South West Region - Total funding £288,038
- The Gwellheans - Recovery (Registered Charity, Cornwall, £28,171) - will work with basic skills providers to deliver basic skills and practical experience to young drug users involved in an off the road motorcycle project.
- Jephson Homes Housing Association Ltd. (RSL, Swindon, £19,900) - aims to enhance basic skills and citizenship in young people by providing basic skills tuition and establishing a youth council.
- Somerset Racial Equality Council (Voluntary Organisation, £30,000) - wishes to provide learning opportunities for black and ethnic minority women and to work with other education providers to support their progression.
- GFS Platform for Young Women (Voluntary Organisation, £30,000) - wish to deliver a programme of DIY, healthy eating and money management with basic skills to young women in Dorset, many of whom are mothers.
- Gaia Trust (Voluntary Group, £13,100) - will undertake research on local education and training needs. To develop access to telecommunications and ICT for a catchment area of 5000.
- Honicknowle Commnet Ltd (Community Group, £21,934) - to recruit community volunteers to engage in taster activities as a precursor to formal courses.
- East Devon CVS (Voluntary Group, £37,500) - will assist voluntary and community groups to plan and develop training based on identified need for the early retired; women returners; youth; disabled people; unemployed; single parents; rurally isolated people.
- Centre for Sustainable Energy (Voluntary Group, £9,900) - to introduce knowledge and skills around sustainable development for disadvantaged households.
- The Highbridge Express Partnership (Voluntary Group, £37,484) - enhancement of basic skills, key skills, research techniques, use of media skills, public speaking, knowledge of local history, geography and culture through the inclusion of a permanent display.
- Art Shape (Voluntary Group, £9,616) - to provide training for business and management skills in developing a Team Enterprise Group based at Smartworks - an arts and crafts studio run by learning disabled adults.
- Cheltenham Centre for Change (Voluntary Group, £14,220) - will research and devise a learning programme around sustainability. Second phase will deliver training based upon research in first phase.
- University of Bristol - Access Unit (HE, £13,838) - to research, develop and deliver a programme in fundraising skills for deaf adults.
- Scillonia Digital Workshop (Community Group, £22,375) - will broaden and deepen ICT provision available to disadvantaged adults on the Scilly Isles by offering workshops in web design.
London Region - Total funding £717,590
- City and Hackney Alcohol Counselling Service (Voluntary Organisation, £29,565) - wishes to build on laptop development work to offer 'Crossroads' - a basic skills programme for members.
- PACE (Project for Advocacy, Counselling and Education) (Voluntary Organisation, £7,210) - an organisation working with unemployed adults seeks to develop a basic skills programme of residential and short courses for those with mental health problems.
- The House of St Barnabas in Soho (Voluntary Organisation, £9,900) - will develop a practical basic skills programme for the homeless women in their area, many of whom are asylum seekers.
- Look Ahead Housing and Care Ltd. (Housing Association, £29,700) - wish to develop basic skills provision and a mentoring scheme for residents and for employees.
- The Big Issue Foundation (Voluntary Organisation, £30,000) - aims to improve the basic skills of vendors by involving them in a programme of basic skills, writing and photography.
- Peter Bedford Housing Association (Housing Association, £26,592) - aims to develop on site individual and flexible basic skills provision for residents with mental health needs and learning disabilities.
- St Botolph's Project (Voluntary Organisation, £17,885) - will work with rough sleepers to develop an intensive basic and life skills programme with housing support.
- African Heritage Association (Community Organisation, £24,675) - proposes to involve young people in Peckham in basic skills and use of the arts as a vehicle for motivating them.
- Community Advice Project (Voluntary Organisation, £30,000) - seeks to develop a legal literacy programme giving their members basic skills and an understanding of the legal system so they can operate more effectively in their communities.
- Ibero-American Women's Group (Community Organisation, £11,613) - wishes to provide basic skills for community members to enable them to increase their participation in wider society and represent their communities.
- Jagonari Women's Educational Resource Centre (Voluntary Organisation, £32,000) - seeks to develop language and practical skills for Somali and Bangladeshi women living in temporary accommodation.
- St Christopher's Fellowship (Voluntary Organisation, £26,737) - wishes to develop English language and other training for the refugees living in their homeless project.
- Hillingdon CAB (Voluntary Organisation, £19,514) - intends to deliver self-help packs on debt and money to clients with debt problems.
- West Hampstead Women's Centre (Voluntary Organisation, £5,432) - seeks to develop communication and English language skills of elderly disabled women and increase their self-esteem and confidence by producing a recipe book.
- The Bromley by Bow Centre (Community Organisation, £30,500) - aims to target socially excluded people in East London for its basic skills training in the Healthy Living Centre.
- Hillcroft College for Adult Women (Residential College, £9,806) - will encourage a group of women who are lone parents to improve their writing and write articles for Gingerbread's newsletters and magazines.
- Share Community Ltd. (Community Organisation, £32,000) - a self-help organisation which aims to empower socially excluded and isolated disabled adults by training them in basic skills.
- Southwark Charitable Trust (Voluntary Organisation, £30,000) - plans to provide literacy and numeracy learning opportunities to elderly West African adults through outreach teaching, to enable them to support their grandchildren's learning.
- Community Links (Voluntary Group, £35,782) - training local people with a range of experiences and languages, in community work.
- SHAPE in Wandsworth (Voluntary Group, £6,865) - oral history and reminiscence on the Peabody estate in Battersea. Developing basic and other skills supported by the local museum staff.
- Wandsworth MENCAP (Voluntary Group, £10,000) - will develop learning opportunities for carers of adults with learning difficulties through the creation of a carers' support group.
- The Bermondsey Village Hall Trust (Voluntary Group, £29,970) - to work with parents and children of families attending a local primary school in establishing a skill café.
- The Lifelong Learning Service (LEA, £37,500) - will explore, pilot and embed a model for providing 'hand holders' to facilitate the re-entry to learning of reluctant learners.
- ELBWO (Voluntary Group, £30,740) - to promote interests of African/Caribbean women to provide a forum for exchange of ideas, to assist educational, social and professional development and to encourage self-help.
- Shadwell Youth Action (Community Group, £37,500) - a youth based training programme for learners covering youth work leading to national qualification.
- London International Festival of Theatre (Voluntary Group, £36,650) - will offer training, workshops and performance work in the performing arts to a group of young men living in North Kensington and at risk of offending.
- Tasha Foundation (Voluntary Group, £34,590) - will provide learning opportunities for adults with mental health problems via a summer school programme.
- RETAS (Voluntary Group, £29,864) - to provide women from refugee communities with skills in advice and guidance and dealing with domestic abuse.
- Rosetta Life (Charitable Organisation, £25,000) - to work with 4 hospices to develop ICT skills to get the most from digital arts.
National / Multi-site - Total funding £55,000
- Deafax Trust (Voluntary Organisation, £30,000) plans to train 'ICT mentors' to empower deaf people in the community to reach their potential in education and employment.
- National Consumer Council (Non Departmental Public Body, £25,000) - intends to empower young people by addressing basic skills through their Stronger Voice Programme.
