The
Clothworkers’ Annual Review
2011
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Introduction
The Company
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Textiles
13 Trusteeship 14 Archives and Collections 17 Support for the Armed Forces
The Foundation
18 Review of Charitable Giving 2010 19 Financial Information 20 Encouragement of Young People 24 Disability Agreement between the Fishmongers and Shearmen as to tenements on Mincing Lane, 25th August 1456
28 Visual Impairment 30 Elderly 31 Other 32 Social Inclusion 36 Mathematics Education 40 Autism 42 Conservation 46 Grants Programmes from 2012
Grant-Making Guidelines Please visit our website for details of our grant-making policies, guidelines and application forms. www.clothworkers.co.uk
Hall Hire If you are interested in hiring the Hall for a function, please visit our website for information on the venue or contact It’s the Agency on 020 7871 0577 or sales@itstheagency.co.uk
Cover Watercolour of the Mincing Lane façade of the Victorian Clothworkers’ Hall from a plan book by F.W. Porter, Architect, 1867-1872
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Introduction This Review provides an insight into the activities of the Clothworkers in 2010-11. The Clothworkers comprise a City of London Livery Company and its associated charity, The Clothworkers’ Foundation. Founded by Royal Charter in 1528, the Company was established to promote the craft of clothworking in the City of London. It supervised the training of apprentices and protected standards of workmanship. Its members were all actively involved in the craft. Livery Companies have always had close connections with the City Corporation and their members elect the Sheriffs and Lord Mayor to this day. The Clothworkers’ Company accumulated considerable wealth over the centuries, largely through bequests of money and property from members, and by prudent management of its assets. The Company’s overall objectives are to admin ister its assets and affairs responsibly, play its part in the civic life of the City of London, support the textile industry in appropriate ways and seek to increase its charitable giving. Charity has always been at the heart of the Company’s activity, initially supporting members in need, but subsequently also outsiders. In modern times, the Clothworkers’ charitable activity has been channelled through its grantmaking charity, The Clothworkers’ Foundation, and its associated trusts which focus on relief in need, education and blind welfare. The Company passes its income, having paid the expenses of running the Hall and its activities, across to the Foundation each year. This, together with income from the Foundation’s own investments, is distributed to a broad range of charities. The Company remains a membership organisat ion, although there are no longer direct links with its original trade. Members join as Freemen or Freewomen, and some are elected to the Livery, when they take a more active role in the Company. The Court of Assistants, headed by the Master, runs the
affairs of the Company, acting as a board of directors. The board of trustees of the Foundation is drawn from the Court and Livery of the Company. The Company has owned a Hall on the same site since the fifteenth century. This contains the administrative offices, together with function rooms used for member meetings and events. The latter are available for hire to third parties to make the venue accessible when not required for the Company’s own purposes. This Review covers the key activities of the Company: in textiles (where the Foundation is also active), its emerging interest in trusteeship, the focus of its collections, and its support for the armed forces. It also contains information on the broad range of charitable activity undertaken by the Foundation. Whilst the financial information on our charity and the list of grants made relate to the calendar year 2010, the commentary extends to activities in the first half of 2011. The Review is directed both at the members of the Company as well as interested outside parties; we hope it will make interesting and informative reading on the modern role of an ancient City Livery Company.
Detail of the Bull Monteith, presented by Sir John Bull, Master 1718-19
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Textiles Although the Company is no longer directly involved in its root trade of cloth finishing, we are a significant supporter of textile and colour science projects in the UK, both through the Company and the Foundation.
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The number of universities teaching courses in textile technology has reduced dramatically in the past twenty years, in line with the demise of much of the UK industry. Today, the bulk of courses are postgraduate, whether MScs or PhDs, and most of the students are from overseas, notably China and India. Conversely, textile design courses have mushroomed, although the number of jobs available to graduates has not kept pace with the growth in the student population. There are still UK companies involved in the textile industry, from manufacturers exploiting the cachet of UK cloth at the more expensive end of the market and those serving specialist and short run markets, to companies using traditional textile techniques, such as embroidery or weave, in novel applications – so-called technical textiles. Growing labour costs in the Far East, a weak Pound and supply chain concerns give some hope that there may be a rebound in UK manufacturing. Further, the UK is still a major force in textile design globally. In light of the above, our roots in cloth finishing, and Livery Companies’ long tradition in supporting skills, the Clothworkers are keen to maintain a role in the textile world, acknowledging that our resources are finite and it is not our role to subsidise commercial organisations. Our Textile Committee is responsible for developing and implementing our strategy, drawing on the resources of the Foundation and Company.
Our objectives ● Support the development of a thriving technical textiles sector ● Maintain our support of academic excellence and innovation in technical textiles, traditional textiles and colour science in the UK ● Encourage young adults to pursue studies and a career in these fields ● Selectively support and reward excellence in textile design ● Contribute to the preservation and accessibility of textiles collections of national importance We are also interested in how the significant impact the production, use and disposal of textiles has on the environment can be reduced.
Toni Lake, (centre) winner of the Clothworkers’ Printed Textiles Prize at New Designers with the judges and examples of her work
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Technical textiles We concentrate our support on Leeds and Manchester Universities, the two leading UK institutions in this area. The Centre for Technical Textiles at Leeds is involved in a broad range of research activity in fibrous structures, promoting interdisciplinary collaboration particularly in science and engineering. The Leeds Department of Colour Science is an international centre of excellence which engages in leading edge research in colourants, polymers and imaging. Manchester University’s Department of Textiles and Paper sits within the School of Materials. It has particular strengths in weaving and knitting, and runs the only undergraduate textile technology course in the UK. It recently relaunched its colour science activity under a Centre for Colour and Digital Imaging. Our connection with Leeds dates back to the University’s formation in the nineteenth century, and we have been consistent supporters of its textiles and colour science activities ever since. Our relationship with Manchester is more recent – since 2003 we have made textile-related grants of over £500,000 to the University.
