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Grant support to not-for-profit sector from Newham Council

Newham council has a vision - by 2010, to make Newham a major business location and a place where people will choose to live and work. Much work has been done towards achieving this goal, and the Council is rightly proud of its many achievements. But much still needs to be done, and Newham council is determined to make further progress.

Our aspirations are set out in the Community Strategy. We will work with others to help create:

A better environment
An active and inclusive community
A safer Newham
Access to jobs
A healthier population
Investment in young people

We recognise that to deliver the services that our very diverse and vibrant community deserves the Council needs to drive forward developments in partnership with a wide range of service providers, including the community, faith and voluntary sectors.

In the Newham Council Grants booklet you will find full details of funding allocations during 2004 - 2006 from the following programmes:

Culture & Community Main Programme
Culture & Community Children's Services
Early Years
Housing
NewCEYS
Social Services
LBN/Royal Docks Trust Joint Programme

The current position

Early Years and LBN/RDT Joint Programme continue to be annual funding rounds but both are closed to new applications until later in the 2005/06 year.

The other Council programmes have allocated their grants for a two-year period (2005-07) and will therefore be closed to new applications until later in the 2006/07 financial year.

New opportunities to apply will, as usual, be advertised widely at the appropriate times on the Council web-site (www.newham.gov.uk) and in the local media.

In the meantime organisations seeking funding may wish to access the Grantnet service:

Newham Council is working in partnership with Grantnet to help community, faith and voluntary groups obtain up-to-date information on directly relevant funding sources and grants free of charge. Full information is attached.

Further advice for successful funding applications

Check your project meets the priorities/specifications of the programme
Ensure your outputs will deliver an effective service
Demonstrate cost effectiveness in the outcomes you plan to achieve
Develop effective recording and quality measurement systems
Establish clear monitoring of service delivery
Demonstrate clearly how you are addressing equalities issues

For most funding programmes your organisation's eligibility will depend on factors including:

Having a constitution
Having a management committee with a Chair, Secretary and Treasurer
Having an equal opportunities policy and working to implement it
Providing your latest annual report and approved accounts

To strengthen your organisation further and enhance the possibility of successful fundraising we suggest the following actions:

Take the opportunities that arise for attending training courses and support meetings
Network with other organisations working on similar or related areas of service, and look for partnership opportunities
Seek the advice and assistance of local organisations that can help you build the capacity and effectiveness of your organisation
Research the needs of your target community or service users

For further information:

Community Support Unit

London Borough Of Newham

292 Barking Road

East Ham

London E6 3BA

020 8430 2433

[email address]

GRANTNET

Newham Council is working in partnership with Grantnet to help community and voluntary groups obtain up-to-date information on funding and grants free of charge. 0x08 graphic

What is Grantnet?

Grantnet is a website brought to you by Grantfinder. Grantnet allows you to search for any funding opportunities available from across the UK. Access to the Grantnet service is only available to people who live and work in the London Borough of Newham.

How can I access Grantnet?

Through the Newham Website, clicking your way through the following sequence.

www.newham.gov.uk

Community

Grants

Grantnet

At this point, a brief outline of the process is displayed on the screen, and includes a link to the Grantnet website. Click on this link to proceed.

How do I use Grantnet?

Follow the `Login' instructions on screen. If you are a new user you will need to register for a password which will be sent to you by email.

Once in the system, complete the questions about your organisation and the project you wish to undertake. Grantnet will respond with a quick overview of the schemes that could apply to your project.

What happens next?

Your input (and the results) will be made available to Newham Council's Community Support Unit. We will use this information to search on the Grantfinder database, which will provide further details on appropriate schemes. The output from Grantfinder will be emailed to you.

Please note that the database holds details of a vast number of schemes, many of these change each month and new schemes are constantly being introduced. Information on small funding streams, the funds of which become quickly exhausted, are not generally included on Grantnet.

