcohol £136,550 Purbeck Citizens Advice Bureau £135,377 Cornerstone Community Centre (Hove) £138,983 Down’s Syndrome Ashburton Family Services £132,241 66 Route Youth Trust £131,888 Association £137,123 South Downs Council For Voluntary Service Tavistock and District Conservation Project £131,886 Voluntary Action £135,905 The Number 18 Project Bognor Regis Ltd £135,168 Stelling Mendip £129,470 Wiltshire Play Resource Centre £129,290 Disabled Minnis Village Hall £135,034 Age Concern Buckinghamshire £135,033 Living Centre (West Of England) £128,018 All Saints PCC (Community Hailsham Citizens Advice Bureau £132,780 Disablement Information and Centre Sub-Committee) £127,457 Selwyn Hall Management Committee Advice Line, North West Kent £127,079 Home-Start Milton Keynes £127,414 Hartcliffe and Withywood Ventures £126,978 Heathfield Leisure £125,835 Sturry Pre-School £125,573 Berkshire Disability Information Pursuits £126,292 Buckland Newton Village Hall £125,000 Devon and Network £124,645 Milton Keynes Lesbian, Gay and Bi-Sexual Youthline Cornwall Autistic Community Trust £124,375 Carleen Community Fund £124,521 Confederation of African-Caribbean Organisations £123,863 £122,553 Relate Bournemouth Poole and Christchurch £122,440 Bude Weedon Old Schoolroom £123,661 Sittingbourne and District Citizens Holsworthy and District Citizens Advice Bureau £122,168 Joys Green Advice Bureau £123,173 Witney and District Mencap £121,605 Aston Recreation Ground £120,000 Poole Shopmobility £119,579 Bristol Tirrold and Upthorpe Village Hall £120,779 Worthing Shopmobility Resource Centre £118,800 Community First £118,620 Torrington and £120,407 Sahara Asian Women’s Project £120,367 Milton Keynes Youth District Play Council £117,462 Plymouth Family Support Services Counselling and Information Service £119,410 Slough Community £117,003 Puffin Under Fives £116,546 Restormel Association for Mental Transport and Shopmobility £117,574 Village Hall at Russells Water Health £115,935 Gidleigh Village Hall Management Committee £112,160 £116,133 Oakleaf Enterprise Ltd £115,695 Portsmouth Area Regeneration Wiltshire Charities Information Bureau £111,683 Bangladesh Association Trust £113,400 PACT Community Projects Ltd £108,182 Froxfield Village £111,397 Salcombe Pre-School £111,343 Well Woman Centre Swindon Hall £108,000 Whitstable Volunteer Bureau £104,973 PACT Community £107,360 The Living Room £105,429 Home-Start Exmouth Area £104,209 Projects Ltd £104,687 Woking Night Shelter £104,385 Playden Women’s Bristol Mind £103,729 Plymouth and District Mind £103,370 Plymouth Institute £101,670 The Sea Cadets Herne Bay £101,000 Nightstop Mediation £102,287 Keyham Community Partnership £101,541 Royal (Southampton) £100,570 Victim Support Milton Keynes £100,416 National Institute for the Blind £100,000 UK BTCV £1,369,107 Leonard Canterbury Cyrenians £100,211 Milton Keynes Mobile Play Project Cheshire Foundation £790,737 Deafblind UK £765,187 Raleigh £100,000 South West Pearn Convalescent Home Trust £429,759 International Trust £708,566 National Children’s Bureau £661,936 Southville Community Development Association £326,128 Hartcliffe Contact A Family £600,000 The Mental Health Foundation £574,088 Health and Environment Action Group £257,829 Exeter and East Devon Cystic Fibrosis Trust £565,627 Arthritis Care £555,241 Skill: National Nightstop Association £247,286 Somerset Rural Youth Project £240,000 Bureau for Students with Disabilities £525,139 The Suzy Lamplugh Trust Meldon Village Hall £232,276 National Schizophrenia Fellowship £519,500 National Group On Homeworking £475,381 The Who Cares? £232,217 Stroud Action for Disabled (SAD) £231,003 Tiverton and District Trust £427,656 Church Action on Poverty Educational Trust £391,284 The Community Transport Association £217,849 Norton Fitzwarren Village National Deaf Children’s Society £369,267 Sustrans Ltd £364,953 The Hall £217,414 Project COSMIC £212,772 The Clivey Project £208,082 Venture Trust £362,012 British Dental Health Foundation £344,376 Devon Family Project £207,725 Lytchett Matravers Pre-School £207,256 Community Service Volunteers £320,258 The Media Trust £299,411 The Working for Opportunities Trust £206,663 Tivertonand District Volunteer National Deaf Children’s Society £273,757 Twins and Multiple Births Centre £203,023 The Southmead Project £201,373 The Bridge Project Association (TAMBA) £260,981 The Foyer Federation £251,086 British £199,951 Barton