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Examples of projects supported by the Innovation Fund include: ● Durable radar-detectable fabrics to be built into clothes linings ● Waterless dry cleaning ● Using polyphenols as colourants in cosmetics and foods ● Computerised fabric hand to quantify tactile properties of textiles ● Accurate colour matching software for paint/ink manufacturers ● Whole garment knitwear technology ● Production of salt and alkaline-free dyes ● Anthocyanins as food colourants and neutraceuticals ● Colour and haze measurement in beer ● Virtual design system for translucent liquid foods ● Active control system for thermal clothing comfort ● Nanofibre patches to deliver high value drugs
In order to encourage Leeds and Manchester to work together more, we have funded two PhD projects to research sustainable textile materials and technology in the field of non wovens. The students are jointly supervised by Professors at each University and can access specialist equipment across both Departments. The projects are nearing completion and the research has benefitted from the cross-fertilisation of skills, knowledge and equipment. On the back of this initiative, we have in 2011 offered further support to finance two more PhD projects which together total £208,000 including
Academic excellence and innovation in technical textiles, traditional textiles and colour science In 2006, the Company reached an agreement with Leeds University to establish the jointly-funded Clothworkers’ Innovation Fund to provide early-stage financing for projects developed in the textiles and colour science areas which had commercial potential. Funding is provided for patent protection, proof of concept, initial marketing etc; a key element is provision of business consultancy support to the academic. Lauren Bowker, Royal The Company’s objective is for the College of Art Fund to become self-sustaining over time, and a proportion of any commercial returns generated by projects financed by the Fund will go to replenish its resources. In its first five years, the Company has paid £400,000 which has been matched by the University (partly in kind). Some forty projects have been supported and two have already generated a return. We have recently agreed to provide up to a further £300,000 over the next three years.
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Designs by Harriet Toogood, Clothworker Texprint Space Prize winner
some related equipment. The Leeds project will be looking at the development of new non woven materials for the medical technical textiles sector; in order to facilitate the research, specialist electrostatic spinning equipment is required to produce sustainable biopolymer materials of sufficient width. The Manchester research will explore the capability of forcespinning to produce commerciallyviable continuous filament nanofibres from a range of polymers. The fibres will be produced by a forcespinner which uses solution spinning technology. We hope that this further support will allow the two institutions to build on the working relationships which have been developed in the first phase. The vision is that, in time, a collaborative research centre would be created focusing on fibre technology and non wovens, on two sites – in Leeds and Manchester – with distinctive capabilities. We have recently given Colour Science at Leeds a grant of £25,000 to enable them to purchase a thermal analysis instrument.
We focus much of our bursary support at the postgraduate level, by funding PhD projects at Leeds University. In addition to the non wovens collaboration initiative, we are currently funding four research students. Rob Henderson is entering his final year researching the extraction and identification of natural dyes for sustainable and historical applications, and has received funding from us totalling £60,000 over three years.
Encouraging Young Adults We are keen to attract UK students to take technical first degree courses in textiles and colour science. As part of this, we provide bursaries for students taking the BSc Textile Technology course at Manchester, supporting two individuals throughout the three year duration through grants of £3,500 per annum. At Leeds, we have provided funding to Colour Science towards a programme of marketing their BSc course to schools in the surrounding area through classroom talks, campus visits and bursaries. The Clothworkers’ Court at Leeds University
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We are keen to attract UK students to take technical first degree courses in textiles and colour science.
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Caroline Hemingray is researching the application of lightemitting diodes inside fibres to create instant colour change and is receiving a bursary totalling £30,000 over the three years. George Salihu is exploring the scope for low-water application processes for dyes and finishes and will receive a total of £70,000 over his three year project. Sam Hill in Colour Science will be looking into smart textile applications of novel, crease and wash-resistant electricallyconductive inks and has been granted a £60,000 bursary over three years. We have been researching how we might assist young weavers looking to establish a career in their chosen field. It can be difficult Texprint London private view – Harriet Toogood with for weavers, having had easy access the Clerk and Master to computer-aided looms at college, to produce samples suitable for commercial work following graduation. The cost of acquiring such a loom can be The Theo Moorman Trust was established some prohibitive and availability of hired equipment is thirty years ago by a prominent weaver to provide scarce. bursaries to young UK weavers every other year. Having talked to a number of people and Grants are made for equipment, materials, special organisations with experience of the field, we are in projects etc. The Trust has established a profile in the discussion with Cockpit Arts to create a studio space sector and the volume of quality applications it which would be accessible to several weavers on an receives exceeds its capacity. We have agreed a grant annual basis. Cockpit is a charity which acts as a of £5,000 to allow them to increase their awards in creative business incubator for designer-makers; it 2012, with a view to establishing an on-going houses 165 artists/craftsmen at its two London relationship. This arrangement allows us to reach studio spaces in Holborn and Deptford. Its objective worthy young weavers and capitalise on Theo is for the designers to be able to earn a living from Moorman’s experience and reputation. their craft; in addition to affordable studio space, We hope to be able to assist some graduating UK they receive business coaching and support. textile students in finding a work placement with a We have agreed a grant of £39,000 to purchase UK manufacturer through our support of a two computerised swatching looms which will be programme established by The Weavers’ Company. housed in a studio space used by six weavers at an The funding provides a contribution to the cost of early stage of their career; they will each receive a employing a young person for a six month period, bursary to assist with the cost of studio rent and the thereby creating an inducement to the company to business support package. After a year, it is expected take on the risk of hiring a new employee. that some of the designers will move on, allowing We are joining forces with the Weavers and the others to benefit from the space and equipment. Dyers’ Companies to co-sponsor a conference in early 2012 addressing the issue of attracting skilled people into the UK textile industry.
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Excellence in textile design Central St Martins is one of the leading colleges in the UK for textile design, with over 200 students taking its BA Honours course. We had a longstanding association with the College when the Foundation supported individual textile design students, but the connection had lapsed in recent years. We are pleased to have re-established a link as the College moves to a new purpose-built campus in Kings Cross, by providing a grant of £55,000 to enable them to acquire a digital knitting machine. Texprint brings together the most talented UK graduate designers with industry, allowing them to showcase and present their work to best advantage. Each year, the work of over 250 young textile designers is selected and submitted to Texprint. Each of the students is interviewed and their portfolio reviewed by an industry panel. Twenty four finalists are mentored and guided through two exhibition events, in London and Paris, where they make invaluable contacts which help them launch their careers in textile design. We have been a major supporter of Texprint for over ten years. They find it difficult to raise the funds each year to run the programme (the panelists give their time free); accordingly, we agreed in 2010, in addition to our support for the year’s event, to commit £15,000 per year for the ensuing three years to provide some funding stability and encourage other sponsors to follow suit. The 2011 Texprint Space Prize for the best fabric design for interiors sponsored by the Foundation was awarded to Harriet Toogood who has just graduated from Brighton University; her work explores the combination of weaving natural yarn and plastic
materials within a fabric. We continue to support the other major textile design competitions. At New Designers 2011, the Clothworkers’ Printed Textiles prize was awarded to Toni Lake, a graduate of Nottingham Trent University, who uses her strong drawing and painting skills to create sumptuous designs. At the Bradford Textile Society fabric design competition, we sponsor eight of the fourteen award categories; this year, the competition attracted almost 900 entries from 34 colleges, a record level. 2011 is the second year of our three-year sponsorship of the Textile Institute’s ‘Design Means Business’ exhibition which brings together graduating textile design students and representatives from textile and fashion businesses. We have for a number of years provided two bursaries for MA Textile Design students at the Royal College of Art. Lauren Bowker has just graduated and is a Texprint exhibitor; her work uses dynamic chromic imaging to create innovative pieces which constantly change colour. Kirsten Presley has completed the first year of her Masters in knit and, following an introduction from the Clothworkers, is doing a placement with a textile company in the Scottish Borders. We are keen to maintain contact with talented individuals who we have supported during their studies. In the last few years, we have held an annual alumni dinner which allows us to keep in touch with these individuals as their careers progress and also helps us to stay close to developments in their fields.
