§ Mr. Hargreavesasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will publish a table showing, for the last three years, a list of those voluntary organisations which have received grants from Departments under his control, together with the amounts received in each case; if he will state the total amount paid in grants to voluntary organisations and the headings under which they were paid; what steps are taken to monitor the use to which these funds are put; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. ScottThe answer is as follows:
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Northern Ireland Office £ Belfast Law Centre 68,000 Northern Ireland Association for the care and resettlement of offenders 180,268 Extern 300,070 Northern Ireland Intermediate Treatment Association 1,099
£ Save the Children Fund 145,409 Co-operation North 35,000
Department of finance and personnel £ Refreshment Clubs 353,000 Northern Ireland Civil Service Sports Association 34,682 Northern Ireland Civil Service Retirement Fellowship 1,465 Army Benevolent Fund 15,000 Police Benevolent Fund 50,000 Ulster Defence Regiment Benevolent Fund 20,000 Public Service Training Council 165,000 Northern Ireland Economic Development Office 225,000 Incorporated Council of Law Reporting 3,000
Department of Health and Social Services £ Northern Ireland Council of Social Service 199,990.21 Community Service Volunteers 8,065 Society of St. Vincent de Paul 39,303 Belfast Voluntary Welfare Society 4,000 Carafriend 4,625 Retirement Association of Northern Ireland 6,890 International Voluntary Service 11,000 Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents 25,970 Northern Ireland Council for Orthopaedic Development 16,000 National Deaf Children's Society 2,300 Ulster Institute for the Deaf 6,000 Age Concern 68,450 Abbeyfield 2,400 Royal Society for Mentally Handicapped Children and Adults 4,000 Northern Ireland Association for Mental Health 69,252 Northern Ireland Marriage Guidance Council 60,600 Northern Ireland Council on Alcohol 139,461 British Epilepsy Association (Northern Ireland Region) 2,650 Northern Ireland Women's Aid Federation 20,700 Gingerbread 46,500 Catholic Marriage Advisory Council 35,378 Church of Ireland Social and Family Welfare Society 1,060 Blind Centre for Northern Ireland 10,000 Motability 11,376 Multiple Sclerosis Action Group 12,700 Soldiers, Sailors and Airmens Families Association 650 Physically Handicapped and Able-Bodied 8,250 Family Planning Association (Northern Ireland Region) 3,300 Joseph Rowntree Trust (Family Fund) 142,065 Council on Alcohol Related Problems 18,887 Multiple Sclerosis Society (Northern Ireland Branch) 3,000 Northern Ireland Widows Association 1,525 National Schizophrenia Fellowship 5,250
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£ Northern Ireland Hospice 100,000 Praxis 30,629 Health Education Council 256,040 British Red Cross Society 1,060 St. John Ambulance (NI District) 1,060 Order of Malta Ambulance Corps 1,060 National Health Service Retirement Fellowship Association 530 Crossroads Care Attendance Scheme 5,833 SHARE 7,700 Disabled Drivers Association 1,000 National Rubella Campaign 500 Newcastle Society for Mentally Handicapped 15,000 Arthritis Care 1,000 Omagh Community Development Project 1,500 Newry and Mourne Co-operative Society 7,500
£ Enterprise Carrickfergus Limited 7,500 Belfast Voluntary Welfare Society 7,000 Springfield Charitable Association 7,000 Aileach Development Society Limited 7.500 Orana Children's Home, Newry 2,085 Glendhu Children's Hostel, Belfast 9,027 Marianville Mother and Baby Home, Belfast 10,125 Johnston Memorial House, Belfast 51,153 Nazareth Lodge, Belfast 11,000 Manor House, Ballycastle 666 Northern Ireland Pre-School Playgroups Association 37,241 National Childminding Association 2,053 Barnardo's Carraigfoyle Paediatric Support Unit 25,508 Extern—West Belfast Auto Project 24,201 Northern Ireland Intermediate Treatment Association 1,098 Northern Ireland Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders 3,280 National Council of Voluntary Child Care Organisations 774 Northern Ireland Foster Care Association 2,391 Save the Children Fund—Minnowburn Youth Farm 15,237 Parents Advice Centre 2,470 Belfast Voluntary Welfare Society—Home Start Scheme 5,037 Community Service Volunteers—Children in Care Scheme 3,580 Down and Connor Catholic Family Welfare Society 48,093 NSPCC 35,393
