The City Bridge Trust Annual Review 2007 Registeredcharity1035628
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CBT1-014 Review cover.qxd:CBT1-014_Review 11/9/07 09:33 Page a Building Bridges The City Bridge Trust Annual Review 2007 RegisteredCharity1035628 How will we be judged? —Funding new ways of working in prisons. Knowledgesharing —Aresponsibilityto shareintellectual capital. More than money —Improving services for older people. Re-thinking ‘RelationshipFunding’ —Alook at ourpartnership work withBarnardo’s. CBT1-014 Review 050907 v6:CBT1-014_Review 6/9/07 09:54 Page b Contents 01 Introduction 02 Overview of our grant-making 2007 The future of grant-making 04 How will we be judged? 06 Knowledge sharing 10 More than money 12 Re-thinking ‘Relationship Funding’ Case studies 16 Bridging divides 18 Fear and fashion – Tackling knife culture Key grants 2007 20 Community transport 20 Confederation of Indian organisations 21 Heart ‘n’ Soul 21 A Jewish Chronicle? 21 Circuit training 22 A sporting chance 22 Everyone needs a friend 23 Pulling together 23 Responsive listening 23 Back to your roots 24 Total grants spend by London Borough 25 List of grants approved 31 Overview of grant-making 32 The City Bridge Trust CBT1-014 Review 050907 v6:CBT1-014_Review 6/9/07 09:54 Page 1 Introduction Bridge HouseEstates Mission The CityofLondon Corporation is the sole trustee of Bridge The City Bridge Trust aims to address disadvantagebysupporting charitable HouseEstates which reaches outacrossLondon in many activity across Greater Londonthrough important and diverse ways. This reviewconcentrates on its quality grant-making and related activities grant-making operation, The CityBridgeTrust, but the core within clearly defined priorities. businessofthe Estates, for manycenturies,has beenlooking Our values after itsbridges. Bridge House Estates in some casesbuilt, Independence andnow maintains, five of the bridgesthat cross the Thames As an independent trust we havean important role to playinapluralist society. into the City of London –London Bridge,BlackfriarsBridge, Inclusion Southwark Bridge, Tower Bridge and the Millennium Bridge. We value diversity. The maintenance and replacement of these bridges remains Fairness We arecommitted to fairness and theprimeobjectiveofthis ancientcharity. transparency in our grant-making. The City Bridge Trust We believe in consultingwidelyand regularly so that we can respond to changing needs. Thisreview looksatthe Trust’sgrant-making and ancillary We value user involvement in the delivery activities in 2006/07. Also available is the Trustee’sAnnual of services. We know that morecan be achieved through collaboration with other Report and Financial Statements, approved by the Trustee fundersand withthe thirdsector.Weaim on 24 July 2007, which containsthe full annualstatement to treatapplicantswith courtesy, respect of accounts and auditor’sreport. and offer aspeedy and efficient service. Adetailed account of our structure,governance and management is found in the Trustee’s Annual Report. Our risk management statement, reserves policy and other requirementsofSORP 2005 arefound in thesame document. Copies andfurther information areavailablefrom: The City Bridge Trust City of London PO Box 270 Guildhall London EC2P 2EJ 020 7332 3710 citybridgetrust@cityoflondon.gov.uk www.citybridgetrust.org.uk 01 CBT1-014 Review 050907 v6:CBT1-014_Review 11/9/07 10:08 Page 2 02 CBT1-014 Review 050907 v6:CBT1-014_Review 6/9/07 09:55 Page 3 Overview of our grant-making 2007 Message from This year has been marked by change and Regular readers of our reviews may notice a challenge. In Januarywechanged our name change in how we have presented our work the Chairmanof from Bridge House Trust to The City Bridge and describeour relationships withfunded Trust. Mindful of the importance of greater organisations. Performance reporting is, of The City Bridge transparency, we believed that it was critical course, arequirementofSORP 2005 and all that our trustee, the City of London the facts and figures and legal requirements Trust Committee Corporation, was morecloselyidentified with arecovered in the Annual Report of Bridge our grant-making. The ‘Bridge’ referredtois House Estates, our parent body.But this the original ‘Old London Bridge’,the source has limitations and does not show the total of all our fortunes. ‘results’ or ‘outcomes’ of funded work which £17.8m The biggest challenge for any grant- may take years to come to fruition. This making trust has to be how to distribute year’smagazine-style review includes two income wisely, efficiently and with maximum features which tell the story of our long-term impact. This does not preclude ‘risk-taking’, relationships with grantees, underlining 307grants indeed our role in the funding marketplace that new work aimed at systemschange, should