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Textile and dress storage at the V&A
The Master and Lady at Blythe House
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All images © Victoria and Albert Museum
Preservation and accessibility of textile collections In 2010, the Trustees decided to award a major grant of £1m to the Victoria and Albert Museum to create a textiles and fashion study and conservation centre in Blythe House, near Kensington Olympia. The V&A has one of the leading collections of textiles in the world and the project will open up access for researchers, designers and students to the extensive part of the collection which is not on display. Our anchor donation to the £3m project allowed the Museum to name the new facility The Clothworkers’ Centre, and the development work is already underway. We have for some time been in discussion with the British Museum regarding the creation of an organics conservation centre within a proposed redevelopment of part of the Bloomsbury site. The World Conservation and Exhibition Centre is a £135m project, of which almost £100m has been raised. Within the Centre will be the Research Institute for Science and Conservation which will bring together teams from disparate sites into a state-of-the-art facility with laboratories, studios and a library.
Racks in the current V&A store
Organic materials feature prominently in the BM’s collection, most notably textiles, where the Museum’s holdings are world-class. The Organics Conservation Studio will be at the heart of the Centre and provide cutting-edge facilities to ensure the preservation of the most fragile objects in the Museum’s collection. We have agreed a grant of £750,000 to meet the fit-out costs of the Studio which, in recognition of our commitment, will be named the Clothworkers’ Organic Conservation Studio. The quantum of these two grants is unusual, but they reflect the stature of the two museums’ textile collections and the importance of the projects for the continued proper conservation of the huge number of objects in their care. Fashion in motion at the V&A
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The quantum of the grants to the V&A and British Museum reflects the stature of their textile collections and the importance of the projects. redevelopment. We have also given £20,000 towards the cost of a textile conservation studio at the Whitworth Art Gallery, part of the University of Manchester. We have been aware for some time that a number of textile company archives are at risk of being lost, in particular those companies which have been acquired or gone out of business. Following discussions with a number of bodies, including The National Archives, we have commissioned an experienced textiles archivist to undertake a project to endeavour to document the location and extent of companies’ archives. This will be a significant task and the initial phase will focus on populating and updating the incomplete and out-of-date database which currently exists.
Working on a Royal Fusilier’s uniform
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The re-established Centre for Textile Conservation has got off to a good start in its new home at Glasgow University. In addition to a £50,000 grant towards the capital costs of relocation from Winchester, we are providing bursaries totalling £24,000 a year to two MPhil students, Nikki Chard and Charlotte Gamper, over the two years of their course. From 2011, we will be supporting one student each year for the two-year term. We have supported a small number of museums with notable textile collections. In 2011, we have made a grant of £75,000 to the William Morris Gallery towards the recreation of the artist’s Merton Abbey Workshop within the Museum’s
Impressions of the forthcoming World Conservation and Exhibition Centre at the British Museum, with an organics conservator working on an Egyptian mummy
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William Morris Gallery
All images © William Morris Gallery
The William Morris Gallery, located in a Georgian house in Waltham Forest, is the only public gallery devoted to the life and work of Morris. The building was his home in the mid nineteenth century and houses a broad and internationally-significant collection of his works. William Morris was the single most influential British designer of the nineteenth century and one of the most important figures involved in textile production. The Gallery’s collection includes extensive examples of his textile designs, including woven and printed textiles, carpets, embroideries and tapestries, as well as sample books, printing blocks and workshop materials.
The Gallery is undertaking a major £5.2m redevelopment programme with substantial support from the Heritage Lottery Fund, London Borough of Waltham Forest and Monument Trust. Within the Gallery will be a recreation of Morris’ Merton Abbey Workshop in Surrey which will feature textiles, tapestry and carpets (as well as stained glass and wallpaper). We have made a grant of £75,000 in 2011 towards the cost of refurbishing and fitting out the replica Workshop. When the redevelopment is finished in 2015, the Gallery will be able to exhibit significantly more of its collection to allow visitors to appreciate the work of William Morris and his influence on the Arts and Crafts movement.
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Charitable Grants 2010 Victoria and Albert Museum New textile, fashion study and conservation centre £1,000,000
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University of Leeds – Department of Colour Science PhD in novel, crease/wash-resistant electricallyconductive inks for smart textile applications £60,000 Central St Martins College of Art and Design Digital knitting machine £55,000 Texprint Supporting graduating UK textile design students over a four year period in showing their work £55,000 Textile Conservation Centre Foundation To re-establish the Centre at the University of Glasgow £50,000
The Weavers’ Company Textile Education Fund Work placements with textile companies £20,000 Bradford College Textile Archive Data management system and digitisation of the collection £15,000 Royal College of Art Bursaries for two MAs in Textile Design
£10,000
University of Leeds – School of Design Conservation of items in the 20th century Yorkshire fashion archive £10,000 University of Leeds – School of Design Installation of a melt-blowing machine
£10,000
University of Leeds – School of Design PhD in light-emitting diodes in fibres
£10,000
Holburne Museum Trust Conservation and display of 17th century embroideries and raised embroideries £7,500
University of Leeds – School of Design PhD in waterless dyeing research
£30,000
Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth Textile Collections Dehumidification equipment £6,300
London Printworks Trust Workshop equipment
£25,000
Royal Fusiliers Museum Creation of storage and conservation area for the care of the Museum’s textile collection £5,000
University of Leeds – Department of Colour Science Funding of activities to attract undergraduate applications £25,000 University of Leeds – School of Design High performance liquid chromatography machine £25,000 Textile Conservation Centre Foundation Bursaries for MPhil Conservation students £24,000 University of Manchester – Department of Textiles & Paper BSc bursaries in Textile Science and Technology £21,000 University of Manchester – Department of Textiles & Paper Equipment for the Centre for Colour and Digital Imaging £20,000
Total: £1,483,800
Company Support 2010 University of Leeds – Clothworkers’ Innovation Fund Phase 2 commitment
£200,000
New Designers Sponsorship and prize in printed textiles £2,150 RITE Group (Reducing the Impact of Textiles on the Environment) Small business bursaries £1,000
Total: £203,150
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Trusteeship A common purpose Many of our fellow Livery Companies’ members are bound together by a link to a common trade or a direct involvement with their affiliated schools or almshouses. By contrast, the Clothworkers no longer have any schools and the links to the textile trade are now indirect. Accordingly, the only glue which binds our members together is a family link to the Company, a general interest in charitable work and a sense of community in belonging to an ancient benevolent institution. As a result, the Company has recently decided that trusteeship should be our common purpose. There is a serious shortage of trustees of charities in the UK and the quality of governance is variable. We have over 750 members with a broad range of skills and backgrounds living around the UK. A number are already engaged in civil society, whether as a charity trustee, school governor or parish councillor. Our aspiration is that, over time, the majority of our Liverymen will be actively involved in civil society. This builds on the interest that many have in our charitable work through visiting organisations seeking a grant from the Foundation.