Department of Education £ Arts Council for Northern Ireland 2,795,600 Linenhall Library 54,000 NI Library and Information Services Council 287 Forum for Community Work Education 23,000 Protestant and Catholic Encounter 9,500 Corrymeela 61,000 Harmony Community Trust 16,500 Irish Council of Churches/Irish Commission for Justice and Peace—Peace Education Programme 3,530 Children's Community Relations Holiday Scheme 88,353 Churches Central Committee for Community Work 12,555 Citizen's Advice Bureaux Headquarters 88,841 Voluntary Sports Organisations 1,150,460 Glencairn Community Association 666 Ulster Peoples College 12,780 Methodist College Inter-Schools Project 1,370 All Children Together 100 Association of Teachers of Cultural and Social Studies 185 Sixth-formers Community Relations Project 104 United Sportsmens Service 200 Youth Clubs and Youth Organisations 1,330,706 Ulster American Folk Park 309,000 NI UNESCO Committee 2,669 Workers Educational Association 98,500 Educational Guidance Service for Adults 27,992 Retirement Association of NI 1,000 NI Council for Educational Research 171,679 Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research 3,000 British Association for the Advancement of Science 3,184 Central Bureau for Educational Visits and Exchanges 58,481 League for the Exchange of Commonwealth Teachers 6,461 Council for Education in World Citizenship 920 Ulster College of Music 7,410 Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies 1,275
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Department of Agriculture £ Royal Ulster Agricultural Society 45,400 Down Royal Corporation of Horse Breeders 1,927
£ Young Farmers Clubs of Ulster 28,599 Various Show Societies 1,779 Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents 125 Seed Potato Promotions Ltd 120,300
Department of Economic Development £ The Northern Ireland Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions 72,884 Northern Ireland Industrial Safety Group 2,800 Employment and Training Committee for the Printing and Publishing Industry 10,276 Action for Community Employment (funded 862 projects in private and voluntary sector organisations) 7,930,000 Youth Community Projects (funded 30 projects in private and voluntary sector organisations) 1,148,000 Community Volunteering Scheme (funded 19 voluntary sector organisations) 331,000 Work Preparation Units 11,274,175 Younghelp 839,063 National Trust 185,797 Incorporated Cripples Institutes and Holiday Homes 45,523 Thomas Doran Training Centre 130,164 Glencraig Village Community 116,904 Marine Grange Village Community 181,992 Royal National Institute for the Blind 16,791 Irish Linen Guild 9,000 Automation Centre (Queen's University, Belfast) 99,000 Wolfson Signal Processing Unit (Queen's University, Belfast) 8,750 The Lambeg Industrial Research Association 132,000 Occupational Respiratory Surveillance Scheme 16,000 Occupational Health Survey (Queen's University, Belfast) 10,500 Northern Ireland Consumer Council 40,000
