HL Deb 16 July 1992 vol 539 cc53-62WA
Lord Blease

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether they will publish up-to-date informa-tion about grants to voluntary bodies in Northern Ireland as was published on 2nd July 1991 (HL Deb, col. WA 58–68).

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office (The Earl of Arran)

The voluntary bodies which received grants in the financial year 1991–92 and the issuing departments are:

Department of Agriculture
£
Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents 125
Rural Development Council for Northern Ireland 532,092
Rural Development Groups 247,656
Young Farmers' Clubs of Ulster 54,375

Department of Education
£
All Children Together 9,850
Barnabas Trust 5,000
Bcnburb Community 4,294
Children's Community Holidays 32,815
Children's Community Relations Holiday Scheme 109,690
Children's Project (Northern Ireland) 14,000
Churches' Central Committee for Community Work 3,783
Christian Education Movement 13,631
Columbanus Community 24,474
Community Relations in Schools Project 46,777
Corrymeela 41,568
Council for Education in World Citizenship 1,600
Cross-Community Contact Scheme 744,916
Educational Guidance Service for Adults 94,300
Forum for Community Work Education 112,331
Harmony Community Trust 64,000
Holiday Projects West 2,774
Irish Council of Churches/Irish Commission for Justice and Peace-Peace Education Programme 65,696
Kilbroney Centre 12,553
League for the Exchange of Commonwealth Teachers 6,000
Linen Hall Library 120,000
Northern Ireland Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux 250,838
Northern Ireland Children's Holiday Scheme 56,000
Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education 156,800
Northern Ireland Film Council 10,000
Northern Ireland Library and Information Services Council 11,818
Northern Ireland Special Olympics 6,000
Peace and Reconciliation Into Schools Movement 9,003
Quaker Peace Education Project 28,312
School Aid Romania 2,821
Speedwell Project 41,828
Ulster College of Music 9,464
Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies 1,284
Ulster People's College 16,482
Voluntary Sports Organisations 937,835
Workers' Educational Association 331,524
Young Men's Christian Association-City of Belfast 13,695
Youth Action (NI) NW Project 15,739
Youth Clubs and Youth Organisations 1,317,112

Northern Ireland Office
£
Carmen Trust 1,573
Cathedral Community 750
Contact Youth Council 2,500
Cuan Mhuire 4,000
Dismas House Hostel 66,864
Divis Drop In 1,558
Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme 10,000
Edward Street Hostel 6,835
Extern 637,392
Glen Bawn Concern Parents and Youth 2,000
Glen Parent Group 2,000
Gort Na Mona Youth Service 4,480
Inter Agency 5,998
Job Train Managing Agency 2,115
Lisburn YMCA 680
Lower Falls 'New Start' 30,537
Lynx Management Committee 25,404
Money Relationships 3,000
Mourne Workshop Trust 14,545
Must Hostel 14,883
Newhaven Project 351
NIACRO 625,715
Northside Project 1,000
Parents for Youth Support Group 1,750
Presbyterian Church in Ireland 96,652
Prison Fellowship 14,000
St. Peter's Youth Club 200
Save the Children Fund NI 69,441
Sheltered Help 1,800
Simon Community 5,445
Springfield Parent/Youth Support Group 2,000
Stadium Youth and Community Centre 10,000
Ulster Quaker's Service Committee 103,846
Victim Support (NI) 93,000
We Care 1,000
West Belfast Parent Youth Support Group 45,000
West Belfast Young Homeless 250
Westrock Parent/Youth Support Group 1,500
Woman's Information Drop in Centre 4,000
Woodlands Community Project 6,000
YMCA Step Programme 3,000
YMCA Workshop 12,500

Department of Health and Social Services
£
Age Concern 114,000
Alzheimers Disease Society 15,000
Amputees Association (NI) 5,000
Belfast Law Centre 138,856
Belfast Rape Crisis Centre 25,925
Belfast Unemployed Centre 7,300
Blind Centre for Northern Ireland 14,300
British Epilepsy Association 7,400
British Fluoridation Society 1,650
British Red Cross Society 1,000
Brownlow Community Trust (Poverty 3 Programme) 187,000
Bryson House 14,911
Cara-friend 6,053
Carers National Association 8,700
Catholic Family Care Society 146,714
Catholic Marriage Advisory Council 53,080
Charm Trust 13,427
Child Accident Prevention Trust 2,000
Child Care (NI) 46,685
Childline 2,800
Church of Ireland Board for Social Responsibility 25,628
Council for the Advancement of Communications with Deaf People 29,000
Craigmore House 38,000
Crossroads Care Attendant Scheme 15,900
Cruse-Bereavement Care (NI) 22,319
Down's Syndrome Association 15,582
Eating Disorders Association 9,794

