Grants awarded under Section 70 of the Charities Act 2006
Updated 29 November 2022
Presented to Parliament pursuant to Section 70 of the Charities Act 2006
Laid before Parliament on 24 November 2022
Overview
Section 70 of the Charities Act 2006 (‘the Act’) sets out the powers for Ministers to give financial assistance to charitable, benevolent or philanthropic institutions and requires that payments made under this power are reported.
The funding matched both the aims and objectives of the department. This spending does not represent the total amount of grant funding provided by DCMS to the Voluntary and Community Sector, as many other grants have been paid to this sector under the powers conferred by alternative legislation.
During 2021-22, the department made grant payments totalling £1,031.1 million under the provisions of the Act.
During 2020-21, the department made grant payments totalling £1,462.6 million under the provisions of the Act.
During 2019-20, the department made grant payments totalling £546.3 million under the provisions of the Act.
During 2018-19, the department made grant payments totalling £758.6 million under the provisions of the Act.
2021 to 2022
The table below sets out the financial assistance provided by the Secretary of State under these powers for 2021-22.
Grant recipient | Payments £’000 | Description |
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Arts Council England | 867,695 | Grant-in-aid funding. |
British Film Institute | 74,310 | Grant-in-aid funding. |
Festival 2022 Ltd | 32,600 | The development, planning, organisation, presentation, management, production, curatorial co-ordination and promotion of Festival 2022 Ltd. |
Youth Investment Fund Phase 1 - BBC Children in Need | 12,000 | YIF Phase 1 spending objective is to improve the effectiveness of youth services in order to drive positive outcomes for young people such as improved health and wellbeing, equipping them with skills for work and life, and empowering them to be active members of their communities and society. YIF Phase 1 will work with left-behind areas in England, assessing and distributing grants for capital proposals which meet the objective of improving the effectiveness of youth services. |
The National Lottery Community Fund- Life Chances Fund | 9,230 | The Life Chances Fund (LCF) is a fund, committed by central government to help people in society who face the most significant barriers to leading happy and productive lives. It provides top up contributions to outcomes-based contracts involving social investment, referred to as Social impact Bonds (SIBs) in this FAQ. These contracts must be locally commissioned and aim to tackle complex social problems. |
Horniman Public Museum and Public Park Trust | 4,619 | Grant-in-aid funding. |
Historic Royal Palaces Maintenance Award | 3,151 | The purpose of this funding is to enable Arm’s Length Bodies to undertake essential maintenance works on their estates, thus preventing further deterioration of these assets, as well as safeguarding people and collections. Public Bodies are eligible to apply for grants to carry out urgent, priority maintenance works which are necessary. HRP grant is for urgent critical maintenance works: 1. Kensington Palaces - King’s State Apartments Electrical Re-wiring Programme; 2.Hampton Court Palace - Mains Electrical Infrastructure Replacement Programme; 3.Critical Systems (Tower of London electric supply and all palaces fire alarms). |
National Film and Television School | 2,360 | To contribute general business as usual eligible expenditure itemized in the organizations annual delivery plan provided. |
Geffrye Museum | 2,106 | Grant-in-aid funding. |
The National Lottery Community Fund (TNLCF) #iwill | 2,000 | To deliver the #iwill Fund - a joint investment between DCMS and TNLCF which creates social action opportunities for young people across England. |
Voluntary and Community Sector Emergencies Partnership | 1,857 | The British Red Cross is already subsidising the costs of the VCSEP with its own funding, and will continue to do so alongside Government grant funding. By funding dedicated staff time, we enable the VCSEP staff to focus on delivery of the VCSEP’s COVID-19 coordination only, rather than delivering this in a part time capacity alongside their regular charity (British Red Cross and others) work. |
Rosa UK | 1,564 | The UK Women’s Fund will deliver support to 27,000 women and girls via awarding funding to 80 small women’s organisations and 50 medium-large women’s organisations. |
Youth Workforce | 1,153 | The overarching strategic goal of this work is to upskill those adults working with young people and support youth sector organisations to ensure safeguarding and quality delivery in community based youth provision. The funds will be invested in sector infrastructure, ensuring the youth sector is supported to meet the needs of young people, particularly those needs caused or exacerbated by the pandemic. It will also encourage a pipeline of qualified youth workers, bolstering numbers of professionals able to support and safeguard young people. |
Audio Content Fund Ltd | 1,121 | The Audio Content Fund, will support a broad range of public service audio content, for all ages, on a wider spectrum of UK radio stations. The Fund aims to create new opportunities for producers to make public service content that adds to viewer and listener choice. |
Comic Relief | 1,117 | Comic Relief’s Supporting & Sustaining Specialism project will centre on a competitive, open grants programme for organisations led by ethnic minority women for ethnic minority women to address violence against women and girls in all four nations of the UK. Approximately 15 onward grants of between £40,000 and £250,000 for up to 18 months will be awarded and managed by Comic Relief. |
Advancing the Global Partnership on AI’s (GPAI) Data Governance research programme in partnership with UK institutions | 1,046 | Funding to advance GPAI’s Data Governance research programme on data justice and data trusts. This grant aims to strengthen collaboration between GPAI, the UK Government and UK research institutions, whilst translating the two projects into practical interventions by partnering with the Open Data Institute, Alan Turing Institute and Cambridge University. |
The Greenwich Foundation for the Old Royal Naval College grant funding 2021-22 | 779 | Grant funding to the Greenwich Foundation for The Old Royal Naval College (ORNC) for FY 21/22 in support of the delivery of its core objectives which are to conserve the buildings, interiors and grounds for present and future generations and to provide opportunities for wide and diverse audiences to enjoy and share its significance. |
Blavatnik School of Government | 750 | To conduct research and engagement work to enhance and share evidence on outcomes-based contracting and partnership working. |
The Medaille Trust | 677 | The Moving on Project focuses on meeting the long-term needs of women affected by trafficking and modern slavery. To do this, The Medaille Trust will establish eight new delivery hubs across England, each staffed with experienced caseworkers. |
Solace Women’s Aid | 661 | This project aims to ensure that all women have access to the support they need in the spaces most appropriate for them. It will provide joined-up partnership support with the aim of empowering all women across legal and other structures and across urban and rural environments. By developing a Centre of Excellence, with the focus on removing silos across the three spaces in three nations, Solace Women’s Aid will provide a sustainable online space to support women’s organisations in the future. |
YMCA England and Wales | 654 | The “Y’s Girls Mentoring” project is a community led Mentoring initiative based on Early and Effective Intervention principles. They will identify young people at risk of developing mild to moderate mental health issues and match them with a trained community based volunteer mentor. |
NHS Charities Together | 624 | The Volunteering Futures Fund aims to support high quality volunteering opportunities for young people and people who experience barriers to volunteering in DCMS sectors and across the Voluntary and Community sector. |
Addendum to Youth Work Bursary Grant Renewal - National Youth Agency | 610 | The additional funding for the Youth Worker Bursary Fund will aim to enhance the infrastructure capacity in the sector through Internal Quality Assurance and Assessor Training Qualifications (Level 3 and 4) and a Pilot Leadership and Management Programme. |
SafeLives | 573 | The ‘Your Best Friend’ project will empower 10,000+ young women with knowledge and confidence to act before someone harms or is harmed, to keep themselves and their friends safe. Activities will be carried out in three complementary waves, with evaluation, analytics and learning shared throughout. The waves are research; test and develop; launch tools and grants programme. |
Volunteering Futures Fund - Pears Foundation | 550 | The Volunteering Futures Fund aims to support high quality volunteering opportunities for young people and people who experience barriers to volunteering in DCMS sectors and across the Voluntary and Community sector. |
Ovarian Cancer Action | 535 | This project will spearhead equal access to clinical excellence for all women with ovarian cancer regardless of where they live, their age or ethnicity. Ovarian Cancer Action will bring together an expert group of partners to award onward grants for best-practice pilots, where they will match the highest-performing centres with the lowest to share learnings and address inequalities in care. |
The Federation of London Youth Clubs | 496 | The programme will support ethnic minority young women aged 10-14, and a cohort of 30+ youth workers. Young women will access high-quality activities in their youth organisation to promote positive mental health and challenge stigma. Meanwhile, youth workers will be up-skilled through training and peer support, so they can better support young women. |
Beat (formerly Eating Disorders Association) | 483 | To provide better health outcomes through their carers for girls and young women suffering from eating disorders. |
Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse | 480 | This project will fund both IDVAs and Coordination in the Mentor Court areas to support the CJS response and embed the SDAC model. This will also support a national mapping and capacity building exercise to enable the SDAC model to roll out across the country. |
Women in Prison | 462 | The Creating Community Connections project connects prisons and women in prison to a network of local women’s centres to aid resettlement and engagement with holistic support to meet women’s needs, address root causes of offending, improve outcomes on release and intercept cycles of trauma, disadvantage and abuse. |
UK Safer Internet Centre | 318 | The UK Government has committed to legislating via the Online Safety Bill to make the UK the safest place in the world to go online and to protect children from online abuse and harms. Before the legislation is in effect, this will support activities that improve children’s safety online, including activities to improve media literacy amongst young people, research, training and a helpline for those working with children and reducing the availability of harmful content for target audiences. |
St Giles Trust | 307 | To enable disadvantaged women to create positive change for themselves and other women in their communities. We will work with local women’s organisations in 3 priority areas to test if a lived experience, Community Champions model at grassroots level has impact and provides solutions to social, economic, and digital exclusion. |
National Youth Agency Census Grant | 285 | The purpose of this grant is to support the National Youth Agency to deliver the youth sector census, through part-funding the project and contains 2 elements: Building an online, open access platform for self-reporting and mapping the youth sector provision; Delivering 6 deep dives in different archetype locations, across the country, to be agreed with DCMS. |
Best Beginnings and White Ribbon Alliance UK | 278 | Safer Beginnings aims to improve maternity outcomes and the postpartum safety of 70,950 women of whom 13,350 are women from ethnic minority communities in England, Wales and Scotland by 2023, by developing specialist information, services and interventions that enable self-advocacy in maternal safety from obstetric and domestic abuse/violence and FGM/FGC. |
Trevi | 271 | This project - Spark, provides a myriad of mechanisms to prevent violence towards women and girls: from educational prevention work in schools (addressing attitudes, pyramid of violence, out-of-hours support and access to safe, secure, women only accommodation. |
Tampon Tax Fund- Women in Sport | 271 | To breakdown entrenched barriers to healthy, happy and active lives through a supportive eco-system of ‘Big Sister’ peers and coaches mobilising participation in sport for young women and girls. Targeting those areas characterised by deprivation, our aim is ensuring no one is excluded from the lifelong empowerment of physical activity. |
UK Youth Parliament and associate programmes grant | 234 | To promote and embed UK Youth Voice in Policy Making. To promote and support UK wide engagement in political and parliamentary processes, including through running UK Youth Parliament and Make Your Mark Ballot. |
Chatham Historic Dockyard grant funding | 196 | Grant funding to Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust for FY 21-22 in support of the delivery of its core objectives which are to preserve and study the Historic Dockyard, its buildings, ships and collections, and to deliver exhibits and education services. |
Tech Talent Charter | 191 | The grant will move Tech Talent Charter into its third phase of development, ensuring it is a fast scaling, sustainable organisation working in partnership both with major employers but also key organisations across the D&I space, across the talent pipeline and across all lenses of underrepresentation. |