If you have any comments or queries about this, please contact:

Jayanti Parmar

Community Support Unit

London Borough Of Newham

292 Barking Road

East Ham

London E6 3BA

020 8430 3918

email: [email address]

London Borough of Newham

Grant Aid to the Voluntary Sector 2004-05

Over the course of 2004-05, Newham Council distributed almost £4.5m to community projects throughout the borough.

Children's Services

Project	Purpose	Grant Awarded
Community Links (Newtown)	Playscheme	£26,524
Community Links (Three Mills)	Playscheme	£31,600
Community Links (Central Park Playhut)	Playscheme	£19,108
Community Links (ASTA)	Playscheme	£27,392
Community Links (Hoskins)	Playscheme	£34,766
ELBWO	Playscheme	£33,364
St. Johns	Playscheme	£38,801
Links Deaf Scheme	Holiday Playscheme (Year Round)	£32,941
Community Links (REC)	Playscheme	£31,534
Durning Hall	Playscheme	£30,813
Saturday Autistic Club	Playscheme	£32,000
	Total Grant Funding:	£338,843

Culture & Community Main Programme

Project	Purpose		Grant Awarded
Age Concern	Welfare rights advice service to older people through home visits		£32,000
Community Links (Advice)	A comprehensive and high quality advice service to people through open door service, debt advice, home visiting and for emergency telephone advice to Asian women (Apna Ghar)		£152,000
Community Links (Outdoors in the city)	For access to involvement and skill development in outdoor activities for young people		£15,000
Community Links (Phoenix)	An innovative community based early intervention		£22,000
East London Dance	To create a dynamic dance culture with a programme of dance participation and performances		£10,200
East London Out Project	To enhance the quality of life of lesbian and gay residents, through counselling, advice & community safety information.		£23,000
Hand in Hand Refugee Homeless and Support Group		To provide support and basic, free good quality clothing and goods to asylum seekers, refugees and homeless people, unable to afford such items.	£20,000
Lee Rivers Trust	For the Living Rivers Project - a conservation volunteering programme, supporting communities in improving their local waterway environment.		£17,980
Newham African Caribbean Resource Centre	To work in partnership with other providers to deliver a range of education, training and out of school facilities.		£66,000
Newham Asian Women's Project	For a legal advice service for Asian women and support on domestic violence issues.		£16,000
Newham Association of Disabled People	Benefits advice to disabled people through audio tape information, domiciliary visits and an open door service.		£25,000
Newham Citizens Advice Bureau	Advice and guidance to socially excluded groups targeting those groups that are financially excluded by maximising their income levels for a better quality of life.		£206,000
Newham Community Accounting Service	For a bookkeeping, accounting and payroll service and for training in financial management.		£40,200
Newham Community Transport	For safe well maintained inexpensive and accessible transport service to the local community.		£47,000
Newham Riding School and Association	Horse and pony riding and equine education including supervised activities for disabled people.		£24,600
Pioneer Theatres (Theatre Royal)	To run a series of productions, performances and theatre activities to audiences.		£287,640
Powerhouse	To empower, support and provide information for women with learning difficulties.		£12,000
St. Johns Community Centre	Support services and activities for the local community in the North Woolwich area.		£41,400
Theatre Venture	To provide high quality theatre and art programmes that fully embraces the diversity of the local community.		£41,480
Trinity Community Centre	To provide services in education, recreation and social welfare and support projects.		£83,000
London Tamil Sangam	To provide courses and mental health advice, Asian dressmaking, ESOL, ICT and mentor training.		£17,240
LBN Swimming Club	Provision of swimming training and development.		£39,370
Race Equality in Newham	For a casework service providing support, representation and information in cases of racial discrimination.		£59,360
Action & Rights of Disabled People in Newham		To provide disabled access comments and planning applications.	£22,010
Trinity Community Centre	For a programme of support and training services for young and adult refugees and new arrivals.		£25,500
Age Concern	For the age well project, providing activities for 50+ through clubs. Subject to implementing review recommendations.		£52,920
Renewal Programme	For the Refugee and Migrant project - to provide support and advice services.		£45,190
Hope Trust	For the breakthrough advice and advocacy service - providing advice and support to Latin American Refugees.		£34,370
Newham & Essex Beagles Athletics Club	For a programme of athletics training and competition.		£15,100
	Total Grant Funding:		£1,493,560

