HC Deb 14 December 1983 vol 50 cc501-9W
Mr. Foulkes

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether any voluntary organisations currently receiving grants from his Department will be receiving reductions in their grants; and, if so, which.

Mr. Newton

[pursuant to his reply, 28 October 1983, c. 242–43]: The Department gives grants to voluntary organisations through a number of different schemes. Such grants totalled over £15 million in 1982–83, and are expected to rise to some £25 million in 1983–84. The latest available information on these schemes is as follows.

The largest single scheme is the general scheme of grants to voluntary bodies under section 64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968. As I indicated in my earlier reply, expenditure on this scheme is expected to rise by about 11 per cent. in 1983–84, to nearly £10 million. Decisions on these grants are made throughout the financial year, and it is therefore only after the year is over that a complete account is available. Table 1, however, gives the most recently available information.

Grants under this general scheme are given for two main purposes. One is to support specific projects for a specific period, perhaps on a pump-priming basis; this includes experimental or innovative local schemes of potential wider significance. The other is to help with a national organisation's general costs, taking account of its ability to fund its activities in other ways; grants of this kind sometimes reflect an understanding that the amount or proportion of grant will reduce over time as the organisation's ability to find other sources of funding grows. Thus, there can be no simple presumption that the size of grant to an organisation is directly comparable from one year to another.

Grants to voluntary bodies under S 64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968—General Scheme (subhead K2(1))
1982–83 £ 1983–84 £
Action for Sysphasic Adults 7,500 5,000
Action on Smoking and Health 115,000 118,000
Advocacy Alliance 10,000 26,000
1982–83 £ 1983–84 £
Age Concern 228,000 *†112,500
Alcohol Education Centre 68,000 †38,000
Alcoholic Hostels 166,331 *33,931
Alcoholic Recovery Project 61,750
Alcoholic Community Centres for Education Prevention and Treatment 35,400
Alzheimer's Disease Society 23,000 8,000
Anthony Nolan Fund 6,000 6,000
Apex Trust 7,000 ‡—
Association Aide à Toute Detresse 5,200
Association for all Speech Impaired Childre 8,000 8,600
Association for Independent Disabled Self Sufficiency 1,000
Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus 32,500 ‡—
Association of Breast Feeding Mothers 1,850 1,500
Association of Carers 8,000 ‡—
Association of Residential Communities 12,000 ‡—
Association of Professions for the Mentally Handicapped 6,000 ‡8,000
Asthma Society 2,000
Baby Life Support Systems 532 1,218
Back Pain Association 12,750 17,000
Bexley Moorings 10,500 21,000
Birmingham Settlement 9,000
Blenheim Street Agency 7,600 7,600
Breakthrough Trust 29,500 *7,500
British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering 243,000 *243,000
British Association for Service to the Elderly 2,000 5,000
British Association of the Hard of Hearing 17,333 *5,000
British Association of Immediate Care 25,000 25,000
British Deaf Association 21,000 15,000
British Diabetic Association 1,500
British Epilepsy Association 22,000 ‡—
British Institution of Mental Handicap 24,500 *19,000
British Red Cross 4,570 10,000
British Retinitis Pigmentosa Society 5,000 ‡—
Broadcasting Support Services 3,000
Brook Advisory Centres 22,500 37,500
Calibre 8,000 ‡—
Campaign for Single Homeless People 24,000 26,000
Campaign for the Mentally Handicapped 14,000 14,000
Care 15,000
Catholic Child Welfare Council 2,500
Catholic Marriage Advisory Council 23,000 †11,500
Centre for Ethnic Minorities Health Studies 5,825 20,000
Centre for Policy on Ageing 90,296 *41,204
Centre on Environment for the Handicapped 28,500 *22,000
Cherwell Housing Trust 7,625
Chest Heart and Stroke Association 5,000 7,500
Child Accident Prevention Trust 42,585 67,766
Child Poverty Action Group 15,000 16,200
Children's Legal Centre 9,500 14,750
Church of England Children's Society 116,000 124,500
City Roads Crisis Intervention 92,804 *29,000
Clock Tower Association 4,750
Coeliac Society 7,500 13,000
Combat Huntington's Chorea 15,000 ‡—
Community Drugs Project 5,300 5,300
Community Projects Foundation 79,500
Community Service Volunteers 36,250 27,600
Contact 20,000 22,800
Contact a Family 10,000 25,000
Cope 85,300 90,000
Coronary Prevention Group 3,000 ‡—
Council for the Advancement of Communication with Deaf People 10,000 20,000
Coventry Voluntary Services Council 8,775
Cranston Hostel 3,770

