§ Lord Glentoranasked Her Majesty's Government:
Which victims' organisations in Northern Ireland have received public funding since 10 April 1998; and how much has been allocated to each organisation. [HL3078]
§ The Lord President of the Council (Baroness Amos)Records show that support detailed in the following table below has been allocated to organisations involved in providing support for victims between 10 April 1998 and 31 March 2004.
In addition to the amounts shown victims' groups may also apply for funding from any programme or scheme, such as the District Council Community Relations Programme or European Union funding through the Local Strategy Partnerships, for which they can satisfy the relevant eligibility criteria.
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Victims' Organisation Amount Allocated £ 123 House 127,767 Aisling Centre 122,060 Alanna Consultancy 1,790 An Crann 63,500 Ardoyne Commemoration 9,800 Armagh Voluntary Welfare Group 5,000 Ashton Community Trust 1,327,201 Association for Family Therapy NI 6,100 Ballybone, Belfast 2,100 Ballymoney District Partnership (Victims) 16,000 Ballymurphy Centre 226,232 Bannside Community Group 5,000 Barnardo's 70,050 Base 2 25,375 Befriending and Counselling 4,397 Belfast Cognitive Therapy Centre 54,775 Breaking the Silence 4,998 Community Action for Locally Managed Stress (CALMS) 493,159 Centre for Creative Energy, Londonderry 1,310 Claudy 9,123 Co Tyrone Frontier Relief Fund 2,000 Coleraine/Ballymoney UDR 118,060 Colleague Support Group 3,100 Columba Community 123,343 Combat Stress 4,000 Community Council 2,240 Community Foundation for Northern Ireland 10,000 Community Relations Council 38,357 Conflict Trauma Resource Centre 73,165 Contact Youth 71,215 Conway Education Centre 2,500 Cookstown Colleague Support 2,165 Corpus Christi Services 387,913 Corrymeela Community 7,500 Cost of the Troubles Study 97,251 CRUSE (Foyle) 35,000 CRUSE Bereavement (NI) 74,915 CRUSE Bereavement Care (Belfast) 28,000 CRUSE (Causeway) 2,500 Cumann Tar Abhaile 22,171 Cunamh 415,688 Dairy Farm Jobclub 102,410 Democratic Dialogue 7,485 3WA
Victims' Organisation Amount Allocated £ Derry and Raphoe Action 61,000 Derry City Council 2,500 Derry Well Women 62,356 Disabled Police Officers Association (DPOA) 161,447 Divis Centre 1,005 Eastern Health & Social Services Board Trauma Advisory Panel 99,590 Families of the Displaced, Dispersed and Disappeared (FODDD) 117,836 Families Achieving Change Together (FACT) 431,882 Families Acting for Innocent Relatives (FAIR) 553,165 Families for Truth and Justice 800 Family Trauma Centre 704,062 Fermanagh College 69,600 Fermanagh South Tyrone Terrorist Victims Association 96,738 Firinne 248,078 Friends of WAVE 2,304 Give Innocent Victims Equality (GIVE) 5,200 Glencree LIVE Programme—The Restorick Group 750 Greater Belfast Community Network 96,710 Greater Twinbrook and Poleglass Community Forum 10,000 Healing Through Remembering 10,000 Help and Advice with Victims Every Need (HAVEN) 114,687 Holy Trinity 130,787 Holywell Trust 16,329 Homes United by Ruthless Terrorism (HURT) 151,100 HOPE 500 Innocence, Truth and Justice 980 Institute for Counselling and Personal Development (ICPD) 579,552 Interact 5,000 Interchurch Group on Faith and Politics 600 Irish Peace Institute 6,000 Koram Centre 97,184 Lenadoon Community Counselling Project 216,409 Lifeline 14,000 Lifeways Psychotherapy and Counselling Centre 252,211 Lisburn Prisoners Support Project 111,349 Loughgall Truth and Justice Campaign 7,200 Lower North Belfast Community Group 2,000 Make Your Mark 57,838 Mid Ulster Survivors Trust 1,000 Mourne Action for Survivors of Terrorism (MAST) 36,225 New Life Counselling Service 284,561 Nexus Institute 22,392 NI Association for Mental Health 95,824 NI Memorial Fund 6,926,578 NI Music Therapy Trust 29,284 NI Prison Service 600 NICRA 1,000 North and West Belfast Trust 20,000 Northern Health & Social Services Board Trauma Advisory Panel 101,500 NI Centre for Trauma and Transformation (NICTT) 1,500,000 NOVA 320,489 Omagh Independent Advice Services 31,657 Omagh Support and Self Help Group 17,740 Passionist Youth 94,800 Pat Finucane Centre 10,376 Police Rehabilitation and Retraining Trust 20,000 Positive Action 91,218 Prison Service Trust 64,160 Regimental Association UDR 63,839 Relatives for Justice 778,497 Royal National Institute for the Deaf (RNID) 280,787 Rural Network 2,000 Seeds of Hope 2,500 Shankhill Stress and Trauma Group 463,596 Sligo Presbyterian 6,000 South Down Action for Healing Wounds (SDAHW) 184,973
Victims' Organisation Amount Allocated £ South East Fermanagh Foundation 92,220 South Tyrone Empowerment Programme 9,995 South West Community Victims 5,000 South/North Armagh Victims Encouraging Recognition (SAVER/NAVER) 481,516 Southern Health & Social Services Board Trauma Advisory Panel 114,220 Sperrin Lakeland Trust 12,132 Springhill Community House 167,621 Springvale Training 106,262 Stepping Stone, Craigavon 55,000 Stewartstown and District Support Group 1,110 Strabane Befriending and Counselling Association 243,609 Streetbeat Youth Project 135,908 Sub Committee for Victims 216,121 Support, Training, Education, Employment, Research (STEER) Mental Health 120,521 Survivors of Trauma 637,260 Tar Anall 113,300 Tar Isteach 141,650 Tara Counselling and Personal Development Company Ltd 353,384 The Bloody Sunday Trust 84,765 The Church's Ministry of Healing 18,000 The Cross Group 11,395 The Ely Centre 142,757 The Royal British Legion (Upperlands Branch) 2,000 The Samaritans, Belfast 8,000 The Samaritans, Coleraine 7,000 The Wider Circle 158,998 Threshold 3,000 Towards Healing and Understanding 5,500 United Services Club 81,073 Victims Support (NI) 52,000 Victims and Survivors Trust (VAST) 343,612 VOICE 24,900 Voices Women's Group 17,054 WAVE 3,139,214 West Belfast Cross Community Partnership 48,700 West Tyrone Voice (WTV) 489,172 Western Enterprise Social Legal and Educational Victims Trust 3,950 Western Health & Social Services Board Trauma Advisory Panel 135,491 Women Together 11,641 Yes! 5,000 Total 27,957,111 Note:
The Community Foundation for Northern Ireland (formerly NIVT) also received £1,123,324 through the EU Special Programme for Peace and Reconciliation (Peace I) which supported victims of violence. The foundation allocated these funds in support of a number of projects for both ex-offenders and victims. Persons from these groups could benefit from the same project and it is not possible to disaggregate the assistance between the two groups.