HC Deb 22 July 1980 vol 989 cc190-7W
Mr. Sproat

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the names of all voluntary bodies to which his Department gave funds in 1979 and in the current year; and how much went to each individual body last year and in the current year.

Sir George Young

The information requested is given in the table below. Part 1 relates to grants made to voluntary bodies under the Health and Personal Social Services Vote, Class XI. 1. Part 2 relates to grants made to voluntary bodies under schedule 5 of the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976.

1979–80 £ 1980–81 £
Subhead H.6
Family Planning Association 3,453 *
National Childrens Home 24,000 *
National Institute for Social Work 209,500 *
Voluntary Organisations Register of Training Exercises 7,042 *
Volunteer Centre 638 *
244,633
Subhead K.2
Alcoholism Community Centres For Education, Prevention and Treatment 10,000 20,000
Action On Smoking and Health 72,506 85,663
Adoption Resource Exchange 72,000 64,000
Age Concern 130,000 *
Alcohol Education Centre 56,100 63,500
Alcoholic Hostels 534,916 460,000†
Alcoholic Recovery Project 11,000
Andover Crisis Centre 11,000
Apex Trust 19,000
Aquarius Resource Centre 21,000 21,000
Association For All Speech Impaired Children 4,500 4,500
Association For Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus 25,000 *
Association of British Adoption and Fostering Agencies 101,000 87,000
Back Pain Association 22,415 9,000
Bethnal Green Intermediate Education Centre 26,050 28,000
Birth Control Trust 1,500 1,500
Breakthrough Trust 10,000 *
British Association of the Hard Of Hearing 9,500 *
British Association of Immediate Care 20,000 20,000
British Deaf Association 28,700
British Epilepsy Association 20,000 *
British Institute of Mental Handicap 21,000 20,500
British Red Cross 6,600 1,200
British Retinitis Pigmentosa Society 3,000 4,500
Brook Advisory Centres 21,000 21,000
Calibre 4,000 5,000
Campaign for the Homeless and Rootless 20,000 20,000
Campaign for the Mentally Handicapped 7,000 11,000
Catholic Child Welfare Council 5,500 6,500
Catholic Marriage Advisory Council 22,142 *
Centre on Environment for the Handicapped 15,000 *
Chest, Heart and Stroke Association 5,000 5,000
Children's House Society 6,000
Children's Legal Centre 10,500
Church of England's Children's Society 12,000
City Roads Crisis Intervention 65,110 70,000
Clocktower Association 6,750 12,500
Combat Huntington's Chorea 12,000 15,000
Commonwealth Students Children's Society 32,000 32,000
Community Service Volunteers 117,481 *
Contact 12,000 14,400
Contact A Family 4,000 *
Coventry Day Centre 20,000 20,000
Crossroads Care Attendant Scheme 32,929 25,000
Cruse 44,000 44,000
Cyrenians 44,000 50,000
Disabled Living Foundation 135,000 155,000
Disablement Income Group 9,000 9,000
Elderly Invalids Fund 7,000 *
Elizabeth House Association 5,000
Employment Fellowship 19,000 19,500
Family Holiday Association 1,500 *
Family Planning Association 71,500 *
Family Rights Group 5,000 5,500
Family Service Units 80,000 *
Family Tree 7,000 7,000
Family Welfare Association 81,000 *
Federation of Alcoholic Rehabilitation Establishments 56,000 *
Fluoridation Society 5,500 11,000
French Hospital and Dispensary 10,000
Gingerbread 35,000 30,000
Grubb Institute 4,125 20,625
Guideposts Trust 10,000 *