Department of the Environment £ Ulster Game and Wildfowl Society 100 Royal Society for the Protection of Birds 9,750 Strangford Lough Wildfowlers' Association 700 Copeland Bird Observatory 1,000 Northern Ireland Bird Records Committee 475 British Trust for Ornithology 2,250 Antrim Ringing Group 140 Grass Roots Conservation Corps 219 Strangford Lough Wildlife Scheme (National Trust) 11,000 Conservation Volunteers 15,691 Ulster Trust for Nature Conservation 4,500 Northern Ireland Council of Social Services 3,382 National Trust 307,978 Ulster Architectural Heritage Society/ACE 10,969 HEARTH 2,600 The Linenhall Library, Belfast 7,000 Road Safety Council (NI) 64,355 RoSPA 36,045 Environmental Improvement Scheme 2,600 Northern Ireland Federation of Housing Associations 76,500 National Federation of Housing Associations 200 Registered Housing Associations 36,239,616 Unregistered Housing Associations 65,913 Belfast Housing Aid Society 16,190
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Northern Ireland Office £ Belfast Law Centre 70,200 Northern Ireland Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders 210,094 Extern 303,122
£ Northern Ireland Intermediate Treatment Association 1,365 Save the Children Fund 152,697 Presbyterian Church (Thompson House) 49,778 Ulster Quaker Service 9,304 Dismas House 18,701 Belfast Voluntary Welfare Society 12,001 Citizens Advice Bureau 825 Belfast Rape Crisis Centre 250 Co-operation North 35,000
Department of Finance and Personnel £ Refreshment Clubs 380,659 Northern Ireland Civil Service Sports Association 27,500 Northern Ireland Civil Service Retirement Fellowship 4,100 Army Benevolent Fund 15,000 Police Benevolent Fund 49,000 Ulster Defence Regiment Benevolent Fund 20,000 Public Service Training Council 178,673 Northern Ireland Economic Development Office 240,000 Incorporated Council of Law Reporting 3,000 Civil Service Benevolent Fund 13,000
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Department of Health and Social Services £ Northern Ireland Council of Social Services 276,000 Community Service Volunteers 5,381 St. Vincent de Paul Society 52,026 Belfast Voluntary Welfare Society 3,500 Carefriend 5,147 Retirement Association of Northern Ireland 7,235 International Voluntary Service 14,438 Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (ROSPA) 27,268 Northern Ireland Council for Orthopaedic Development 16,800 National Deaf Children's Society 2,420 Ulster Institute for the Deaf 6,300 Age Concern 71,873 Abbeyfield Society 2,400 Royal Society for Mentally Handicapped Children and Adults 7,560 Northern Ireland Association for Mental Health 81,432 Northern Ireland Marriage Guidance Council 31,981 Northern Ireland Council on Alcohol 55,599 British Epilepsy Association (Northern Ireland Region) 6,000 Northern Ireland Women's Aid Federation 30,300 Northern Ireland Widows Association 5,230 Gingerbread 45,660 Catholic Marriage Advisory Council 70,900 Church of Ireland Social and Family Welfare Society 1,120 Blind Centre for Northern Ireland 18,000 Motability 11,111 Multiple Sclerosis Action Group 13,340 Soldiers, Sailors and Airmens Families Association 700 Physically Handicapped and Able-Bodied 13,000 Family Planning Association (Northern Ireland Region) 3,500 Council on Alcohol Related Problems 23,924 Crossroads Care Attendant Scheme 14,700 Multiple Sclerosis Society (Northern Ireland Branch) 3,150 Ambulance Services 3,150 Womens Health Fair 2,250 National Health Service Retirement Fellowship 557 PRAXIS 22,298 Home Insulation Schemes 56,437 Disabled Drivers' Association 1,050 National Schizophrenia Fellowship 16,065 National Council for Carers and the Elderly Dependants 500
£ National Rubella Campaign 700 Northern Ireland Hospice 50,000 Northlands Centre 17,000 Marie Carie Memorial Foundation 5,000 Industrial Therapy Organisation 25,000 Order of Malta Ambulance Corps 15,500 British Red Cross Society 1,289 Womens Information Group 2,000 CRUSE in Northern Ireland 11,250 Open Door Housing Resettement Project 7,000 Presbyterian Church in Ireland 1,820 Northern Ireland Council for the Single Homeless 1,500 Workers Education Association 2,400 Northern Ireland Voluntary Trust 10,000 Northern Ireland Childminders Development Committee 4,193 Parents Advice Centre 2,913 