Youth Civic Journey Research Project | 189 | To deliver the Youth Civic Journey research project, which will generate specific insights related to volunteering, focusing on identifying the key factors influencing take up, withdrawal and momentum in volunteering for young people. It will also capture the synergies and interoperability between volunteering and other aspects of the youth civic journey, supporting the Youth team’s evidence base around youth volunteering. |
Tampon Tax Fund- The Big Give Trust | 160 | The grant will help raise £5m for the Women & Girls sector through two match funding campaigns whilst increasing the resilience, skills and profile of Women & Girls charities. The project will also help to create a long-term philanthropic legacy for giving to Women & Girls organisations. |
Tampon Tax Fund- South West Grid for Learning Trust | 158 | To fund an AI tool designed to support W&G who are victims of intimate image abuse. The tool will give information about the types of abuse suffered (on and offline), give tools to remove intimate content, report crimes and regain hacked accounts. Information about the types of abuse will be used in the future with support organisations to reduce PTSD and other mental health issues. |
Memorials Grant Scheme | 150 | A fund to reimburse VAT on works done on national memorials of importance. |
The Platinum Jubilee Pageant Limited | 150 | To cover the essential start- up costs incurred by the delivery organisation enabling the organisation to commence the integral fundraising process early in the next financial year. Allow the delivery organisation to build capacity to fundraise and generate philanthropic support. Enable the delivery organisation to use own funds, once raised, to support itself in delivering a large scale public event for the bank holiday weekend, maximising the time for the development of plans to mark the Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. |
Imkaan | 137 | To deliver onward grants to specialist Black minoritised women’s organisations working to end violence against women and girls to support their frontline operational and long-term sustainability work in ways that elevates and empowers them through social value-based grant making considering intersectional needs and social justice aims. |
University of Bath- Institute of Coding | 108 | Delivery of Initial Industrial AI Masters cohort 2019/20. |
Tampon Tax Fund- AVA (Against Violence and Abuse) | 102 | To ensure that VAWG (Violence Against Women and Girls) survivors have access to high quality trauma informed support to help them rebuild their lives after abuse, through supporting specialist women’s organisations to build and demonstrate a consistent, survivor led, holistic trauma informed approach. |
National Literacy Trust | 100 | Game Changers was developed in response to demand from Pupil Referral Units (PRUs) requesting a more tailored offer, which supported their pupil’s deep feelings of exclusion. Game Changers: Trailblazing Women uses the excitement and passion of sport to inspire and motivate excluded girls who have experienced violence and trauma, to develop their communication skills, improve their confidence and resilience, enabling them to make better choices with stronger relationships for safer futures. |
Devon Air Ambulance Trust | 90 | The grant is a contribution towards the costs of undertaking the professional installation and commissioning of equipment to allow Air Ambulances to operate at night in Devon. |
Centre for Youth Impact | 89 | To embed the use of evidence and increase understanding of impact measurement across the youth sector. |
Media Literacy Train the Trainer Grant Scheme- Economist Educational Foundation | 76 | This grant will be used to support this organisation to adapt their media literacy resources to be tailored for schools and teachers working with children with SEND (special educational needs and disabilities). This supports the DCMS Online Media Literacy Strategy objectives to improve access to media literacy resources for audiences who are vulnerable online. |
Tampon Tax Fund- The Central Jewish Fund for World Jewish Relief | 73 | Step Forward will address key barriers to integration specific to women refugees in line with the Home Office’s Integration Framework. Through this holistic, tailored programme, women refugees will be empowered to gain independence, make informed decisions, improve health outcomes, and move towards employment, and a fully integrated life in Britain. |
The Alan Turing Institute | 70 | Grant to contribute to the development of an online platform to deliver free training to companies executives/ managers in data science |
Media Literacy Train the Trainer Grant Scheme- Parent and Family Consulting Ltd | 65 | This grant will be used to support this organisation to adapt their media literacy resources to be tailored for schools and teachers working with children with SEND (special educational needs and disabilities). This supports the DCMS Online Media Literacy Strategy objectives to improve access to media literacy resources for audiences who are vulnerable online. |
Tommy’s 21/22 | 60 | Our project aims to tackle the unjust miscarriage inequalities facing disadvantaged and underrepresented women across England. By supporting them with personalised advice and empowering them to advocate for their own care, we will give these groups equity in access to care, otherwise unavailable, and reduce their risk of miscarriage. |
Media Literacy Train the Trainer Grant Scheme- Media Smart UK | 58 | This grant will be used to support this organisation to adapt their media literacy resources to be tailored for schools and teachers working with children with SEND (special educational needs and disabilities). This supports the DCMS Online Media Literacy Strategy objectives to improve access to media literacy resources for audiences who are vulnerable online. |
Youth Engagement Grant | 58 | The key objective of the Youth Engagement grant is to support young people across England to participate in the development of policy affecting them, enabling more young people to have their voices heard and participate in decision making on a national policy level. DCMS remains committed to funding this important programme, enabling young people to express their voices and be heard on issues that matter to them. This programme continues to represent a key mechanism for supporting meaningful engagement between young people and decision makers at all levels. |
Creative Good Work Strategy - Nesta | 50 | The objectives of the independent review will be to: Establish a robust baseline picture of job quality; Identify the key challenges and opportunities for promoting quality work; Set out a vision for Good Work in the Creative Industries and articulate a set of high-level priorities and detailed policy recommendations for Government and industry. |
Loneliness Engagement Fund - RNIB | 50 | Create new content on loneliness signposting towards support services and sharing experiences. Develop resources to support volunteers to engage with their networks on loneliness. Identify gaps in existing resources and create new resources to fill gaps. This will help to reduce stigma around loneliness and support the target group to take action to help themselves and others. |
Loneliness Engagement Fund - Mencap | 45 | Conduct research into the experiences of people with learning disabilities in the pandemic in terms of their mental health and their perceptions of loneliness to inform their 2022 mental health campaign. This will help to reduce stigma around loneliness and support the target group to take action to help themselves and others. |
British Youth Council | 42 | A grant to continue supporting young people to be involved in policy development across government, through co-creation, inspections, consultation and advisory approaches as part of the Youth Steering Group and The Young Inspectors. |
Comic Relief | 37 | This project aims to invest in projects working to end VAWG particularly those who are more at risk due to multiple and complex needs. |
Loneliness Engagement Grant - Jo Cox Foundation | 34 | As part of the Great Winter Get Together campaign, Jo Cox Foundation will carry out content testing, create a toolkit, and conduct research to improve the campaign’s reach amongst 16-24 year olds. This will help to reduce stigma around loneliness and support the target group to take action to help themselves and others. |
Alan Turing Institute | 30 | Project 1: AI Regulation - To scope and build a work programme that will develop the UK’s regulators’ AI capabilities. This meets a longstanding government commitment. Project 2: AI Ethics Guide - To iterate existing public sector ethics guidance for the use of AI with a view to making it more practicable. |
Loneliness Engagement Fund - National Autistic Society | 30 | Develop new content on autism and loneliness to support a loneliness campaign on social media. This will help to reduce stigma around loneliness and support the target group to take action to help themselves and others. |
Media Literacy Train the Trainer Grant Scheme - The Student View | 29 | This grant will be used to support this organisation to adapt their media literacy resources to be tailored for schools and teachers working with children with SEND (special educational needs and disabilities). This supports the DCMS Online Media Literacy Strategy objectives to improve access to media literacy resources for audiences who are vulnerable online. |
Media Literacy Train the Trainer Grant Scheme- The Guardian Foundation | 28 | This grant will be used to support this organisation to adapt their media literacy resources to be tailored for schools and teachers working with children with SEND (special educational needs and disabilities). This supports the DCMS Online Media Literacy Strategy objectives to improve access to media literacy resources for audiences who are vulnerable online. |
Digital Boost: Boosting Digital Capability of SMEs and Charities | 27 | Funding to support the additional development costs of the Digital Boost platform until June 2021. This funding will allow the Digital Boost platform to further help small and micro businesses and charities across the UK improve their digital capability free of charge and build an online presence. |
Loneliness Engagement Fund - Made by Mortals | 25 | Co-create podcasts, an activity pack and online workshops with people with lived experience of loneliness (targeting people with mental health issues, living alone, and disabilities) to reduce loneliness through creative activities and share real stories. This will help to reduce stigma around loneliness and support the target group to take action to help themselves and others. |
ScreenSkills | 25 | To enable ScreenSkills to offer apprenticeships in film and HETV to a cohort of 20, providing high quality placements and recruiting from diverse groups currently underrepresented in the industry. |
Loneliness Engagement Fund - National Youth Theatre | 23 | Develop creative work about loneliness with young people at risk of loneliness and share it with a wider audience across existing channels. This will help to reduce stigma around loneliness and support the target group to take action to help themselves and others. |
Loneliness Engagement Fund - British Deaf Association | 21 | Deliver 4 live-streamed events, 3 videos and 14 information sessions in BSL to raise awareness of loneliness and support options within the deaf community. This will help to reduce stigma around loneliness and support the target group to take action to help themselves and others. |
Pete’s Dragons | 20 | In collaboration with emergency services the charity will develop sustainable organisational capacity to help staff at risk of suicide and train Suicide First Aid lead trainers to provide training across emergency services. |
Media Literacy Upskilling Library Workers | 20 | This grant forms part of the Online Media Literacy Strategy which aims to support the media literacy sector to empower users to be safe online, with a particular focus on vulnerable and hard-to-reach users. This grant will allow Libraries Connected to create and deliver a training module to train library workers in media literacy so that they are able to support the people who use their libraries with to keep themselves safe online. |
Loneliness Engagement Fund - Shift.MS | 20 | Conduct research to understand the triggers of loneliness for people with MS, to inform a report with findings disseminated across sector and engaging digital content shared on social media. This will help to reduce stigma around loneliness and support the target group to take action to help themselves and others. |
Media Literacy Upskilling Youth Workers | 18 | This grant forms part of the Online Media Literacy Strategy which aims to support the media literacy sector to empower users to be safe online, with a particular focus on vulnerable and hard-to-reach users. This grant will allow National Youth Association (NYA) to create and deliver a training module as part of their youth work curriculum to train youth workers in media literacy so that they are able to support the young people they work with to keep themselves safe online. |
Loneliness Engagement Fund - Gaydio | 17 | Deliver online podcasts and audio packages exploring LGBTQ+ loneliness. This will help to reduce stigma around loneliness and support the target group to take action to help themselves and others. |
Community Media Association | 15 | To support a number of initiatives led by the Community Media Association to help community radio stations take advantage of the opportunities offered by small-scale digital audio broadcasting (SSDAB). |
The Poetry Society | 15 | To ensure that DCMS, as the Government department for supporting culture in the UK, can provide support to the Poet Laureate, via a host organisation, so they are able to undertake activities and projects suited to the role as they see fit. |
Grant for research into market readiness of privacy enhancing technologies | 10 | This grant will fund research to identify the challenges, barriers, and limitations of adopting privacy-enhancing technologies. This will enable greater, trustworthy data sharing that will drive innovation across the economy, in line with Mission 1 of the National Data Strategy. |
2020 to 2021
The table below sets out the financial assistance provided by the Secretary of State under these powers for 2020-21.