Support for our members In an endeavour to encourage our members to explore the possibility of taking on a trustee role, we have established an arrangement with Reach Volunteering. Their TrusteeWorks service allows members to choose the sort of organisation they would like to get involved with, whether a local group or a national charity. Their database contains a range of trustee opportunities around the UK. We have also hosted events at Clothworkers’ Hall to give Liverymen a better appreciation of the rewards of being a trustee, as well as the contribution an individual can make to a charity.
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Supporting better charity governance We are also interested in using our resources to improve governance of not-for-profit organisations. Having funded a report on the state of trusteeship from New Philanthropy Capital in 2009, we have sponsored annual updates on developments. These have been well received as a contribution to greater understanding of topical issues. We have hosted two series of seminars for trustees at the Hall. These are mounted by NPC and have been well attended; the topics have ranged from strategies to dealing with challenges in straitened times to the benefits of collaboration and merger. A further series is planned for autumn 2011, looking at leading a small charity, the revised Code of Good Governance and an introductory seminar on the benefits of trusteeship as part of Trustees’ Week. We are also exploring how we might help support continuing development and dissemination of best practice in charity governance by working with some of the major stakeholders in this area.
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Bookbinding The Company continues to support the endangered craft of bookbinding and this year new commissions have been initiated with Ann Thornton (of the Charters and Ordinances of the Company) and Derek Hood (Death in the Loving Cup). Their completed bindings will join our others in new display cases which are soon to be installed in the Entrance Hall. Christopher Shaw completed his distinctive black goatskin and gold tooled binding of The Golden Ram last autumn and Angela James has recently finished her binding of The Story of Mary Datchelor Girls’ School, 1877-1977. Much of Christopher Shaw’s work includes gold tooling and the cover of his binding features a splendid golden ram’s head complete with curved horn stretching over the front and back covers. Angela James’ blue goatskin binding with gold tooled lettering features a number of transparent goatskin inlays onto which the portraits of Miss Caroline Rigg and Dame Dorothy Brock, the School’s first two headmistresses, and facsimiles of archival documents have innovatively been printed. The several differently-coloured fly leaves of the book represent the different colours of the girls’ summer uniforms.
Binding of The Golden Ram by Christopher Shaw
Binding of The Story of Mary Datchelor Girls’ School by Angela James
Plate and other collections We have recently welcomed a new piece of silver into our plate collection. Jane Short’s enamelled centrepiece is the first work in our collection to have enamelling as a prominent feature in its design. This and future commissions will continue our policy to build up a representative collection of the best of contemporary silver. Details of all the Company’s plate will shortly be added to our archives and collections management database as we progress towards creating a comprehensive and searchable online catalogue of all our collections. The Company’s clocks have recently been catalogued in the database and paintings and other works of art will shortly follow suit.
Detailing of enamelling (left) on Jane Short’s centrepiece (below) representing the panning for gold from water using the golden fleece
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The Company possesses a fine collection of antique bracket and longcase clocks, two of which were made by John Ellicott, clockmaker to George III and a past Clothworker. Indeed, clockmaking Clothworkers date back to the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries; through the recent data entry of our registers of Freedoms and Apprenticeships it has finally been possible to confirm a long-held suspicion that William and John Selwood, amongst the first generation of lantern clock makers in Britain, were both apprenticed into The Clothworkers’ Company.
of Montserrat during the infamous but unsuccessful slave uprising there in 1768. New plan chests and shelving have recently been acquired to provide additional and improved storage for our numerous rolled plans and oversized material in the archives vault. A major project of the last few years, the creation of a database of our historic Freedoms and Apprenticeships records, is now complete. A website to host this, which will be freely accessible to any member of the public online, is now in its final stages of construction. The Drapers’ and Goldsmiths’ Companies Alderman Turner, are also in the process of submitting Lord Mayor 1768 their data to the project so that interested researchers may search across Archives the three Companies’ records for their ancestors. Cataloguing of the Company’s archives also continues apace. We are cataloguing records of the Research Company’s charitable trusts – at one time there were Dr Annaleigh Margey is coming to the end of her People, over 100 – and making a dent in the small but Property and Charity project and has uncovered a wealth significant number of deposited manuscript of information about the Company’s benefactors, collections we hold. Most recently, the papers of properties and charities Alderman Samuel Turner, Master excused service in over two centuries of its 1763 and Lord Mayor of London in 1768, and his history. She is writing family have been catalogued. up her findings which Although only a small collection, the Turner will include a paper for papers are nonetheless important for the light they the Company looking at shed on a close-knit well-to-do eighteenth century what people gave London family and their tantalising references to the money to their political and social intrigues of the era. Turner and company, where their his son were West India merchants by trade and wealth came from and amongst the archive are a number of references to what other charitable their trading activities in Antigua – including Samuel interests they had. Turner junior’s narrow escape from the nearby island
Coats of arms of Company benefactors, from the Treswell plan book, 1612
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Interior of Lambe’s Chapel, given to the Company by William Lambe, a notable benefactor
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A website with histories of the benefactors and properties researched during the project will also be created and a searchable database of the transcriptions of our Court Orders and other records has been populated for internal use. To date, it appears that a number of benefactors had no previous connection with the Company but must have viewed the Clothworkers as
Stained glass A new home has been found for the stained glass windows from Mary Datchelor Girls’ School in Camberwell, South East London. The Clothworkers governed the School until its closure in 1981 and the windows were rescued from the school hall prior to the recent redevelopment of the site. They have since been conserved and have been in storage at the Hall pending finding a new home. The windows were made by the firm Lavers and Westlake, who were also responsible for the stained glass in the Victorian Clothworkers’ Hall. Nathaniel Westlake was a leading figure in the design of Victorian gothic stained glass and last year the Company commissioned an expert on nineteenth century stained glass, Martin Harrison, to write a monograph on the windows and their maker. The resulting publication was subsequently sent to a large number of independent girls’ schools and
The Company’s Benefactors’ Roll
the safest pair of hands through which to deliver their final wishes. Many such bequests of property were so significant that even after the Company had discharged all its charitable obligations and expended money on regular improvements, large surpluses of annual rental income were left over.