1982–83 £ 1983–84 £
Crossroads Care Attendant Schemes Ltd. 58,000 78,000
Cruse 80,000 *35,000
Cyrenians 54,750 ‡—
Dial UK 12,500 14,000
Disability Alliance 10,000
Disabled Drivers Association 4,000 ‡—
Disabled Drivers Motor Club 3,500 3,500
Disabled Living Foundation 210,039 †100,000
Disablement Income Group 20,800 15,000
Doncaster I T Organisation 15,000
Dorney Parish Eton College Project 14,000 28,000
Downs Children's Association 6,000 6,000
Dr. Barnado's 147,673 *223,862
Elizabeth Fitzroy Trust 15,000
Elizabeth House Association 10,500 6,750
Employment Fellowship 21,000 †6,000
Extend 10,000 10,000
Family Forum 16,915 22,500
Family Holiday Association 2,500 *3,500
Family Planning Association 99,600 74,700
Family Rights Group 17,250 19,000
Family Service Units 168,000 176,000
Family Tree 8,900 ‡—
Family Welfare Association 104,930 *†20,250
Federation of Alcoholic Rehabilitation Establishments 79,580 †45,000
Fire Precaution (in voluntary residential homes) 134,389 ‡—
Fluoridations Society 15,000 15,000
Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths 58,000
Gingerbread 48,000 58,000
Hampshire Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders 20,000 20,000
Hampshire Council on Alcoholism 3,000 6,000
Handcrafts Advisory Association for the Disabled 8,800 8,800
Handicapped Adventure Playground Association 1,625
Headway Association 5,000 12,625
Helen Ley Charitable Trust 5,000
Hertfordshire Standing Conference on Drug Abuse 1,700
Holiday Care Service 5,000 5,000
Home Base 7,500 30,000
Home Farm Trust 15,000
Home Start Consultancy 19,000 19,000
Hungerford Day Centre for Drug Addicts 12,700 12,700
In Touch 2,000
Independent Adoption Society 4,000 8,000
Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence 143,000 *‡52,521
International Hospital Federation 48,500 30,000
International Social Service 30,000 30,000
International Voluntary Service 18,000 18,000
Invalid Children's Aid Association 20,000 ‡—
Invalids At Home Trust 2,400 2,400
Jewish Blind Society 20,000
Joint Committee on Mobility for the Disabled 1,300 ‡—
Kent Council on Alcoholism 1,100 ‡—
Kidney Patient Association 30,000
Kidney Transplant Olympic Association 31,000
L'Arche Ltd. 20,000 10,000
La Leche League of Great Britain 1,750 3,000
Leicester Council for Voluntary Service 15,400 13,050
Leonard Cheshire Foundation 12,000 50,000
Liverpool Alcoholism Services 26,609 †20,250
London Voluntary Service Council 12,000 6,000
MacIntyre Schools Ltd.
Masectomy Association 6,000 6,000
Maternity Alliance 23,200 *10,000
Medical Commission on Accident Prevention 13,600 6,000
Medical Council on Alcoholism 70,300 †39,300
Mencap 230,750 253,917
1982–83 £ 1983–84 £
Mental After Care Association 45,000
Mental Health Film Council 4,000 11,000
Migraine Trust 5,000 ‡—
National Agency on Alcoholic Misuse 24,000
Motability 333,379 †210,000
National Anklosing Spondylitis Society 3,000 ‡—
National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders 169,000 232,500
National Association for the Childless 13,000 13,000
National Association for the Deaf/Blind, Rubella Handicapped 27,000 ‡—
National Association for Maternal and Child Welfare 5,000 5,000
National Association for Mental Health 325,000 †160,000
National Association for Patient Participation in General Practice 1,000 3,000
National Association for the Welfare of Children in Hospital 50,000 75,000
National Association of Leagues of Hospital Friends 10,000 10,500
National Association of Victims Support Schemes 8,150 ‡—
National Association of Voluntary Hostels 4,500
National Association of Young People in Care 27,750
National Association of Youth Clubs 21,900 48,000
National Childbirth Trust 15,000 11,250
National Childminding Association 38,500 77,850
National Children's Bureau 135,208 *110,250
National Children's Home 1,875 *34,100
National Council for One Parent Families 117,500 *100,000
National Council for Carers and their Elderly Dependents 200 †3,000
National Council of Voluntary Child Care Organisations 31,285 *3,000
National Council for Voluntary Organisations 20,000 65,100
National Council on Alcoholism 241,000 *95,500
National Eczema Society 7,500 10,500
National Elfrida Rathbone Society 12,000 ‡—
National Federation of Kidney Patients 3,000 ‡—
National Federation of the Blind of the United Kingdom 4,000 4,000
National Foster Care Association 69,453 *39,070
National Library for the Blind 10,000 ‡—
National Listening Library 15,000 ‡—
National Marriage Guidance Council 20,000 35,000
National Out of School Alliance 27,000 30,000
National Playbus Association 19,625 35,000
National Schizophrenia Fellowship 71,000 †35,500
National Society for Epilepsy 10,000
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty of Children 193,000 *113,000
National Tape Magazine for the Blind 500 500
National Youth Bureau 56,800 61,200
Norfolk Childrens Projects 40,000 45,500
Northern Regional Association for the Blind 50,015 44,840
Northorpe Hall Trust 12,500
Nottingham Council for Voluntary Services 23,800 22,000
One to One 6,000
Opus 5,500 6,000
Outset 9,000 9,000
Organisation for Sickle Cell Research 8,000 4,000
Overseas Doctors Association 7,000 7,000
Parent to Parent Information on Adoption Services 4,500 4,500
Parents for Children 46,000 46,000
Partially Sighted Society 11,000 15,000
Physically Handicapped and Able Bodied 22,500 20,000
Plymouth Night Shelter 17,770 *20,140
Possum Users Association 7,750 24,600
Pre-School Playgroups Association 350,000 383,000
1982–83 £ 1983–84 £
Queen Elizabeth's Foundation for the Disabled 30,000
Rainer Foundation 57,375 *95,000
Rape Counselling and Research Project 20,000 †10,000
Richmond Fellowship 95,000 *17,750
Rother Help Centre 12,500 50,000
Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation 230,000 †50,000
Royal National Institute for the Blind 235,000 †100,000
Royal National Institute for the Deaf 53,500 168,500
Royal School for the Blind 14,000 8,800
Salford/Greater Manchester Council on Alcoholism 4,000 14,000
Samaritans 100,000 ‡—
Save the Children Fund 164,900 *92,000
Sexual and Personal Relationships of the Disabled 31,200 †8,100
Shape 10,000
Sheffield Family Service Units 8,750 5,250
Sickle Cell Society 8,000 †4,000
Social Work Training Grants 98,542 89,675
Society of St. Dismas 4,480 *7,715
Society of Voluntary Associates 9,750 16,750
Southern and Western Regional Association for the Blind 62,624 60,573
Spastics Society 86,000 ‡—
Spinal Injuries Association 15,000
Standing Conference on Drug Abuse 60,000 †34,805
St. Albans Diocesan Council for Social Responsibility 17,575 9,000
St. Katherine Housing Trust 3,000 ‡—
St. John Ambulance 44,500 52,000
Stillbirth and Perinatal Death Association 14,000
Study Centre on the Family 23,000 37,686
Stonham Housing Association 17,100 ‡—
Sue Ryder Foundation 8,000 ‡—
Talking Newspapers Association of the United Kingdom 750
The Patients Association 5,000 6,350
Toy Libraries Association 62,000 41,000
Turning Point 95,800 *44,335
Venture 12 Project 20,000 20,000
Vocal 20,000
Voluntary Council for Handicapped Children 30,000 †19,850
Voluntary Organisations Liaison Committee for Under Fives 5,000 21,000
Volunteer Centre 51,270 93,596
Vortex 9,500
Wessex Rehabilitation Association 20,000 ‡—
Westminster Pastoral Foundation 60,000 66,000
Widows Advisory Trust 10,000 10,000
Winged Fellowship Trust 12,000 ‡—
Womens Aid Federation (England) 100,000 †50,000
Womens Health Concern 3,250 ‡—
Womens National Cancer Control Campaign 81,200 88,900
World Assembly on Ageing Awards 5,500
£ for £ Scheme 45,650 271,025
8,963,232
* Only part grant approved: total grant not yet settled.
† Interim payments: grant not yet settled.
‡ Grant not yet settled.