Grant recipient | Payments £’000 | Description |
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Arts Council England | 1,048,602 | Grant-in-aid funding. |
TNLCF | 188,176 | The fund aims to: 1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services. 2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations. |
British Film Institute | 53,992 | Grant-in-aid funding. |
Charities Aid Foundation | 19,792 | This project has been funded as part of the Community Match Challenge, which aims to provide a match fund grant to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations for onward distribution to voluntary and community organisations to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis. |
National Emergency Trust | 18,600 | To provide a match fund grant to the National Emergencies Trust for onward grant to the UK Community Foundation an umbrella organisation to provide to its 50 UK Partner organisations to disburse to voluntary and community organisations responding to the needs of their communities’ affected by the COVID-19 crisis. |
Youth Sector Fund (multiple recipients) | 12,581 | To mitigate the impact of lost income in the Youth Sector during the winter period due to the coronavirus pandemic, and ensure services providing vital support can remain viable. |
Steve Morgan Foundation | 10,000 | This project has been funded as part of the Community Match Challenge, which aims to provide a match fund grant to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations for onward distribution to voluntary and community organisations to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis. |
Comic Relief | 7,900 | To provide a match fund grant to Comic Relief for onward distribution to voluntary and community organisations, to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis. |
Children In Need | 7,900 | To provide a match fund grant to BBC Children in Need (CiN) to disburse monies to voluntary and community organisations across the UK who are responding to the needs of their communities affected by the COVID-19 crisis. |
Festival 2022 Ltd. | 7,402 | The development, planning, organisation, presentation, management, production, curatorial co-ordination and promotion of Festival 2022. |
The OnSide Foundation | 6,000 | This project has been funded as part of the Community Match Challenge, which aims to provide a match fund grant to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations for onward distribution to voluntary and community organisations to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis. |
Pears Foundation | 5,500 | This project has been funded as part of the Community Match Challenge, which aims to provide a match fund grant to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations for onward distribution to voluntary and community organisations to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis. |
The National Lottery Community Fund- Life Chances Fund | 5,380 | The Life Chances Fund is a Social Impact Bond (SIB) top-up fund, encouraging commissioners to use SIBs in the pursuit of improve outcomes for those who need help the most. |
Rank Foundation | 5,000 | This project has been funded as part of the Community Match Challenge, which aims to provide a match fund grant to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations for onward distribution to voluntary and community organisations to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis. |
Comic Relief | 5,000 | This project has been funded as part of the Community Match Challenge, which aims to provide a match fund grant to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations for onward distribution to voluntary and community organisations to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis. |
Lloyds Bank Foundation | 4,964 | This project has been funded as part of the Community Match Challenge, which aims to provide a match fund grant to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations for onward distribution to voluntary and community organisations to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis. |
Horniman Public Museum and Public Park Trust |
4,661 | Grant-in-aid funding. |
The National Lottery Community Fund - I will fund | 4,645 | The #iwill Fund aims works in partnership with major funders to create new opportunities for young people to participate in social action. |
Voluntary and Community Sector Emergencies Partnership | 4,405 | The British Red Cross is already subsidising the costs of the VCSEP with its own funding, and will continue to do so alongside Government grant funding. Funding from DCMS is critical in enabling the VCSEP to scale up its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, providing vital coordination and support to a wider network of charities and communities on the ground. By funding dedicated staff time, we enable the VCSEP staff to focus on delivery of the VCSEP’s COVID-19 coordination only, rather than delivering this in a part time capacity alongside their regular charity (British Red Cross and others) work. This will facilitate a much more effective and efficient response which is necessary in the face of a fast-moving emergency. |
Church Revitalisation Trust | 4,000 | This project has been funded as part of the Community Match Challenge, which aims to provide a match fund grant to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations for onward distribution to voluntary and community organisations to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis. |
UK Community Foundations | 2,500 | This project has been funded as part of the Community Match Challenge, which aims to provide a match fund grant to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations for onward distribution to voluntary and community organisations to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis. |
Digital Lifeline - Digital Inclusion for Disabled People - Good Things Foundation | 2,500 | The Digital Lifeline Fund’s aim is to reduce the digital exclusion of people with learning disabilities, who have been disproportionately impacted by Covid-19. The grant will be allocated to Good Things Foundation, a leading digital inclusion charity. This emergency funding will provide devices, data and digital support to support people with learning disabilities stay well and connected, and help mitigate the disproportionate impact of Covid-19. The grant will be paid at point of need and in arrears. |
Stefanou Foundation, | 2,439 | This project has been funded as part of the Community Match Challenge, which aims to provide a match fund grant to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations for onward distribution to voluntary and community organisations to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis. |
National Film and Television School | 2,360 | To contribute to eligible expenditure itemized in the organizations annual delivery plan. |
Smallwood Trust | 2,100 | This project has been funded as part of the Community Match Challenge, which aims to provide a match fund grant to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations for onward distribution to voluntary and community organisations to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis. |
Vardy Foundation | 2,000 | This project has been funded as part of the Community Match Challenge, which aims to provide a match fund grant to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations for onward distribution to voluntary and community organisations to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis. |
The Henry Smith Charity | 2,000 | This project has been funded as part of the Community Match Challenge, which aims to provide a match fund grant to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations for onward distribution to voluntary and community organisations to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis. |
Local Connections Fund (Loneliness Microgrants) -The National Lottery Community Fund | 2,000 | Grant funding to help tackle loneliness in England working with specific target groups and aligning with cross Government objectives to add to the evidence base and encourage partnership working. |
Geffrye Museum | 1,889 | Grant-in-aid funding. |
Audio Content Fund Ltd | 1,802 | The Audio Content Fund, will support a broad range of public service audio content, for all ages, on a wider spectrum of UK radio stations. The Fund aims to create new opportunities for producers to make public service content that adds to viewer and listener choice. |
Global Charities | 1,500 | This project has been funded as part of the Community Match Challenge, which aims to provide a match fund grant to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations for onward distribution to voluntary and community organisations to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis. |
Police Treatment Centres | 1,500 | To expand the Police Treatment Centre in Harrogate, providing increased Psychological Wellbeing support to the Police and other Emergency Services personnel. |
National Youth Agency | 1,400 | To ensure the youth worker qualifications and curriculum remain current. |
Founders Pledge | 1,310 | This project has been funded as part of the Community Match Challenge, which aims to provide a match fund grant to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations for onward distribution to voluntary and community organisations to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis. |
English Football League | 1,310 | The English Football League Trust will receive funding to make onward grants to its Football Club Community Organisations in 32 deprived locations across England, with the aim of connecting more older people at risk of loneliness. Activities include befriending phone calls, online social groups, a pen-pal scheme, social action from young people taking part in the National Citizen Service and socially distanced ‘garden gate’ conversations. |
Localgiving Foundation | 1,000 | This project has been funded as part of the Community Match Challenge, which aims to provide a match fund grant to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations for onward distribution to voluntary and community organisations to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis. |
The Greggs Foundation | 1,000 | This project has been funded as part of the Community Match Challenge, which aims to provide a match fund grant to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations for onward distribution to voluntary and community organisations to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis. |
The Coalfields Regeneration Trust | 1,000 | This project has been funded as part of the Community Match Challenge, which aims to provide a match fund grant to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations for onward distribution to voluntary and community organisations to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis. |
Nesta | 951 | The grant will run a Challenge Prize until the end of March 2020. The Challenge Prize aims to stimulate tech innovation in civil society organisations by challenging charities, social ventures and social enterprises to design solutions to specific problems. The prize will also tackle loneliness and social isolation, and build community cohesion. |
SSAFA | 950 | The Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen And Families Association - Forces Help (SSAFA) will use funding to support veterans experiencing loneliness and their families across the UK. The funding will support a new socially-distanced visiting service, expansion of telephone helpline, a one-to-one mentoring service and targeted activities for groups more at risk of loneliness. |
Spirit of 2012 | 864 | To fund, co-create and evaluate projects that engage girls and women with caring responsibilities in music-making to reduce loneliness. This is achieved through connection to others with shared experiences, improve wellbeing through creative musical expression, challenge and change gendered perceptions of caring and identify and share best practice by ‘testing and learning’ new approaches. |
Homeless Link | 862 | The project aims to provide direct support to women who are, or are at risk of, homelessness across England. This is achieved by producing and disseminating evidence-based learning and resources to homelessness and women’s services, supporting them to deliver collaborative gender and trauma-informed solutions to supporting women out of homelessness. |
Old Royal Naval College Greenwich | 779 | The grant will be used towards the conservation, presentation and interpretation of the collection of buildings, paintings and other artefacts set out across the Old Royal Naval College site. |
Home-Start uK | 750 | The grant for Home-Start UK will help them provide onward grants to local Home Starts to support new mums at risk of loneliness. Their service will include regular telephone calls, online groups to connect families with each other and working with local partners to support crisis response. |
RNIB | 750 | The Royal National Institute of Blind People has received funding to further support blind and partially sighted people through adapting and expanding telephone groups, online resources and piloting socially-distanced face to face support. |
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 750 | The aim of this Project is to support the scoping and piloting of a new cultural heritage protection workstream focused on the impacts of natural disasters and climate change on cultural heritage in developing countries. |
GamCare | 717 | To facilitate help-seeking by the most vulnerable women and girls affected by problem gambling to create a step change in levels of support and to provide an evidence base for the links between gambling and domestic abuse. |
Alzheimer’s Society | 700 | The grant will go to the Alzheimer’s Society who will continue to support people with dementia and their carers through welfare and companion calls to support their wellbeing and provide informal chats and weekly ‘singing for the brain’ sessions - vocal exercises that help improve brain activity and well-being. |
Mind | 700 | The grant will be allocated to Mind who will make onward grants to local groups to provide mental health support for older people, new parents, those who are disabled, digitally excluded and young people. This will include listening, befriending and wellbeing support services targeting these groups. |
Carers Trust | 650 | The Carers Trust will receive funding to make onward grants to local charities in their network. |
British Red Cross | 610 | The grant will support young people, ethnic minority communities, refugees, the digitally excluded and people more at risk of loneliness because of their health issues. It will enable them to expand their connecting communities work, with a focus on virtual group activities and 1:1 support to digitally excluded people, helping to get them online. People living in Durham, Barking and Dagenham, Stockport and Plymouth will be among the first to benefit. |
Changing Lives | 608 | To provide trauma-informed support for vulnerable women who have been groomed by groups of men for sexual exploitation in locations across the North East and Yorkshire. |