several strong expressions of interest in housing the windows were received. After discussion it has been agreed that the windows will go to The Girls’ Day School Trust. The GDST was founded in 1872 to provide affordable day-school education to young girls and today manages a total of 26 schools in the UK. The founder and patron of the Trust, respectively Maria Grey and Lady Stanley of Alderley, both appear in the stained glass windows and it was this historical connection with two of the sitters that makes the Trust a most suitable recipient for the windows. Arrangements for their transfer are currently under consideration but it is likely that the windows will be installed in one of the Trust’s five South London schools, close to their original Camberwell home, where they will be permanently on view.
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Support for the Armed Forces Like a number of our fellow City Livery Companies, we have affiliations with particular units of the Armed Forces and Cadets. Such links allow us to demonstrate our support for those serving their country through hospitality, awards and financial assistance for items not covered by Government funding. They also enable our members to get a first-hand account of the role and activities of our Armed Forces. HMS Dauntless The Dauntless was commissioned in 2010 and is one of the Navy’s new Type 45 destroyers. We have developed a good relationship with the Ship and its Officers. A number of our members have been on board and Officers have been our guests for dinner at the Hall. We are currently providing a grant of £25,000 over three years to the Ship’s Welfare Fund to allow funding for social, sporting and training activities for the crew. Dauntless is coming to London in September 2011 as part of a major defence exhibition. We are planning to entertain 100 of the Ship’s company to lunch at Clothworkers’ Hall during the visit, and the Captain has invited several Clothworkers to sail on the Ship on its voyage from Portsmouth to London. Scots Guards Our three year association with the Scots Guards has provided a number of interesting opportunities. Following the 1st Battalion’s return from Afghanistan, we hosted a presentation by the Commanding Officer on their operations in Kandahar; the event was in aid of The Colonel’s Fund, the Regiment’s welfare fund. We were honoured to receive a 1905 King’s Colour from the Regiment. This has been conserved and mounted and is now on display at the Hall.
The Guards have entertained members of the Company on a number of occasions including at the Queen’s Birthday Parade where the Regiment was Escort for the Colour. We have also been delighted to welcome the Regimental Colonel and fellow Officers to dinner at the Hall. We have been pleased to provide financial support for a number of extramural activities, from a Christmas party for Guardsmen’s children to social activities for the soldiers themselves. First Aid Nursing Yeomanry The FANYs is a corps of volunteer women officers which supports the authorities in the event of major emergencies. They receive minimal Government funding and we are pleased to be able to contribute to the cost of a small number of paid posts within the Corps. Having funded the part-time Adjutant for three years, we are currently supporting the Training Officer role. In addition, following the Corps’ relocation to a new base in Rochester Row, SW1, we were able to assist with an overdue upgrade of their IT systems through a grant of £10,500. Cadet Forces We have links with units of the Army Cadet Force and the Sea Cadets. Following cuts in MoD funding, we have made a grant of £4,000 to the City of London and North East Sector of the ACF to pay for the transport costs of taking cadets to training activities. In addition, we make a modest donation to 42 Detachment Scots Guards in Essex to help cadets with the cost of attending camps. With the Sea Cadets, we are providing bursaries to allow cadets from disadvantaged backgrounds in the London Area to attend this year’s summer camp. King’s Colour
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Grants are paid from the Foundation and three subsidiary trusts. The trusts have narrower objects relating to relief in need, education and blind welfare. The Trustees allocate eligible appeals to the trusts but, should their resources be exhausted, will award grants from the funds of the Foundation for suitable projects. Grants 2010 £000 Foundation Relief in Need 474 Blind Welfare 240 Education 140
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Financial report The value of the Foundation and trusts’ investments increased in 2010 to £116m, a considerable rise from the 2008 low point of £89m. The Foundation’s own resources provide the core income for its grant-making, but this continues to be augmented by the contributions received from the Company. In 2010, these amounted to £2.4m, of which £0.3m was added to the endowment. During 2010, we implemented the bulk of the revised asset allocation policy agreed by the Trustees. Grant commitments grew by 39% over 2009; this largely reflected the £1m commitment early in 2010 to the Victoria and Albert Museum which absorbed excess reserves from the previous financial year. Grant-making activity In 2010, we made 313 grants, a significant increase on the previous year. The bulk of our resources continue to be deployed in smaller grants, with 60% being for £20,000 or below. The statistics were distorted by the major V&A commitment of £1m. We are pleased with the success of our small grants programme which aims to provide speedy responses to small charities; 180 grants were made in 2010 under this programme. However, the Trustees are also keen to support particularly worthy projects in a meaningful way, within the constraints of our income. In addition to the V&A grant, we made significant commitments in 2010 of £250,000 to Maths in
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Education and Industry and £203,600 to the Millennium Mathematics Project. We remain open to applicants from around the UK and have resisted any arbitrary geographical allocations. The internet allows greater visibility, and any fundraiser, whether volunteer or professional, should be able to find us easily. We hope our guidelines and advice are clear, but like many grant-makers, we continue to receive far too many ineligible approaches. Grant-making review The Trustees have determined that they should review the grant-making policies every five years. During 2010/11 a detailed exercise has been undertaken. New Philanthropy Capital produced a report covering the likely external environment over the next five years to inform the review. A group of Trustees met on several occasions to discuss possible refinements to the Foundation’s policies in the light of market developments and our own priorities. This process culminated in the Board of Trustees debating a set of proposals which have subsequently been adopted for implementation from 2012. The Trustees were pleased with the changes made five years ago which introduced some fundamental changes to the way the Foundation operated: the introduction of a small grants programme, the launch of several proactive programmes, and a greater focus to our giving. The outcome of the current review is a continuation of this direction. In our reactive giving, from 2012 we will be continuing the existing categories with the exception of Social Inclusion. In its place we are introducing five more focused programme areas: homelessness, alcohol and substance misuse, domestic and sexual violence, prisoners and ex-offenders, and integration of disadvantaged minority communities. A summary of the policies which will guide our grant-making over the next five years is set out at the end of this report. Grants by category – amounts awarded % Textiles Encouragement of young people Disability Visual impairment 3 Other 1 Elderly 4 Social inclusion Mathematics Autism 3 Conservation 3
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2009 £000
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1,912 3,203 5,115
INCOMING RESOURCES Donations and gifts Investment and rental income Total incoming resources
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Net movement in funds Fund balances brought forward at 1 January
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5,702 502 26 6,392
4,116 425 25 4,697
(898) 11,856
418 14,817
10,958 106,167
15,235 90,932 These figures combine
Fund balances carried forward at 31 December
117,125
106,167
the incoming and outgoing resources and assets and liabilities of The Clothworkers’
FIXED ASSETS Investments at market value
Foundation, the
115,954
103,939
4,193 (2,026) 2,167
4,655 (2,427) 2,228
(996) 117,125
(235) 105,932
Clothworkers’ Charity for Education, the
Current assets Creditors - due within one year NET CURRENT ASSETS
Clothworkers’ Charity for Relief in Need, and the Clothworkers’ Charity for Welfare of the Blind, and have
Creditors - due after one year NET ASSETS
been extracted from the audited accounts of the charities. The full reports and accounts of
RESTRICTED FUNDS Permanent endowment Expendable endowment Members’ endowment
the charities can be
61,114 3,562 13
54,947 2,903 0
obtained from the Charity Commission website or the Chief Executive, The Clothworkers’
UNRESTRICTED FUNDS Designated General
Foundation,
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45,965 2,352
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XLP stands for the eXceL Project. It was started in Peckham, South London, in 1996 in response to a stabbing in a school playground. Fifteen years later, XLP now works with young people in schools and on estates across seven of the poorest boroughs in London. Many of the young people XLP works with have low expectations and/or have behavioural issues which can lead to anti-social, and sometimes criminal, activity. XLP engages with politicians, gang members, victims and perpetrators of crime, police, councils, housing associations and, crucially, young people themselves and their families. By running a range of prevention and intervention projects XLP aims to prevent young people from dropping out of mainstream education; support them in gaining qualifications; encourage them to make a positive contribution to society; and empower them to make positive lifestyle choices and to realise their potential. Following strict child protection guidelines, XLP’s staff and student volunteers confront the major issues facing many young people including bullying and intimidation, weapons, boredom due to a lack of organised activities, absence of parents, and living in areas with high crime rates. XLP runs a number of projects such as the Community Bus Project which travels to six deprived estates in inner London every
week. The bus provides a safe environment for young people to engage in positive activities and learning outside of school hours. It is equipped with computers and internet access, facilities for arts and crafts, and a ‘chillout’ area. It hosts drop-in sessions, homework clubs, music and filming projects, and acts as a base for sports and detached youth work activity. The Arts Showcase Project focuses on encouraging young people with behavioural issues and who struggle academically to express themselves through music, dance, rap and poetry. The emphasis is on ‘showcasing’ and not on competition, the aim being to raise self-esteem and a sense of potential amongst young participants. Summer Camps are an important part of XLP’s community work. They involve young people from different (and often rival) estates taking part in an outward bound and adventure week in Dorset. Many who come on the camp will rarely, if ever, have been out of London. For many young XLP users, leaving their estates and areas can be risky; we awarded £25,000 for the
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purchase of a minibus to enable the charity to transport these young people safely to and from XLP activities. We are proud to be supporting this charity which is committed to tackling the challenges facing so many disadvantaged Londoners, and whose impact can be demonstrated by this feedback from an XLP user: “I was just a hyped up kid, that’s what I thought to myself. If there was beef, I would be there. But XLP taught me how to respect others and showed me there’s a better way. Now instead of being on road, I’m meeting people and talking to them about how I changed my lifestyle”.
Lodge Hill Trust Construction of two eco-lodges for a charity in West Sussex providing residential, leisure and educational activities for a range of youth groups £40,000 Middlesex North West County Girl Guide Association New building at the Willow Tree Centre, a campsite, residential training and activity centre £40,000 City of Bradford YMCA Fitting out the recreational and learning areas at a new multi-purpose facility £40,000 Osmani Trust Fixtures and fittings at a new sports and community centre for disadvantaged young people in Tower Hamlets £30,000 Crewe YMCA Furnishing a learning cafe and recreational and social enterprise zone for excluded young people in Cheshire £30,000 UCL Medical School Intercalated BSc bursaries
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Beat Project Creation of an arts and media centre providing a range of educational and leisure activities for young people in Kent £25,000 XLP Minibus for a charity providing social, educational and behavioural support to disengaged young people in London, including those at risk of becoming involved in gangs £25,000 Hessle Road Network Development of a purpose-built youth facility in East Yorkshire £25,000 Henley Baptist Church Construction of a multi-purpose centre for disadvantaged young people £23,000 Honeypot Charity Playbus offering outreach, play, and educational activities to disadvantaged young people and young carers in London and the South East £20,000
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Osmani Trust Osmani Trust is a youth and community organisation based in Tower Hamlets and Newham, two of the most deprived boroughs in London. It aims to address issues such as substance misuse, racial tensions, criminal activity and anti-social behaviour, territoriality and gang-related violence, unemployment, and lack of training and employment opportunities, all of which have a negative impact on the community. Osmani offers a range of community and health services, as well as leisure and sporting activities which encourage and support young participants to
reengage with mainstream society and to improve their quality of life. Activities provided by Osmani include: the Aasha Project which is geared towards cutting crime, reducing the fear of crime, and bridging the gap between different BME (Black and Minority Ethnic) communities; Healthy Futures which delivers sporting activities and health workshops (with a specific interest in targeting young people who are obese or underweight, but without singling them out or stigmatising them); and the Amaal Girls Project which runs various activities for girls in a culturally
Ufton Court Educational Trust Log cabin providing residential accommodation for disadvantaged young people at an outdoor learning and adventure activities centre in Berkshire £20,000
Winchester Young Men’s Christian Association Furnishings and equipment to create a youth cafe £20,000
Venture Trust Vehicle to transport vulnerable young people to and from outdoor and adventure activities in the Scottish Highlands £20,000 West Rainton and Leamside Community Association Structural upgrade to, and refurbishment of, a community centre in Durham £20,000 Sobriety Project Conversion of a barge for a charity providing boat trips for disadvantaged young people in East Yorkshire £20,000 Lurgan YMCA Construction of a community youth centre £20,000
1st Blisworth Scout Group Construction of a new hall to be used as a base for local scout and community groups in Northampton £20,000 Buttle Trust Towards the Child Support Programme which provides essential items for families of disadvantaged children £20,000 Who Cares? Trust Practical information guide on further and higher education opportunities, and on accessing appropriate support, for young people leaving the care system £20,000 Winston’s Wish Residential sessions for children and young people who have suffered bereavement through suicide £20,000
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sensitive environment, supporting them into education, training, employment and community work. The existing Osmani Centre is located in an old Victorian building which had become increasingly rundown and difficult to maintain. In September 2008, after several years of campaigning by Osmani, Tower Hamlets Council finally acknowledged that the building was no longer fit for purpose and agreed to the development of a new purpose-built Centre together with a funding package of £4.4m. Construction of the new facility began in August
2010 and they hope finally to move into their new home by the end of the summer. The new state-of-the-art Osmani Centre will house a community café and kitchen, offices, education and employment services, an IT and training room, a multi-use games area, a hall, a studio, a youth club and a gym. We awarded a grant of £30,000 towards the fit out of the new Centre which will bring significant, lasting benefits to disadvantaged and disengaged young people in Tower Hamlets and neighbouring boroughs.
