The St Martins Centre Partnership, The Fawdon Community Association, Aquila Way and Addaction have each been successful in their bids for grants totalling nearly half a million pounds from the Lloyds TSB Foundation for England and Wales. Each charity provides essential services to help local disadvantaged people to play a fuller role in the community. The Lloyds TSB Foundation is one of the UK’s leading independently run grant-making trusts.
The Fawdon Community Association in the North of Newcastle will receive £32,500 over two years to cover the costs of a development worker. The community centre currently runs a drop in café, youth clubs, sports activities and many more services. The new staff member, funded by the Lloyds TSB Foundation grant will work to break down the barriers that prevent the most disadvantaged local residents from using the centre. The Association on Fawdon Road, welcomes over 700 visitors every month and this funding will allow many more to participate in the future.
Funding from the Lloyds TSB Foundation for England and Wales will support the salary of a volunteer development co-ordinator at the St Martins Partnership community centre. The two year grant of over £40,000 will allow the charity to expand the services it offers to children, young people and vulnerable individuals in the Walker area of Newcastle.
Two charities that work with people returning to the Tyneside area after leaving prison, Aquila Way and Addaction Newcastle, have received over £180,000 each to expand successful projects over the next three years.
Aquila Way, based in Gateshead provides support and housing advice to vulnerable and homeless young people. The Lloyds TSB Foundation grant will cover the costs of a Community Mentors Project, allowing trained staff to work with offenders aged 16-25 before they leave prison, to ensure they have support and appropriate housing in place when they are released.
Jo Grant, chief executive at Aquila Way commented, “Aquila Way’s current work has seen re-offending amongst our clients cut to 5% compared to the national average above 70%. With Lloyds TSB Foundation’s vital funding, Aquila Way will help many individuals move away from a lifestyle of offending, benefiting the individuals and the North East region as a whole.”
Peter Ellis, Lloyds TSB Foundation grant manager for the North East and Cumbria commented, “There has always been a great tradition of community involvement across Tyneside and these charities show how much is being achieved by the voluntary sector. The Lloyds TSB Foundation is delighted to support these charities’ essential work in Newcastle.”
The Lloyds TSB Foundation for England and Wales supports charities that help disadvantaged people to play a fuller role in the community. Local or regional charities with an income up to £1million and national charities with an income up to £5 million can find out more about the funding criteria and grant programmes at www.lloydstsbfoundations.org.uk.