£
Emergency Ambulances 4,218
Employee Volunteering 5,000
Energy Action (NI) 20,000
Europe Against Cancer 49,150
Extern-Community Initiatives Unit 33,356
Extern-Passport to Future (Belfast) 220,000
Extern-Passport to Future (Londonderry) 66,000
Family Planning Association 14,233
Fold 15,000
Gingerbread (Nl) 83,000
Harmony Community Trust 17,072
Homestart 13,900
Industrial Therapy Organisation 42,300
International Voluntary Service 23,840
Life Care and Housing Trust 11,284
Motability 73,959
Multiple Sclerosis Action Group 16,270
Multiple Sclerosis Society 3,850
Music Therapy 5,000
National Deaf Children's Society 2,699
National Health Service Retirement Fellowship 1,113
National Schizophrenia Fellowship 54,691
Nazareth Lodge 6,494
Northern Ireland Anti-Poverty Network 10,576
Northern Ireland Association for Mental Health 148,272
Northern Ireland Childminding Association 35,800
Northern Ireland Council of Alcohol 82,048
Northern Ireland Council on Disability 128,200
Northern Ireland Council for Orthopaedic Development 40,200
Northern Ireland Council for Travelling People 30,463
Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action 440,001
Northern Ireland Foster Care Association 5,200
Northern Ireland Hospice 76,175
Northern Ireland Intermediate Treatment Association 11,400
Northern Ireland Pre-School Playgroups Association 147,000
Northern Ireland Rape Crisis Association 30,946
Northern Ireland Voluntary Trust 293,650
Northern Ireland Women's Aid Federation 45,580
Northlands Centre 74,165
NSPCC 55.500
Parent's Advice Centre 8,600
Pathway 44,691
Play Resource Warehouse 10,800
PRAXIS Mental Health 64,486
Prince's Volunteers 10,000
Relate-Northern Ireland Marriage Guidance 112,000
Remember Our Child 10,000
Richmond Fellowship 55,120
Joseph Rowntree Trust 404,379
Royal National Institute for the Deaf 35,000
Royal Society for Mentally Handicapped Children and Adults (Mencap) 58,054
Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (ROSPA) 40,572
Ruby House Holiday Home, Newcastle 21,200
SENSE 11,700
SHARE 8,500
Smoke Alarms 20,000
Social Witness Board of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland 30,149
Spinning Jenny 9,400
St. Vincent de Paul 54,605
Ulster Institute for the Deaf 5,000
Volunteer Development Resource Unit 45,520
Women's Information Group 6,436

Department of Economic Development
£
Community Employment Agencies 170,000
Community Workshops 18,434,062
Energy Action Northern Ireland 15,600
Industrial Therapy Organisation 91,500

£
Industry Matters 86,000
Jobclubs 307,606
National Energy Foundation 17,625
National Trust 100,000
Northern Ireland Committee-Irish Congress of Trade Unions 133,000
Northern Ireland Co-operative Development Agency 184,000
Northern Ireland Council on Disability (NICOD) Sheltered Placement Scheme 286,500
Research and Development 69,500
Thomas Doran Training Centre 151,401
253 Voluntary Bodies (ACE Scheme) 48,493,299
20 Voluntary Bodies (Community Volunteering Scheme) 700,000
YMCA 40,964
Young Help 1,396,003
Youth Community Projects 1,021,348

Department of Finance and Personnel
£
Army Benevolent Fund 20,000
Chief Executives Forum84,000
Civil Service Benevolent Fund 17,000
Economic Research Centre 98,000
Holiday Playschemes 16,000
NI Civil Service Sports Association 120,000
NIEDO(Economic Development) 432,000
NI Civil Service Retirement Fellowship 5,000
Police Benevolent Fund 30,000
Public Service Training Council 302,000
Refreshment Clubs 157,000