Extern—West Belfast Auto Project 26,770 Northern Ireland Foster Care Association 4,163 Northern Ireland Pre-School Playgroup Association 66,954 Northern Ireland Intermediate Treatment Association 1,364 Northern Ireland Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders 3,443 Down and Connor Catholic Family Welfare Society 53,225 National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children 37,444 Dr. Barnardo's 53,926 Belfast Voluntary Welfare Society—Home Start Scheme 5,016 Community Service Volunteers—Give and Take Scheme 20,455 National Council of Voluntary Child Care Organisations (Northern Ireland Group) 1,833 National Playbus Association 671 Glendhu Children's Hostel, Belfast 3,827 Johnston Memorial Children's Home, Belfast 10,000 Manor House Children's Home, Lisburn 15,223 Marianville Mother and Baby Unit, Belfast 14 Nazareth House, Londonderry 2,619 Orans Children's Home, Newry 415 Glebe House Holiday Home, Kilclief 1,187
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Department of Education £ Arts Council for Northern Ireland 2,849,000 Linenhall Library 52,000 NI Library and Information Services Council 628 Forum for Community Work Education 35,000 Protestant and Catholic Encounter 9,300 Corrymeela 69,989 Harmony Community Trust 18,000 Irish Council of Churches-Irish Commission for Justice and Peace—Peace Education Programme 14,248 Children's Community Relations Holiday Scheme 106,398 Churches' Central Committee for Community Work 17,982 Citizens' Advice Bureaux Headquarters 109,000 Voluntary Sports Organisations 1,407,567 Glencairn Community Association 181 Ulster Peoples College 7,524 Methodist College Inter-Schools Project 2,455 Sixth-formers Community Relations Project 127 Youth Clubs and Youth Organisations 1,486,479 Ulster American Folk Park 355,000 NI UNESCO Committee 12,983 Workers Educational Association 97,774 Educational Guidance Service for Adults 34,215 Retirement Association of NI 4,000 NI Council for Educational Research 163,802 Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research 3,000 British Association for the Advancement of Science 3,345 Central Bureau for Educational Visits and Exchanges 56,560 League for the Exchange of Commonwealth Teachers 9,019
£ Council for Education in World Citizenship 915 Ulster College of Music 6,809 Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies 1,640 Christian Education Movement 468 Community of the Peace People 4,475 Irish Genealogical Association-Christian Heritage 475 Joint Ecumenical Talks Project 270 Community Relations Information Service 630 Federation for Ulster Local Studies 500 Community Relations in Schools—(East Belfast) Project 7,615 Federation of Women's Institutes (NI) 1,000
Department of Agriculture £ Royal Ulster Agricultural Society 48,248 Down Royal Corporation of Horse Breeders 55,866 Young Farmers Clubs of Ulster 46,000 Various Show Societies 1,695 Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents 125 Seed Potato Promotions Ltd. 130,000
Department of Economic Development £ The Northern Ireland Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions 80,000 Action for Community Employment (funded 860 projects in private and voluntary sector organisations) 9,724,000 Community Volunteering Scheme (funded 24 voluntary sector organisations) 523,000 Youth Community Projects (funded 27 projects in private and voluntary sector organisations) 877,539 Community Workshops 12,094,737 Younghelp 587,175 National Trust 171,657 Incorporated Cripples Institutes and Holiday Homes 46,942 Thomas Doran Training Centre 264,856 Glencraig Village Community 88,742 Mourne Grange Village Community 154,923 Clanabogan Village Community 8,000 Royal National Institute for the Blind 10,309 Irish Linen Guild 9,148 Automation Centre (Queen's University Belfast) 47,250 Wolfson Signal Processing Unit (Queen's University Belfast) 7,000 The Lambeg Industrial Research Association 96,439 Occupational Respiratory Surveillance Scheme 15,217 Occupational Health Survey 2,789 Northern Ireland Consumer Council 50,000 University of Ulster (CAD Engineer) R&D Purposes 25,279 The Scottish-Irish Trust of Ulster 99,042 The Railway Preservation Society 2,700 YMCA 4,466
