§ Mr. Gordon Wilsonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what grants have been made by the Voluntary Services Unit in Scotland, England and 219W Wales in each of the last there years; and if he will express these figures in percentage form.
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GRANT APPLICATIONS PROVISIONALLY AGREED BY THE VOLUNTARY SERVICES UNIT Organisation 1974–75* 1975–76 Young Volunteer Force Foundation … 186,282 238,000 Volunteer Centre. … 49,411 119,000 Pre-Retirement Association … 14,000 17,000 National Youth Bureau—Voluntary Opportunities Digest … 750 1,925 Cruse Clubs Limited … 23,000 23,000 Westminster Pastoral Foundation … 20,000 23,000 Child Poverty Action Group … 10,000 10,000 Young Volunteer Resource Module … 12,500 22,000 Gaddum Centre. … 7,000 — Checks Rights Centre. … 2,400 2,400 Outset … 4,000 6,000 Community Service Volunteers, … 22,000 96,250 Nacro … 22,500 34,750 The Cresset … 40,000 30,000 Welsh Council of Social Service … 13,656 26,344 Romany Guild … 1,020 1,750 British Council for Aid to Refugees … 27,000 62,500 Fair Play for Children Campaign … 10,500 17,550 City Poverty Committee … 2,500 — SHAC … 7,000 4,250 Albany Trust … 10,000 10,000 National Playing Fields Association … 12,000 35,000 Action Resource Centre. … 9,000 6,000 Release … 10,000 20,000 Gingerbread … 13,500 16,150 National Elfrida Rathbone Society … 2,125 9,425 Contact … 1,750 7,000 British Association of Settlements … 1,250 11,670 BAS Adult Literacy Organiser … — 14,500 Wandsworth Council for Community Relations … 1,000 4,000 Community Transport … 4,000 17,500 Brixton Neighbourhood Community Association … — 24,000 Melting Pot Foundation … — 24,000 Toynbee Hall … 25,000 — After Six Housing Advisory Trust … — 10,000 Handicapped Adventure Playground Association … — 22,000 Family First Trust … — 8,000 Girls Alone in London Service … — 5,000 West End Co-ordinated Voluntary Services … — 44,000 National Association of Widows … — 3,500 Ugandan Evacuees Resettlement Advisory Trust … — 500 National Council of Social Service/Metropolitan Counties … — 40,000 National Association of Community Relations Councils … — 3,400 Central Council for the Disabled … — 8,000 British Council of Churches … — 9,750 National Association of Indian Youth … — 10,000 Runnymedc Trust … — 3,500 SPEAK … — 1,000 Gulbenkian Foundation. … — — Greater Manchester Council for Voluntary Service … — — National Association of Youth Clubs … — — Family Day Centre Projects: † 1. London Council of Social Service … — 6,800 2. Gingerbread (Croydon) … — 5,850 3. Aide A Toute Detresse … — 8,810 4. Defoe Day Centre Project … — 7,500 5. Cambridge House and Talbot … — 1,000 6. Camden Family Service Unit … — 1,166 7. Liverpool Personal Service Society … — 650 South Wales Anti-Poverty Action Committee† … — 500 Onward Industries … — 12,500 Total … 565,145 1, 148,390 * Actual expenditure in 1974–75. † Funded by VSU under the EEC Programme of Pilot Projects to Combat Poverty. 3 per cent. of the grants were made directly to organisations based in Wales and none to those in Scotland, but several of the English-based organisations carry out work in both Scotland and Wales.
§ Mr. Alexander W. LyonThe information for the two years in which the VSU has made grants is as follows: