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City Parochial Foundation andTrust for London Trustees*The Crown Ms Maggie Baxter (Vice Chairman)
Mr Nigel PantlingProfessor Julian FranksThe Earl of Limerick KBEMs Elahe Panahi
Corporation of London Mr Edward LordMr William Dove
Mr Ian LuderMr Robin Sherlock
Church Commissioners The Bishop of WillesdenMr Peter Dale
Council of the Universityof London Mrs Gillian Roberts
University College London Professor Gerald Manners (Chairman)
City and Guilds ofLondon Institute Mr John Barnes CBE
Bishopsgate Foundation Mr Roger Payton
Cripplegate Foundation Mr Patrick Haynes
Kings College London Mr John Muir
City Parochial Foundation Mrs Lynda StevensMiss Jyoti MunsiffMr Albert TuckerMs Jane Wilmot OBE* As at 1 January 2002
Staff of the Foundation and TrustClerk Bharat Mehta OBE
Director of Finance and
Administration Carol Harrison
Director of Grants and
Programmes Martin Jones
Field Officers Ann Curno (to June 2002),
Helal Uddin Abbas,
Mubin Haq (from June 2002)
Field Officer Responsible for
Monitoring and Evaluation Sioned Churchill
Publications and IT Manager Tina Stiff
Secretary to the Clerk Lorraine Foy(to August 2002) ,Alison Slater (from May 2002)
Secretary to Director ofGrants
and Programmes Beulah Scott
Secretary to Field Officers Jaspal Babra
Accounts Assistant Sue Caller
Office Manager Mara Normile
Administrative Assistant Jason Harley (to May 2002)
Laura Mansfield (from June 2002)
Receptionist Suzette La Pierre
Professional AdvisersSolicitors Farrer & Co, WC2A 3LH
Surveyors CB Hillier Parker, W1A 2BT
Auditors KPMG, EC4Y 8BB
Bankers Lloyds TSB Bank plc, EC2R 8AU
Investment Managers Dresdner RCM Global Investors (UK) Ltd, EC3M 3LBTo February 2002: Schroder InvestmentManagement Limited, EC2V 9QAFrom February 2002: S G Asset Management UKLimited, EC4M 7NL
Veritas Asset Management (UK) Limited, WC2N 6DF
The aims of the Foundation andthe Trust are actively promoted to
draw attention to the needs ofpeople experiencing poverty, andthe needs of community groups toshow what can be achieved; and
to highlight lessons that havebeen learned from the fundedwork
The exchange of information,good practice and ideas betweenfunding organisations has manybenefits. The Foundation and
Trust are active in many formaland informal networks including
the London Funders Group
Because of their extensiveexperience the Foundationand Trust are frequently
asked to comment on policyproposals and consultation
documents produced byother bodies including local
and central government
Liaison
Promotion
Consultation
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Introducing
City ParochialFoundationand
Trust for LondonCity Parochial Foundation and Trust for
London exist to benefit the poor of
London and to provide support for
community organisations that have
charitable purposes. In achieving theseaims, both organisations are involved in
a wide range of activities
The Foundation and Trustprovide direct grants forspecific purposes, oftenresponding to local orexceptional needs as
they arise
These programmes currentlyprovide funding for a numberof organisations working withyoung people, and for three
strategic bodies working withdisabled people, on a particular
scheme called Count us in
The Foundation owns a large property and equities portfolio.The Trustees also manage the endowment of Trust for London.
The resulting income provides the resources to meet the
charitable aims of both bodies. One of the assets of theFoundation is the Resource Centre in Holloway Road, N7,which provides meeting facilities, offices and services
The Foundation owns anumber of sites and buildingswhich are let at low rents toorganisations for charitable or
voluntary activities
Schemes tackling schoolexclusion, refugee education and
work with young men are fundedjointly with other trusts and
organisations
Good governance andpre- and post-grant support
are vital activities ifmaximum use is to be
made of charitableresources. The Foundation
and the Trust organisetraining for potential grantapplicants and recipients
and publish guides to goodpractice
Schemes responding to new needshave been established including an
education awards initiative for youngrefugees, one concerned with access
to appropriate employment fordisplaced professionals and another
on governance of smallorganisations
Community development work
is currently supported in fourareas Bellingham; Greenford;Kilburn; and St Peters, Tower
Hamlets
Properties
Partnerships
Reactive grants
Special programmes
Managing assets
Local area initiatives
Good practice
Innovation
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munity Project > 201st Islington Scout Group > 2nd Epsom (Christ Church) Scout Group > AVoice for the Child in Care > Abbeyfield North London Society > Accept > Accra Centre for Advancement of Young People > Ace of Clubs (Clapham Ltd) > Ackroyd
South Asian Womens Association > Active Women > Afghan Alliance of London > Afghan Association of London (Harrow) > Afri-Caribbean Peoples Organisation > African and African-Caribbean Peoples Advisory Group > African and Caribbean Family Support
ng Corps 393 Finchly Squadron > Akina MaMa Wa Africa > Alcohol Counselling Prevention Services > Alcohol East > Alone in London (GLAS) > Alzheimers Concern Ealing > Alzheimers Society > AMENDS > An-Viet Foundation > Anchor Housing Trust >
Organisations
funded by
City Parochial
Foundation
and
Trust for London
ity Association > Anxiety Care > Anyadwe Children and Family Welfare Association > Arab Community Education Centre > Arab Cultural Community > Arab Group in Hounslow > Arise Education Project > Asian Womens Aid Zone > Association for Sierra
trice Project > Apex Charitable Trust Limited > Arab Womens Group > Architecture Foundation > Archway Project > Arthritis Care > Arts World Wide > Artsline > ARVAC > Asian Dub Foundation Education > Asian ParentsAssociation for Special Educational
Refugees > Association for Women facing Childbirth in Detention > Association of Angolan Bakongo Refugees UK > Association of Blind Asians > Association of Chinese Women > Association of Haringey Muslim Community > Association of Sierra Leonean
Asian Womens Advisory Service > Association for All Speech Impaired Children > Association for Research in the Voluntary and Community Sector > Aston Mansfield Settlement > Asylum Aid > Attlee Foundation > Autism London > Axe Street Project > Back to
s > Association of Wakirke Comm.of Great Britain and Ireland > Balagan Theatre Company Limited > Bangladesh Womens Association > Bangladesh Youth Forum (Newham) > Bangladeshi Association (Haringey) > Bangladeshi Mothers Support Group >
Bail for Immigration Detainees > Bangladesh Centre > Bangladesh Womens Association in Haringey > Bankside Open Spaces Trust > Barbara Melunsky Fund The Westminster Roman Catholic Diocese Trust > Barking and Dagenham Citizens Advice Bureau >
eshi Womens Society > Barking and Dagenham Vietnamese and Chinese Assoc. > Barnet Blind and Partially Sighted Bowls Club > Barnet Borough Senior Citizens Forum > Barnet Community Counselling > Bayswater & Little Venice Bengali Association > BBC
and Dagenham Crossroads Care Attendant Scheme > Barking and Dagenham DIAL(Disablement Information Advice Line ) > Barnardos > Barnet Citizens Advice Bureau Barnet Law Service > Barnet Mencap > Barnet Voluntary Service Council > Basement Projec
ity Centre > BBC Tenants and Residents > Beckton Islamic Association > Beis Chana Jewish Womens Centre > Bellingham Festival Foundation > Bengal Youth Group > Bengali Community Education Centre > Bengali Education Centre > Bermondsey and Rotherhi
onal > Bengali Workers Association > Bexley and Bromley Citizen Advocacy > Bexley Association of Disabled People > Bexley Mencap > Bexley Moorings Project > Bexley Voluntary Service Council > Bexley Womens Aid > Big Issue Foundation > Bishop Creighton