Grants to Voluntary Organisations towards capital works for:
1. Registered Voluntary Children's Homes (Subhead H1 (1) (a))
a. Grants Paid in 1982–83 £
The Adullam House Trust 2,100
The Fellowship of St. Nicholas 1,600
Turner's Court 60,000
b. Grants Paid in 1983–84
Talbot House Management Committee 4,590
c. Grants Planned for 1983–84
Grants to Voluntary Organisations towards capital works for:
Whitegates Children's Homes 2,000
Fellowship of St. Nicholas 23,000
Friends Therapeutic Community 60,000
Dr. Barnado's 29,000 final details not
Caldecott Community School yet settled final details not
Children's Family Trust yet settled.
2. Assisted Community Homes (Subhead H1 (1) (b)
a. Grants Paid in 1982–83
Birmingham Diocesan Rescue Society 1,965
Catholic Child Welfare Society (Middlesborough) 184,721
Catholic Child Welfare Society (Leeds and Hallam) 17,095
Catholic Children's Rescue Society 39,275
Dr. Barnado's 33,000
b. Grants Paid in 1983–84
Catholic Child Welfare Society (Middlesborough) 166,699
c. Grants Planned for 1983–84
Catholic Child Welfare Society (Middlesborough) 300,000 final details not
Dr. Barnado's yet settled.
Grants for Social Work Training (Sub Head H5)
1982/83 £ 1983/84 £
National Institute for Social Work 203,000 216,000
National Children's Home 32,650 *
Vortex 9,129 *
Volunteer Centre 2,500 *
The grants to National Children's Home, Vortex and Volunteer Centre were transferred, in 1983/84. from Sub Head H5 (Social Work training) to K2 (1) (grants to voluntary organisations).