1979–80 £ 1980–81 £
Handcrafts Advisory Association for the Disabled 8,800 8,800
Helping Hand Organisation(Turning Point 40,732 *
Home Farm Trust 10,000 10,000
Homeless Action and Accommodation 3,000
Ileostomy Association of Great Britain 750 3,000
Independent Adoption Society 3,545
Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence 60,000 *
International Hospital Federation 12,000 6,000
International Social Service 21,000 20,000
International Voluntary Service 21,500 21,844
Invalids At Home Trust 2,000 2,200
Invalid Children's Aid Association 12,000 *
Joint Committee on Mobility for the Disabled 500 *
Kidney Transplant Olympic Association 4,000
L'Arche Limited 7,500 7,500
Leonard Cheshire Foundation 10,000 12,000
Liverpool Alcoholism Services 6,778 *
London Voluntary Service Council 11,500
London Youth Advisory Centre 9,010 5,657
Mastectomy Association 2,500 3,000
Medical Commission on Accident Prevention 26,621
Medical Council on Alcoholism 54,250 *
Mental Health Film Council 4,800 2,900
Migraine Trust 15,000
Motability 229,451 264,106
Muscular Dystrophy Group 15,000 *
National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders 73,890 84,668
National Ankylosing Spondylitis Society 2,500 2,500
National Association for the Childless 10,000 9,000
National Association for the Deaf/Blind, Rubella Handicapped 5,000 *
National Association for Gifted Children 4,509
National Association for Maternal and Child Welfare 3,000 5,000
National Association for Mental Health 250,000 275,000
National Association for Patient Participation in General Practice 1,000 2,000
National Association for the Welfare of Children in Hospital 26,000 44,000
National Association of Leagues of Hospital Friends 5,500 8,000
National Association of Victims Support Schemes 2,500 5,000
National Association of Voluntary Hostels 2,500 *
National Association of Youth Clubs 29,733 37,800
National Childbirth Trust 10,000 7,500
National Childminding Association 13,000 13,000
National Children's Bureau 76,750 112,500
National Children's Home 7,500 7,500
National Council for One-Parent Families 70,000 *
National Council for the Single Woman and Her Dependants 5,746 10,000
National Council of Voluntary Child Care Organisations 9,776 5,440
National Council of Voluntary Organisations 20,862 87,165
National Council on Alcoholism 171,000 *
National Deaf/Blind Helpers League 31,560
National Eczema Society 8,000 6,000
National Elfrida Rathbone Society 8,500 10,000
National Federation of the Blind of the United Kingdom 1,000 *
National Foster Care Association 28,983 31,750
National Institute for Social Work 514,257‡
National Intermediate Treatment Federation 1,000
National Library for the Blind 7,500 *
National Listening Library 15,000
National Marriage Guidance Council 10,000 *
National Playbus Association 5,625 13,000
National Schizophrenia Fellowship 56,000 56,000
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children 86,500 *
National Womens Aid Federation 68,750 *
National Youth Bureau 35,000 *
Network for the Handicapped 1,000 1,000
Norfolk Council on Alcoholism 32,750 *
Northern Regional Association for the Blind 26,132 27,740
One to One 12,000 12,000
Outset 7,500 *
Overseas Doctors Association 4,235 5,500
Parents Anonymous (London) 7,500
Parents for Children 24,000 24,000
Partially Sighted Society 10,000 *
Patients Association 5,000 5,000