Hill Advice Centre £199,782 Hesters Way Partnership Deaf Association £244,840 Carers National Association £226,016 Help Ltd £199,181 Dhek Bhal £198,439 Royal National Institute for the Blind the Hospices £218,237The British Stammering Association £209,314 The £197,730 Methodist Youth Club of Nailsea £196,495 Davis Hall West Blood Pressure Association £196,641 Beth Johnson Foundation Camel £195,000 Launceston Parochial Church Council £195,000 £187,945 Scoliosis Association (UK) £187,768 National Association for Gloucestershire Forum for Young Single Homelessness £192,734 St Ewe Premenstrual Syndrome £179,300 Action for ME £175,425 British Allergy Village Hall £188,733 Newquay Mind £188,575 Osmington Village Hall Foundation £172,627 National Missing Persons Helpline £165,365 Rett £186,155 Cheddon Fitzpaine Memorial Hall £185,000 Centre for Syndrome Association UK £154,064 Baby Life Support Systems Adolescent Rehabilitation £180,930 Age Concern Torbay £180,353 £151,863 Sir Robert Mond Memorial Trust £147,877 Action for Blind OPTIONS (Kennet) £179,629 North Somerset Crossroads £179,562 People £145,194 Kidscape £136,000 Adoption UK £122,930 Get Stonham Housing Association Ltd £178,456 Progress (South West) Ltd Connected £115,080 Kids Out UK £100,756 International Health £177,939 BREAD Youth Project £177,255 Swindon People First £175,084 Unlimited £1,011,104 Agency for Cooperation and Research in Penwith Citizens Advice Bureau £174,892 Kingsbridge Age Concern Development £881,108 WaterAid £844,000 Catholic Institute for £174,000 Teignbridge Council for Voluntary Service £172,104 West Devon International Relations £722,284 Oxfam £711,766 The Order of St John 134/135 £584,361 Voluntary Service Overseas £567,659 Amnesty International (UK) £526,954 Helpage International £504,773 Trax Programme Support £504,037 WWF-UK (World Wide Fund for Nature) £500,000 International Planned Parenthood Federation £482,419 World University Service (UK) £471,799 Action Health £468,895 Skillshare International £468,895 Development Education Association £459,964 Transform Africa £452,400 Link Community Development £447,829 BBC World Service Trust £445,693 Plan International UK £439,227 Action on Disability and Development £394,505 Population Concern £393,824 African Medical and Research Foundation Ltd £392,356 New Israel Fund £368,751 Abantu for Development £347,315 Charities Aid Foundation £339,934 Concern Universal £329,740 Minority Rights Group £325,002 Cambridge Female Education Trust £324,761 Tropical Health and Education Trust £317,198 Mercy Corps Scotland £311,846 Mercy Corps Europe/Scottish European Aid £311,846 Mercy Corps Scotland £301,560 Children In Crisis £301,113 Kids in Need of Education £292,368 Trocaire (Northern Ireland) £280,875 Find Your Feet £276,497 Saferworld £267,279 Ockenden International £267,200 National Council of Young Men’s Christian Associations £262,233 Village Service Trust £255,979 Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund £255,312 Education for Development £255,247 Links-The London Information Network on Conflicts £254,900 Childhope UK £253,224 Gharweg Advice, Training and Careers Centre £225,352 International Alert £221,906 Panos Ltd £221,604 United Nations Environmental and Development Committee UK £217,204 The Jaipur Limb Campaign £217,095 World ORT Trust £201,612 Panos Ltd £200,908 The Refugee Council £188,300 Global Connections £185,590 One World Action £184,180 The Society for Environmental Exploration £183,724 The Rainforest Foundation UK £183,343 UWESO UK Trust £181,452 Riders for Health £181,045 Forest Peoples Project £180,699 New Hope Rural Community Trust £170,597 Medical Aid for Palestinians £166,531 Tibet House Trust £151,782 Forum on Early Warning and Early Response £143,800 Central America Women’s Network £139,338 Traidcraft Exchange £139,183 Quarriers £126,359 Enfield Turkish Cypriot Association £124,361 The Global Dialogues Trust £119,800 Africa Educational Trust £115,559 Article 19: Research and Information Centre on Censorship £105,735.

136 Published by the Community Fund, October 2001. Community Fund is the operating name of the National Lottery Charities Board.

Designed by Texture. Cover photography by George Taylor. Other photography by Julian Hawkins, Dan Tuffs, Russell Baston, Neil Walker, Sharon Wallace, Rajendra138 Shaw/Traidcraft,/138 thank you to the Leicester Mercury. Printed by Taylor Bloxham on chlorine free paper.