§ Mr. Alfred Morrisasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the grants paid by the voluntary services unit to voluntary organisations in 1979–80, and the estimates for 1980–81.
§ Mr. WhitelawThe following grants were agreed in 1979–80:
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Grant Applications Agreed by the Voluntary Services Unit 1979–80 £ Action Resource Centre 20,000 Association of Researchers into Voluntary Action and Community Involvement (ARVAC) 717 AVEC 3,958 British Association for Counselling 12,000 British Association of Settlements 24,000 British Council of Churches (Community Work Resource Unit) 6,042 Brixton Neighbourhood Community Association 43,552 Community Projects Foundation 478,089 Community Service Volunteers 327,000 Community Transport 29,825 Design Resource Association 15,000 FAMILY DAY CENTRE PROJECTS Aide a Toute Detresse 42,326 Cambridge House and Talbot 27,871 Camden Family Service Unit 14,230 Croydon Gingerbread 13,404 Defoe Day Centre 42,669 Liverpool Personal Service Society 14,180 London Voluntary Service Council 39,768 Institute of Community Studies 14,050 Fair Play for Children 29,100 Federation of Community Work Training Groups 1,000 Gamblers Anonymous 500 Gingerbread 4,900 Girls Alone in London Service (GALS) 13,020 Govan Resource Centre 46,834 Greater Manchester Council for Voluntary Service (Development Officer) 7,700 International Voluntary Service 19,784 International Year of the Child 32,000 London Voluntary Services Council (Resource Centre) 59,521 Melting Pot Foundation 26,000 Merseyside Council for Voluntary Service (Development Officer) 7,700 Midland Public Service Announcement Scheme 6,000 National Association for Asian Youth 28,400 National Association of Victims Support Schemes 5,000 National Council of Social Service: Community Development Officers 38,847 Festival Welfare Service 10,506 Management Services 4,000 London Voluntary Service Council 2,192 Campaign Books 3,400
£ International Council of Social Welfare 2,500 National Playing Fields Association 50,000 National Youth Bureau: National Association of Young People's Counselling and Advisory Services 12,678 Young Volunteer Resource Unit 66,375 Voluntary Service Opportunities Register 5,765 Newham Community Renewal Programme 31,500 Newham Homeless Young People's Project 15,000 North Kensington Amenity Trust 6,000 North Association for Community Care (Bendrigg Lodge) 29,000 Onward Industries 50,600 Outset 12,150 Princedale Trust (Release) 37,500 Piccadilly Project 10,000 Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation 9,000 Runnymede Trust 8,750 Scoutreach Nottingham 3,500 South Wales Anti-Poverty Action Committee (Resource Centre) 68,750 Southampton Community Service Council—Public Service Announcement Scheme 1,000 Stockport Council of Voluntary Service—Volunteers Job shop 1,500 Student Community Action Resources Programme 14,000 Task Force 59,206 Time for God 2,000 Volunteer Centre 317,513 Media Project (Volunteer Centre) 29,056 Wales Playing Fields Association 8,500 West End Co-Ordinated Voluntary Services 68,558 £2,435,486 Note: Responsibility for the grant to the British Council for Aid to Refugees, which in 1978–79 received £342,918 from the voluntary services unit, has now been transferred to another administrative division.
Not all the estimates for the organisations in this list to which the voluntary services unit will be paying grant in 1980–81 have yet been finalised. The best provisional estimate that can be made for the total of these grants is some £2.9 million.