§ Mr. Michael Forsythasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list in the Official Report those voluntary bodies and organisations assisted by his Department with grant aid in the last financial year for which figures are available, and the size of the grant so given.
§ Mr. Douglas HurdThe Home Office made the following grants to voluntary organisations in the financial year 1984–85.
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£ Grants administered by the voluntary service unit Action Resource Centre 27,000 Association of Researchers in Voluntary Action & Community Involvement 10,300 Barton, Oxford Community Computer Project 7,500 Birmingham Settlement 22,300 British Association for Counselling 4,500 British Association of Settlements & Social Action Centres 26,500 British Council of Churches (Community Work Resource Unit) 19,700 CETU 25,500 Church Army (Inner Cities Unit) 15,000 Community Projects Foundation 851,000 Community Service Volunteers 521,000 Community Transport 37,400 COPE 4,900 Councils for Voluntary Service—National Association 7,000 Councils for Voluntary Service—NCVO Consultancy Project 2,765 Coventry Voluntary Services Council (Media Project) 6,625 Drake Fellowship 15,000 Federation of Community Work Training Groups 22,850 Festival Welfare Services 21,000 Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments 25,000 Gamblers Anonymous—General Services Board 1,000 Hammersmith & Fulham Race RElations Project 22,000 Horticultural Therapy—Land use Volunteers 6,000 International Voluntary Service 19,000 Kent Volunteer Bureau 22,000 Leicestershire Race Awareness Consortium 22,200 Local Authorities Race Relations Information Exchange 845 Manchester Council for Voluntary Service 7,475 Merseyside Council for Voluntary Service 15,000 Midlands Group of Volunteer Organisers 23,880 National Association of Young People's Counselling & Advisory Services 26,200 National Council for Voluntary Organisations (Grant-in-Aid) 830,000 National Council for Voluntary Organisations (Management Development Unit) 2,250 National Council for the Welfare of Prisoners Abroad 12,000 National Federation of City Farms 26,500 National Federation of Community Organisations 89,500 Northern Association for Community Care (Bendrigg Lodge) 35,000 225W
£ Pensioners Link (formerly Task Force) 93,000 Princedale Trust (for Release) 70,000 Retired Executives Action Clearing House 18,025 Sefton Community Resource Action Project 7,000 Standing Conference of Women's Organisations 3,250 Stonebridge (Harlesden) Bus Garage Project 20,000 Student Community Action Development Unit 23,900 Time for God 9,900 Turning Point (Lewisham) 8,000 United Funds 9,750 Volonteurope 1,875 Volunteer Centre 625,000 Warrington Workshop for Voluntary Action 10,700 West End Coordinated Voluntary Services 111,750 Women's Royal Voluntary Service (Grant-in-Aid) 4,380,000 Young Volunteer Resource unit of the National Youth Bureau 116,800 Grants for the development of local voluntary action scheme Special programme Hull Community Resources Development Project 19,100 North East Training for Community Work 25,910 Newham Parents Community Resource Programme 6,308 Salford Community Involvement Project 13,975 Social Care Assembly for Normanton, West Yorkshire 14,400 Training for Voluntary Organisations (Southampton) 13,500 Waveney Project (Suffolk) 11,250 Wiltshire Information Resource Exchange 18,800 Small Grants Scheme County Durham 9,270 Wrekin District 10,000 Charity Reviews Lancashire 17,600 Norfolk 8,896 Grants for Refugees Vietnamese Programme 265,000 British Refugee Council 400,152 Ockenden Venture 64,626 Grants (or grants-in-aid) to other bodies International Social Service of Great Britain 118,982 Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents 10,500 Grants administered by immigration and nationality department United Kingdom Immigrants Advisory Service 801,000 Grants administered by prison department Community Service Voluteers 96,030 Grants administered by criminal department Anchor Club, Leicester 8,750 Apex Trust 60,000 Birmingham Prisoners Visitors Centre 3,700 Bristol Prisoners Visitors Centre 1,191 Brixton Prisoners Visitors Centre 4,160 Burnbake Trust 12,275 Catholic Marriage Advisory Council (grant-in-aid) 108,890 Circle Trust 36,400 Crypt Association, Wolverhampton 5,152 City Roads (Crisis Intervention) Ltd. 23,560 Dartmoor Accommodation Scheme 6,297 Family Welfare Association (grant-in-aid) 16,750 HACRO Crisis and Support Centre 5,150 Hampshire Care Trust 780 Hull Prison Visitors Centre 1,300 Institute of Marital Studies (grant-in-aid) 265,900 Jewish Marriage Education Council (grant-in-aid) 6,000
£ Leeds Prisoners Visitors Centre 1,250 Lewes Prisoners Visitors Centre 115 Lifeline, Manchester 13,813 National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (grant-in-aid) 583,985 National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders—Education Advisory Service 24,850 National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders—Education Development Officer 24,250 National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders—Training Grant 115,492 National Association of Victims Support Scheme 50,000 National Association of Voluntary Hostels 37,568 National Marriage Guidance Council (grant-in-aid) 827,460 New Bridge 16,480 North East London St. Leonards Society 1,526 North Eastern Prison After-Care Society 832 Preston and District Lodgings Scheme 2,288 Prisoners Wives and Families Society 3,850 Prisoners Wives Service 6,910 St. Giles Day Centre 4,472 Society of Voluntary Associates (SOVA) 38,899 Special Needs Housing Advisory Service 5,200 South Yorkshire DACRO 3,620 Trinity Wet-shelter, Birmingham 17,200 York ACRO 14,309 Criminal Department also made grants for some 350 hostels and similar accommodation schemes, administered by voluntary organisations in which places are provided for offenders; and one-off grants to voluntary organisations providing day facilities and other services. In 1984–85 these grants totalled £4,481,577.
§ Mr. Michael Forsythasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list in the Official Report the governmental agencies to which his Department gives grant aid which in turn provide financial support for voluntary bodies and organisations, and the size of the grant so given in the last financial year for which figures are available.
§ Mr. HurdThe agencies concerned are the Commission for Racial Equality and the Equal Opportunities Commission. In 1984–the CRE made grants to voluntary bodies of £3.828 million and the EOC made grants to voluntary bodies of £56,000.
§ Mr. Michael Forsythasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will outline the steps which his Department takes to ensure that grant aid given to voluntary bodies and organisations, whether directly or indirectly, is not used for political purposes.
§ Mr. HurdIt is the clearly stated policy of the Home Office, the Commission for Racial Equality and the Equal Opportunities Commission that grants cannot be given to voluntary bodies and organisations for political purposes. Grants are monitored to confirm that money is spent for the purposes for which it is made available.