encompassfundingnew work, takestime.Arguably,that is what trusts unpopular causes and advocacy,each can do best. of which find it difficulttosecurefunds New programmes and changing from the publicpurse. priorities requireadditional research,energy The search for ‘impact’, although and time. Iwould like to thank The City important to help us understand how funded Bridge Trust’sCommittee and the grants work makes adifference, is not our only team for all their hardwork and unstinting objective. Increasingly,weare conscious commitment. We areindebted to our staff, of our responsibilities and accountabilities whose personal investment and knowledge to our stake-holders–the thirdsector. of the thirdsector illuminates our grant- Following up recommendationsfromour making. In turn, they join me in thanking our non-attributable,stake-holder satisfaction partners, the funded organisations, which survey, SeeingOurselves as OthersSee Us, play such avitalrole in the delivery of public we areplacing moreemphasis on services, civilrenewal and social change, knowledge management. improving the lives of Londoners and Trusts arerich in ‘buried treasure’, enrichingthe social capital of the nation. that is theoutcomes of fundedwork, which too often remainlocked away.Our commitment to sharing and disseminating the ‘lessons learnt’sothat othersinthe sector can benefit, is helpingadd value to our initial funding. We aremuch morethan William Fraser,OBE a‘grants factory’ and increasingly are Chairman spending greater time engagingwith The City Bridge Trust Committee grantees, duringthe post-awardlife of the grant. This is most marked in our programmetargeted at small organisations: 03 Improving Services for Older People . CBT1-014 Review 050907 v6:CBT1-014_Review 6/9/07 09:55 Page 4 Funding ground-breaking work is risky. Funding new ways of working in prisons is both riskyand verydifficult. We took that risk in 2000 in funding theBourneTrust,which later became pact.Arelativelysmallgrant of £51,000 has paid off, saving lives and, by demonstrating theFirst Night in CustodyProject at Holloway works,ithas been used as an exemplarmodel forwork in other prisons. How will we be judged? “I was in astate when Iarrived here, Many new prisonersarrive at prison very Prisoners who areparents areoften feelingsuicidal and frightened. Iwas shocked and in distress. Between 1994 distraughtatthe loss of contact with worried about what Social Services would and 2003, 767 peoplecommitted suicide theirchildren. Women prisoners are do with my three children. Thank you for in prison in Englandand Wales.Inone particularly vulnerable. making all the calls you did to find out that six-monthperiod alone, the Prison Service my childrenweresafe. Idon’tknow what recorded 7,692 incidents of self-harm.The The Prison Advice and CareTrust (pact) Iwould have done without your help.” first 72 hours of custody,and the firstnight decided to try to develop anew way of in prison, arethe mostdangerous times. workingwith prisoners when they first arrive The majority of women prisoners have into prison to reduce the risk of suicideand never been in prison before. Many are self-harm. The charity runssupport services young, and two-thirds arethe mothers of for prisoners’families, including prison dependentchildren.Many have suffered Visitors’ Centres and so understood the physical and sexual abuse. Along with male connection between suicide and fears about prisoners, they sharefactorswhich are family.Bridge House Trust (now The City influential in, if not the direct cause of, criminal Bridge Trust) was sympathetic and behaviour; poverty,poor housing, neglect interested in how to help. and broken homes. Levelsofdrug addiction pact’sFirst Night in Custody Project at and mental health problems arehigh. Holloway prisonfor women was launched Research shows that two-thirds of remand in 2000 as an experimental pilot with an prisoners were not expecting to get aprison initial grant of £51,000. 04 sentence and so areespecially vulnerable. CBT1-014 Review 050907 v6:CBT1-014_Review 6/9/07 09:55 Page 5 The first night in custodyisthe mostdangerous time. The schemeinvolves apact worker and In partnership with prison officers Buildingonthe learning from this project, trainedvolunteers sitting down with women and the prison’shealth team,they refer in 2007, we awarded agrant of £155,000 prisoners duringtheir first eveninginthe the prisoner to arange of internalservices, for worksupporting grandparents who prison, in aprivate room, listeningtotheir including prison chaplains and any areliterally left ‘holding the baby’ when concerns, offeringemotional support and counselling or mentoring services parents receive acustodial sentence. reassurance and providingguidance on sometimes available. The work will support the grandparents keeping in contact with families. Workers