ity Association > Action Disability Kensington and Chelsea > Action for Kids Charitable Trust > Action Group for Irish Youth > Acton Homeless Concern > Addaction > Adult Dyslexia Organisation > Adun Society > Advisory Centre for Education > Advocacy for
African Caribbean Re-Union > African Caribbean Senior Citizen Organisation > African Caribbean Support Group > African Child Welfare Association > African Families Support Service > African Foundation for Development > African Francophone Community
ople in Greenwich > Advocacy Partners in Sutton > Africa Educational Trust > African Caribbean Family Mediation Service > African Foundation for Development > African Peoples Link > African Womens Support Groups > Afro-Caribbean Housing Association >
ion > African French Speaking Peoples Welfare Association> African Heritage and Welfare Trust > African Welfare Association > African Welfare Organisation > African Womens Forum > African Womens Welfare Association > African Youth Education and
cern > Age Concern Acton > Age Concern Croydon > Age Concern Ealing Borough > Age Concern Enfield > Age Concern Greater London > Age Concern Havering > Age Concern Hillingdon > Age Concern Islington > Age Concern London > Age Concern
Development Organisation > African Youth Organisation > African Youth Trust > Africans and Descendants Counselling Service in Barnet > Al-Huda Arabic School Association > Al-Zahra Womens Centre > Alborz School of Persian Language > Algerian Refugee
> Age Concern Richmond Upon Thames > Age Concern Sutton Borough > Age Concern Tower Hamlets > Age Concern Waltham Forest > Age Concern Wandsworth > Agroforep > Aide Toute Dtresse Fourth World (UK) > Aids Care Education and Training >
> Amhara Refugee Community > Amman Elderly Asians Group> An-Noor Arabic Association > Anand Mandal Asian Elderly Group > Anatolian Cultural Centre > Andover Youth and Community Trust> Angolan Advice and Information Centre > Angolan
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ersea Neighbourhood Aid Centre > Bede House Association > Bedford Institute Association HomeStore Project > Bell Farm Christian Centre Ltd > Bell Farm Church > Bellingham Community Recreation Project > Bellingham Project (BECORP) > Bengali
tal Health Support Group > Better Life for Women and Families > Bexley Association of Turkish Speakers > Bexley Gujarati Samaj > Bexley Refugee and Asylum Seekers Support > Bexley Snap > Bijoy Youth Group > Black Ethnic Cultural and Welfare
Small Jobs Scheme > Black Employment Initiative > Black Londoners Forum > Blackfrairs Advice Centre > Blackfriars Settlement > Blackliners > Blind in Business > Bonny Downs Community Association > Borderline > Boundary Community School > Bourne
Chairmans foreword page 4
Guidelines 1997-2001 page 6
Lon don the mo saic city page 8
Tony Travers, Director, Greater London Group at the
London School of Economics, looks at influences on the
voluntary sector
Responding to change programmes, page 10
initiatives and fundin g
- more than just funding- governance home and away
- refugee communities and funding plus
- Resource Unit for Supplementary and
Mother-tongue Schools
- tackling exclusion from school
- Count Us In the Disability Programme
Changing times changing structures page 22
Sean Baine, Chair of the London Civic Forum, describes
how the voluntary sector has developed and responded
to new app roaches
Getting messages across page 24
How City Parochial Foundation and Trust for
London are passing on lessons learned from funding
programmes and initiatives
Trustees and staff page 28
Facts and figures where the money went page 32
Loo king forward the n ex t five years page 38
Christina Schwabenland, Director of London VoluntaryService Council, looks at the issues that will influence
voluntary bodies over the next Quinquennium
Loo king ahe ad Guidelines for 2002-2006 page 41
Developing themes The Foundation started page 44
its five year review process in 1935: a look back
shows a remarkable consistency in approach over time
Providing the services page 48
What organisations have to say about City Parochial
Foundation and Trust for London
Contents
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oys Brigade Housing Association > Brandon Centre > Breakthrough Trust > Brent Adolescent Centre > Brent Advocacy Concerns > Brent Asian Womens Refuge > Brent Association for Voluntary Action > Brent Community Law Centre > Brent Community Transport >
deration of Young Choirs > Broadcasting Support Services > Brokerage CityLink > Bromley Baptist Church Lifelink > Bromley by Bow Centre > Bromley CitizensAdvice Bureaux > Bromley Mencap > Bromley Racial Equality Council > Bromley Refugee Network >
tion > Black Womens Rape Action Project > Bluebird Wheelchair Basketball Club > Bold Balladiers Trust > Bosnia Herzegovina Club Brent > Bread and Roses > Brent Iranian Community > Brent Retired Brahmin Association > Brent Visually Handicapped Group > B
Capital communities review
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ach year City Parochial Foundation
submits its Trustees Annual Report andFinancial Statements to the Charity
Commission, and publishes a Grants Review
that details the recipients of its support over
the previous twelve months. The Trustees
planning and grant-making, however, is set
within a broader strategy which is reviewed
every five years and Capital Communities is
a report on their achievements over the
Quinquennium 1997 to 2001.
The activities of the Foundation, which dates
back to 1883, are rooted in three important
end owments. The largest, the Central Fund,
came from legacies for the benefit of the
poor living in the City of London; with
assets approaching 104 million, its income
is now available for the benefit of poor
people throughout Greater London (the
Metropolitan Police District plus the City).
The smallest endowment, Trust for London,
was given by the Government in 1986
following the abolition of the GreaterLondon Council to provide support for small
community groups throughout London; its
original endowment of 10 million was
recently valued at 17 million.
The Foundations third endowment is the
City Church Fund, whose assets come from
ecclesiastical charities in the City of London
and are currently worth 78 million; its
income is passed directly to the Church of
England throughout Greater London as
determined by the Church Commissioners,
the largest recipients being the Dioceses of
London, Southwark and Chelmsford. In
nurturing these three end owments, which
grew from 166 million in real terms at the
end of 1996 to some 200 million five years
later (an increase of 20%), the trustees
benefit from professional legal, property and
investment advice, for which they are
immensely grateful.
The income of the Foundation varies withthe performance of its investments which
are spread between properties both in and
beyond London, equities and gilt edgedsecurities. In recen t years, the Foundation
has benefited particularly from the strength
of the property markets in which it is
invested.
However, this good performance has been
offset somewhat by the weakness of equity
markets over the last two years, by falling
interest rates and by the withdrawal of
Advance Corporation Tax relief. The
Foundations income has also been
adversely affected by the Trustees decision
to rebalance their assets over time towards
equities, and by a revision of its pension
arrangements. Over the Quinquennium, the
annual income of the Foundation has
tended to fall slightly in real terms.
However, the Trustees believe that this trend
can now be reversed following a Charity
Commission Order which will allow
expenditure in future to be based upon the
total return to the charitys assets. The firstyear of this new regime will be 2003.
Between 1997 and 2001 the Church of
England in Greater London received 15
million from the City Church Fund. Over
the same period, the Foundation was able to
give 28 million from its Central Fund and
Trust for London to secu lar charities. Grants
were made to 1,647 organisations helping
Londons poor.