Crisis UK | 595 | To gather UK-wide data to understand the links between female homelessness and modern slavery. Subsequently, to develop a model for the identification, support, recovery, accommodation and integration of women who have escaped modern slavery and who are homeless or precariously housed. |
National Youth Agency | 586 | To administer around 450 financial bursaries to students undertaking youth work qualifications. |
Southall Black Sisters | 505 | Make effective/essential support/protections available to abused No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) women by providing safe accommodation, subsistence and respond to emerging new issues through holistic intervention including counselling/therapy, immigration advice, community awareness-raising. |
Youth Access | 501 | To tackle rising mental health need amongst young women aged 16-25 by increasing access to high quality, gender-informed, young person-centred services in local communities, including targeted access through Youth Information, Advice and Counselling Services (YIACS) to psychological therapies, advice and groupwork interventions, particularly for those from ethnic minority backgrounds and/or with experience of violence or insecure housing. |
Impact Investing Institute | 500 | The Impact Investing Institute is being set up in FY 2019/20 and this grant will act as cornerstone funding leveraging further co-funding from Department for International Development (DfID) and others to deliver the institute’s 3-year business plan. The objective of the Institute is to ‘’accelerate the growth and improve the effectiveness of the UK impact investing market, by mobilising more capital that contributes to solving social challenges’’. |
Memorials Grant Scheme - Various | 500 | Scheme to reimburse VAT charges for Memorial repairs. |
Sense | 500 | To support blind and partially sighted people through adapting and expanding telephone groups, online resources and piloting socially-distanced face to face support. |
Key Fund Investments | 472 | The grant is to be used for onward social impact investment in cultural and creative organisations in the North of England. |
The Ambulance Staff Charity (TASC) | 407 | The charity will establish: post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) rehabilitation services complementing existing physical rehabilitation services; the means to take TASC on the road to promote the support services available, membership and raise public awareness; and sustainable income from supporters in the ambulance services and their families. |
National Youth Agency | 300 | To administer financial bursaries to students undertaking youth work qualifications. |
Step Up To Serve | 300 | The #iwill campaign is a UK-wide, time limited campaign that aims to make social action part of life for all young people aged 10-20. The campaign aims to increase participation in meaningful social action, reduce the socio-economic gap in those taking part and create sustainable change for young people, their communities and wider society. |
Comic Relief (3rd TTF grant) | 291 | This project aims to invest in projects working to end VAWG particularly those who are more at risk due to multiple and complex needs. |
British Red Cross Society | 262 | The proceeds from LIBOR fines are used to support Armed Forces and Emergency Services charities and other related good causes that represent those that demonstrate the very best of values. |
British Youth Council | 233 | To support young people to engage in the democratic process and to get their voices heard at all levels of Government, by contributing to British Youth Council’s (BYC) programme of work that delivers: The UK Youth Parliament (including the Summer Sitting and the Annual Sitting in the House of Commons); The Make Your Mark Ballot (including the Make Your Mark report); The Youth Select Committee (including the Youth Select Committee report); and (on hold due to Covid-19) Training conventions for young representatives and participants (e.g Members of Youth Parliament). |
Devon Air Ambulance Trust | 223 | The grant is a contribution towards the costs of undertaking the professional installation and commissioning of equipment to allow Air Ambulances to operate at night in Devon. |
Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust | 196 | The grant will be used towards the preservation, conservation and maintenance of the Historic Dockyard, its buildings, ships and collections. |
The Young Foundation | 196 | Funding for a scale up programme that supports the growth of social innovators with proven solutions to social challenges. |
Tech Talent Charter CIC | 190 | Funding to ensure Diversity & Inclusion remains at the heart of post-Covid recovery, particularly in the areas of retraining and career conversion. Increase engagement through accelerated growth of a digital first model, with deeper online engagement through virtual events content, communications and our TTC Toolkit. |
Solace Women’s Aid | 179 | This project aims to ensure that all women have access to the support they need in the spaces most appropriate for them. It will provide joined-up partnership support with the aim of empowering all women across legal and other structures and across urban and rural environments. By developing a Centre of Excellence, with the focus on removing silos across the three spaces in three nations, Solace Women’s Aid will provide a sustainable online space to support women’s organisations in the future. |
SafeLives | 171 | The ‘Your Best Friend’ project will empower 10,000+ young women with knowledge and confidence to act before someone harms or is harmed, to keep themselves and their friends safe. Activities will be carried out in three complementary waves, with evaluation, analytics and learning shared throughout. The waves are research; test and develop; launch tools and grants programme. |
Federation of London Youth Clubs (aka. London Youth) | 140 | The programme will support ethnic minority young women aged 10-14, and a cohort of 30+ youth workers. Young women will access high-quality activities in their youth organisation to promote positive mental health and challenge stigma. Meanwhile, youth workers will be up-skilled through training and peer support, so they can better support young women. |
University of Bath- Institute of Coding | 130 | Increase growth in provision of UK AI Masters through industry sponsorship and collaboration with UK universities. |
University of Bath- Institute of Coding | 122 | Increase growth in provision of UK AI Masters through industry sponsorship and collaboration with UK universities. |
The Medaille Trust | 102 | The Moving on Project focuses on meeting the long-term needs of women affected by trafficking and modern slavery. To do this, The Medaille Trust will establish eight new delivery hubs across England, each staffed with experienced caseworkers. |
British Youth Council | 100 | A grant to continue supporting young people to be involved in policy development across government, through co-creation, inspections, consultation and advisory approaches as part of the Youth Steering Group and The Young Inspectors. |
Impact Investing Institute | 100 | The grant will fund a collaborative research project on the potential to mobilise greater flows of institutional investment into place-based impact investment (PBII), which delivers both financial returns and positive impacts for communities afflicted by long-term under-investment. This will result in a white paper which raises awareness, addresses the barriers and increases confidence in place-based impact investing. It will also aim to develop a standardised approach to PBII impact measurement and reporting that is taken forward for widespread consultation and adoption. |
British Youth Council | 100 | To meet the youth voice commitments in the Civil Society Strategy, by setting up and running the Civil Society Youth Steering Group and national Young Inspectors and Commissioners Group and to undertake youth-led research into options for a digital solution to engage young people in national policy making. |
Social Investment Business | 99 | The Equality Impact Investing Project aims to make the social impact investing sector better at addressing inequality through supporting investors, infrastructure organisations, policy makers and equality sector organisations to reform policies and processes to set, measure and deliver equality goals. |
Turing Institute | 70 | Grant to contribute to the development of an online platform to deliver free training to companies executives/ managers in data science. |
YMCA England and Wales | 63 | The “Y’s Girls Mentoring” project is a community led Mentoring initiative based on Early and Effective Intervention principles. They will identify young people at risk of developing mild to moderate mental health issues and match them with a trained community based volunteer mentor. |
The Platinum Jubilee Pageant Limited | 48 | To cover the essential start- up costs incurred by the delivery organisation enabling the organisation to commence the integral fundraising process early in the next financial year. Allow the delivery organisation to build capacity to fundraise and generate philanthropic support. Enable the delivery organisation to use own funds, once raised, to support itself in delivering a large scale public event for the bank holiday weekend, maximising the time for the development of plans to mark the Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. |
Regenerate Trust | 40 | The aim is to support ReGenerate to carry out and publish research on systemic reforms to help social entrepreneurs to scale and have more impact, building demand for impact investment to match wider departmental goals. |
Alan Turing Institute | 30 | Project 1: AI Regulation - To scope and build a work programme that will develop the UK’s regulators’ AI capabilities. This meets a longstanding government commitment. Project 2: AI Ethics Guide - To iterate existing public sector ethics guidance for the use of AI with a view to making it more practicable. |
Youth Sports Trust | 26 | The purpose of the Tampon Tax Fund is to allocate the funds generated from the VAT on sanitary products to projects that improve the lives of disadvantaged women and girls. |
Jo Cox Foundation | 25 | Support the Jo Cox Foundation (JCF) to undertake communications activity that will support the objectives of the Let’s Talk Loneliness campaign at a critical time over winter during Covid-19, and looking forward to 2021-22. These grants will support JCF to amplify the conversation around loneliness in the immediate term, and carry out focussed sessions to upskill community organisers on loneliness. This will support our wider efforts to reduce stigma, raise awareness of the importance of social connections, and encourage people to take action. |
The National Lottery Community Fund | 23 | The grant will enable TNLCF, through an external provider, to carry out a review into the operational health and long term sustainability of business models for projects funded by the Life Chances Fund. The review’s recommendations will allow DCMS to ensure the support provided by DCMS and TNLCF is targeted appropriately. |
Cyber Cheltenham Cic (Cynam) | 20 | This grant will allow DCMS to run a pilot activity with the Cheltenham Cyber Cluster (Cynam) ahead of a larger roll out of cyber cluster funding in FY 21/22. The Cheltenham cyber cluster will undertake work to formalise the governance of the UK cyber clusters and the relationship between the clusters and government. |
Co-Op Foundation | 20 | To support the Co-op Foundation to undertake communications activity that will support the objectives of the Let’s Talk Loneliness campaign at a critical time over winter during Covid-19, and looking forward to 2021-22. The Co-Op Foundation will undertake research and strategy development activity to inform future campaign activity. This will support our wider efforts to reduce stigma, raise awareness of the importance of social connections, and encourage people to take action. |
Child Bereavement UK | 17 | Deliver a bereavement education programme to air ambulance crews over three years. |
Community Media Association | 15 | To support a number of initiatives led by the Community Media Association to help community radio stations take advantage of the opportunities offered by small-scale digital audio broadcasting (SSDAB). |
The Poetry Society | 11 | Funding to provide support to the Poet Laureate, via the Poetry Society so they are able to undertake activities and projects suited to the role as they see fit. |
UK Community Foundations (2nd TTF grant) | 9 | To make grants across the UK that benefit women and girls, investing in a wide variety of projects, large and small, that make a tangible and long-term difference to health, well-being, confidence and social/economic activity. |
Comic Relief (4th TTF grant) | 9 | Comic Relief’s Supporting & Sustaining Specialism project will centre on a competitive, open grants programme for organisations led by ethnic minority women for ethnic minority women to address violence against women and girls in all four nations of the UK. Approximately 15 onward grants of between £40,000 and £250,000 for up to 18 months will be awarded and managed by Comic Relief. |
Dynamo North East CIC | 5 | This £5,000 pilot will explore ways in which Cyber Security Clusters can support the development of cyber skills in the local workforce of the region in which they operate. The pilot activity will be run out of the NE Dynamo Cluster. |
Annex – Section 70 grants by DCMS in 2020-21 under the Youth Sector support for COVID-19
Grant recipient | Payments £’000 |
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The Prince’s Trust | 3600 |
Girlguiding | 2858 |
The Scout Association | 2147 |
London Youth | 523 |
Northamptonshire Association of Youth Clubs (NAYC) | 289 |
Jewish Lads’ & Girls’ Brigade (JLGB) | 217 |
Girlguiding North West England | 148 |
Newcastle upon Tyne Y.M.C.A. | 101 |
Diane Modahl Sports Foundation | 71 |
Adventure Under Sail | 69 |
The Warren Youth Project | 67 |
The Wheels Project | 62 |
SPID Theatre Company Ltd | 60 |
Essex Boys and Girls Clubs | 59 |
Litherland Youth and Community Centre | 54 |
Our Barn Community | 53 |
The Pump (East Birmingham) Ltd. | 52 |
The Horse Rangers Association (Hampton Court) Limited | 51 |
Switch Up CIC | 50 |
Youth First Ltd | 49 |
Youth United Foundation | 44 |
The Guide Association Derbyshire | 42 |
S Pinter Youth Project | 41 |
Centre 63 | 40 |
Gorse Hill Studios Creative Community | 39 |
Linx Youth Project | 35 |
St Werburghs City Farm | 35 |
Mouth That Roars | 34 |
Lindley Educational Trust | 34 |
Kidz Konnekt | 34 |
Kentish Town City Farm | 32 |
Element Society | 31 |
Get Set Girls | 31 |
Masorti Judaism - Noam | 30 |
Disability Challengers | 29 |
Baby People | 28 |
YOH | 28 |
The Leeds Judean Clubs For Boys And Girls T/A The Zone | 27 |
Parenting 2000 | 27 |
BBYO | 27 |
Community Education Foundation & Lyncx (CEF Lyncx) | 26 |
OMG Education | 26 |
Eastern Ravens Trust | 25 |
Red Balloon Foundation | 25 |
Hersham Youth Trust | 25 |
Action4Youth | 24 |
