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"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.

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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

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