Early Years

Project	Purpose	Grant Awarded
Family for Life (The Arc)	Furniture, storage and play equipment	£2,500
Fellowship House children's centre	4 Scooters	£149.80
Fellowship House playgroup	Computer Equipment	£432.85
Flanders community centre (a)	Equipment, recruitment, staffing, publicity	£4,967
Greenwich Leisure Ltd (Atherton Leisure Centre)	Upgrade equipment in toddlers world	£2,866,17
Greenwich Leisure Ltd (Newham Leisure Centre)	Upgrade equipment in toddlers world	£4,850.98
Home-Start Newham	To run a family group including Children's play activity	£2,525
Lenwood daycare	Equipment and resource for key learning areas	£4,695
Newham Family Centre	Play worker cost	£5,000
Shalom employment action centre (SEAC)	Replacement of equipment use in the crèche	£395.90
St Martin's	Rent, playworker and equipment	£5,000
Upton Centre pre-school	holiday play scheme	£5,000
Community Links	summer playschemes for yr 3-5	£22,650
Community Links - hearing disabled	holiday play scheme	£4,540
Community Links carer and toddler groups	General support - staffing , material, programme, admin	£5,380
Community Links Chatsworth Project	Carer and toddler group and Toy library	£5,000
Community Links toy libraries	General support - staffing , material, programme, admin	£2,025
Fellowship House children's centre	Install extractor fan in kitchen	£1,440
Fellowship House children's centre	Replace windows in children's play area	£2,000
Community Links Rainbow	Resource unit upgrade	£5,594.50
St Mary's pre-school	Install Ramp and entrance doors	£9,160
Discover	Creative music programme	£4,110
ELBWO	Equipment	£3,940
Upton Centre pre-school	holiday play schemes	£5,000
Trinity Centre	Toys and Equipment for expansion of daily crèche	£4,939.92
Community Links pre-school playgroups	running costs for pre-school playgroups (Busy Bees (Britannia), Peabody (Canning Town), Tommy Thumb (Newtown), Little Ponies (Rec), Windmill (Three Mills))	£33,460
Community Links central park play building	Outdoor play area refurb	£5,000
Community Links central resources	Large equipment for central store	£4,995
	Total Grant Funding:	£154,177.12

Housing

Project	Purpose	Grant Awarded
Homestore	For a furniture recycling project especially for the homeless moving into unfurnished accommodation.	£23,000
Newham Nightshelter	To assist with re-settlement of people who have been sleeping rough.	£47,000
	Total Grant Funding:	£70,000