Lighthouse Group UK Refurbishment of premises for a charity providing educational activities to at risk young people in Berkshire £15,000
Young People Cornwall Vehicle for a charity delivering outreach activities to young people in deprived areas of Cornwall £15,000
Nelson’s Journey Therapeutic weekends for children aged 6-13 who have suffered bereavement £15,000
Archway Project Equipment and furniture for a charity providing educational, learning and training opportunities for young people in Thamesmead £15,000
St Mary-Le-Bow Young Homeless Project Refurbishment of accommodation facilities for a charity working with young homeless people in East London £15,000 Marylebone Bangladesh Society Refurbishment of building to facilitate activities for disadvantaged young Bangladeshis in Westminster £15,000
Step by Step Partnership IT equipment for a charity supporting young homeless people in Hampshire £14,500 54 grants of £10,000 or less Total: £1,039,300
Downside Settlement Printer to enable a youth club in Southwark to promote activities to disadvantaged young people £15,000
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For more than 160 years, Manchester Deaf Centre has provided a range of essential services to people with hearing impairment, many of whom are isolated and vulnerable and who need a safe, secure space to access support and to keep active. Around 500 profoundly deaf, deaf-blind and hard-of-hearing people use the Centre each week to meet and socialise, and to access information and support. The Centre is largely managed and run by people with a hearing impairment. Groups using the Centre include Triangle Club for gay and lesbian people; a Deaf Crew youth club; a 50+ Group consisting mainly of profoundly deaf people; a parent and toddler group; and a tinnitus and hardof-hearing group. The charity is also developing ideas for a black minority and ethnic group, where information and support will be provided to meet preferred language needs such as Urdu or Punjabi. Manchester Deaf Centre provides access to qualified interpreters who are able to help with matters such as arranging hospital appointments and liaising with relevant Council departments. It is the North West’s leading provider of deaf awareness training and accredited training courses in British Sign Language for individuals, as well as for statutory and private sector organisations.
Manchester City Council’s Sensory Provision Service, which provides sensory equipment and adaptations and rehabilitation services, is also based at the Centre. Having occupied their current building for 37 years, the charity was no longer able to provide for the needs of Manchester Deaf Centre’s users or for the increasing demand on services. We awarded £50,000 towards the creation of a mezzanine level within a new, fit-for-purpose, Centre in order to provide additional meeting and classroom facilities, as well as a dedicated space for the popular youth club. The new facility means that Manchester Deaf Centre can better meet the challenges of the 21st century, and can continue to play an important part in the lives of the many deaf and hearing-impaired people who use the Centre’s resources for their everyday living needs.
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Maggie Keswick Jencks Cancer Caring Centres Trust “Walking into the Centre I felt seen as a person rather than a patient”. “Maggie’s Centre has been a life saver for me. The Centre allows people to talk openly in a welcoming and safe environment”. (Quotes from people who have used Maggie’s Centres) Maggie’s Centres was set up in 1995 to provide support for people affected by cancer – from the newly diagnosed, to those undergoing treatment, posttreatment, recurrence, end of life or bereavement. Support is also offered to family, carers and friends, as they are often deeply affected by cancer. Maggie’s aims to empower people to live with, through and beyond cancer by bringing together professional help, communities of support and building design to create exceptional centres for cancer care. Located within hospital grounds, the Centres provide an effective combination of practical, emotional and psychological support services which are independent of, but complement, NHS provision.
Services offered include information and advice, workshops on nutrition, music and art therapy, and counselling; all are provided free of charge, and delivered by trained, experienced staff. There are currently seven Maggie’s Centres open in the UK (five in Scotland, one in Cheltenham, and one in London). Each is a distinctive structure, with such prominent architects as Frank Gehry and Kisho Kurokawa having designed individual Centres. Interim services run from temporary accommodation are also delivered from five additional centres (including one in Hong Kong), with further Centres planned in the North East, Aberdeen and Barcelona. We awarded £30,000 to support the development of the new Nottingham Centre, with our grant used for the construction and fit-out of a suite of consulting rooms. The new facility (seen here left under construction, and top left as artist’s impression) is on schedule to open in the autumn, and will, like other Maggie’s Centres, provide high-quality cancer care in a welcoming, friendly, noninstitutional environment.