Capital Communities is an account of both
the Trustees response to requests for
assistance and the various initiatives which
they took to support places and
circumstances where the needs of the poor
would otherwise have remained neglected.
Thus, the Foundations concerns about
social exclusion and community isolation, its
commitment to refugee education, and its
desire to help young people in poverty have
all involved both reacting to grant
applications and the Trustees ownprogramme s of supp ort. Sometimes this
Chairmans forewordE
Professor
Gerald Manners
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rish Advisory Service > Brent Mencap > Brent Society for the Mentally Handicapped > Brent Volunteer Bureau > Brentford & Chiswick Victim Support Scheme > Bridge Project Trust > British Bangladesh Welfare Association > British Council of Disabled People >
User Group > Bromley Voluntary Sector Trust > Brookhowse Community Centre > Brunswick Club Trust > Burghley Road Under Fives Community Centre > Cairde Na Ngael > Caldecott Foundation > Camberwell Choir School > Cambridge House and Talbot
ure Association > Bromley by Bow Bangladeshi Forum > Bromley Community Bereavement Service > Bromley Forum of Older People > Bromley Gypsy/Traveller Community Project > Bromley Somali Community Association > Brune Bernard and Carter Tenants
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proactive work has been as the sole funder;
more often it has been in alliance with
others.
The process of grant-making calls for
compassion, knowledge, discussion,
intuition, judgement and, at times, courage.
In consequence, the Trustees value
enormously the expertise and advice of the
Foundations staff, whose insights into
Londons voluntary sector, and the
challenges it faces, powerfully inform their
decisions.
Our long-established practice of visiting all
grant applicants that are likely to be
successful is a major source of the staffsinsights, and the Foundation has been
happy to share its understanding with
others, including the Government. The
Trustees are also grateful for the advice of
those co-opted onto their committees, and
the numerous consultants who have helped
the Foundation over the years.
Above all, how ever, Trustees are grateful for
the leadership and imagination of the two
Clerks who served the Foundation between
1997 and 2001. Tim Cook completed 12
years of distinguished service to the
Foundation in 1998 and was succeeded by
Bharat Mehta, who has already begun to
leave his distinctive stamp upon our affairs.
Their contribution to the Foundations
achievemen ts cannot be overstated. With
such supp ort, the Trustees ultimate
responsibility for the proper use of the
Foundations resources is less burdensome.
The Quinquennium saw many changes inthe Foundations social and political
environmen t. We therefore invited three
people who are particularly knowledgeable
about Londons voluntary sector to
contribute to this review. We are very
grateful to Tony Travers for interpreting the
shifting influences, political and otherwise,
that have affected Londons voluntary sector
in the last five years. Sean Baine, with his
unique insights into this rapidly changing
scene, kindly agreed to examine how the
voluntary sector has responded to thesechanges. And we were delighted when
Christina Schwabenland accepted our
invitation to speculate on the challenges
facing grant givers such as the Foundation
in the foreseeable future.
Partly in response to the spirit of the times
but mainly for reasons of efficiency, the
Trustees have made significant changes to
the governance and management of the
Foundation since 1997. I pay tribute to my
fellow Trustees for their support, expertise
and energy in these challenging matters,
particularly to my Vice Chairman, Ms Maggie
Baxter, and the Chairmen of our various
Committees through which much of the
Foundations detailed work is conducted.
Over the Quinquennium Trustees h ave
agreed to consolidate the Central and City
Church Funds into a Combined Fund for
investment purposes, to facilitate the process
of asset diversification; explored the
implications and determined a route to the
implementation of a total return approach to
investment and distribution; undertaken a
root and branch review of the Foundations
governance; and, subject to the approval of
the Charity Commission, decided to become
a charitable company limited by guarantee.
With these and other changes the
Foundation and the Trust look forward with
confidence to the next five years. Our
current plans are summarised in the later
pages of this report. As Capital
Communities shows, City Parochial
Foundation and Trust for London are
determined to maintain their reputations as
innovative and imaginative funders for the
benefit of the poor of London.
Profes so r Gerald Mann ers
(As in previous years, a Grants review for
2001 listing all the grants made during the
year has been published in addition to this
Quin quen nial review. Copies are availableon request.)
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Triangle Forum > Camden Black Parents and Teachers Association> Camden CAB > Camden Citizens Advice Bureau Service > Camden Community Law Centre > Camden Jobtrain > Camden Mental Health Consortium > Camden Womens Aid > Cannonbury Co
nts Association > Burundian Refugee Relief Organisation > Busoga Association (UK) > Camden Community Counselling > Cameroon Community Welfare Development Association > Care Alliance > Care for Carers in Hackney and City > Caribb Youth and Communi
n Pensioners and Friends > Carila Latin American Welfare Group > Catholic Housing Aid Society (CHAS) Lewisham > Caxton Trust > CCP Housing Ltd > Cedar Centre > Central London Dial-a-Ride > Central London Law Centre > Centre for Armenian Information
Capital communities review
Setting out the prioritiesor almost 70 years, trustees
of City Paroch ial Foun dation
(and sim ilarly, since its
establishm en t in 1986, Trust for
Lon don ) have taken time every
five years to review past
activities and plan for the next
Quinquennium to ensure that
they are m eeting the n eeds for
wh ich they w ere established.
(Details o f previous priorities
and how they have changed aregiven in an article on pages
44-47). In recent years this has
also involved consultation with
voluntary groups and partners.
From this work, guidelines are
drawn up for grant applicants,
highlighting the main areas of
concern and activities which
trustees intend to fund. These arethen distributed widely to h elp
ensure that as many peo ple and
groups as possible are aware of
funds that may be available.
The main priorities es tablished
for the 1997-2001 Quinquen nium
are listed here.
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the provision of advice, information and assistance
with individual advocacy;
local initiatives to combat racial harassment or
crime;
support for education and training initiatives and
schemes.
Indirect and strategic work to alleviatepovertyThe Trustees also appreciate the importance of back-
up and development work for the voluntary sector
and will be prepared to consider applications to assist
work in the following areas:
Infrastructure support for the voluntary sector
Experience has repeatedly shown that in individual
boroughs and across London there is a need for
infrastructure support for voluntary organisations, and
that service providers need to have the best advice,
information and training to develop high quality
services for the poor of London.
Advocacy for po licy change
Work in the voluntary sector can highlight the need
for policy change, and arguments need to be
constructed and presented to the appropriate
authorities for improvements. This is a legitimate part
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Direct work to alleviate povertyDuring the preparation for the Quinquennium the
Trustees were struck forcibly by the way in which
poverty can lead to social isolation, injustice and
exclusion in all sections of the community and by the
effect of poverty on young people.
In consequence the Foundation has decided to focusa significant part of its resources upon what it regards
as two priority concerns.
These are:
the need to tackle social isolation, injustice and
exclusion as they affect individuals in any section of
the community;
the need to provide help for young people (aged
10-25 years) exp eriencing p overty.
