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"To support on occasion other charitable work which falls outside their main fields of interest."

Summary of General programmes
List of grants paid during 2007 - 2008

Summary of General programmes

The Trustees concentrate their grant-making in the eight categories detailed in the website, but there are occasional projects which they elect to support which fall outside of these.

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List of grants paid during 2007 - 2008

2007-2008
Total£4,806,096
Total payments made in 2007 - 2008 (from new and previous grants)
ACE Centre Advisory Trust £250,000
Towards core funding and a portfolio of research and development projects on improving access to education for young people who use communication aids.
ACE Centre North £100,000
Towards core costs.
Big Wide Talk £750,000
Towards core costs and an action research project to devise and test a new way to help parents support their children’s communication development.
Centre for Cities £809,000
Towards core costs.
Combined Universities of Cornwall £75,500
Towards the development and implementation of an Agri-Food Innovation Service.
I CAN £330,000
Towards core costs and towards extending the Early Years accreditation programme and to start up more Early Years nurseries for children with speech disorders.
London Borough of Greenwich £475,000
Towards a collaborative project to develop a new model of care for families where a parent has a long-term mental health problem.
Manchester College of Arts & Technology (MANCAT) £142,423
Towards the development of the enterprise support programme.
National Centre for Social Research (NCSR) £90,260
Towards continued funding of the annual British Social Attitudes Survey.
National Children’s Bureau (NCB) £1,000,000
For the Children’s Residential Care Unit, Research Department and related programmes on children’s personal health and social development.
School-Home Support Service UK £380,000
Towards core costs and national dissemination of its framework.
University of Oxford £60,000
Towards the ‘Options for Britain’ public policy research project.
The beneficiaries below received grant payments totalling less than £50,000
Association of Young People with ME £25,000
Auditory Verbal UK  £17,500
City University £15,000
Daniel Turnberg Medical Research International Exchange Scheme £10,000
Higher Education Policy Institute £25,000
Imperial College London £27,832
Kith & Kids £19,500
National Centre for Social Research (NCSR) £50,000
Research Autism £50,000
Royal College of Psychiatrists £50,000
St Giles in the Fields £10,000
The Sainsbury Archive £37,000
Small grants were paid to other organisations in this category totalling £7,081

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