General
"To support on occasion other charitable work which falls outside the Trustees' main fields of interest."
Summary of General programmes
List of grants paid during 2008 - 2009
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.
List of grants paid during 2008 - 2009
| 2008 - 2009 | |
| Total | £5,129,310 |
| Total payments made this year (from new and previous grants) | |
| ACE Centre Advisory Trust | £275,000 |
| Towards core costs and a portfolio of research and development projects on improving access to education for young people who use communication aids. | |
| ACE Centre North | £125,000 |
| Towards core costs. | |
| Big Wide Talk | £675,000 |
| Towards core costs. | |
| Combined Universities of Cornwall | £320,460 |
| Towards the development and implementation of an Agri-Food Innovation Service; and towards a programme of SME support to the Environmental Technologies Sector. | |
| I CAN | £760,000 |
| Towards the completion of the national roll-out of the Early Talk programme, including a provision for staff retraining. | |
| London Borough of Greenwich | £495,000 |
| Towards a collaborative project to develop a new model of care for families where a parent has a long-term mental health problem. | |
| National Centre for Social Research (NCSR) | £75,000 |
| Towards continued funding of the annual British Social Attitudes Survey. | |
| National Children’s Bureau (NCB) | £1,100,000 |
| For the Children’s Residential Care Unit, Research Department and related programmes on children’s personal health and social development. | |
| Royal Academy of Engineering | £100,000 |
| Towards its work in influencing public policy research, personal health and social development. | |
| School-Home Support Service UK | £650,000 |
| Towards core costs and national dissemination of its framework. | |
| St John’s, Smith Square Charitable Trust | £250,000 |
| Towards the installation of disabled access to the building. | |
| University College Falmouth | £134,509 |
| Towards supporting a programme of SME support to the digital technologies sector. | |
| The beneficiaries below received grant payments totalling £50,000 or less | |
| Association of Young People with ME | £25,000 |
| City University | £17,000 |
| Media Standards Trust | £50,000 |
| Research Autism | £25,000 |
| Science Media Centre | £10,000 |
| University of Cambridge | £37,341 |
| Small grants were paid to other organisations in this category totalling £5,000 | |