The particular way in which these two concerns will
be addressed is through grants for direct workinvolving:
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Baptist Church > Capital Housing > Cara Irish Housing Association > Cardinal Hume Centre > Carer to Carer > Carers in Ealing > Carers Lewisham > Carers National Association London Office > Carers Support Harrow > Carers Support Merton >
iation Caribb Club > Caribbean Cultural Organisation > Caribbean Indian Social and Cultural Association > Castle Community Association > Centre 4M > Centrepeace > Charity Section Balham Drop in Centre > Chelsea Asian Womens Group > Children and
vice > Centrepoint Soho > Centreprise Trust Ltd > Change > Changemakers> Charities Evalution Services > Chaverim Youth Organisation > Chelsea Social Council > Chicken Shed Theatre Company > Child and Sound > Child Care Association of Barking &
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200119971997
Applications will be considered from small
groups in any London borough as follows:
any self-help group but particularly
womens groups and young and elderlypeoples groups;
supplementary and mother-tongue
schools;
organisations working with people with
disabilities;
refugee and migrant groups.
In addition any small charitable group can apply for
a start-up grant of no more than 500;
any small charitable group can apply for
a grant of up to 1,500 for training costs.
Continuation grantsThe trustees will consider applications
from some of the organisations previously
grant-aided for revenue costs by the Trust.
Further grants will not be given
automatically, but Field Officers will
discuss with organisations what they
require to continue effective work.
The Trust targets small locally based
community organisations with charitable
purposes, which are independent of larger
bodies. Small is defined as being entirely
volunteer or membership-based, or with nomore than the equivalent of two full-time
paid staff.
The Trust particularly welcomes proposals
from womens groups, black and minority
ethnic womens groups, and black and
minority ethnic organisations.
The Trust seeks:
to have an initiating and pro-active role,
rather than to wait for applications;
to ensure that its grants have adistinctive and particular impact;
to be accessible to small groups.
Funding prioritiesThe Trust will not make grants above
10,000 a year for capital costs or revenue
costs. Revenue cost may be given over a
two or three year period though normally
with a reducing level of grant.
of charitable activity, provided it falls
within the Charity Commissioners
published Guidelines on Campaigning by
Charities. Within these the Trustees will
consider applications which aim to bring
about changes in policy or service
provision for the benefit of the poor of
London. Such proposals must clearly arise
from the applicants current work.
Collaborative respon ses
The Trustees wish to encourage applications from
organisations working together, within one borough
or across several boroughs, to meet the needs of the
poor.
Continuation grants, small grants andunexpected needsIn addition the Foundation will consider applications,
which are for:
Continuation grants
It is recognised that some work does not easily attract
new funding and a continuation grant for work
previously funded by the Foundation may be
appropriate for a limited period.
Small grantsAny organisation working directly to benefit
the poor of London, [with exclusions] may
apply for a one-off grant of 10,000
Unexpected needs
The Trustees are always ready to consider
proposals to address new or emerging needs.
DisseminationIn certain cases the Foundation will consider with the
beneficiary how best to disseminate the experience or
the lessons learned from the work it has fundedwhether through local workshops, individual reports,
seminars or a publication.
Foundations initiativesDuring the Quinquennium, the Foundation will
continue to take its own initiatives. These are likely to
include:
special funding programmes for which applications
will be invited;
local area based work;
alliances with other funders to deal with certaincomplex issues.
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m > Childline > Childrens Centre > Childrens Discovery Centre East London > Childrens Express > Childrens Music Workshop > Chile Democratico > Chinese Association of Tower Hamlets > Chinese Mental Health Association > Chizuk > Choice > Christchurch
imited > Civil Liberties Trust > Clean Break Theatre Company, Camden > Clerkenwell and Islington Medical Mission > Co op Pepys Community Arts Project > Colville Nursery Centre > Comeback > Common Purpose Your Turn, London > Community Accountancy
dvisory Group > Chinese Church in London Croydon Chinese School > Chiswick Mental Health Association > Chochmas Noshim PensionersClub > Christ Gospel Ministry Future Generation Youth Club > Clapton Common Day Centre > Colombian Refugee Ass
ive years is a short time in the 2000-
year history of London. But there can
be no doubt that this particular five-year
period has seen radical changes in the
capital. Labou r was elected into
government; a directly-elected mayor took
office; an array of modernising social
policies were introduced and, all the while,
the capital matured into one of the worlds
most complex and extraordinary cities.
The arrival of a new Labour government
inevitably meant people expected big
changes after 18 years of the Conservatives.
But, in fact, although there have been many
initiatives. These approaches to policy
make it possible to understand much about
the governments motives.
Tony Blair and Chancellor Gordon Brown
want to lift people out of poverty rather
than marginally raising the incomes of the
poor. Tax credits are preferred to extra
social security payments. Narrowly-targeted
programmes of public spending are aimed
at particular neighbourhoods, rather thanwho le local authorities. London is awash
with zones, special initiatives and one-off
funding streams. Simple it isnt, while the
long-term effects will take some years to
assess.
One aspect of new Labours modernisation
and, indeed, of devolution was the
creation of the Greater London Authority,
consisting of a city-wide mayor and
assembly. Ken Livingston e, leader of the
Greater London Council from 1981 to 1986,
became Londons first-ever directly-elected
mayor. This reform brought an element of
American politics into the heart of the
capital. As an elected execu tive for the
whole city, the mayor inevitably has to
govern in such a way as to take account of
the rainbow of races, religions and lifestyles
that make up London .
In the five years since 1997, the capital has
had to absorb many pressures andunexpected changes. The population of
London has continued to rise sharply.
International immigration into the capital has
occurred at an unprecedented level.
Recent research commissioned by the mayor
suggests that the population is now 7.4
million, (not its largest ever population,
which was 8 million in 1939) and will rise to
over 8 million by 2015. Immigration has
included asylum seekers, young citizens
from within Europe and the Commonwealth,
and rich bankers from the United States.
Tony Travers, Director, Greater London group at
the London School of Economics, looks at influences
on the voluntary sector
London
the mosaiccitynew initiatives affecting public policy,
changes within society probably mattered
more.
The Blair government at first adopted an
approach designed to hold public
expenditure at the levels set by the previousadministration. Soon it became clear that
modernisation of local government, the
NHS and virtually everything else was the
key priority. In fact, after five years it is
clear that the desire to modernise public
services derives from a suspicion within new
Labour that existing public services are not
always efficient and effective.
Londons deprived communities, in common
with those elsewhere in the country, have
found themselves the object of abewildering array of government-backed
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p (CASH) > Community Development Foundation Self Advocacy Team> Community Housing and Therapy > Community Housing Association Limited > Community Language Centre > Community of Refugees from Vietnam - East London > Community
> Community Care Protection Group > Community Care Trust Waltham Forest > Community of Congolese Refugees in Great Britain > Community of Malian Refugees in the UK > Community of Rwandese Refugees in UK > Community of Tigrayan Refugees
London is now a diverse, multi-lingual
metropolis of epic proportions.
But not everyone believes London should
develop in this way. During 1999, a
bomber attacked targets in Brixton, Brick
Lane and Soho. His targets were the
African-Caribbean, Asian and gay
commu nities. His motives as it turned out
at a later court case were explicitly
derived from extremist, National Socialist,
objectives. This random and brutal
incursion into Londons apparently peaceful
community relations was a reminder that
there is a fragility to the capitals unique
culture.
Policing London the Met were highly
effective over the capture of the bomber
has also become a matter of continuous
political and commu nity concern. Tragic
failings in the handling of the Stephen
Lawrence case led to major criticisms of
police practices and manageme nt. The
current senior officers of the Metropolitan
Police (which is now subject to greater
accountability than in the past) clearly
understand the problems of policing a
racially-diverse city in a way that has altered
radically since the murder of Stephen
Lawrence.