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Department of Environment £ Antrim Ringing Group 480 British Trust for Ornithology 2,500 Copeland Bird Observatory 1,000 Irish Brent Geese Expedition 1,000 National Trust Strangford Lough Wildlife Scheme 32,500 North Down Ringing Group 400 Northern Ireland Bird Records Committee 435 Northern Ireland Ornithologists Club 580 Royal Society for the Protection of Birds 12,594 Strangford Lough Wildflowers Association 500 Ulster Game and Wildfowl Society 250 Ulster Trust for Nature Conservation 1,050 National Trust 415,000 Conservation Volunteers (NI) 75,080 Northern Ireland Council for Social Services 3,505
£ HEARTH 9,554 Road Safety Council (NI) 65,000 RoSPA 41,593 Environmental Improvement Scheme 2,737 St. Oliver Plunkett Environmental Committee 41,350 Belfast Voluntary Welfare Society "Better Belfast" Project 20,040 Northern Ireland Federation 66 Housing Associations 70,500 National Federation of Housing Association 200 Registered Housing Associations 41,413,371 Unregistered Housing Associations 66,725 Belfast Housing Aid Society 20,000 Tenants Participation Advisory Service 12,500 Community Technical Aid 10,000
Northern Ireland Office £ Belfast Law Centre 100,000 Northern Ireland Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders 258,017 Extern 347,849 Northern Ireland Intermediate Treatment Association 1,555 Save the Children Fund 158,726 Presbyterian Church (Thompson House) 58,357 Ulster Quaker Service 12,070 Dismas House 21,154 Belfast Voluntary Welfare Society 1,250 Citizens Advice Bureau 1,500 Belfast Rape Crisis Centre 11,000 Co-operation North 35,000
Department of Finance and Personnel £ Refreshment Clubs 433,738 Northern Ireland Civil Service Sports Association 29,000 Northern Ireland Civil Service Retirement Fellowship 4,100 Army Benevolent Fund 15,000 Police Benevolent Fund 55,000 Ulster Defence Regiment Benevolent Fund 20,000 Public Service Training Council 199,852 Northern Ireland Economic Development Office 239,717 Incorporated Council of Law Reporting 3,000 Civil Service Benevolent Fund 13,000 Economic Research Centre 45,000 Policy Research Institute 9,314
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Department of Health and Social Services £ Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action 182,960 Community Service Volunteers 6,146 St. Vincent de Paul Society 28,080 Belfast Voluntary Welfare Society 4,000 Carafriend 3,865 Retirement Association of Northern Ireland 6,600 International Voluntary Service 15,925 Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (ROSPA) 28,359 Northern Ireland Council for Orthopaedic Development 17,472 National Deaf Children's Society 2,517 Ulster Institute for the Deaf 6,552 Age Concern 74,748 Abbeyfield Society 2,250 Royal Society for Mentally Handicapped Children and Adults 38,276 Northern Ireland Association for Mental Health 84,700 Northern Ireland Marriage Guidance Council 35,617 Northern Ireland Council on Alcohol 57,950
£ British Epilepsy Association (Northern Ireland Region) 7,040 Northern Ireland Women's Aid Federation 32,049 Northern Ireland Widows Association 6,513 Gingerbread 71,676 Catholic Marriage Advisory Council 43,723 The Northlands Centre 22,500 Industrial Therapy Organisation 25,000 Life Care and Housing Trust 9,336 Outreach Anorexia 1,000 Northern Ireland Council for Travelling People 15,058 Womens Information Groups 2,080 Combat Huntingdon's Chorea 1,000 CRUSE in Northern Ireland 10,920 Open Door Housing Resettlement Project 16,863 Presbyterian Church in Ireland (Board of Social Witness) 10,650 Northern