Department of Finance and Personnel
£
13th Belfast BB Old Boys 619
48th Scount Group West Belfast 1,696
52nd Company Belfast BB 250
65th Belfast North Scount Group 1,000
Alliance Neighbourhood Centre 6,901
Archway NSPCC Playgroup 1,217
Ardmonagh Family Centre 850
Artillery Youth Club 8,047
Ashfield Youth Resource Centre 500
Ballyarnett Racecourse Society 3,005
Ballybeen Community Forum 8,143
Ballybeen Women's Group 12,511
Ballymacarrett Women's Group 208
Ballymurphy Community Support Group 141
Ballymurphy Tenants/Residents Association 6,171
Ballynafeigh Community Development Association 4,550
Ballysillan Action and Residential Centre 4,523
Ballysillan Community Drop In Centre 9,293
Ballysillan Gingerbread Group 600
Ballysillan Park Youth Centre 6,503
Ballysillan Residents Association 9,158
Belfast Centre for the Unemployed 79,678
Belfast Civic Trust 23,107
Belfast Group Citizens Advice Bureau 1,374
Belfast Housing Aid 68,290
Blackmountain Environmental Group 8,200
Blackmountain Mother and Toddler 1,170
Blackstaff and Windsor Communication 1,532
Blackwater Valley Society 2,096
Botanical Society of the British Isles 96
Boy's Brigade 588
Brown's Square Community Group 8,364
Brown's Square Tenants Association Bureau 5,653
Bryson House, Better Belfast 46,803
Carmen Trust 19,958
Cathedral Community Service 15,552
Centre for Neighbourhood Development 22,281

£
Church of St. Mary Magdalen 4,112
Churches Voluntary Work Bureau 850
Citizens Advice Bureau 22,506
Clara Park Tenants and Residential Association 35,098
Clarawood Community Association 2,200
Clifton Street Centre 484
Clonard Drop-In 1,000
Clonard Residents Association 19,898
Colin/S'Field Tenants Association 300
Community Economic Development Centre, New Lodge 1,598
Community Technical Aid 105,000
Community Transport Co-op 16,854
Concorde Community Centre 52,893
Concorde Women's Group 680
Connswater River Conservation Committee 11,905
Conservation Volunteers (Northern Ireland) 140,917
Copeland Bird Observatory 3,181
Corpus Christi College 5,867
Corpus Christi Service Ltd. 11,328
Corpus Christi Youth Club 111,808
Deanby Youth Club 885
Disability Action 240,000
Divis Drop-In 1,590
Divis Front Development Community 7,167
Divis Women's Educational Project 1,000
Dock Ward Community Drama Association 7,625
Donegall Pass Senior Citizens 300
Drama Club-Shankill Community Centre 1,333
Dundonald Methodist Community Outreach 900
Earlview Youth Club 1,275
East Belfast Community Council 36,781
Elim Playground 200
Emigrant Advice Unit 2,170
Empire Community Centre 1,555
Extern-Shankill Youth Support 2,645
Falls Community Council 4,739
Falls Development Agency 53,083
Farming Wildlife Advisory Group 491
Farming Wildlife Trust 9,625
Farset Youth Community Development Ltd 13,900
Flax Housing Association 498
Fold Housing Association 540
Footprints Women's Group 165
Gael Sconl Na Bhfal Community Centre 29,168
Glen Community. Association 300
Glen Parent and Youth Group 3,684
Glen Parent Colinbrook 5,445
Glenall Housing Co-op 12,219
Glenallen Street Community Group 370
Glenbawn Concerned Parents 1,400
Glencairn Community Development Association 11,288
Gortnamona Parent Youth SP 44,459
Greater Shankill Child Care Group 6,999
Greater Shankill Community Transport Ltd 500
Greater Shankill Development Agency 13,940
Greater West Belfast Community Association 8,075
Grosvenor Environment Society Ltd 12,550
Groundwork (NI) 29,500
Hammer Community Complex 1,000
Hammer Playground Association 515
Hammer Youth Resource Centre 2,994
Highfield Action Group 4,000
Hilltop Environment and Community Care 180
Holy Trinity Boy Scouts 200
Holy Trinity Youth Club 8,795
Housing Organisations Mobility and Exchange Services 6,000
Irish Nationalists Journal 150
Irish Peatland Conservation Council 929
John Paul II Youth Club 36,835
Kansas Residents Community Centre 75
Knocknagoney Community Centre 6,002
Ladybird Women's Group 300
Legion of Mary 4,605
Ligoniel Improvement Association 7,234
Linfield Community Association 500
Longlands Residents Association 180