NewCEYS

Project	Purpose	Grant Awarded
Ascension Eagles Cheerleaders	Lifeskills. To teach young people competition level dances and cheerleader routines.	£10,000
Aston Mansfield	Mixed Ability Group - to promote learning opportunities for disabled young people.	£4,000
Clays Lane Advice and Training Centre	To offer work experience placements which will lead to provision of jobs for ethnic minorities and refugees aged 17-25.	£3,000
Community Links (Hudson)	Detached Youth Project for area with higher levels of crime, anti social behaviours and young people at risk.	£20,000
Community Links (REC)	Community Based Youth project for 12-19 year olds and detached work.	£20,000
Community Links (East Ham Youth Project)	To reduce anti-social behaviour and promote positive lifestyles.	£20,000
Community Links (Newtown)	Youth activities including work with teenage parents, young women, information and advice, sports programmes and holiday residential programmes.	£20,000
Community Links (New Canteen)	A building based project for the Vicarage Lane/Ham Park area, offering evening, holiday and residential youth activities.	£15,000
Community Links (Britannia Action Youth Project)	A programme for the Urban Village and Peabody Estates area in Silvertown, including “into employment, teenage parenting and home study resources and primary health work.	£15,000
Community Links (Three Mills)	Detached and building based work with information and advice services, health and teenage carer issues and a young women's group.	£20,000
Community Links (Asian Young Women's Programme)	A borough wide project providing a variety of centre based work and residential opportunities and holiday provision for young women aged 12-19.	£20,000
CORECOG	For French speaking youth activities to increase access to education and council services for young African refugees.	£5,000
Emmanuel Youth Project	Towards costs of providing a varied youth programme including working with young parents, refugees and crime divergence.	£35,000
Froud Community Centre	For the Youth Project to promote learning opportunities, encourage personal development and further understanding of the effect of anti-social behaviour.	£20,000
Impstart Trust	Motorcycle display training, performing at events, supporting basic skills and motorcycle maintenance training.	£22,000
IROKO Theatre Company	Youth Enhancement Project. Providing out of school and half term performance workshops resulting in a showcase during Black History Month 2004.	£5,000
Somali Action Forum	To develop services and provision for the Somali community, including development of an anti-drug strategy.	£7,000
South Canning Town Detached Youth Project	For year round street work, accredited courses, activity nights, group work and residential in Custom House/Silvertown area.	£17,000
Theatre Royal	Youth Arts Programme. Regular performance sessions including a youth summer project.	£12,000
Weston Spirit	For a quality personal development programme for young people aged 13-25 offering pre-vocational and pre-access training.	£12,000
	Total Grant Funding:	£302,000

Social Services

Project	Purpose	Grant Awarded
Age Concern	Advocacy service - Older People.	£85,800
Newham African Caribbean & Asian Advocacy Project (N.A.A.C.P)	Advocacy for parents in CPS - Children & Families	£41,800
East London Somali Association	Advocacy - Older People	£18,500
North East London Advocacy	Advocacy - Older People	£39,800
Newham African Caribbean & Asian Advocacy Project (N.A.C.A.A	Outreach with Asian & African families at risk of breakdown - Children & Families	£28,200
Newham Family Centre	Self help therapeutic work/CP issues - Children & Families	£30,600
Community Links - Apna Ghar	Befriending/practical support for families at risk of breakdown - Children & Families	£10,200
Newham Home Start	Befriending/practical support for families at risk of breakdown - Children & Families	£62,500
East London Black Women's Organisation (ELBWO)	Befriending/practical support for families at risk of breakdown - Children & Families	£16,700
Community Links	Befriending/practical support for families with children on the child protection register - Children & Families	£16,700
Eastwards Trust	Home visiting/Befriending service - Older People	£149,300
Ekta Project	Home visiting/Befriending service - Older People	£141,800
Crossroads	Support for Carers (Care Attendants Scheme) - Adults	£222,600
Carers National Association	Support for Carers - Adults	£4,400
Newham Asian Women's Project	One to one counselling for Asian Women fleeing domestic violence	£17,700
Victim Support	Counselling for people affected by crime	£39,600
East London African Caribbean Counselling Service (ELACCS)	Counselling for African & Caribbean Communities - Victims of crime	£41,000
Community Links (Apna Ghar)	One to one counselling for Asian Women fleeing domestic violence	£17,700
Action & Rights of Disabled People	Advocacy - Adults/older people	£34,900
Newham Association of Disabled People	Advocacy - Adults/older people	£33,500
Docklands Drop - In Group	Enabling inclusion - Adults/older people	£2,600
Newham Talking Newspaper	Audio tape service - Adults/older people with visual impairment	£1,142
Newham Asian Women's Project	Fleeing domestic violence - Asian women and children	£27,700
Newham Action Against Domestic Violence (N.A.A.D.V)	Advocacy for women fleeing DV - Children and Families	£27,100
Community Links(Apna Ghar)	DV & Homelessness project - Children & Families	£21,300
East London Black Women's organisation (ELBWO)	DV & Homelessness project - Children & Families	£40,800
Newham Asian Women's Project (NAWP)	DV & Homelessness project - Children & Families	£22,600
Powerhouse	Enabling inclusion of women with learning difficulties.	£20,200
Advent Community	Luncheon Club/Older People	£6,900
London Tamil Sangam	Luncheon Club/Older People	£16,000
Subco Elders Day Centre	Luncheon Club/Older People	£30,300
Subco Elders Day Centre	Mental Health Advocacy/Older People	£17,400
Harmony Project	Black and Ethnic Minority Mental Health Project - Adults and young people	£35,800
Independent Newham Users Forum	Mental Health Users Forum - Adults	£42,600
Newham Community Renewal Programme (RAMP)	Community based mental health support for Refugees & Asylum Seekers - Adults	£7,300
C.Y.A.N.A	Support for people affected by Cancer - Adults /Older People	£19,100
NCH	Independent Visitors Scheme - Children & Families	£44,700
Black & Ethnic Minority Care Forum	Group Advocacy/research & outreach for BME communities. All Groups	£47,200
Dhekh Bhall Project	Training Programme - LSC	£20,000
Lean - Volunteering	Support for people affected by HIV/AIDS - Children & Families	£37,400
General	Voluntary sector liaison	£77,900
	Total Grant Funding:	£1,700,942