Isleworth Explorers Club | 24 |
Young Asian Voices | 23 |
YMCA Essex | 23 |
Knowsley Youth Mutual Ltd (Vibe) | 23 |
Tall Ships Youth Trust | 22 |
Humberside County Scouts Council | 22 |
Endeavour Training Limited | 21 |
Halewood Youth In Community Centre | 21 |
The Source Young People’s Charity | 21 |
Friends of the Rose Bowl | 19 |
Windsor Horse Rangers Ltd | 18 |
P.H.O.E.B.E Centre | 18 |
Toranj Tuition | 18 |
Tomer Devorah Seminary | 18 |
free@last | 17 |
Community First | 17 |
SoCo Music Project | 17 |
Edge Hill Youth and Community Centre | 17 |
Flash Musicals | 17 |
The Church Lads & Church Girls Brigade | 17 |
The British Youth Council | 17 |
BMYG Youth Work cic/ Youth Connect | 17 |
Clevedon YMCA | 15 |
Whitehaven Harbour Youth Project | 15 |
Rooted In | 15 |
InSpire at St Peters | 14 |
Alford House | 14 |
the future forward trading name of camp knak | 14 |
Water Adventure Centre | 13 |
Kidderminster & District Youth Trust | 13 |
Strength and Learning Through Horses | 12 |
Azamrah youth club | 11 |
Award Solutions | 11 |
RJ Working CIC | 11 |
Incredible Kids | 11 |
Vision Youth & Community | 10 |
YMCA White Rose | 10 |
Perdiswell Young People’s Leisure Club | 10 |
Training Ship Broadsword | 10 |
Success4All CIO | 10 |
8th Norwich Sea Scouts | 10 |
Bridport Youth and Community Centre | 10 |
Hinckley Club For Young People (Green Towers) | 9 |
Fox Hollies Community Association CIO | 9 |
UK Youth Circus Network T/A CircusWorks | 9 |
Chichester City Centre Drop-In | 9 |
What’s Your Point? | 9 |
Young Adult Respite Service C.I.C. | 8 |
The Wickers Charity | 8 |
Rise:61 | 8 |
2nd Leyland Scout Group | 7 |
Play in Newcastle - Inspire Youth Tyne & Wear | 7 |
2nd. Witham Boys’ Brigade, working name Witham BB / Witham Boys’ & Girls’ Brigade Association | 6 |
First Luton Sea Scout Group | 6 |
123rd Manchester Scouts | 6 |
East End Youth & Community Centre | 6 |
Springs Family Centre | 6 |
Avon Youth Club | 6 |
1st Stokenchurch Scout Group | 6 |
Shadwell Community Project | 5 |
Cornwall Guide Association | 5 |
The Mentoring Lab Community C.I.C | 5 |
Liberty Jamboree | 5 |
Southside Young Leaders’ Academy | 5 |
7th Petts Wood Scout Group | 5 |
Birkenhead Sea Cadets (TS Blackcap) | 5 |
St Francis Church | 5 |
Chichester Boys Club CIO | 5 |
1st Reading YMCA Sea Scout Group | 5 |
Melton Mowbray & District Scout Council | 4 |
Sandwell Asian development Association | 4 |
Autism Bedfordshire | 4 |
Sawston Youth Group | 4 |
Cleeve, Claverham & Yatton Scout Group | 4 |
1st Green Street Green Scout Group | 4 |
1st Knutsford Scout Group | 4 |
186th Sheffield (Manor) Scout Group | 4 |
City of Liverpool sea cadets | 4 |
Cheshire Forest Girl Guides | 4 |
Mid Yorkshire Community Foundation | 4 |
1st Wellesbourne Scout Group | 3 |
Wyre District Scouts | 3 |
Passion | 3 |
9th Ampthill & Woburn [Badgerhill] Scout Group | 3 |
Morecambe and Heysham Sea Cadets | 3 |
!st Castle Canyke (4th Bodmin) Scout Group | 3 |
2375 (Neston) Squadron Air Cadets | 3 |
Sutton Coldfield Adventure Unit | 3 |
Artz for All C.I.C | 3 |
Ashfield District Scout Council | 3 |
Savernake Forest Scout Group | 3 |
9th Kenton Scout Group | 3 |
1st North Tawton Scout Group | 3 |
2nd Cranham Scouts | 3 |
8th Ellesmere Port Scout Group | 3 |
1st Greasley Scouts Group | 3 |
Integrate Youth for Christ | 3 |
Waverton 1st Scout Group | 3 |
Timestap Academy of Dance | 3 |
2nd Shepperton Rainbows and Brownies (Butterflies) | 2 |
Mentor Wise | 2 |
14th Royal Tunbridge Wells (Calverley) Scout Group | 2 |
9th Colchester Guides | 2 |
255th Bristol Channel Sea Scouts | 2 |
Eastleigh District Scout Council | 2 |
10th Cheltenham (All Saints) Scout Group | 2 |
Beech Hill Scouts | 2 |
1st Albrighton Scout Group | 2 |
1st Fazeley Scout Group | 2 |
7th Crosby Guides | 2 |
1st Stalham Scout Group | 2 |
6th Barking & Dagenham Scout Group (St Mary’s) | 2 |
1st A Porchester Brownies | 2 |
1st Lowton Guides | 2 |
1st Lower Morden Scout Group | 2 |
5th Frome Scout Group | 2 |
Overchurch Upton Scout Group | 2 |
SONshine Club | 2 |
6th Sidcup (St. Lawrence) Scout Group | 2 |
1st Sunderland Girl’s Brigade | 2 |
1st Prudhoe Scout Group | 2 |
1st Corby Scout Group | 2 |
North Mymms Youth Project | 2 |
28th Hammersmith Scout Group | 2 |
2nd St Helens (Eccleston Park) Scout Group | 2 |
Sharon Youth Association | 2 |
16th Barking & Dagenham Scout Group | 2 |
The Tribe Youth Group | 2 |
1st Guilden Sutton Scout Group | 2 |
19th Swindon Scout Group | 2 |
173rd Derby (Heatherton) Scouts | 2 |
1st Huthwaite scout group | 2 |
Earl Shilton Scout Group | 2 |
20th St Albans Ansar Scouts | 2 |
8th Hendon Scouts | 2 |
Clubs for Young People Northamptonshire (CYPN) | 2 |
1st Redditch Scout Group | 2 |
20th Whitley Bay Scout Group | 2 |
1st Christchurch (Town) Scout Group | 2 |
2nd Mildenhall Guides | 1 |
1st Shipley (Windhill) Scout Group | 1 |
1st Swindon Village Scout Group | 1 |
1st Chew Stoke Scout Group | 1 |
12th Bolton (Rosehill) Scout Group | 1 |
1st Tyne Sea Scouts | 1 |
Friends of Young Carers (West Berkshire) | 1 |
1st Wensleydale Scout Group | 1 |
1st Bude Scout Group | 1 |
Claybrooke & Ullesthorpe Scout Group | 1 |
Stannington Ridley Scout Group | 1 |
9th Orpington Air Scout Group | 1 |
218th Woodgate Valley (Birmingham) | 1 |
51st Ipswich Scout Group | 1 |
1st Wargrave Guides | 1 |
St Joseph and St Helen Cub Scouts | 1 |
173rd Sheffield (Woodhouse) Scout Group | 1 |
Hessle Scout Group | 1 |
1st Hampton-in-Arden Brownies and Guides | 1 |
16th epping forest scout group | 1 |
5th Hornchurch Guides | 1 |
23rd Colchester Brownies | 1 |
1st Beverley Scout Group | 1 |
1st Clavering Scout Group | 1 |
Empowering People In Change (EPIC) Youth CIC | 1 |
1st Bradley Stoke Guides | 1 |
Chilvers Coton Scout Group | 1 |
The Boys’ Brigade, 5th Scarborough Company | 1 |
3rd Barton Seagrave Brownies | 1 |
1st Wetheral Brownies | 1 |
1st Busbridge Scout Group | 1 |
8th Swindon Guides and Rangers | 1 |
11th Enfield Boys’ Brigade | 1 |
1st Abbey Meads Rainbows | 1 |
1st Colwich Guides | 1 |
1st Berrow Scout Group | 1 |
Wallace House Community Centre | 1 |
7th Manchester Scouts | 1 |
37th Sunderland Brownies | 1 |
1st Wheldrake Brownies | 1 |
5th Sholing Brownies | 1 |
Welwyn & Hatfield Sea Cadets | 1 |
5th/8th Kendal Scout Group | 1 |
Bentham Youth Cafe & Community Youth | 1 |
Romsley ( St Kenelms) Guides | 1 |
1st Duffield Brownies | 1 |
238th Northfield Methodist Scout Group | 1 |
18th Worcester Park Company, The Boys’ Brigade | 1 |
1st Shoeburyness Girls’ Brigade | 1 |
1st Weeley/Lt Clacton Scout Group | 1 |
Sea Mills Boys and Girls Club | 1 |
1st Saint Briavels Scout Group | 1 |
22nd Sunderland Guides | 1 |
2nd Plympton Boys’ Brigade | 1 |
6th Marlow Brownies | 1 |
1st Allerton Scout Group | 1 |
5th Hartford Guides And Rangers | 1 |
1st Kempston Girls Brigade | 1 |
Girlguiding – Hornchurch Division | 1 |
1st Usworth Guides and Rangers | 1 |
1st Wallsend Girls’ Brigade | 1 |
1st Kettering (Parish Church) Scout Group | 1 |
87th Nottingham Guides | 1 |
1st Westlands Brownies | 1 |
24th Doncaster(1st Mexborough) Scout Group | 1 |
4th Lower Earley Guides | 1 |
1st Donisthorpe and Moira Guide Unit | 1 |
2nd Nanpantan (Holywell) brownies | 1 |
2nd Didcot (Methodist) Scout Group | 1 |
1st Haydon Bridge Scout Group | 1 |
1st Great Horwood Scouts and Guides Combined Fund | 1 |
1st Royal Forest Scout Group | 1 |
6th Castle Mount West (SA) Brownies | 1 |
1st Shetlon Lock Brownies | 1 |
17th Barking (St Erkenwald) Scout Group - Now 17th Barking & Dagenham Scout Group | 1 |
2nd Toton Scout Group | 1 |
2nd Claines Brownies | 1 |
1st Hythe Guides | 1 |
1st Wallingford Boys Brigade | 1 |
First Flamstead Scout Group | 1 |
1st Leasingham Scout Group | 1 |
Deane Scout and Guide Supporters Association | 1 |
7th Preston Scout Group | 1 |
1st Tackley & Heyford Scout Group | 1 |
2nd West Wellow Brownies | 1 |
1st Ketton Guides | 1 |
2nd Stewkley Brownies | 1 |
4th Rossendale (Newchurch Methodist) Guides | 1 |
2nd Horndean Brownies | 1 |
1st Guildford Boys’ Brigade | 1 |
4th Rossendale (Newchurch Methodist) Rainbows | 1 |
1st Muxton Guides | 1 |
1st Westlands Guides | 1 |
Girlguiding 1st Hatherleigh Brownie Unit | 1 |
87th Nottingham Brownies | 1 |
Meole Brace Scout Group | 1 |
1st Gayton Guides | 1 |
30th Newcastle Rainbows | 1 |
19th City of Coventry South Guides | 1 |
4th Uckfield Guides | 1 |
6th Penkridge Brownies | 1 |
2nd Shildon Guides | 1 |
1st Knaresborough Brownies | 1 |
1st Clipstone All Saints Brownies and Guides | 1 |
21st City of Coventry South Guides | 1 |
16th Portsmouth Guides | 1 |
1st Colwich Brownies | 1 |
1st Broadstairs (Holy Trinity) Guides | 1 |
1st Ashby De La Zouch Rainbow Unit | 1 |
14th Basford (Newcastle) Scout Group | 1 |
1st Drighlington Girls’ Brigade | 1 |
2nd Great Sutton Guides & Rangers | 1 |
1st Yapton Guides | 1 |
1st Aldbourne Guides | 1 |
1st Heddon-on-the-Wall Brownies | 1 |
8th Maghull St Andrew’s Brownies | 1 |
1st Fremington Scout Group | 1 |
9th Bath Brownies | 1 |
1st Keelby Brownies | 1 |
1st Strawberry Line Brownies | 1 |
Mackworth Guides | 1 |
1st Halling Guides | 1 |
1st Halling Brownies | 1 |
3rd St Budeaux Scout Group | 1 |
There are a number of additional grants awarded below £500 that have not been included above, as these would have rounded to £0 in £000’s.
2019 to 2020
The table below sets out the financial assistance provided by the Secretary of State under these powers for 2019-20.
Grant recipient | Payments £’000 | Description |
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Arts Council England | 433,021 | Grant-in-aid funding. |
British Film Institute | 34,925 | Grant-in-aid funding. |
Tampon Tax Fund (multiple recipients) | 16,401 | The purpose of the Tampon Tax Fund is to allocate the funds generated from the VAT on sanitary products to projects that improve the lives of disadvantaged women and girls. |
British Council | 9,220 | The outcomes of the Cultural Protection Fund are cultural heritage protection, training and capacity building and advocacy and education. |
The National Lottery Community Fund - Youth Investment Fund | 5,000 | The Youth Investment Fund aims to expand, create and strengthen the sustainability of open-access youth services in six disadvantaged regions in the country. It also expands the evidence base of the open access youth provision, through a £1m evaluation. |
Access Foundation | 5,000 | Capacity building for social sector organisations. |
The National Lottery Community Fund - I will fund | 4,606 | The #iwill Fund aims works in partnership with major funders to create new opportunities for young people to participate in social action. |
Horniman Public Museum and Public Park Trust | 3,970 | Grant-in-aid funding. |
National Film and Television School | 2,425 | NFTS’ core objective is to provide world class training and education for film, television and media industries. The overall aim of the grant is to support this, and in particular it covers funding for student fees and bursaries, overhead and project admin costs, as well as capital funding for equipment, general maintenance and repairs. |
The National Lottery Community Fund - Building Connections (Loneliness) | 2,300 | The purpose of the Fund is to help individuals, communities and local services connect in a variety of ways and consolidate learning that can support future policy and funding decisions. The Fund will specifically support projects that already are, or with additional support, could tackle loneliness. |
Geffrye Museum | 2,196 | Grant-in-aid funding. |
Nesta | 2,000 | The Future News Fund pilot will welcome new ideas to address the challenges facing the journalism industry outlined in the Cairncross Review. It will use a number of different approaches to fund innovation, which are due to include a collaboration fund, accelerator prizes and experimentation with existing local news provision. |
The National Lottery Community Fund- Life Chances Fund | 1,953 | The Life Chances Fund is an £80m Social Impact Bond (SIB) top-up fund, encouraging commissioners to use SIBs in the pursuit of improve outcomes for those who need help the most. |
Key Fund | 1,540 | The grant is to be used for onward social impact investment in cultural and creative organisations in the North of England. |
The National Lottery Community Fund - Place Based Social Action | 1,408 | National Lottery and government funding is to increase the capacity of communities, civil society organisations, public sector bodies and businesses to work together to address priorities which matter to people locally through providing grants, planning and implementation support and evaluation. |
Nesta | 1,180 | To develop and manage a series of funds designed to find, test and grow innovations which harness the time and talents of 10,000 volunteers (75% of which will be people over 50). |
Great North Air Ambulance Service | 1,000 | To support the capital costs of acquiring and refurbishing an existing building and building a hangar/helipad. |
Centre for Acceleration of Social Technology (CAST) | 1,000 | This grant will be used to fund the set-up and growth of an innovation cluster focused around growing Tech for Good, social innovation, and digital skills in the social sector. The programme will work to deliver the cross-government aim to champion technology as a real force for social good and to make the UK a world leader in Tech for Good. |
British Council | 984 | A soft power initiative to be delivered across the GCC, designed to encourage youth participation in Culture and Sports activities particularly targeting young women and girls. |
Nesta | 954 | DCMS will sponsor NESTA to run a Challenge Prize until the end of March 2020. The Challenge Prize aims to stimulate tech innovation in civil society organisations by challenging charities, social ventures and social enterprises to design solutions to specific problems. The prize will also tackle loneliness and social isolation, and build community cohesion. |
Cornwall Air Ambulance Trust | 838 | Cornwall Air Ambulance Trust will purchase a new generation air ambulance helicopter to deliver vital pre-hospital emergency services to seriously sick and injured people in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. |
Co-op Community Investment Foundation - Building Connections | 800 | To support activity in community spaces, with the aim of promoting social connections in deprived areas across England. Co-operative Foundation will make onward grants to community space projects run by VCSE organisations in England. |
Old Royal Naval College Greenwich | 768 | Towards the conservation, presentation and interpretation of the collection of buildings, paintings and other artefacts set out across the Old Royal Naval College site. |
The Fire Fighters Charity | 763 | To establish a ‘Recovery Centre’. A centre of excellence providing high quality emotional wellbeing services for fire and rescue services personnel. |
Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance Charitable Trust | 700 | This grant is a contribution to the purchase of suitable office premises or if suitable office premises are not available, to secure a suitable site and commission a purpose build, to accommodate 40 Staff and Volunteers, in order to provide the charity with a new operations base. |
