London - Total funding £819,668
- Richmond Adult & Community College (W. London, £9,632) - developing learning resources for members of voluntary organisations.
- Hammersmith Women's Aid (Voluntary Sector, W. London, £8,800) - widening training for staff working with abused women to include advice about educational opportunities.
- Assisted Living Foundation (Voluntary Organisation, London, £10,000) - developing a training programme for disabled people on employing and managing personal assistants.
- Crime Concern (Charity/private sector partnership, W. London, £50,000) - training staff of a major local employer as mentors for young offenders and others at risk of committing crime.
- Focus E15 (Housing Association, East London, £50,000) - using a community radio project to develop basic skills and lifeskills in disadvantaged and alienated young adults.
- REFLECT (Community Group, W. London, £36,399) - establishing a toy library and family learning courses linked to National Year of Reading.
- Kings Cross Community Access Project (Regeneration Partnership, Central London, £49,004) - enabling 6 community centres to provide advice on educational opportunities to local ethnic minority and refugee groups.
- L'Overture Trust (Charity, S. London, £50,000) - involving Afro-Caribbean ex-offenders and those at risk of offending in activities based on media and web publishing.
- The Refugee Council (Charity, S. London, £50,000) - targeting women refugees and asylum seekers for English language training and guidance on education opportunities.
- Carr-Gomm Housing Association (S.E. London, £50,000) - training "vulnerable" residents in basic and vocational skills through a community café.
- South West London Probation Service (£40,500) - training staff in basic skills assessment and providing intensive accredited basic skills training for ex-offenders and other socially excluded people.
- Kaleidescope (Charity, S.W London, £48,850) - adding basic skills and English language training to other services provided by the organisation for drug misusers and other marginalised people.
- Black European Community Development Federation (Voluntary Sector, London, £147,800) - training parents of ethnic minority children to deal with procedures linked to school exclusions.
- London Language & Literacy Unit (Charity, £100,000) - providing tailored learning opportunities for families, including opportunities for parents to train as tutors.
- Community Links (Voluntary Sector, E. London, £72,638) - training local residents in advice work and advocacy.
- NEWTEC (Voluntary Sector, London, £46,045) - providing courses in childminding, especially for women from ethnic minorities, and establishing support networks and mentoring.
National/multi-site - Total funding £388,278
- Pioneer Health Centre (Charity, £9,600) - identifying the needs of excluded groups in order to develop educational opportunities linked to health.
- Carr-Gomm Housing Association (£20,000) - i) testing feasibility of accredited basic and life skills programme for "vulnerable" residents and ii) researching viability of partnerships with retailers to provide employment opportunities for residents with mental health problems.
- Gingerbread (Charity, £50,000) - training single parents in basic and other skills needed to run community groups.
- Foyer Federation (Charity, £50,000) - providing advice, guidance and mentoring to foyer users and "compact"-style support in FE and HE.
- National NEWPIN (Charity, £47,000) - providing basic skills and other training for members to enable them to act as mentors for families under pressure.
- The Big Issue (Charity, £95,984) - piloting new approaches to attract homeless people into accredited learning opportunities.
- Pre-School Learning Alliance (Voluntary Sector, £115,694) - providing training in study support and other skills according to demand, for parents in disadvantaged estates.