Grants to voluntary organisations under Schedule 5 of the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976 (as amended (sub-head)B(3)552)
A. General Scheme Grants Voluntary Organisation 1982–83 £ Approved 1983–84 £
1. Aberdeen Cyrenians 4,100 4,300
2. Birmingham Committee for Night Shelter 6,400 6,700
3. Birmingham, St. Anne's 5,300 5,500
4. Birmingham, St. Basil's 6,300 6,600
5. Brighton, YMCA 4,600 4,800
6. Cambridge Cyrenians 1,200 1,250
7. Cardiff Cyrenians 3,500 3,600
8. Coventry Cyrenians 4,600 4,800
9. Edinburgh, People's Palace 5,800 6,000
10. Exeter Shilhay 4,600 4,800
11. Glasgow, Kirkhaven 3,000 3,100
12. Guildford Cyrenians 2,300 2,400
13. Leeds Cyrenians 1,200 1,250
14. Liverpoo! Metropolitan Cathedral Crypt 3,500 3,600
15. London, Bondway 12,700 13,200
16. London, Centrepoint 8,100 8,400
17. London, Theatre Girls' Club 8,100 8,400
18. Lowestoft Night Shelter 3,500 3,600
19. Manchester Night Shelter 8,100 8,400
20. Norwich Night Shelter 5,800 6,000
21. Nottingham, Help the Homeless 3,800 4,000
22. Oxford Cyrenians 6,900 7,200
23. Plymouth Night Shelter 3,500 3,600
24. Portsmouth, Harbour Community 1,600 1,700
25. Portsmouth, St. Petro's Community Trust 4,100 4,300
26. Preston, Homeless in 3,500 3,600
A. General Scheme Grants Voluntary Organisation 1982–83 £ Approved 1983–84 £
27. Sheffield, Joint Standing Committee 5,800 6,000
28. Stockton Churches Mission to the Single Homeless 4,600 4,800
29. Stoke Potteries Housing Association 4,100 4,300
30. Swansea, SASH 4,100 4,300
31. Swindon Cyrenians 3,000 3,100
32. Taunton Association for the Homeless 4,600 4,800
33. Tyneside Cyrenians 4,600 4,800
34. Wolverhampton Overnight Shelter Group 5,000 5,200
35. Worcester, St. Paul's 3,500 3,600
B. Camberwell replacement scheme—topping-up (revenue) grants*
Project Revenue grant initially approved for full year £ Latest grant approved for full year—at October 1983 £
(i) Projects approved in 1981–82
North Lambeth Day Centre, 2 Walcorde Avenue SE17 5,431 5,222
Single Homeless Project, 18 Palmerston Road E17 2,551 2,684
Bondway Shelter, 39 Knatchbull Road SE5 9,748 10,240
Bondway Shelter, 50 Balham Park Road SW12 10,008 10,508
Circle Trust Club, 36 Chadwick Road SE15 6,023 6,064
Circle Trust Club, 314 Coldharbour Lane SW9 7,034 7,277
Single Homeless Project, 43–44 The Park W5 8,644 9,100
Single Homeless Project, 93–95 Kings Cross Road WC1 15,803 16,510
Sub-total 65,242 67,605
(ii) Projects approved in 1982–83
Circle Trust, 68 Elliott Row SE11 5,430 †4,975
Single Homeless Project, 321/323 Katherine Road E7 7,468 7,850
Patchwork Community, 7–8 Micawber Street N1 1,945 1,958
Peter Bedford Trust, 43 Tollington Road N7 5,932 6,183
Peter Bedford Trust, 114 ForestRoad E5 1,225 1,290
St. Mungo's Community HA, 25 Claremont Road W9 3,006 3,625
St. Mungo's, 64–66 Argyle Street WC1 15,047 15,799
Single Homeless Project, 47 Knox Road E7 5,031 ‡4,390
North Lambeth Day Centre, 31 Helix Road SW2 4,782 4,732
North Lambeth Day Centre, 11 Paulet Road SE5 5,579 5,521
Single Homeless Project, 7 Lucien Road SW17 4,906 5,119
Single Homeless Project, 124 Beechcroft Road SW17 4,906 ‡4,390
St. Giles Centre, 21 Northlands Street SE5 5,393 5,663
Carr-Gomm Society, 166 East Hill SE18 706 741
Project Revenue grant initially approved for full year £ Latest grant approved for full year—at October 1983 £
Church Army, 66 Wickham Road 4,331 4,548
Single Homeless Project, 18 Ormley Road 4,390 4,390
Single Homeless Project, 60 Carminia Road 4,390 4,390
Sub-total 84,467 85,564
(iii) Projects approved in 1983–84
Circle Trust, 8 Avondale Rise SE15 2,694 2,694
Circle Trust, 5 Coppleston Road SE15 4,041 4,041
St. George Centre (Stonham), 89 Melody Road 4,486 4,486
Sub-total 11,221 11,221
Grand Total 160,930 164,390
* These annual grants are payable from the opening date of the project.
† Caring Organisation has changed since initial approval.
‡ The number of beds has changed since original approval.