Co-op Community Investment Foundation | 696 | The purpose of the Fund is to help individuals, communities and local services connect in a variety of ways and consolidate learning that can support future policy and funding decisions. The Fund will specifically support projects that already are, or with additional support, could tackle loneliness. |
The Ambulance Services Charity (TASC) | 656 | The charity will establish: rehabilitation services complementing existing physical rehabilitation services; the means to take TASC on the road to promote the support services available, membership and raise public awareness; and sustainable income from supporters in the ambulance services and their families. |
Blavatnik School of Government | 500 | To conduct research and provide support to local commissioners on outcomes based commissioning. |
Impact Investing Institute | 500 | The Impact Investing Institute is being set up in FY 2019/20 and this grant will act as cornerstone funding leveraging further co-funding from DfID and others to deliver the institute’s 3-year business plan. The objective of the Institute is to ‘’accelerate the growth and improve the effectiveness of the UK impact investing market, by mobilising more capital that contributes to solving social challenges’’. |
Cruse Bereavement Care | 371 | To develop a bereavement support service for UK police, ambulance and fire/rescue personnel and their families, called ‘Here for You’. This will include providing direct face-to-face and telephone support, and disseminating information via facilitated training, paper leaflets/packs and website information. |
British Youth Council | 341 | To carry out a programme of work to deliver the UK Youth Parliament and associated youth voice activities. |
Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) | 300 | The Growing Place-based Giving Programme aims to support the development of six place-based giving schemes (PBGSs) work towards becoming sustainable, resilient, and are able to engage local communities and encourage donations to projects that benefit local people and their area. |
Step Up to Serve | 300 | Supporting partners to continue to collaborate within and across sectors post-2020. Progress in supporting key system leaders in education, environment and health & social care to further embed youth social action. Progress on securing long-term investment for youth social action that supports the four campaign priorities (quality, sustainability, starting younger, and reaching low-income young people). |
The Western Front Way | 293 | Funds to create a new, continuous, permanent, way marked walking path following the line of the 1914-18 Western Front. |
Nesta | 280 | To provide funding to Nesta to distribute grants through the Enhancing Impact Fund to a small portfolio of high performing, high impact organisations from the existing portfolio of projects, in accordance with the aims and objectives of the Centre for Social Action. Grantees will be selected, from the existing portfolio from the Second Half Fund, the Connected Communities Innovation Fund, the Early Years Social Action Fund and the Saver Support Fund. Criteria for award of the additional funding will be subject to final agreement between OCS and Nesta and shall include impact to date or impact potential, performance to date, capacity of the team to scale further, demand for services and sustainability. |
Memorial Grant Scheme | 269 | Reimbursement of VAT for multiple repairs to National Memorials. |
Nesta | 268 | To develop and manage a series of funds which find, test and grow social action initiatives which improve public service outcomes. The funds will have to increase the number of volunteers to 10,000 - 7,500 of which will be over the age of 50. The 2 funds covered under this grant agreement are the Connected Communities Innovation Fund and the Give More Get More Follow On Fund. |
UK Youth | 254 | To deliver onward grants to increase positive activities for young people by delivering extra sessions in youth clubs for the financial year 2019/20. |
Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery Trust | 253 | The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund has four objectives: to increase the number of artefacts on display, to improve physical access to collections, to improve access for disabled visitors, and to improve the quality of interpretation. The scheme is open to four categories of museums and galleries. |
Museum of East Anglian Life | 250 | The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund has four objectives: to increase the number of artefacts on display, to improve physical access to collections, to improve access for disabled visitors, and to improve the quality of interpretation. The scheme is open to four categories of museums and galleries. |
British Red Cross Society | 243 | The proceeds from LIBOR fines are used to support Armed Forces and Emergency Services charities and other related good causes that represent those that demonstrate the very best of values. |
Hull City Council Museums and Galleries | 231 | The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. |
Involve | 230 | DCMS will be providing funding and support to 8 local authorities to pilot opportunities to open up some of their policy decisions to citizen deliberation. As part of the programme, the Democracy Support Contractor (DSC), Involve et al., will make funding available to the eight selected local authorities and will make payments for the benefits of all LAs, supporting the delivery of the citizens’ assemblies. |
Stoke-on-Trent City Council | 210 | The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. |
Devon Air Ambulance Trust | 208 | The grant is a contribution towards the costs of undertaking the professional installation and commissioning of equipment to allow Air Ambulances to operate at night in Devon. |
Bucks County Museum Trust | 200 | The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund has four objectives: to increase the number of artefacts on display, to improve physical access to collections, to improve access for disabled visitors, and to improve the quality of interpretation. The scheme is open to four categories of museums and galleries. |
Nottingham City Council - Museums & Galleries | 200 | The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund has four objectives: to increase the number of artefacts on display, to improve physical access to collections, to improve access for disabled visitors, and to improve the quality of interpretation. The scheme is open to four categories of museums and galleries. |
Manchester Museum | 190 | The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund has four objectives: to increase the number of artefacts on display, to improve physical access to collections, to improve access for disabled visitors, and to improve the quality of interpretation. The scheme is open to four categories of museums and galleries. |
Tech Talent Charter | 189 | The proceeds will increase their growth in number of signatories and ensure they fully engage existing members. Establish their sustainable business model, securing funding for all project work (National and Regional Events, TTC Toolkit) and developing a “Foundation” partner model, supported by techUK. Launch their first consumer-focused comms campaign to encourage more working-age women to consider a career in tech. |
Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust | 184 | Towards the preservation, conservation and maintenance of the Historic Dockyard, its buildings, ships and collections. |
Social Investment Business | 179 | This grant fund is for Social Investment Business to pay for the activities of the PM-Commissioned Implementation Taskforce on Growing a Culture of Impact Investing, in pursuit of their objectives. |
Chetham’s Library | 173 | The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. |
Edith Cavell Fund for Nurses | 170 | The new Cavell Nurses’ Trust project will support nursing professionals and their families by targeting those with children under 18. |
Sunderland City Council | 156 | The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund has four objectives: to increase the number of artefacts on display, to improve physical access to collections, to improve access for disabled visitors, and to improve the quality of interpretation. The scheme is open to four categories of museums and galleries. |
Big Lottery Fund | 156 | To develop and distribute safeguarding training for charities through partnership with a recognised provider and within communities. |
Tank Museum | 137 | The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. |
University of Bath | 121 | Delivery of Initial Industrial AI Masters cohort 2019/20. |
Tyne & Wear Archive & Museums | 116 | The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. |
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL Museums & Collections, UCL Culture |
103 | The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. |
The Courtauld Institute of Art | 100 | The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund has four objectives: to increase the number of artefacts on display, to improve physical access to collections, to improve access for disabled visitors, and to improve the quality of interpretation. The scheme is open to four categories of museums and galleries. |
The Imperial War Museum Development Trust | 100 | The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund has four objectives: to increase the number of artefacts on display, to improve physical access to collections, to improve access for disabled visitors, and to improve the quality of interpretation. The scheme is open to four categories of museums and galleries. |
Luton Culture | 100 | The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund has four objectives: to increase the number of artefacts on display, to improve physical access to collections, to improve access for disabled visitors, and to improve the quality of interpretation. The scheme is open to four categories of museums and galleries. |
Centre for Youth Impact | 100 | To embed the use of evidence and increase understanding of impact measurement across the youth sector. |
Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust | 99 | The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. |
Southampton City Art Gallery - Southampton City Council | 98 | The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund has four objectives: to increase the number of artefacts on display, to improve physical access to collections, to improve access for disabled visitors, and to improve the quality of interpretation. The scheme is open to four categories of museums and galleries. |
National Maritime Museum Cornwall Trust | 97 | The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund has four objectives: to increase the number of artefacts on display, to improve physical access to collections, to improve access for disabled visitors, and to improve the quality of interpretation. The scheme is open to four categories of museums and galleries. |
Dorset County Museum | 95 | The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. |
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum | 93 | The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. |
Jon Burchell (Sheffield University) | 92 | Research and Innovation to enable Social Action. |
Derby Museums Trust | 90 | The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. |
The Geffrye Museum Trust | 90 | The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. |
The Horniman Public Museum and Public Park Trust | 90 | The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. |
Black Country Living Museum | 90 | The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. |
London Transport Museum | 83 | The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. |
ScreenSkills | 75 | To enable ScreenSkills to offer apprenticeships in film and HETV to a cohort of 20, providing high quality placements and recruiting from diverse groups currently underrepresented in the industry. |
Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford | 71 | The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. |
Tate Britain | 71 | The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. |
Science Museum Group | 70 | The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. |
British Red Cross | 70 | To help create a new independent charity, the National Emergency Trust, which will activate during a national emergency to raise and distribute funds. |
Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust (Weston Park) | 56 | The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. |
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council | 54 | The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. |
University of Durham | 50 | The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. |
SS Great Britain Trust | 50 | The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. |
The Big Society Trust | 42 | To allow The Big Society Trust, an independent governance body that acts to ensure independent organisations act in the public interest, to be able to secure appropriate professional advice to evolve their mandate and take on a wider set of oversight responsibilities. |
Pete’s Dragons | 40 | In collaboration with emergency services the charity will develop sustainable organisational capacity to help staff at risk of suicide and train Suicide First Aid lead trainers to provide training across emergency services. |
ACEVO | 37 | Research into bullying amongst senior leaders in the charity sector. |
The Cheltenham Trust | 37 | The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. |
Beth Shalom Ltd, trading as The National Holocaust Centre and Museum | 31 | The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. |
DotEveryone | 31 | To enable DotEveryone to conduct discovery phase research into the needs of SMEs and civil society organisations in the online harms ecosystem, focusing on redress and digital rights. |
The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association | 30 | Plan to expand the Guide Dogs’ Digital Transformation programme to digitally upskill their trustees and senior leadership. Includes e-learning and face to face workshops. Will enable Guide Dogs to provide meaningful digital services to 500,000 visually-impaired citizens, which leaders currently lack expertise to do. |
Kensington and Chelsea Citizens Advice | 30 | Assist with Citizens Advice funding post Grenfell disaster. |
Stepping Out Foundation | 30 | Grant recipient (Stepping Out Foundation) will receive funding, which in turn will be used to fund a research piece that is being carried out by an organisation who Stepping Out are being incubated. The research piece will focus on the public’s views on purpose-driven business and the role that it can play in society. It is expected that by funding this piece, the case for championing purpose-driven business will be strengthened, and the Government will gain a clearer understanding as to how their messaging in this area will be more attuned to the views of the public. |
Chatham Historic Dockyard | 30 | Towards the preservation, conservation and maintenance of the Historic Dockyard, its buildings, ships and collections. |