Voluntary organisations have, as in earlier
years, been vital in providing help to many
individuals and communities that official
organisations cannot reach. London has one
of the most wide-reaching and creative
non-governmental sectors in the world. City
Parochial Foundation, as a consistent
supporter of organisations for thedispossessed, has played a key part in
underpinning Londons social and economic
development.
Five years is not long for London. But for
those of us who live here, particularly ones
who have arrived from strife-torn countries
overseas, even a few months can seem a
lifetime. Freed oms to work, to relax and
to live peacefully may be mundane, but
they are also precious. London offers the
bright lights and big city attractions thatbring the amb itious to live here . But the
February 1997Labour Party publishes report on voluntary
sector Building the Future Together.
May 1997Labour government is elected.
August 1997Home Secretary Jack Straw announces a full
independent judicial inquiry into the handling
by the police and Crown Prosecution Service
of the murder of Stephen Lawrence in April
1993, to be headed by the former High Court
judge Sir William Macpherson.
March 1998Lawrence public inquiry opens at the Elephant
& Castle.
Tim Cook retires after 12 years as Clerk. He
is succeeded by Bharat Mehta.
More than 300 people most of them from
organisations funded by Trust for London
attend an event at the Guildhall to launch
Trusting in the Community, a report published
to mark the Trusts 10th anniversary.
October 1998CPF report Financial Monitoring of Voluntary
Organisationslooking at 59 organisations of
various sizes is published.
November 1998Lawrence Inquiry ends after 69 days of
hearings.
A compact between the voluntary sector and
the government is agreed, setting out a set of
shared principles, paving the way for codes of
practice on issues such as funding,
community groups and volunteering.
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city also provides a haven for those fleeing
persecution and poverty.
The period from 1997 to 2002 has seen
London mature into perhaps the ultimate
muddled, creative mosaic city. Whatever it
is, its people made it thus.
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ork on the 1997-2001 quinquennium
began in 1996 when the Trustees and
staff held a series of meetings to consider
and shape grant funding for the coming five
years. This was backed by interviews by
two former members of staff Alison Harker
and Maknun Gamaledin Ashami with 75
people from very poor areas of London to
discover their most pressing concerns. From
this work, the priorities were set.
Setting the guidelinesTrustees were very aware of the way
poverty can lead to social isolation, injustice
and exploitation in all sections of the
community and the effect of policy on
young peop le. As a result, City Parochial
Foundation decided to focus a significant
part of its resources on two priorityconcerns:
the need to tackle social isolation,injustice and exclusion as they affect
individuals; and
the need to provide help for youngpeople (aged 10-25 years) experiencing
poverty.
Grants would be made for direct work
involving provision of advice, information
and assistance with individual advocacy,
local initiatives to combat racial harassment
or crime, and support for education and
training initiatives and scheme s.
Back-up and development work for the
voluntary sector was also considered
important and Trustees agreed to look at
applications for infrastructure support in
individual boroughs as well as across
London, advocacy for policy change,and collaborative work wher e
Responding
to change
organisations work together.
The Trustees also agreed to continue to take
initiatives in addition to grant-making for
programme funding, local area work and
alliances.
Program me fu nd ing aiming to make
significant funds available for new work in
areas of particular concern to Trustees. For
the 1997-2001 Quinquennium these were
social isolation, young people and disability.
Local areas workto achieve geographically
-focussed initiatives through a coherent and
co-ordinated ap proach.
Alliances working with other funders
where the size and complexity of some
issues means that Foundation funding alone
can only make a limited impact.
Trust for London guidelines for the
Quinquennium reflected the Trusts own
distinctive grant-making practices an d
procedures, focussing on small, locally-
based community groups with the
equivalent of no more than two full-time
members of staff. Emph asis was placed on
grants for start-up costs, training, self-help
groups concentrating on young people (16-
25) and elderly people, supplementary and
mother-tongue schools, refugee and migrant
groups and disability groups.
Within this, Trustees also highlighted two
areas:
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Harry Venning
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More than just fundingThe past five years and the 1990s in general - have seen
significant changes in the operating environment for voluntary and
charitable organisations. As a result the sectors have had to adapt.
It has required new approaches to funding and organisation, and
new approaches which can respond rapidly to needs as they
change.
During this time CPF and TfL have realised that organisations do not
simply need money. In many cases, particularly small organisations
which often have at most one or two members of staff do not
have internal resources for such things as training. And often
activities that would be normally carried out by specialist staff, such
as finance and accounting, are just among a host of tasks which
have to be undertaken.
It is why CPF and TfL have adopted an approach best described as
more than just funding or funding plus. As this review shows,
approaches such as the Small Groups Worker scheme and
Financial Monitoring are two projects which have proved highly
valuable to the small organisations which have taken part.
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entre Support Services > Croydon Voluntary Action > Croydon Volunteer Bureau > Croydon Youth Development Trust > Croydon Youth Information and Counselling Service > Cultural Co-operation > Dalston Youth Project > Dame Colett House > Davish Enterprise
funds were committed for an initial three-year period to back the establishment of
the Resource Unit for Supplementary and
Mother-tongue Schools;
the difficulties experienced by smallgroups in London were a continuing
concern for the Trust and staff. The
success of the small groups workers
scheme was convincing evidence of the
value of projects to provide general help
to a range of organisations. (This led in
time to the financial fitness and training
projects, and the governance work).
It was agreed that grants would continue to
be made for up to three-year periods, withthe maximum grant remaining at 10,000
per annum.
As well as drawing up these guidelines and
priorities, Trustees also appreciated the
importance of ensuring that the London
voluntary sector knew abou t them. At the
end of 1996, field officers spent three
months talking to a whole range of
organisations collectively and individually
across all London boroughs. In addition
10,000 leaflets each for the Trust and
Foundation were distributed.
One feature of these guidelines is the way
in which many of the approaches adopted
interact with each other. Thus initiatives
often end up as partnerships and alliances
with other organisations and funders, while
alliances complement work in other fields.
And the emphasis on youth matters cuts
across many different strands of grant and
funding programmes.
Funding plusOne important aspect of the Foundation and
the Trust approach has not simply been to
wait for grant applications to arrive, but to
adopt a pro-active approach, and encourage
groups to app ly. And when applications are
made, the practice is always to visit the
groups to understand them better. This can
lead to revised applications because the
visits and discussions have shown that other
needs are more pressing or the group can
benefit more from a different approach.
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ment Centre > Dawliffe Hall Education Foundation-Baytree Centre > Day-Mer Turkish and Kurdish Community Solidarity Centre > Daycare Trust > Deaf Education Through Listening and Talking> Deafblind UK > Depaul Trust > Depression Alliance > Deptford Church
Employment Group Employability Forum > Divert, Westminter > Divorce Conciliation and Advisory Service > Downside Settlement > Drummond Housing Care & Support > Dulwich Helpline > Dulwich Volunteers Bureau Trust > Ealing Mencap > Ealing Music Thera
m Baptist Church > Delta Unique Sisters > Detainee Support and Help Unit > Disability Information and Advice Training > Drive Youth Club > Ealing No. 1 Old Age Pensioners Club > Ealing Refugee Forum > Ealing Somali Welfare and Cultural Association> East Afri
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A similar approach this time in association
with other funders including the Joseph
Rowntree Foundation, and regulatory and
umbrella bodies has been adopted to help
emerging organisations develop their
governance skills through training and
consultancy. The pilot project involves 20
small groups which volunteered to take part
and is due to be completed in 2002.
