HC Deb 15 April 1983 vol 40 cc478-81W
Mr. Ashley

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services, pursuant to the answer of 29 March, Official Report, c. 119–20, if he will list the organisations in each category which received money under section 64 of the Health Service and Public Health Act 1968, giving the amount each has received.

Mr. Rossi

The organisations concerned and the amount of money given are as follows:

1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82
£ £ £ £
Blindness
Home Bound Craftsmen 2,000 1,000
National Federation of the Blind of the United Kingdom 1,000 1,000 1,000
National Tape Magazine for the Blind 200 200 400
North Regional Association for the Blind 21,093 26,132 27,740 38,478
Partially Sighted Society 5,000 10,000 11,000 12,000
RNIB 165,000 185,000 245,000 355,000
Soundaround 2,000 2,500 1,500
Southern and Western Regional Association for the Blind 33,575 35,944 43,980 53,312
Talking Newspapers Association of the United Kingdom 500 500 750 750
National Library for the Blind 7,500 9,000 9,500
British Retinitis Pigmentosa Society 3,000 4,500 4,500

1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82
£ £ £ £
Physical Disability
British Red Cross Society (Cosmetic Camouflage) 600 2,950 1,200 1,260
Queen Elizabeth Foundation for the Disabled 7,000 10,000
Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus 22,500 25,000 40,000 30,000
Community Service Volunteers (School Concern) 6,000 23,981 35,200 4,896
Disabled Drivers Motor Club 3,000 2,000 3,000
Handcrafts Advisory Association for the Disabled 8,000 8,800 9,300
Invalids at Home Trust 2,000 2,000 2,200 2,200
Invalid Children's Aid Association 5,000 12,000 5,000 44,000
Joint Committee on Mobility for the Disabled 500 500 500 600
Leonard Cheshire Foundation 10,000 10,000 18,000 20,000
Musclar Dystrophy Group 15,000 15,000 15,000 20,000
National Disabled Passenger's Association 300
Physically Handicapped and Able Bodied 10,000 12,000 12,000 35,000
Possum Users Association 11,000 11,000 14,000 14,750
Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation 170,000 205,000 250,000 270,000
Spinal Injuries Association 10,000 15,000 15,000 15,000
Wessex Rehabilitation Association 6,700 13,177 25,000 18,000
Winged Fellowship Trust 4,000 5,500 6,300
Motability 167,748 229,451 239,772 300,060
Disabled Drivers Association 3,000 3,500 3,500
Refresh 3,000
Stockport Odd Feet Association 300
Mobility International 7,500
Motor Neurone Disease Association 3,000 3,000
National Listening Library 15,000 16,000
Bobath Centre 3,000

1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82
£ £ £ £
Mental Disability
National Society for Mentally Handicapped Children 5,200
International Voluntary Service 9,375 7,500
Guideposts Trust 15,000 10,000 5,000
International Hospital Federation 6,000 12,000 26,000 35,000
Mental Health Film Council 2,900 4,800 2,900 3,200
National Association for Mental Health 180,000 250,000 275,000 400,000
National Schizophrenic Fellowship 31,000 56,000 66,000 76,000
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association 6,000
CARE 6,000 12,500
Campaign for Mentally Handicapped 6,500 7,000 11,000 14,000
Dr. Barnardo's 6,215 20,000
Downs Children's Association 3,500 4,500 4,500
Elizabeth Fitzroy Trust 12,000 12,500
Home Farm Trust 10,000 10,000 10,000 12,500
Institute of Mental Subnormality 16,000
L'Arche 7,500 7,500 7,500 22,500
One to One 7,500 12,000 12,000 9,000
Sesame 3,000
Family Tree 7,000 7,000 8,750
Richmond Fellowship 40,000 50,000 70,000
British Institute of Mental Handicap 21,000 20,500 24,500
Contact a Family 4,000 3,000
National Elfrida Rathbone Society 8,500 10,000 11,000
HAPA Committee for Play in Hospital 4,875 6,500
Mencap 5,000 209,750
Save the Children Fund (Hospital Play schemes, Mobile Unit; Hospital Play schemes, Advisory) 3,750 21,000

1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82
£ £ £ £
Tuberous Sclerosis Association 1,000
Mental Aftercare Association 50,000
Advocacy Alliance 4,000
Association of Residential Communities 8,000
Horticultural Therapy 5,000
Alzheimer's Disease Society 2,250

1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82
£ £ £ £
More than one Disability Group
Association of Speech Impaired Children 3,000 4,500 7,000 10,000
British Epilepsy Association 22,000 20,000 30,000 22,000
CALIBRE 3,000 4,000 5,000 7,000
Centre on Environment for the Handicapped 15,000 15,000 22,200 21,400
Combat Huntington's Chorea 7,000 12,000 15,000 15,000
Crossroads Care Attendant Scheme 28,500 32,929 25,000 25,000
Directory for the Disabled 10,000 10,000
Disabilities Study Unit 800
Disabled Living Foundation 110,000 135,000 200,000 242,000
Disablement Income Group 17,000 9,000 11,000 11,000
International Year of Disabled People 2,950 15,200 102,754 164,167
National Association for Deaf/Blind and Rubella Handicapped 5,000 5,000 45,400 5,000
Newcastle on Tyne Council for the Disabled 2,500 3,500
OUTSET 7,500 7,500 3,750 14,250
Silver Jubilee Committee on Improving Access for Disabled 13,000
Spastics Society 18,199 28,120 47,941 141,738
Talking Books for the Handicapped-National Listening Library 14,000
Voluntary Council for Handicapped Children 10,000 20,000 20,000 22,000
Institute for Research into Mental and Multiple Handicap 5,000
Sexual and Personal Relationships of the Disabled 15,600 23,500 30,000
National Deaf-Blind Helpers League 31,560
Network for the Handicapped 1,000 1,000 1,000
Community Service Volunteers 7,500 9,500 15,500
Handicrafts Advisory Association 8,800
Royal School for the Blind 7,000 114,000
Social Welfare Commission of the Catholic Bishops Conference 3,000
Makaton Vocabulary Department Project 2,000
Disability Alliance 5,000
Holiday Care Service 5,000
Sue Ryder Foundation 2,000