People’s History Museum | 25 | The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. |
YouthFed | 24 | The Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund pilot aims to increase the diversity and numbers of those working in the UK’s booming cyber security sector. |
UK Community Foundations | 20 | To cover UKCF’s staffing costs to administer the Revitalising Trusts programme. |
Newcastle University Ways to Wellness | 18 | Assessment of Ways to Wellness Campaign. |
Child Bereavement UK | 16 | Deliver a bereavement education programme to air ambulance crews over three years. |
Big Society Capital | 14 | The objective of this grant will be to raise awareness of SITR (Social Investment Tax Relief) with investors and organisations; provide guidance and materials to help organisations and investors access the scheme; and to improve the understanding of SITR and its uses among Independent financial advisors and wealth managers. |
Big Society Capital | 8 | The objective of this grant will be to raise awareness of SITR (Social Investment Tax Relief) with investors and organisations; provide guidance and materials to help organisations and investors access the scheme; and to improve the understanding of SITR and its uses among Independent financial advisors and wealth managers. |
Media Trust | 6 | Media Trust’s Digital Skills programme is free to charities. Funding from Google.org and Marketing Trust enables Media Trust to provide this for free, ensuring it is accessible to charities regardless of their size and income. |
The Alan Turing Institute | 5 | Run a project to develop an online tool designed to help SMEs develop their data science capabilities. |
Good Things Foundation | 5 | The grant will fund 0.5FTE work for the LDSP Delivery Group by a digital inclusion officer within the Digital Inclusion Team at Good Things Foundation. The digital inclusion officer will undertake work to further the aims and objectives of the LDSP Delivery Group. This includes providing secretariat services to the Delivery Group and assisting with the co-creation of the LDSP framework by Delivery Group members, DCMS, and local partners. |
ThinkForward | 4 | The development of a digital tool that will support delivery organisations in their development of social impact bonds. |
Kingston Voluntary Action (Superhighways project) | 2 | Superhighways is a Kingston Voluntary Action project that supports small local charities and community groups in London to do more with digital. They work via local infrastructure organisations to co-design services and reach those who need support. To expand their existing training, aimed at charity CEOs and Trustees of small organisations with less than £1.5m turnover, Superhighways would partner with London Plus, NAVCA and the FSI. Training covers everything from basic software skills through to helping leaders understand how to improve their organisational strategy by embedding digital tools and services. |
Annex – Section 70 grants by DCMS in 2019-20 under the Tampon Tax Fund
Grant recipient | Payments £’000 |
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UK Community Foundations | 2,891 |
Comic Relief second grant | 1,650 |
Homeless Link | 1,138 |
Brook Young People | 1,026 |
St Giles Trust | 689 |
The RCJ Advice | 650 |
Southall Black Sisters | 585 |
Mind - The National Association for Mental Health | 572 |
Youth Access | 499 |
Hestia Housing and Support | 486 |
Spirit of 2012 | 486 |
GamCare | 475 |
Crisis UK | 459 |
Comic Relief 19/20 | 446 |
Arhag Housing | 384 |
Changing Lives (The Cyrenians Ltd T/A Changing Lives) | 365 |
Standing Together Against Domestic Violence | 323 |
Women’s Aid Federation of England | 230 |
Rape Crisis England and Wales | 212 |
Youth Sport Trust | 162 |
Comic Relief | 149 |
Coventry Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre (CRASAC) | 115 |
Karma Nirvana | 112 |
Plan International UK | 110 |
Stepping Stones (Luton) | 94 |
Money Advice Plus | 94 |
The YOU Trust | 90 |
Black Country Women’s Aid | 88 |
Life Charity | 88 |
Womens Health Matters (WHM) | 84 |
IKWRO - Women’s Rights Organisation | 82 |
Brighton Oasis Project | 79 |
Shared Lives Plus | 75 |
Forward Assist | 73 |
Women’s Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre, Cornwall (WRSAC) | 73 |
Angelou Centre | 70 |
Smallwood Trust | 70 |
Step Together Volunteering | 63 |
Children’s Society | 59 |
Manor Gardens Welfare Trust | 59 |
Adfam National | 58 |
CREST | 54 |
The Baytree Centre | 50 |
SignHealth | 49 |
Relate | 48 |
Faith Regen Foundation | 46 |
Jacksons Lane | 46 |
Shelter, The National Campaign For Homeless People Ltd | 44 |
Suzy Lamplugh Trust | 43 |
Tender Education & Arts | 43 |
The Bike Project | 39 |
SATEDA | 37 |
Children North East | 36 |
Refuge | 36 |
Hestia Housing and Support | 33 |
The Proud Trust | 33 |
UK Community Foundations | 33 |
Surviving Economic Abuse | 32 |
Southall Black Sisters | 31 |
Girl Guiding | 30 |
Joanna Leeds | 28 |
Advance Charity | 25 |
Sikh Community & Youth Service | 20 |
Us in a Bus | 15 |
Citizens Advice Lancashire | 13 |
Women at the Well | 10 |
Yorkshire Cancer Research | 8 |
MumsAid | 6 |
2018 to 2019
The table below sets out the financial assistance provided by the Secretary of State under these powers for 2018-19.
Grant recipient | Payments £’000 | Description |
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Arts Council England | 508,119 | Grant-in-aid funding. |
National Citizen Service CIC | 121,762 | To fund NCS Trust to deliver the National Citizen Service programme. NB. Payments are for funding to December 2018 only. From January 2019, the new National Citizen Service Trust incorporated by Royal Charter, took over delivery of the programme with funding under the authority of the National Citizen Service Act 2015. |
Birmingham Organising Committee for the Commonwealth Games 2022 | 26,093 | Grant-in-aid funding. |
British Film Institute | 21,718 | Grant-in-aid funding. |
Tampon Tax Fund (multiple recipients) |
15,239 | The purpose of the Tampon Tax Fund is to allocate the funds generated from the VAT on sanitary products to projects that improve the lives of disadvantaged women and girls. |
British Council | 9,350 | Funding for the Cultural Protection Fund. The intended outcomes of the fund are cultural heritage protection, training and capacity building and advocacy and education. |
National Lottery Community Fund - Youth Investment Fund* | 5,000 | Grant funding to support youth organisations in disadvantaged areas to expand frontline open access youth provision and invest in organisational development to secure their futures. |
Youth United Foundation | 5,000 | To increase places in uniformed youth groups to reach vulnerable young people and allow for expansion in deprived areas. |
National Lottery Community Fund - #iwill * | 4,645 | Grant awarded to National Lottery Community Fund, who match funded Government’s investment to support Step Up To Serve’s #iwill campaign. The fund aims to ensure that all young people have the opportunity to develop essential skills for life and work through meaningful social action. |
Access Foundation | 3,900 | Capacity building for social sector organisations. |
Horniman Public Museum and Public Park Trust | 3,820 | Grant-in-aid funding. |
National Film and Television School | 2,412 | To contribute towards eligible expenditure itemized in the organization’s annual delivery plan. |
British Council | 2,347 | Integrated Activity Fund: a soft power initiative to be delivered across the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council), designed to encourage youth participation in culture and sports activities particularly targeting young women and girls. |
Geffrye Museum | 2,096 | Grant-in-aid funding. |
The National Lottery Community Fund - Building Connections (Main Fund) * | 2,046 | The purpose of the fund is to help individuals, communities and local services connect in a variety of ways and consolidate learning that can support future policy and funding decisions. The fund will specifically support projects that are already tackling, or with additional support could tackle, loneliness. The main fund is open to a wide range of organisations and will support 85 - 285 applicants who will receive funding of between £30,000 - £100,000. |
NewcastleGateshead Initiative | 1,929 | Funding for the Great Exhibition of the North. The Exhibition celebrated the great art, design and culture of the North of England, showcasing innovative and ambitious cultural and creative activity, and engaging a wide range of audiences and participants. |
Co-op Foundation - Building Connections (Youth Strand) | 1,651 | The purpose of the fund is to help individuals, communities and local services connect in a variety of ways and consolidate learning that can support future policy and funding decisions. The fund will specifically support projects that are already tackling, or with additional support could tackle, loneliness. The youth strand is open to organisations working with vulnerable young people and will support approximately 20 organisations receiving funding averaging £80,000. Further grants of up to £10,000 were available for additional organisations to pilot innovative approaches to maximise underused community spaces that help improve access for young people. |
Mind | 1,517 | Building on the learning from the existing Blue Light Programme, Mind will work with emergency services throughout England and Wales to embed key project delivery strands into their core activities, supporting the mental health and wellbeing of staff throughout England and Wales. |
Nesta | 1,382 | To develop and manage a series of funds designed to find, test and grow innovations which harness the time and talents of 10,000 volunteers (75% of which will be people over 50). |
Nesta | 1,348 | To develop and manage a series two funds designed to respectively find, test and grow innovations which help children achieve developmental milestones and help people improve their money management skills. |
First World War Centenary Cathedral Repairs Fund - Various beneficiaries | 1,115 | To allow cathedrals to undertake urgent repair work. |
National Lottery Community Fund - Life Chances Fund * | 1,043 | To finance grants to support development of Life Chances Fund proposals. |
Festival.org | 1,043 | Funding for the Great Exhibition of the North closing ceremony. |
Virgin Money Foundation | 1,000 | To support local charities in the North East of England whose beneficiaries are young people, young homeless people and charitable organisations promoting social enterprise. |
Greenwich Foundation for the Old Royal Naval College | 901 | To contribute towards the conservation, presentation and interpretation of the collection of buildings, paintings and other artefacts set out across the Old Royal Naval College site. |
Ambulance Services Charity | 763 | The charity will establish: PTSD rehabilitation services complementing existing physical rehabilitation services; the means to take TASC on the road to promote the support services available, membership and raise public awareness; and sustainable income from supporters in the ambulance services and their families. |
University of Oxford: Blavatnik School of Government - Government Outcomes Lab | 750 | To conduct research and provide support to local commissioners on outcomes based commissioning. |
The Fire Fighters Charity | 654 | To contribute towards establishing a Recovery Centre, to provide a centre of excellence delivering high quality emotional wellbeing services for Fire and Rescue Services personnel. |
Centre for Acceleration of Social Technology (CAST) | 600 | This grant will be used to fund the set-up and growth of an innovation cluster focused around growing Tech for Good, social innovation, and digital skills in the social sector. |
The National Lottery Community Fund * | 525 | Place based social action grant. The funding will increase the capacity of communities, civil society organisations, public sector bodies and businesses to work together to address priorities which matter to people locally through providing grants, planning and implementation support and evaluation. |
Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre, The University of Manchester | 500 | Match funding towards the HLF-funded First Light Project for enhanced visitor experience, focusing on the heritage of the site. |
Coventry City of Culture Trust | 500 | Preparations for Coventry’s term as UK City of Culture 2021 Funding will be split across two strands. Strand one will support capacity enhancement including earlier recruitment of director of engagement and two producers, and work to plan for 2021 with key partners such as Coventry Cathedral, Historic Coventry, Belgrade Theatre and key cultural organisations. Strand two will support digital acceleration. |
National Lottery Community Fund * | 445 | To develop and distribute safeguarding training for charities through a partnership and within communities. |
Community Organisers | 416 | For 10 Social Action Hubs and Member Support Organisers to deliver Community Organisers Expansion programme objectives (recruit and train 3,500 new organisers, support existing organisers and develop peer support network). |
Commonwealth War Graves Commission | 400 | Investment to support costs for 2018/19 in order to enable CWGC to recruit new interns for 2019 as well as developing plans to secure the scheme beyond 2019 (including building the capacity to develop and generate future fundraising). |
Cyber Security Challenge UK | 628 | Cyber Security Challenge UK is established to bolster the national pool of cyber skills. It offers a unique programme of activities to introduce sufficient number of appropriately skilled individuals to learning and career opportunities in the profession. |
Step up to Serve | 300 | The #iwill campaign’s goal is to make meaningful social action part of life for 10-20 year olds in the UK. |
Social Tech Trust | 300 | This £300k grant is to support Social Tech Trust in the establishment of their equity investment fund, supporting the fund’s setup costs and establishing the technical assistance function to provide startup ventures with business support. |
Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) | 300 | The Growing Place-Based Giving programme aims to support development of the work of six place-based giving schemes towards becoming sustainable, resilient, and able to engage local communities and encourage donations to projects that benefit local people and their area. |
Memorials Grant Scheme - Various beneficiaries | 264 | Financial assistance for the repair of memorials. |
Centre for Ageing Better | 250 | To stimulate and test innovative models of age-friendly, flexible volunteering and social action opportunities that are responsive to life events and fit around people’s life circumstances. |
Oxford Internet Institute | 250 | For the Oxford Internet Institute to conduct the Oxford Internet Survey between November 2018 - March 2019 and publish the results to improve the evidence base on digital skills and inclusion. |
Cruse Bereavement Care | 248 | To develop a bereavement support service for UK police, ambulance and fire/rescue personnel and their families, called ‘Here for You’. |