Working with othersThere is increasing co-operation between
funders both in adopting more standardised
approaches to advice and guidance on best
practice, and in developing similar
approaches to such things as applications,
monitoring and procedures. These can helpimprove understanding both by the groups
which provide services of how they
approach grant applications, and by funders
of the needs and difficulties faced by the
groups.
It has developed towards strategic
It has shown that many groups do not
always have the resources or do not pay
enough attention to administrative and other
necessary functions. Many do not have
access to the training and personal
development resources that are available to
larger organ isations.
These issues have come up time after time,
and have encouraged the Foundation to
develop approaches to help a number of
groups at the same time.
It started with the Small Groups Worker
scheme in the previous Quinquennium.
The project concluded in 1997, and featured
as the first of several special reports on thework of the Trust and the Foundation.
Voluntary groups helping them develop
confirmed that small groups do not just
need money but can benefit substantially
from hands-on supp ort. It repo rted that, in
all, 774 small groups gained advice on
constitutions, legal issues, fund-raising,
finance and a range of other issues.
The scheme involved 1,037 individual
members of these groups, and the nine
organisations (mainly councils of voluntary
services) who were funded by Trust for
London helped groups raise more than
800,000 during the three-and-a-half years of
the project.
CPF and TfL have become aware that many
groups face particular difficulty with
financial control and this led to a similar
cross-group p roject. In 1996 the Trustees
decided to carry out a thorough evaluation
of this area of concern and the reportpublished in 1998 confirmed the
difficulties.
As a result a pilot training project was set up
in 1999, and later the following year, a
follow-up report showed just how much
could be achieved by training and how
important such training is in the early stages
of a groups life. Finan cial fitness revealed
that of 15 organisations that took part, post-
training assessments had shown that 11 had
improved their scores, seven of themsignificantly.
Governance has become a big issue both for
commercial and non-commercial organisations over
the past decade, resulting from concerns about
probity and the need to ensure greater openness and
accountability. Central and local government and
Parliament now have well-defined procedures
operating following the Nolan inquiry and the
subsequent establishment of the Committee on
Standards in Public Life.
In the commercial world, the Greenbury and Cadbury
committee reports played a significant part in
encouraging companies to look at their arrangements
and to improve their practices.
Housing associations held an inquiry under Sir David
Hancock and they too have revised their structures
and procedures to take into account best practice to
ensure good governance. The National Council of
Voluntary Organisations also took action, adapting
the seven Nolan principles into a code of conduct for
charity trustees which was endorsed by the CharityCommission.
Governance
home and away
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ct > Ealing Neighbour Mediation Service > Ealing Voluntary Service Council > Earls Court Homeless Families Project > Earls Court YMCA > East Chelsea Community Contact > East London Advanced Technology Training> East London Black Womens
men Community Organisation > East African Youth Group > Eastsiders > Edo State Womens Association > Education and Training School > Enfield Asian Welfare Association> Enfield Bangladesh Welfare Association > Enfield Caribbean Association > Enfield
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City Parochial Foundation and Trust for London have
over the years had a long-standing interest in how
small voluntary organisations are run and managed,
and set up the Small Groups Worker scheme andFinancial Training Project to assist them in operating
more efficiently. But what has been apparent over
the years is that because of the pressures on them,
many small groups tend to focus on their short-term
tasks often to the detriment of the longer term
governance is often seen as a luxury.
It was this that led to the establishment of the
Governance Project developed in conjunction with
other funders and supported by the Joseph Rowntree
Foundation. The report and recommendations are
due to be published later in 2002. What has alreadyemerged is that what is needed is appropriate
governance based on the differing needs of
organisations, relative to their size and stage of
development. In some cases it means that funders
should not neglect core funding and should even
consider grants for strengthening governance.
But the Trustees recognise that the need to ensure
robust, effective and accountable governance is as
vital for funders such as City Parochial Foundation
and Trust for London as it is for the organisations
which actually deliver services. It was this thatprompted the Foundation and the Trust to undertake
a review of their existing arrangements. It has led to
some major changes in the governance of both
organisations.
The main changes are:
consolidation of the two funds, Central and City
Church to facilitate asset diversification;
new property and equity managers who advise
Trustees;
a total return approach to investment and
distribution;
adoption of Nolan principles for the conduct and
actions of Trustees;
full declarations of interest by trustees;
detailed terms of reference for all the committees;
limitations to the length of service of Trustees and
committee chairmen;
skills audits for Trustees;
proposed change in status to a charitable company
limited by guarantee; and
changes in nomination arrangements to allow the
Greater London Assembly and Association of
London Government to put forward nominees.
Carrying out and implementing such a review has
given Trustees a significant insight into the issues
facing all types of organisations, such as those that
have arisen in the Governance inquiry, and the
implications they have for change.
The Guardians
Society pages
carried an article
on the financial
fitness work,
accompanied bythis cartoon by
Robert
Thompson.
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partnerships with agencies. City Parochial
Foundation and Trust for London have taken
this further in the last five years, through the
development of Alliance Funding where
several funders work together to provide
longer term finance which can hopefully
lead to better outcomes for beneficiaries. So
far, three such alliances have developed on
education issues involving refugees, tackling
school exclusion and mother-tongue
teaching and supplementary schools.
The latter provides a good example of how
strategic approaches can mushroom. It
started with research by Trust for London
which revealed that many such schools
needed skills to handle funds and set up
and run effective classes it was not just
about money.
This led to the establishment of the
Resource Unit for Supplementary and
Mother-tongue Schools , which has now
been established as an independent charity
under the leadership of its founder Director
Mohammed Abdelrazak.
The Unit provides information, runs
workshops and seminars for teachers and
managers of schools and provides a network
to link up both individual schools
themselves and the sector with mainstream
education.
The success of the Unit is such that mother-tongue and supplementary schools are now
being recognised by other major funders
including the New Opportunities Fund.
Further details about the Resource Unit are
given in the panel (See page 16).
Another example of Alliance Funding relates
to the problem of permanent exclusion from
school of an increasing number of pupils
and in particular the disproportionate
number of black Caribbean boys (See panel
page 19). The Foundations education
adviser Robin Hazlewood undertook a
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ead> Eritrean and Ethiopian Advice and Information Centre > Eritrean Islamic Society in UK > Ethio Youth England > Ethiopian Advice and Support Centre in Hammersmith and Fulham > Ethiopian Refugee Forum > Ethiopian Welfare Action Group > Euphrates Educ
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Over many years, CPF and TfL have been concerned with
the needs of refugee communities, as they fit so closelywith the primary aim of meeting the needs of the poor of
London. In the previous Quinquennium, the Foundation
set up the Evelyn Oldfield Unit to support refugee
community groups.
Work over the past five years in this area provides a
further example of how the Foundations and Trusts
various funding strands complement one another and
contribute to the concept of funding plus which looks at
all aspects of the work and not simply that of distributing
grants.
Take alliance funding. The needs of young refugees who
face many difficulties in starting or continuing their
education encouraged the Foundation to set up the
Refugee Education Unit, run by Praxis, in partnership
with other funders including the Tudor Trust and the Henry
Smith Charity. Since the Unit started its work, more than
850 clients from 58 countries the vast majority asylum
seekers under the age of 35 have been interviewed and
guided into further training.
