The Dulverton Trust has given Carr-Gomm a grant of £16,000 to run parenting projects with vulnerable families in Leeds and Somerset and to supply resettlement packs for clients moving on from Carr-Gomm into their own place.

The Dulverton Trust is an independent charitable grant-making organisation. The chief areas of activity supported by the Trust are:

- Youth and Education
- General Welfare
- Conservation
- Religion
- Preservation
- Peace and Security
- Africa

The Big Lottery Fund's Young People Programme in Scotland was a £20 million grant programme to help young people aged 11-25 learn new things and take part in healthy and positive activities that make them feel good about themselves.

Quarriers received a grant of £101,324 to support the group of 20 young people who have been homeless at one time or another and who now want to campaign for the rights of other young people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. The project will employ a Youth Inclusion Officer and Youth Co-ordinator who will help the group of young people to gain experience as trainers. The young people will then deliver workshops to enable other homeless young people to develop the confidence to speak about what they need from support organisations. The project will benefit 250 young people in Glasgow, North and South Ayrshire, North Argyll and East Renfrewshire over the next two years.

The DePaul Trust received a grant from the KPMG Foundation for a project that aims to work with persistent young offenders aged 16-18 by providing an alternative to custody. Judges will, on the recommendation of the Young Offending Teams, send young people to the DePaul Hostel where they will be bound, in court, to undertake 5 hours of activity per day. The activities include training in life skills, numeracy, vocational guidance, health and hygiene, drug awareness, IT and addressing offending behaviour.

Dudley Council for Voluntary Services was awarded a grant of £498,077 feom the Big Lottey Fund's BASIS programme. The BASIS programme aims to improve the infrastructure support available to all voluntary and community sector organisations in England.Dudley CVS received the funding for itsBuilding Blocks - Working towards a Sustainable Future project.

The Scottish Adult Learning Partnership received a grant of £90,000 from Esmee Fairbairn Foundation's Education programme towards the salaries over two years of three staff and to recruit 600 'hard to reach' people to local learning opportunities by creating opportunities for existing learners to become promoters of learning.

This 3 year project aims to create higher levels of awareness about the complex issues in global food chains and their impact on development amongst members in the UK co-operative movement; promoting better informed individual consumer choices and leading to better informed participation and decision making in the democratic structures of co-operatives and in regard to public policy debates. The project will work with the UK co-operative movement and target new members, active members, educators as well as co-operative decision makers, managers and key staff.

The main aim of this 3 year project is to create an informed and dynamic understanding of the lives of people in developing African countries, through an exploration of environmental, social, economic, political, cultural and other circumstances that have created societies where the opportunities for safe, secure and stable lives are severely restricted or non-existent. Illustrative examples of these African countries include Congo Brazzaville, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ivory Coast, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda and Zimbabwe.This will be achieved by developing and delivering a series of powerful, innovative and informal 'performance-based' one-day development education sessions for trade unionists and adults in disadvantaged communities in the West Midlands.

Founded in 1992, Action for Business (Bradford) Ltd (ABL), is a community enterprise which worked with Bradford Metropolitan District Council to redevelop and extend the former Carlisle Mills to bring a derelict building back into economic life and create approximately 40,000 square feet of work space. ABL initially ran the business centre on behalf of the council. In 2003, it had an opportunity to buy the centre. The ACF provided a £300,000 loan to help the social enterprise meet the £860,000 purchase price of the Building.

Blyth Star Enterprises Ltd received a grant of £151,037 for the Blyth Star Skills Initiative. The project will provide six weekly programmes of skills training for people with long-term mental illnesses. The training will include problem solving, literacy, and healthy living and yearly, basic IT training courses thereby helping its members increase their coping skills, physical health, and employability for the future.

Working with schools in the North East, Cantilever has produced a series of learning resources - a blueprint for helping pupils to run social enterprises such as school tuck shops, cinema clubs or even a hair salon

Sense Scotland, which provides respite, daycare, 24 housing support, carer support, training and advice for young people living in Scotland received a grant of £59,518 to establish a project which supports parents and carers to understand the issues involved in sex education and to roll out a training course to all their staff and establish a sexual health network for organisations working with young people with communication needs.