Devon Air Ambulance Trust | 247 | The grant is a contribution towards the costs of undertaking the professional installation and commissioning of equipment to allow Air Ambulances to operate at night in Devon. |
Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust | 206 | To contribute towards the preservation, conservation and maintenance of the Historic Dockyard, its buildings, ships and collections. |
British Youth Council | 206 | To deliver the UK Youth Parliament and associated activities for the period 2018-19. This includes the UK Youth Parliament, the Make Your Mark ballot, the Youth Select Committee and training conventions for young representatives and participants. |
Social Investment Business | 200 | This grant fund is for Social Investment Business to pay for the activities of the PM-commissioned Implementation Taskforce on Growing a Culture of Impact Investing, in pursuit of their objectives. |
Cornwall Air Ambulance Trust | 163 | Cornwall Air Ambulance Trust will purchase a new generation air ambulance helicopter to deliver vital pre-hospital emergency services to seriously sick and injured people in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. |
Centre for Youth Impact | 150 | Supporting CYI’s leadership of the youth sector in developing greater evidence of impact and understanding of outcomes. |
British Red Cross Society Royal Charter | 144 | To support the ‘Resilient Responders’ programme providing resilience and improved wellbeing of Emergency Services personnel at British Red Cross and Fire and Rescue Services of South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire. |
Social Misfits Media | 129 | The fund will build upon already successful programmes to provide digital learning for social sector leaders. ‘Digileaders360’ would equip 360 leaders across 120 organisations and 5 regions to leverage the power of technology to being able to fundraise online, making their organisations more resilient and sustainable. |
Edith Cavell Fund for Nurses | 121 | The new Cavell Nurses’ Trust project will support nursing professionals and their families. |
Sheffield University | 111 | Research and innovation by Dr Jon Burchell. |
Age UK | 109 | Funding to help expand upon the already successful ‘Be Digital’ programme which comprises a series of webinars, workshops, strategy days and resource sharing on their ‘Be Digital’ hub. |
Citizens Online | 102 | The Digital Inclusion Innovation Fund aims to support initiatives designing, researching or delivering digital inclusion programmes with a focus on older and/or disabled people, in a new, creative and innovative way. It aims to improve essential digital skills and demonstrate how digital inclusion can improve the lives and well being, of older and/or disabled people. |
British Youth Council | 100 | To meet the youth voice commitments in the Civil Society Strategy, by setting up and running the Civil Society Youth Steering Group and national Young Inspectors and Commissioners Group and to undertake youth-led research into options for a digital solution to engage young people in national policy making. |
Tech Talent Charter | 98 | This grant to Tech Talent Charter aims to increase the numbers of signatories to the Charter, in turn affecting real change in improving representation of women in tech roles across all sectors. The grant will also allow regional expansion for TTC outside of London, bringing the message of diversity in tech and how to improve practice on the issue, to new employer groups. |
Code4000 CIC | 98 | To support Code4000 CIC’s aims to train prisoners in coding and support graduates of their coding workshops upon release with finding employment. |
Media Trust | 95 | Funding will enable provision of digital skills training to a further 160 senior charity leaders throughout England. |
School for Social Entrepreneurs | 93 | The funding will enable the Third Sector Digital Leaders course to be delivered to a wider cohort of recipients. |
Cosmic | 91 | Cosmic will host 10 three-day Digital Leadership workshops and produce an e-learning platform for south west charity leaders. The funding enables Cosmic to redesign their programme to specifically target charities, rather than SMEs more broadly. Culminates in a Digital Charities Summit in March 2019 to share learning. |
Doteveryone | 87 | The fund money will will enable content from the existing learning programme to be shared with groups of participants in venues in London, Manchester, Birmingham, and Bristol. |
Foundation for Social Improvement | 73 | The aim of the grant award is to build the a more independent, resilient, sustainable civil society by providing subsidised fundraising training for small, local charities. |
Lord Mayor of Manchester’s Charity Appeal Trust | 65 | This grant is the equivalent of VAT receipts from the ‘We Are Manchester Concert’ and will be awarded to the Lord Mayor of Manchester’s Charity Appeal Trust (also known as ‘We Love Manchester’) for the Manchester Memorial Fund. The money will be used to contribute to the building a permanent and fitting memorial to the victims of the terror attack on the Manchester Arena on 22 May 2017. |
Kensington and Chelsea Citizens Advice | 60 | To provide financial guidance to survivors of the Grenfell Tower disaster as part of Kensington and Chelsea Citizens Advice’s current wrap-around-support. |
The Alan Turing Institute | 60 | Funding towards a project to develop an online tool designed to help SMEs develop their data science capabilities. |
British Red Cross | 60 | To help create a new independent charity, the National Emergency Trust, which will activate during a national emergency to raise and distribute funds. |
Kingston Voluntary Action (Superhighways project) | 58 | Superhighways is a Kingston Voluntary Action project that supports small local charities and community groups in London to do more with digital. |
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Ambulance Service NHS Trust | 50 | Supporting more patient facing volunteering, improving health outcomes and reducing pressure on publicly funded health and care services. |
Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust | 50 | To sustain and spread high-quality volunteering in health and social care. |
TeenTech CIC | 50 | To grow sustainable and long term relationships between education providers and industry to support young people’s engagement with STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). |
British Computer Society | 50 | Support development of an AI Masters programme as per the AI sector deal under the industrial strategy. |
The Western Front Way | 50 | Funds to create a new, continuous, permanent, way marked walking path following the line of the 1914-18 Western Front. |
Involve | 50 | DCMS will be providing funding and support to 8 local authorities to pilot opportunities to open up some of their policy decisions to citizen deliberation. |
Voscur Limited | 47 | Funding towards the Responsible Digital Governance programme, which enables organisations to understand how to embed digital tools and platforms sustainably to meet their needs. |
YouthFed | 45 | The Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund pilot aims to increase the diversity and numbers of those working in the UK’s booming cyber security sector. |
Cyber Security Challenge UK | 44 | A top-up grant for the recruitment of a new CEO, and to fund the initial costs of the European Cyber Security Challenge. |
East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust | 36 | Supporting more patient facing volunteering, improving health outcomes and reducing pressure on publicly funded health and care services. |
Cornwall Air Ambulance Trust | 36 | A new development of welfare and pastoral accommodation including quiet room, overnight accommodation and improved space for paramedics, doctors and other air crew. |
ACEVO | 36 | Research into bullying amongst senior leaders in the charity sector. |
The Tech Partnership | 35 | Funding towards a guide to help develop a common language so that students and universities better understand the digital skills employers require. |
Doteveryone | 34 | To explore the concerns of those working with technology, where they see opportunities to create solutions to potential harms, and the challenges they see in realising these opportunities. |
Tech Trust | 33 | Fuding to help expand the Charity Digital Tech Conference. |
North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust | 30 | Supporting more patient facing volunteering, improving health outcomes and reducing pressure on publicly funded health and care services. |
SE UK | 30 | To facilitate ‘Social Saturday’, a leading event that promotes social enterprises. |
ThinkForward | 30 | The development of a digital tool that will support delivery organisations in their development of social impact bonds. |
Social Enterprise UK | 30 | This years campaign will focus on the Buy Social branding. The campaign will educate and encourage consumers to buy from social enterprises, boosting their local communities and leading to more positive social outcomes. |
Social Enterprise Kent CIC | 29 | Funding for two-day Digital Leadership workshops for local social enterprises, and 15 social sector courses, reaching 105 social enterprise leaders. |
Child Bereavement UK | 25 | Deliver a bereavement education programme to air ambulance crews over three years. |
Co-op Foundation | 25 | To part fund a youth-focused campaign to tackle loneliness. |
Church Urban Fund | 21 | LifeSavers is a programme which supports the delivery of values-based financial education within primary schools, combined with the involvement of the local credit union in establishing a school savings club. |
National Autistic Society | 21 | The Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund pilot aims to increase the diversity and numbers of those working in the UK’s booming cyber security sector. |
Peterborough Council for Voluntary Service | 21 | To enhance and complement community integration and counter extremism work in Peterborough, one of five government priority ‘Integration Areas’. |
Bevan Healthcare CIC | 20 | To support Bevan Healthcare CIC to grow as a public service mutual. |
Big Society Capital | 20 | To provide support for charities and social enterprises across the country in understanding and accessing investment through social investment tax relief, with specific focus on the recent legislative amendments to the policy area. |
Pete’s Dragons | 20 | Funding to build a suicide-safer community for emergency service personnel across the South West. |
The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association | 20 | Funding to help expand the Guide Dogs’ digital transformation programme to digitally upskill their trustees and senior leadership. |
Good Things Foundation | 17 | Funding towards staff in the Digital Inclusion Team at the Good Things Foundation. |
Age UK South Lakeland | 11 | Funding to expand digital programme delivery across Cumbria, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside. |
Chiltern Rangers | 10 | To support the growth and development of Chiltern Rangers as a young public service mutual. |
South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust | 10 | Supporting more patient facing volunteering, improving health outcomes and reducing pressure on publicly funded health and care services. |
One Walsall | 10 | To enhance and complement community integration and counter extremism work in Walsall, one of five government priority ‘Integration Areas’. |
University of Cambridge | 7 | Supporting the 2018 delivery of a cyber skills initiative. |
Westbank Community Health and Care | 6 | To scale a successful programme previously funded by the Office for Civil Society. |
National Lottery Community Fund * | 6 | Programme management of the final year of the Social Incubator Fund. |
University of Leeds | 6 | To lead the Crowdfunding Public Infrastructure pilot fund and associated research project. |
Centre for Ageing Better | 5 | To convene an analysis review on how to increase social action by people aged 50 and over. |
The Active Wellbeing Society | 5 | To support The Active Wellbeing Society to purchase professional advice to implement a public service mutual for their leisure services. |
South Central Ambulance Charity | 5 | Supporting more patient facing volunteering, improving health outcomes and reducing pressure on publicly funded health and care services. |
Big Society Capital | 0 | To fund the first stage in a research project evaluating the evidence base in the social investment market. |
*In January 2019, the Big Lottery Fund, which has the power to distributes grants from both the national lottery and other public funders including DCMS, changed its operating name to The National Lottery Community Fund.
Annex – section 70 grants by DCMS in 2018-19 under the Tampon Tax Fund
Grant recipient | Payments £’000 |
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UK Community Foundations | 2,752 |
Rape Crisis England and Wales | 1,188 |
Comic Relief - round one funding | 1,180 |
Comic Relief - round two funding | 845 |
Rosa | 826 |
Mind - The National Association for Mental Health | 713 |
Brook Young People | 655 |
Women’s Aid Federation of England | 619 |
Arhag Housing | 522 |
Hestia Housing and Support | 513 |
St Giles Trust | 508 |
The RCJ and Islington Citizens Advice Bureaux | 441 |
Standing Together Against Domestic Violence | 355 |
Greater Manchester Women Offender Alliance (GMWOA) | 152 |
Plan International UK | 140 |
Yorkshire Cancer Research | 139 |
Hestia Housing and Support | 137 |
Refuge | 137 |
Children’s Society | 125 |
Faith Regen Foundation | 125 |
Southall Black Sisters | 125 |
Girlguiding | 120 |
Coventry Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre (CRASAC) | 116 |
Karma Nirvana | 112 |
Advance Charity | 100 |
Black Country Women’s Aid | 100 |
Suzy Lamplugh Trust | 100 |
SignHealth | 95 |
Life Charity | 91 |
Relate | 91 |
The YOU Trust | 90 |
Housing for Women | 83 |
Shared Lives Plus | 83 |
Womens Health Matters (WHM) | 80 |
Brighton Oasis Project | 79 |
Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation | 78 |
Stepping Stones (Luton) | 78 |
Youth Sport Trust | 77 |
Standing Together Against Domestic Violence | 75 |
Forward Assist | 74 |
Women’s Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre, Cornwall (WRSAC) | 71 |
Smallwood Trust | 70 |
Angelou Centre | 69 |
Money Advice Plus | 67 |
Adfam National | 57 |
Heart of England Community Foundation | 55 |
CREST | 54 |
Magdalene Group | 53 |
The Baytree Centre | 50 |
Citizens Advice Lancashire | 50 |
Step Together Volunteering | 50 |
Womenzone | 48 |
Shelter, The National Campaign For Homeless People Ltd | 45 |
Women’s Therapy Centre | 45 |
Women@thewell | 40 |
White Ribbon Campaign | 38 |
Jacksons Lane | 38 |
SATEDA | 37 |
Children North East | 36 |
Tender Education & Arts | 35 |
Surviving Economic Abuse | 34 |
The Proud Trust | 33 |
Birth Companions | 30 |
Shaping Our Lives | 29 |
Joanna Leeds | 28 |
The Bike Project | 27 |
Street Talk | 26 |
Fixers | 24 |
MumsAid | 23 |
Norfolk Community Foundation | 22 |
Sikh Community & Youth Service | 21 |
Us in a Bus | 15 |