Ireland Rape Crisis Association 4,325 Workers' Education Association 3,900 National Council for Carers and their Elderly Dependants 520 Church of Ireland Social and Family Welfare Society 1,165 Blind Centre for Northern Ireland 29,700 Motability 17,250 Multiple Sclerosis Action Group 13,874 Soldiers, Sailors and Airmens Families Association (SSAFA) 730 Physically Handicapped and Able-Bodied (PHAB) 12,400 Family Planning Association (Northern Ireland Region) 3,500 Council on Alcohol Related Problems 22,202 Crossroads Care Attendant Scheme 13,867 Multiple Sclerosis Society (NI) Branch 3,276 Ambulance Services 3,198 Northern Ireland Council for the Handicapped 74,500 National Health Service Retirement Fellowship 580 PRAXIS 22,600 Disabled Drivers' Association 1,100 National Schizophrenia Fellowship 15,924 National Rubella Campaign 800 Home Insulation Schemes 73,000 Belfast Law Centre 61,264 Arthritis Care 1,000 Northern Ireland Voluntary Trust 20,000 British Red Cross Society 400 Simon Community Northern Ireland 5,000 Northern Ireland Pre-School Playgroups Association 84,493 Extern 59,514 Parents Advice Centre 3,892 Northern Ireland Intermediate Treatment Association 1,555 Down and Connor Catholic Family Welfare Society 58,921 Northern Ireland Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders 3,616 Northern Ireland Childminders Association 5,865 Dr. Barnardo's 46,270 Northern Ireland Foster Care Association 2,847 Belfast Voluntary Welfare Society—Home Start Scheme 5,242 Community Service Volunteers—Give and Take Scheme 23,000 National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children 41,169 Newtownabbey Auto Project 10,750 Garnerville/Knocknagoney Project 4,153 Toy Libraries Association (Playmatters) 2,000 Derry Diocesan Child Welfare Society 6,383 St. Joseph's Children's Home 4,222 BVWS Parent/Child Support Unit 5,000 Orana Children's Home 2,254 Childhaven Children's Home 2,250
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Department of Education £ Arts Council for Northern Ireland 3,217,500 Linen Hall Library 45,000
£ NI Library and Information Services Council 460 Forum for Community Work Education 47,000 Protestant and Catholic Encounter 9,700 Corrymeela 79,200 Harmony Community Trust 29,450 Irish Council of Churches/Irish Commission for Justice and Peace—Peace Education Programme 16,080 Children's Community Relations Holiday Scheme 101,270 Churches' Central Committee for Community Work 25,820 Citizen's Advice Bureaux Headquarters 111,400 Voluntary Sports Organisations 759,600 Ulster Peoples College 27,210 Methodist College Inter-Schools Project 2,335 Youth Clubs and Youth Organisations 1,637,272 Ulster American Folk Park 437,000 NI UNESCO Committee 22,118 Workers Educational Association 130,267 Educational Guidance Services for Adults 36,921 Retirement Association of NI 3,000 NI Council for Educational Research 173,886 Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research 3,000 British Association for the Advancement of Science 3,345 Central Bureau for Educational Visits and Exchanges 56,095 League for the Exchange of Commonwealth Teachers 7,497 Council for Education in World Citizenship 860 Ulster College of Music 6,970 Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies 1,340 Christian Education Movement 320 Community of the Peace People 17,900 Community Relations in Schools—(East Belfast) Project 22,745 Federation of Women's Institutes (NI) 1,000 Children's Project NI 8,970 Farset Youth & Community Development Ltd 8,500 East Belfast Community Council Carol Service of Reconciliation 205 Irish School of Ecumenics 1,310 Children's Holiday Scheme NI 8,895
Department of Agriculture £ Down Royal Corporation of Horse Breeders 35,000 Young Farmers Clubs of Ulster 41,140 Various Show Societies 1,838 Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents 125