1979–80 £ 1980–81 £
Peter Bedford Project 8,750 8,750
Physically Handicapped and Able Bodied 12,000 12,000
Plymouth Night Shelter 20,900
Possum Users Association 11,000 7,000
Pre-Retirement Association 5,000
Pre-School Playgroups Association 215,000 222,500
Queen Elizabeth Foundation for the Disabled 1,000
Rainer Foundation 5,250 7,000
Rape Counselling and Research Project 11,000 8,000
Refresh 3,000
Rehabilitation of Metropolitan Addicts 6,000 20,000
Richmond Fellowship 40,000 50,000
Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation 205,000 220,000
Royal National Institute for the Blind 185,000
Salvation Army 24,095 36,318
Samaritans 60,000 70,000
Save The Children Fund 43,125 139,500
Sexual and Personal Relationships of the Disabled 15,600
Shaftesbury Homes and Arethusa Sailing Barge 25,000 25,000
Shape 5,000 5,000
Sheffield Family Service Units 6,000 12,000
Shilhay Community—Exeter 2,314 686
Soundaround 2,500 1,500
South East London Consortium 6,920 __
Southern and Western Regional Association for the Blind 35,944 43,980
Spastics Society 28,120
Spinal Injuries Association 15,000
Standing Conference on Drug Abuse 39,000
Steering Committee for the National Federation of Self Help Groups 3,000 300
St. Albans Diocesan Council for Social Responsibility 18,000
St. Dismas Resource Centre 5,500
St. John Ambulance 30,000
Stonham Housing Association 16,800
Talking Newspaper Association of the United Kingdom 500 750
Toy Libraries Association 27,000 27,000
United Kingdom Association for the International Year of the Child 33,900 1,950
United Kingdom Thalassaemia Society 2,250
Voluntary Council for Handicapped Children 20,000 20,000
Voluntary Organisations Liaison Committee for Under Fives 4,022 5,000
Westminster Pastoral Foundation 50,000 50,000
Widows Advisory Trust 8,750 8,500
Winged Fellowship Trust 5,500
Women's National Cancer Control Campaign 46,000 52,000
Miscellaneous 125,186 65,440
5,943,524
Kings Fund 204,000 255,000
6,147,524
Subhead K.3
Joseph Rowntree Memorial Trust—Very Severely Handicapped Children (Grant in Aid) 2,516,000 2,949,000
Subhead K.5
Royal National Institute for the Deaf—Capital Expenditure on Accommodation for Deaf/Blind Young People 116,000
Subhead K.7
Rainer Foundation—Intermediate Treatment Fund (Grant in Aid) 188,000 210,000

PART 2—GRANTS MADE BY THE SUPPLEMENTARY BENEFITS COMMISSION ON BEHALF OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE UNDER SCHEDULE 5 OF THE SUPPLEMENTARY BENEFITS ACT 1976
1979–80 £ 1980–81 £
Aberdeen Cyrenians 3,500 *
Birmingham, Committee for Night Shelter 5,500 5,500
Birmingham, St. Anne's 3,000 *
Birmingham, St. Basil's 6,000 6,000
Brighton YMCA 3,000 3,000
Cambridge Cyrenians 1,000 *
Cardiff Cyrenians 3,000 *
Coventry Cyrenians 4,000 4,000
Edinburgh, People's Palace 5,000 *
Exeter, Shilhay 4,000 4,000
Glasgow, Church of Scotland Night Shelter 2,500 *
Gloucester Night Shelter 1,000 *
Leeds Cyrenian Community 1,000 1,000
Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral Crypt 3,000 3,000
London, Bondway, Vauxhall 11,000 11,000
London, Centrepoint 7,000 7,000
London, St. Giles Centre 2,000 *
London, Theatre Girls Club 7,000 7,000
Lowestoft Night Shelter 3,000 3,000
Manchester Night Shelter 7,000 *
Norwich Night Shelter 5,000 5,000
Nottingham Help The Homeless 3,300 3,300
Oxford Cyrenians 6,000 6,000
Plymouth Council for Christian Care 2,000 *
Portsmouth, St. Petroc's Community Trust 3,500 3,500
Preston, Homeless In 3,000 3,000
Sheffield, Conway House 3,000 3,000
Southampton, Salvation Army Goodwill Centre 1,000 1,000
Stockton Churches Mission to the Single Homeless 4,000 2,000
Swansea, Sash 3,500 3,500
Taunton Association for the Homeless 3,925 2,000
Tyneside Cyrenians Ltd. 6,000 4,000
Wolverhampton Overnight Shelter Group 4,400 4,400
Worcester, St. Pauls 3,000 3,000
Note: In addition payments totalling £727,500 were made in 1979–80 to 761 voluntary organisations for taking social work students on practice placements.
* 1980–81 level of grant not yet finally determined.
† Estimate. Hostels claim deficit revenue grant.
‡ Capital grant towards purchase of freehold of premises, with safeguards to protect the Exchequer's nterest in the event of their disposal.