Opportunities for volunteering Scheme (Subhead K9 1982–83) (Subhead K8 1983–84) 1982–83 £ 1983–84 £
Age Concern 450,100 905,000
British Association of Settlements and Social Action Centres 145,100 194,900
British Council of Churches 215,800 395,100
Church of England Children's Society 52,800 108,700
Community Service Volunteers 74,300 243,700
Consortium on Opportunities for Volunteering General Fund 896,800 1,865,600
Dr. Barnado's 55,000 155,000
Mencap 70,700 149,300
National Association for Mental Health 107,520 227,800
National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders 134,950 200,500
National Association of Leagues of Hospital Friends 38,450 50,450
Pre-School Playgroups Association 52,000 115,400
Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation 161,700 178,500
Royal National Institute for the Blind 56,300 54,200
Spastic Society 27,500 77,500
The Panel of Four 53,500 52,500
Volunteer Centre 7,479 7,478
2,599,999 4,981,628

Grant to Kings Fund Centre (subhead K2 (2))
Year ending
31 December 1982 £287,000
31 December 1983 £300,000
Intermediate Treatment Fund (subhead K5)
1982–83 £297,000
1983–84 Interim payments £246,000; total grant not yet settled.

The Department also provided £3,818,000 for the year ending 31 December 1982 to help families with very severely disabled children (subhead K3). This is disbursed through the family fund, which is administered by the Joseph Rowntree Memorial Trust. For the year ending 31 December 1983, £3,834,000 has been provided.

Three new schemes making grants available to voluntary organisations have started in 1983–84. The intermediate treatment initiative has a total budget of £15 million over three years. The voluntary sector will also play a significant role in the drugs misuse initiative, for which £2 million has been made available in 1983–84 and in each of the two succeeding years. Up to £1 million is available in 1983–84 to finance projects under the under-fives initiative arrangements announced on 20 October.