Department of Economic Development £ The Northern Ireland Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions 87,200 Action for Community Employment (funded 1,040 projects in private and voluntary sector organisations) 14,270,000 Community Volunteering Scheme (funded 24 voluntary sector organisations) 635,000 Youth Community Projects 637,636 Community Workshops 13,356,506 Youthhelp 551,468 Incorporated Cripples Institutes and Holiday Homes 38,546 Thomas Doran Training Centre 279,514
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Department 1983–84 £ 1984–85 £ 1985–86 £ Northern Ireland Office 729,846 863,337 1,006,478 Department of Finance and Personnel 867,147 930,932 1,066,721 Department of Economic Development 22,600,619 24,991,210 30,445,028 Department of Agriculture (NI) 198,130 281,934 78,103 Department of Education (NI) 6,341,308 6,950,373 7,060,461
£ Glencraig Village Community 64,376 Mourne Grange Village Community 128,411 Clanabogan Village Community 19,000 Royal National Institute for the Blind 7,009 Automation Centre (Queen's University Belfast) 48,600 Wolfson Signal Unit (Queen's University Belfast) 6,000 The Lambeg Industrial Research Association 89,000 University of Ulster (CAD Engineer) R & D Purposes 15,851 National Trust 106,297 The Scottish-Irish Trust of Ulster 79,992 The Northern Ireland Co-operative Development Agency 24,622
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Department of the Environment £ British Trust for Ornithology 3,000 North Down Ringing Group 510 Royal Society for the Protection of Birds 15,077 Ulster Trust for Nature Conservation 16,108 National Trust 343,472 Conservation Volunteers (NI) 124,954 Road Safety Council 75,000 ROSPA 39,412 St. Oliver Plunkett Environmental Committee 66,063 Belfast Voluntary Welfare Society 37,242 Northern Ireland Federation of Housing Associations 80,000 National Federation of Housing Associations 200 Registered Housing Associations 39,501,813 Unregistered Housing Associations 66,329 Belfast Housing Aid Society 27,000 Tenants Participation Advisory Service 32,000 Community Technical Aid 20,000 Alliance Avenue Community Group 15,571 Ligoniel Environmental Association 12,073 Ulster Architectural Heritage Society 26,721 Charles Shiels Institution 22,059 Church of Ireland, Richhill 5,300 1st Presbyterian Church, Greyabbey 1,656 Carlisle Memorial Church 7,911 Enniskillen Methodist Church 3,300 St. Mary's Dominican Convent 1,636 The Select Vestry Desertmartin Rectory 62 The Select Vestry Queen Street Rectory, Ballymoney 3,500 First Cookstown Church Committee 1,250 Kilwarlin Moravian Church 220 Newtownards Masonic Hall 1,680 Portaferry Masonic Lodge 3,050 Ballymoney Masonic Hall 4,630 Drapers Charity—The Old Courthouse, Moneymore 960 Belfast Central Mission 318 Belfast Development Agency 258,589 Ulster Provident Housing Association 82,876 Northern Ireland Council on Alcohol 7,200 Young Men's Christian Association 12,500 Ardoyne Industrial Development Limited 110,560 Hare Knishna Movement 7,800 Divis Playgroup 2,964 National Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children 4,580 Trustees of the Masonic Hall, Londonderry 5,546 Derry Catholic Club 2,574 Trustees of the Waterside Community Council 4,922 Ebenezer Gospel Hall 9,600
Department 1983–84 £ 1984–85 £ 1985–86 £ Department of Health and Social Services 1,741,421 1,496,416 1,650,896 Department of the Environment (NI) 36,879,173 42,320,444 41,069,788 Totals 69,357,644 77,834,646 82,377,475 All expenditure on Government grant aid to voluntary bodies and organisations in Northern Ireland is subject to careful scrutiny to ensure that it is used for the genuine purpose of improving social, environmental or economic conditions in areas of need. There are special circumstances in Northern Ireland requiring particular care in administering grant aid and where it is considered that payment of grant would not be in the public interest, no grant is paid.