The Big Lottery Fund (BIG) today awarded a grant of £309,357 to the Beth Johnson Foundation to support positive relationships between young and older people across the UK.

The Lottery award from BIG's Reaching Communities programme will go to the Beth Johnson Foundation's Centre for Intergenerational Practice in Stoke-on-Trent, which helps to bridge the gap between generations. The centre creates more cohesive communities by providing regional networks, websites, advice, training and reports as well as evaluation and development work, which can affect national policy.

YMCA England and Wales received a grant of £62,740 for a project for young women to produce DVDs on themes of personal safety such as street safety, domestic violence and drug and alcohol awareness. It will aim to raise women's awareness about safety issues and enable them to make positive changes in their lives to ensure the safety of themselves and others.

Turning Point which is a charity addressing the needs of people affected by drug and alcohol misuse, mental health problems and those with a learning disability has received a grant of £1,225,473 from the Big Lottery Fund's Young Peoples Fund for a project to address the needs of children with parents misusing alcohol. The project will provide both emotional and practical backing through confidence building activities, social networking systems and advice services to help youngsters develop practical coping mechanisms for dealing with emergency situations.

The Bankside Open Spaces Trust received a grant of £30,000 over three years towards the director’s salary at an organisation working with local people to create inspiring green urban spaces in Southwark, London.

Rainer, a national charity to support under-supported children, receivd a grant of £692,089 from the Big Lottery Fund's Young Peopled Fund to launch a new service to help address issues around persistent truancy and anti social behaviour in disadvantaged youth groups in Essex, Wessex, Lewisham, and Greenwich.

4Children(previously known as Kids Clubs) is the national charity dedicated to creating opportunities and building futures for children. Futurebuilders has invested £3,382,100 in 4Children to develop models of best practice for children and family centred services. It will demonstrate the benefits of integrated service provision across the 0-16 age range.

The investment will enable 4Children to establish 9 Children's Centres nationwide for 0-16 year olds and their families over the next 4 years, one in each region.

Rethink is a national charity that works to help epeople affected by severe mental illness recover a better quality of life. Rethink successfully obtained a grant from the Big Lottery Fund's Young Peoples Fund to support a programme that builds self-esteem and peer support for people aged between 19 and 25 who have experienced a first episode of psychosis or are carers. The programme will also target young offenders with mental health problems and, in particular, those with experience of living in care, and young people from BME communities.

The City of Exeter YMCA Trust received a grant of £6,000 towards the salary of a Co-ordinator of a Crisis Pregnancy Centre. This will benefit 15 volunteers as well as over 200 people who access the service to find help in coping with difficulties such as miscarriage and post abortion trauma.

Young Peoples Fund - Grants to Organisations

Herefordshire County Council received funding of £112,100 the the Active England programme to increase the physical activity of South Herefordshire residents. The project will have 4 strands:

(1) Activity sessions identified by community needs assessment targeted at sedentary population

(2) Education - the provision of OCN and
City and Guilds accredited Fitness and Physical Activity courses to increase knowledge in local community

(3) Mentoring – a
system fro people who would like experience in the fitness industry

(4) By providing opportunities in South Herefordshire for
residents and employees to be physically active there will be a large impact on the health and well-being of the population.

Turning Point is a social care charity with services in 200 locations across the UK supporting 100,000 people each year. Turning Point works with individuals and their communities in the areas of drug and alcohol misuse, mental health and learning disabilities. The Parenting Fund project will provide support, information and advice to parents whose children are using drugs and alcohol and to addicted parents themselves.

• Rotherham YMCA, who will be contributing experience in young father work
• Derbyshire YMCA, who will be contributing experience of working with families and children with specific needs
• City of Bradford YMCA who will contribute experience of delivering Parenting services within BME communities.

The Parenting Fund project will capture the learning emerging from these three projects, and develop an additional 18 specialist initiatives over the lifespan of the funding across England.

The ExtraCare Charitable Trust was formed in 1987 and currently operates 26 supported housing schemes and retirement villages throughout the greater Midlands area and the North. The Trust received a grant of £55,000 to fund a development officer’s post to advise and develop proposals for new ExtraCare schemes in the South East

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