Royal Docks Trust Joint Programme

Project	Purpose	Grant Awarded
Ascension Lunch Club	A twice-weekly lunch club for elders aged over 50.	£20,650
Ascension Eagles Cheerleaders	To develop leadership, teamwork, fitness, self esteem, citizenship and community integration while teaching youths to perform competition level dance, jumps, stunts and cheer routines.	£15,714
Bridges Community Project	To provide a community drop in and signposting service, training and education through organised workshops, improve skills and capacity of local people and provide social and cultural activities to promote community cohesion.	£27,403
Community Links (ASTA)	The provision of a year round children and young people's resource centre by appointing a project co-ordinator for overall responsibility of the centre.	£15,000
Community Links (Britannia)	Provision of year round children and young people's resource centre through appointment of a project co-ordinator.	£20,000
Forest YMCA (Beckton Centre - Developing Youth)	To engage young people in activities, which will encourage greater participation in sports and offer holistic personal and community development.	£21,728
Greenwich & Docklands Festivals (Stars Over Water)	To present a high quality free outdoor spectacle in the area with participatory arts projects providing opportunities for involvement by local children and musical performance by young people.	£5,000
London East Research Institute (East London Knowledge.org (Beckton Story))	To work with schools and the Council in offering training and development of personal histories and current lives in the Beckton area.	£12,125
Newham Music Trust (Soundscape)	The project offers music therapy in work with children and adults with a wide range of disabilities and medical conditions. The project will offer sessions on an outreach basis in schools and other community facilities.	£7,680
Reading is Fundamental, UK (Newham Book Fund)	A partnership project with Newham Academy of Music and primary schools in the Royal Docks area. To motivate children to read by giving them regular opportunities to attend motivational events with musicians and reading materials.	£4,140
Royal Albert Dock Trust (Young People and People with Disabilities)	To offer sporting activities for young people and people with disabilities.	£15,000
Shaw Trust Ltd.	Offering a range of employment related services to people disadvantage, disabled and suffering from health problems by job finding services, employment support packages, training, advice, guidance and counselling.	£15,000
St. Johns Community Centre	To expand its services by extending the finance workers role to meet two objectives: (a) increase the use of the centre and (b) to improve the quality of financial control of the centre.	£27,464
	Total Grant Funding:	£194,224

London Borough of Newham

Grant Aid to the Voluntary Sector 2005-06

Over the course of 2005-06, Newham Council has so far distributed almost £4m to community projects throughout the borough.