This has been complemented by the Foundations
Refugee Education Awards scheme, which has made
awards to 428 individuals since it started in 1997. TheUnit has now been restructured as the Refugee Education
and Enterprise Unit.
Then there are the initiatives. In 1999 the Foundation
began working with a range of agencies and organisations
to look at the barriers which have prevented professionally
qualified refugees from obtaining appropriate employment.
This led to the establishment of Employability and the
highly successful events aiming to bring together refugees
and potential employers. Such has been the influence of
this work that Employability has become a member of the
National Refugee Integration Forum, which spearheadsthe Governments policy in this field.
The establishment of the Resource Unit for
Supplementary and Mother-tongue Schools is another
aspect of the work relating to refugees. Set up by Trust
for London, the Unit has been the major influence in
raising the profile of the sector. It is now firmly established
and is supported by major funders such as the Community
Fund and its work is recognised and promoted by the
Department for Education and Skills.
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project to investigate the issues.
This led to an alliance with Bridge House
Estates Trust Fund and Equitable Charitable
Trust to see how voluntary organisations
might help to develop innovative solutions.
The London borough of Merton was
selected and three projects set up. These
are working with Jigsaw, Merton Education
Business Partnership and a number of
concerned voluntary organisations.
An important consideration is that the issue
cannot be tackled in isolation from other
social and family matters which is why local
voluntary support will be crucial.
The projects are still in their early days, but
it is already clear how vital the work is
school exclusion continues to increase.
The third example of the Alliance approach
is the Refugee Education Unit established
in 1996 to tackle the many problems young
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A possible new initiative is the Refugee Communities
History Project which is being developed in partnership
with the Museum of London to document the testimonies
of individuals who have come to the London since 1951,
the year of the establishment of the Geneva Convention.The aim is to record the arrival, settlement and
contribution of members of refugee communities.
Another recent approach has been support for
organisations such as AFFORD African Foundation for
Development set up to support the African diaspora
for which London is a global capital. In the case of
AFFORD, the support involves funding for a development
worker to respond to the needs of many disparate,
isolated and fragmented groups. AFFORD also seeks to
develop the enormous potential that exists for mutual
support not just to organisations in London but alsovoluntary and charitable organisations in the countries of
origin.
Other work of the Foundation and Trust also has an
important influence. Financial fitness and the
Governance Project are of particular note. Many refugee
community groups are fledglings, striving to become
established. As the work of the Trust in particular hasshown, it is at this stage that organisations need support in
developing structures and organisation to help provide
them with a solid base from which to move forward.
Many of these approaches involve significant projects. It
goes further than that, though. Grant-funding lists over the
last five years (and before that, too) have shown that the
Foundation and Trust are also deeply committed to
providing direct support to small groups. Significant
numbers of individual grants go to local refugee
organisations which provide services and help which
directly benefits individuals who are experiencing poverty.
The Foundation and the Trust aim to ensure that all
funding is thought through to provide
for all aspects of need, from the
youngest affected to elderly people.
The refugee work amply demonstrates
this, by providing support for the full
spectrum of work, from advocacy and
policy development to direct provision
of services.
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refugees face in starting or continuing their
edu cation. The Unit was set up in
partnership with a consortium of funders
including Tudor Trust and the Henry Smith
Charity.
The Unit has interviewed more than 840
clients, the vast majority aged under 35,
from 58 countries.
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Before 1986, no one at City Parochial Foundation and the
newly established Trust for London knew anything about
supplementary and mother-tongue schools. Laterinvestigation revealed that local education authorities also
had little information and few were providing any support.
But Trust for Londons efforts to reach small organisations
that are isolated or detached from the mainstream
voluntary sector drew applications from several schools.
By 1996, some 60-70 were being funded, and the Trust
decided to convene a conference to discuss their needs,
and appointed consultants to take matters forward. The
eventual outcome was the establishment of the Resource
Unit to enhance the quality of management, establish apool of teachers and train them, and establish links with
mainstream education.
Trust for London agreed to fund the Unit and such has
been the success that further funds have been attracted
from the National Lottery and BBC Children in Need. It has
also attracted support from the Department for Education
and Employment.
The Unit now has 70 core users plus several hundred
schools which have telephoned and written in for advice
it is estimated that there are more than 1,000 in Londonalone. Help has been provided through training courses for
teachers, general advice, and publication of guidelines to
assist those setting up schools with basic ground rules,
standards and a framework. A directory of schools in
London was also produced.
In her assessment of the Units first four years, Elspeth
Kyle commented:
The real challenge is the scale of the potential demand
and the need for additional funding to meet the demand.
The Unit supports schools that sustain the diversity ofcommunities in London and beyond and enable the
children of those communities to achieve their full potential.
There are few more important causes than that.
Attention is now turning to future development, including
whether to increase the size of the Unit, how to develop a
national service, to consider a structure change to amembership body, how to balance policy and direct
services, to strengthen links with mainstream education,
and to develop accreditation for teachers.
Resource Unit for Supplementary and Mother-tongue Schools
For years voluntary sector edu cation
initiatives have struggled on, unrecognised
an d marginalised. We tend to thin k of school
education as something that happens only in
state schools behind closed doors, n ot outside of
school hours in peoples homes, community
centres or youth clubs. The hu ge contribution
made by supplementary/mother-tongue schools
chan ges our understandin g of the whole issue of
holistic developmen t of the child. It is one of the
less visible dimensions of modern education
that has to be recognised and celebrated.
Bro ad cas ter Jon Snow in his For ew or d to
the s chools dir ectory.
It has now been restructured by Praxis
creating a new Refugee Education and
Enterprise Unit which will integrate its work
with Praxis existing activities. The
Foundation continues to support the work
and to back the Education Awards
Scheme which has supported more
than 500 individuals since it started in
1997.
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Taking the initiativeAnother approach by the Foundation and
the Trust has been to concentrate efforts
through special initiatives working with
disadvantaged groups and neglected
communities.
One of these also involves refugees - and
has been developed with the support of a
number of other funders and organisations.
This started in 1998 under the informal title
of Employability to discuss the barriers
facing displaced people in obtaining work.
An important workshop was held under the
theme Hidden (later Undiscovered) Talents,
which was attended by more than 50 people
including refugees, governmentdepartments, representatives of business and
funders.
Employability is chaired by Lord Limerick, a
Trustee of CPF and a former Chairman.
Another event was the Employability Forum
which sought to bring together more than
300 refugees with potential employers (see
page 18).
More formal arrangemen ts followed
including the establishment of a company
limited by guarantee which identified a
number of areas of work including
influencing policy on integration, individual
portfolios for refugees, pilot training
programmes and information.
Sub-groups have worked on policy issues
with government including the Department
for Education and Employment and the
Home Office, employers and refugeeagencies, including Praxis, Refugee Council,
Refugee Education Training Advisory
Service, Refugees into Jobs and Skills for
Southern Sudan.
Employabilitys influence has been
considerable: it was asked to become a
member of the National Refugee Integration
Forum.
Another major initiative was the
Foundations Local Areas Work. This
involves supporting community-based
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initiatives which work closely with local
peop le over extended p eriods of time. The
emphasis is on local because many
regeneration schemes can fail to take into
account the views and expertise of the
people, thus by-passing those who should
benefit most.
Four schemes are currently being supported:
St Peter North Com mun ity Project
(Tower Hamlets). Here the Foundation is
working with Peabody Trust dealing with
issues of deprivation and race.