£
Lower Falls Association for the Handicapped 3,100
Lower Falls Community Transport 16,003
Lower Falls Women's Group 5,465
Lower North Belfast Community Council 1,583
Lower Oldpark Community Centre 6,730
Lower Ormeau Botanic Environment Association 95
Lower Ormeau Residents Action Group 222
Lower Ormeau Women's Group 800
Lower Shankill Tenants' Association 2,783
Lower Shankill Women's Group 3,836
Manor Street-Youth Club 317
Matt Talbot Family Care Centre 18,870
Matt Talbot Youth Club 905
Millgreen Mother and Toddler 2,000
Millgreen Youth Centre 7,307
Monkstown Youth Club 10,535
Morton Community Centre 275
Mount Residents Asslciation 4,800
Mountcollyer Youth Club 190
Mournes Advisory Council 2,545
Moyard Organised Mothers 685
Mr. Men Community Playgroup 3,000
NI 2000 33,341
NI Amenity Council 10,000
NI BAT Group 2,823
NI Chest, Heart and Stroke Association 2,000
NI Council on Disability 82,000
NI Environmental Link 18,840
NI Federation of Housing Association 28,000
NI Heritage Gardens Committee 1,000
Naionra Bharr An Chlunai 13,993
Naionra Na Mona 3,000
National Federation of Housing Associations 400
National Trust 65,347
Nativity Club 250
Net West 18,626
Newhill Community Association 21,480
North Belfast Home Start 2,589
North Belfast Resource Centre 84,151
Nubie Youth Club 3,422
Opel Boys Club 35
Ormeau Road Women's Info Drop In Centre 394
Ormeston Youth Club 750
Palmerston Playgroup 4,506
Parents Concerned Group 3,840
Presbyterian Womens Association Fellowship 9,361
RSPB 74,630
Rainbow Playgroup Co Nazarene 1,000
Rape Crisis Centre 65
Rathcoole Community Group 36,286
Rathcoolc Environment Committee 4,000
Rathcoole Self Help Group 10,212
Rathcoole Youth Centre 5,754
Ravenhill Residents Association 3,850
Registered Housing Associations 40,312,919
SEED 32,091
STM Boy's Brigade Company 700
Sandy Row Community Centre 80
Sandy Row/Donegall Road Tenants Association 6,572
Save The Children Fund 3,430
Scala Community Workshop 8,738
Shankill Activity Centre 17,878
Shankill BB 600
Shankill Community Council 4,794
Shankill Community Project 1,110
Shankill Gingerbread Group 750
Shankill PHAB 3,274
Shankill Road Youth Club 3,136
Shell Better Britain 15,000
Springfield Community House 750
Springfield Parents and Youth Group 1,000
Springhill Tenants Association 701
Springhill/Westrock Tenants Association 7,112
St. Agnes GAC 5,000
St. Agnes Youth Club 802
St. George's Youth Community Development 3,187
St. Luke's Family Centre 4,000
St. Malachy's Parish Community Development 14,550

£
St. Malachy's Youth Club 300
St. Mary's Bowling Club 700
St. Matthew's Community Association 1,968
St. Michael's Childrens Club 51
St. Patrick's Community Centre 100
St. Paul's Handicapped Care Group 2,000
St. Paul's Presbytery 1,000
St. Peter's Youth Club 2,250
St. Theresa's Youth Centre 1,825
Stadium Youth Club 1,129
Suffolk Development Trust 10,117
Suffolk Gingerbread 900
Suffolk Youth Club 200
Tenants Action Project 53,921
Tenants Participation Advisory Service 14,130
Tenn St Dist I-ISG Association Ltd. 2,550
The Women's Information Group 1,350
Tidy Northern Ireland 70,000
Tiger's Bay Mothers & Toddlers Group 450
Torr Health Community Centre 9,755
Townsend St Social Outreach 15,225
Trinity St Community Centre 176
Tudor Place Neighbourhood 22,392
Twinbrook Tenants & Comm Association 670
Ulster Historical Foundation 90,000
Ulster Wildlife Trust 56,684
Unregistered Housing Associations 54,846
Upper Room Youth Club 1,500
Voluntary Service—Lisburn 1,369
West Belfast Parent Youth Support 580
West Belfast Young Homeless Project 12,834
West Belfast Youth 10,000
Westlink Enterprise Centre 9,908
Westlink Women's Group 2,184
Westrock Parent Youth Support Group 11,985
Whiterock Health Centre Creche 4,148
Whiterock/Westrock Residents Association 4,615
Whiterock/Westrock Senior Citizens 340
Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust 13,730
Willowbank Youth Club 120
Woodvale Boxing Club 1,200
YMCA 602