Government funding has been achieved
for a numbe r of training projects. Greater
community participation is now beingdeveloped.
The Bellingham Recreation Project
(BECORP). This has a long history for the
Foundation as it has owned playing fields
in Lewisham since the 1930s. Work
continues on obtaining funding to upgrade
the sports and recreation facilities and
funding of 4 million has been raised from
Sport England, the London borough of
Lewisham and CPF. At the same time, the
facilities are being used to develop
community activities in a deprived area
which has missed out on government
spending in the p ast.
Greenford Southall Detache d Youth
Project. This aims to reach young people
who have fallen outside the job market
and other netwo rks. One strand involves
bringing them into a programme of social
education.
Kilburn Youth Reso urce Centre. The
needs of young people have been
identified as paramount in this area and
has led to the establishment of the
resource centre which the young people
themselves are involved in running. Single
Regeneration Budget funding has been
attracted to the scheme.
Special programmesYoung people again feature strongly in
the special programmes which take a
co-ordinated approach towards tackling
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issues of special concern.
The Youth Programm e was established
after consultation with a number of
voluntary organisations. Nine were funded
to provide specific services. As well as
providing grants, the Foundation brought
the organisations together three times a year
to discuss progress and common issues.
The programme has revealed some
important lessons. The accep ted wisdom
had been that the organisations knew best
what young people need and that often
related to the future. But it became
apparent from listening to them that the
young people really want projects that relateto today.
In a report on the project published in 2001,
the Foundation made it clear that it
considered the whole experience an
important learning exercise. Perhaps the
most significant lesson was that young
people should be looked on as just that,
and not as entities in transition to another
age. There may be more to gain by
engaging with them as they are rather than
striving to get them to adulthood as soon as
possible.
As Clerk to the Trustees Bharat Mehta noted
in his introduction they may well make
better adults if society just lets them be
young for these few years of their lives.
The other special programme centred on
disability. Because Trust for London was
concerned that it received few applications
for funds from small organisations
concerned with disability issues, the
Foundation set up the Disability
Programme in 1999 and which was calledCount Us In.
What has become apparent is that there is
major division between physical disability
and learning disability groups. Alongside
that, black and minority ethnic groups are
substantially neglected and there are few
organisations servicing the needs of black
disabled people. What is also striking is the
acute lack of funding and the lack of a
resourced infrastructure to support groups
and individuals.
Initial consultation also revealed that despite
being underdeveloped the sector is under
heavy pressure from government to respond
to consultation papers and initiatives. Yet
such is the pressure on the groups, there is
little capacity to respond to such demands
and carry on everyday activities and
services. In addition, organisations of
people with learning difficulties have
extra problems absorbing lengthydocuments.
Thus it is not surprising that the sector is
underdeveloped and groups are isolated. It
became very clear from early on that
strenuous efforts would be needed.
The purpose was to support small, local
organisations in London to help them
sustain and expand their activities.
Progress has been slow. Halfway into theprogramme it had become apparent that
The Employabilty Forum was attended by Margaret Hodge,Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Employment, seen withLord Limerick, Chairman of Employability, and FoundationChairman Professor Gerald Manners. In her address she gave hersupport to the work of Employability, and stressed that finding ajob is key to the successful settlement of refugees because it
leads to financial independence.
Some 300 people turned up to meet potential employers and hearexpert advice on job seeking.
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Not all funding programmes go to plan. This is particularly
so in areas where funders are breaking new ground, or
where changes in government policy require new directionsand approaches.
One example is tackling school exclusion which arose as
an issue of common concern among several funders under
the Alliance funding programme established by City
Parochial Foundation.
Among the initial concerns highlighted by the Foundations
education advisor Robin Hazlewood were the increasing
number of pupils excluded from schools and the
disproportionate number of black Afro-Caribbean boys. His
report concluded that more preventative work was needed,strengthening the pastoral role within schools and adopting
good practice guidelines with a strong support system
between pupils, parents and schools.
Three projects were selected in Merton, managed by two
organisations: Merton Education Business Partnership
which ran Challenger, funded by Bridge House Estates
Trust Fund to provide intensive individual support to young
people excluded or at risk of exclusion; and Fame
(Families, Access, Mentoring and Empowerment) funded
by CPF to draw on the experience of local mentoring
organisations to provide a coherent framework for thoseyoung people in the at-risk groups. Each grant was
100,000 over three years.
Moving Forward Together which manages JIGSAW was
funded by Equitable Charitable Trust to provide a service
for young people who as a result of mental health problems
require specialist counselling support.
An interim report in January 2002 revealed that both Fame
and Challenger had experienced delays and problems such
that the projects have only been working simultaneously for
the last few months of 2001, and to start with, the overall
strategic approach was fractured with a focus on thesuccess of each project rather than the contribution to the
overall objective. Also the highly complex nature of the
issue contributed to lack of clarity about the objectives.
But above all the programme has been greatly affected by
change in government policy. Initially the focus was on
preventing the rise in school exclusions and exploring new
initiatives to support pupils to stay in schools. Now it has
shifted radically towards summary exclusions for certain
offences and re-prioritising alternative education provision
such as pupil referral units.
The conclusion has been to reaffirm the programmes aim
of preventing exclusion.
On a positive note many young people have already
benefitted and inputs have made a positive difference.
On the issue of the funding alliance itself, a number of
lessons have been learned which should contribute to good
practice. All those involved were positive about any future
joint-funding arrangements and felt that a lot has been
learned from the experience.
Work is now proceeding on clarifying the objectives for the
second half of the programme, and agreeing timescales for
the rest of the projects, and what the exit strategy will be.
The Trustees will also need to keep abreast of issues
impacting on the programme such as the rise in female
exclusions, truancy and self-exclusion, bullying and
homophobic bullying.
Tackling exclusion from school
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The Foundation is now actively discussing
work over the next 18 months with Count
Us In , and in particular ways in which to
fund small groups who will be delivering
services. Another important aspect over the
same period will be to look at funding for
the programme beyond the immediate
period that is from mid-2003 onwards.
greater efforts were needed to build
capacity. Because of the underdeveloped
nature of the sector, fire-fighting has
dominated to the detriment of the strategic
elements.
Achieving a shared vision between three
organisations which have quite distinct
cultures has not been easy developing
joint systems and practices is taking a long
time. More information on this programme
and the issues and problems are describedin the panel (see page 20).
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Standing Committee on Community Languages > Harold Wood War Memorial Institute > Harrow Churches Bereavement Visiting Scheme > Harrow
Moving into new areas of needcan be daunting. To tackle the
problems requires flexibility,
understanding and, perhaps
above all, new ways of thinking
and developing solutions. The
Disability Programme is a prime
example. While various funders
had from time to time prioritised
disability issues, none had
tackled under-resourcing and the
lack of capacity in a strategic
way.
Trust for London was attracting
very few applications from small
disability organisations, and
especially those working in the
black and minority ethnic
communities, and so the
ambitious Disability Programme
Count Us In was set up in
April 1999 by the Foundation. No
one embarked on it thinking it
would be a quick fix.
Grants were made to the Greater
London Association of Disabled
People (GLAD), People First, (an
organisation run by and for
people with learning disabilities),
and the British Council of
Disabled People (BCODP, based
in Derby).
The overall aim of Count Us In
is to put in place support for
small, local organisations inLondon concerned with problems
facing disabled people, to enable
them to sustain a