Central Community Relations Unit
£
Ainsworth Community Association 3,458
An Ceathru Poili 5,933
ATGWU 20,956
Belfast Community Circus School 7,000
Belfast Community Radio 2,238
Brownlow 1,000
Chinese Welfare Association 13,434
Churches Central Committee for Community Work 38,300
Columbanus Community of Reconciliation 20,132
Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann 19,946
Comhaltas Uladh 15,000
Community Relations Council 902,500
Co-op North 52,000
Cornerstone Community 26,133
Corrymeela 113,641
Derry Boston Ventures 6,000
East Belfast Community Council 14,243
Families Against Intimidation and Terror 10,665
Federation for Ulster Local Studies 43,217
Gad Linn 15,000
Harmony Community Trust 32,549
Interchurch Talks 2,640
Irish School of Ecumenics 1,350
John Hewitt Summer School 1,300
Lifeline 1,000
Naiscoil Na Fuiseoigh 6,952
Naiscoil Na Rinne 3,000
New Mossley Council of Churches 16,508
Newry and District Gateway 4,214

£
NICICTU 4,333
Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action 32,501
Origin of Place Names 150,482
Protestant and Catholic Encounters 19,304
Peace People and Peace Farm 66,527
Peace and Reconciliation Group 18,218
Peace Train 8,887
Playboard 17,345
Preas An Phobail 8,250
Presbyterian Youth 22,500
Rotary Club Belfast 6,903
Somme Association 32,809
St. MacNissis PS 7,000
Theatre Ireland 5,000
Ulster Quaker Service Committee 10,363
Ulster Society 29,625
Ultach Trust 50,000
Ultach Trust Fund 250,000
Understanding Conflict Trust 21,542
West Belfast Youth 1,339
Women Together 24,759
YMCA and YMCA ECONI 32,335

Financial Years
Department 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92
Agriculture 44,170 47,248 47,750 284,105 834,248
Economic Development 47,790,062 59,673,363 70,877,632 70,763,484 71,698,408
Education 3,899,112 3,997,755 4,028,745 3,883,967 4,746,607
Environment 44,506,865 49,226,823 43,955,673 42,149,488 43,134,450
Finance and Personnel 1,190,000 991,000 1,032,000 1.184,000 1,281,000
Health and Social Services 2,608,131 3,894,984 5,054,964 4,134,523 4,473,041
Northern Ireland Office 1,050,053 1,339,277 1,341,260 1,474,797 1,936,064
CCRU 825,364 1,648,446 2,267,333

Lord Blease

asked Her Majesty's Government:

How many grants to voluntary bodies, by each government department in Northern Ireland, in each of the last five years, were:—

  1. (a)under £50,000;
  2. (b)over £50,000 but under £100,000;
  3. (c)over £100,000 but under £250,000;
  4. (d)over £250,000 but under £500,000;
  5. (e)over £500,000 but under £1,000,000;
  6. (f)over £1,000,000.

The Earl of Arran

The information is not available in the form requested and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

Lord Blease

asked Her Majesty's Government:

How many voluntary bodies in Northern Ireland received more than one grant, under separate functional headings, from:—

  1. (a)one department;
  2. (b)more than one department;

in each of the last five years.

Lord Blease

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What was the total amount of the grants paid to voluntary bodies in Northern Ireland, in each of the past five years, by each of the following departments:

  1. (a)Northern Ireland Office;
  2. (b)Central Community Relations Unit;
  3. (c)Department of Finance and Personnel;
  4. (d)Department of Health and Social Services;
  5. (e)Department of Agriculture, Northern Ireland;
  6. (f)Department of Education, Northern Ireland;
  7. (g)Department of Economic Development;
  8. (h)Department of the Environment, Northern Ireland.

The Earl of Arran

Grants paid to voluntary bodies in Northern Ireland for the past five years by departments are:—

The Earl of Arran

The information is not available in the form requested and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.