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Snow sports can provide disabled people with a means of overcoming the barriers which confront them in daily life. For more than thirty years, the Uphill Ski Club of Great Britain (known as Disability Snowsport UK, or DSUK) has provided specialist equipment, instruction and support to increase the opportunities, fitness, mobility, freedom, social interaction, independence and skill of people with disabilities, including those
with chronic health problems and physical and/or learning disabilities. Disabled participants are able to benefit from a range of activities including overseas ski weeks, an adaptive snow sport school in Scotland, as well as tailored programmes for local disabled groups, including youth groups and schools. The existing DSUK premises were no longer suited to its needs, with both administration services and the ski school being run from the same small building. In addition, the location on Cairngorm
Moonstone Therapy Centre Appeal New multiple sclerosis therapy centre in Bristol £50,000 Manchester Deaf Centre Creation of a mezzanine level within the new fit-for-purpose centre £50,000 Cumbria Cerebral Palsy Specialist equipment to allow adults with disabilities to live more independent lives £50,000 Parkhaven Trust Respite bedrooms within a new centre in Merseyside for people with dementia £40,000 Uphill Ski Club of Great Britain New premises for a charity providing opportunities for participation in snowsports for disabled people £35,000 Gard’ner Memorial Constructing a training centre for educational professionals specialising in children with language processing problems and/or social communication issues, including autism, in Surrey £30,000
Maggie Keswick Jencks Cancer Caring Centres Trust Construction and fit-out of a suite of consulting rooms at the Nottingham centre £30,000 Artlink West Yorkshire Transformation of a property in Leeds into a disability arts venue £25,000 Hamlet Centre Trust Development of a building for a charity providing services for disabled adults and children in Norwich £25,000 Newlife Foundation for Disabled Children Specialist beds and buggies for a charity supporting terminally-ill children in Staffordshire £25,000 Family Care Trust Construction of a new facility including education suite, kitchen training area, and cafe for a charity working with young adults with learning difficulties in Solihull £25,000 Headway East London Refurbishment of premises for a charity working with people with brain injury £20,000
Foresight Project (North East Lincolnshire) Extending the premises of a charity working with people with sensory and physical disabilities and learning difficulties, and their carers £30,000
Mind in Barnet Refurbishment of a day centre for a charity supporting people with mental health issues £20,000
Middlesbrough Mind Refurbishment project involving improvements to the community hall, kitchen, and community resource centre £30,000
Camtrust Equipment for a digital printing facility used in vocational training for people with severe learning disabilities in Cambridge £20,000
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Mountain meant that, during particularly bad weather, staff were unable to get to work. Disabled parking was also limited, which is of particular importance, given the nature of the charity’s work. DSUK found more suitable premises (at the base of the mountain) owned by Sport Scotland (a National Lottery fund distributor) who agreed to transfer the lease from the British Association of Snowsport Instructors to DSUK for £35,000. We awarded DSUK the £35,000 needed to purchase the lease which would allow them to keep administration services separate from snow sport activities. Our first grant to DSUK was £21,000 in 2004 for a specially-adapted minibus; we are pleased to be providing this further support to enable them to
continue their important work which is perhaps best demonstrated by the following quotes, one from the parents of a skier, the other from a volunteer with DSUK: “We wanted to give our five-year-old daughter, who has spina bifida and hydrocephalus and is a wheelchair-user, a holiday to remember. Three days into the holiday, she won a slalom race ... competing against dozens of able-bodied skiers. She was overjoyed. To be the fastest and the best at something was an amazing experience for her. Since coming home, her confidence has increased measurably .... For a little girl who has already faced many challenges in her young life, this was a truly life-enhancing experience”
Weston Hospicecare Renovations at a hospice in Weston-super-Mare £20,000
Rotherham United Community Sports Trust Minibus to transport disabled people to sporting activities and venues £12,000
REACT Caravan for a charity providing holiday accommodation for families with terminally-ill children across the UK £19,000
Acceptable Enterprises (Larne) Vehicle to transport adults with learning disabilities to work placements in the Belfast area £12,000
“Volunteering for DSUK changed my life. It humbled me.”
Scotland Yard Adventure Centre Play area for pre-school children with additional support needs in Edinburgh £15,000
East Holton Charity Specialist vehicle to enable disabled people to enjoy the natural environment on the Holton Lee estate in Poole £12,000
Greenwich and Bexley Community Hospice Installation of an electronic patient record system £15,000
Children’s Hospital Charity Sensory play equipment at a paediatric facility in Sheffield £12,000
Headway (Dumfries and Galloway) Association Minibus for a charity working with people with brain injury £15,000
St Albans and Dacorum Day Hospice Improvements to the car park at a hospice in Hertfordshire to enable visitors, staff and volunteers to park without difficulty £11,500
Chiltern Centre for Disabled Children Extending the premises of a charity working with disabled children in Oxfordshire £15,000
36 grants of £10,000 or less Total £930,300
ARRCC Minibus for charity working with disabled people in East Sussex £12,000
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Living in a sighted world creates difficulties for people who are blind or who have a visual impairment, especially if sight loss has occurred later in life. The difficulties may seem insurmountable, which can result in loss of confidence. Established in 1867, Galloway’s Society for the Blind aims to enable people with a visual impairment to gain greater independence, and to minimise the effects of reduced vision. Operating from four Sight Advice Centres across Lancashire and with support groups in surrounding towns and villages, Galloway’s provides a range of specialist services to blind and visually-impaired people including information and advice; low cost specialist equipment such as talking watches; and audio services such as transcription and talking newspapers.
Oxfordshire Association for the Blind New resource centre for a charity offering support services to visually-impaired people and their carers in Oxfordshire £50,000 Metropolitan Society for the Blind (Blind Aid) Grants for needy visually-impaired people £40,000 Galloway’s Society for the Blind Equipping and furnishing premises for a charity providing a range of services for visually-impaired people in Lancashire £27,000 St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital Grant for general funds
A wide range of leisure, recreational and social activities are also offered including outdoor pursuits such as archery, climbing, and canoeing; residential courses on heritage, arts, music and drama; day trips to theatres, museums and other places of interest; and organised holidays. In 2003, Galloway’s purchased a building adjacent to its property in Chorley, Lancashire, which was subsequently extended and refurbished at a cost of £400,000. We were delighted to award a grant of £27,000 towards the final phase of the project which involved the purchase and installation of specialist equipment including a range of IT items, two ‘talking’ microwaves, and the fit-out of a recording studio in the newly refurbished building. This is our second grant to Galloway’s, the first being £6,000 in 2001 towards IT equipment and refurbishing one of their four Centres.
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Vista (Royal Leicestershire Rutland and Wycliffe Society for the Blind) Refurbishment of the Vista Centre which provides support services to visually-impaired people £20,000 7 grants of £10,000 or less Total: £204,800
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Oxfordshire Association for the Blind OAB has been supporting blind and visually-impaired people in Oxfordshire since it was founded in 1877; the last ten years have seen a significant increase in clients using OAB services, with the client database currently holding information on over 3,000 service users. Modern technology and greater awareness have encouraged a generation of blind and visuallyimpaired people to seek out new and innovative ways to overcome the restrictions of sight loss. OAB has responded to these challenges by providing a range of information and advice services including home safety checks; a home visiting scheme for elderly, isolated people; a high-speed Braille transcription service; and training courses for specialists working in the field. In addition the OAB resource centre stocks a wide range of specialist living aids including talking clocks, microwaves and mobile phones which are designed to maximise independence and personal safety within and outside the home. The charity operates from an old Victorian lodge, with the resource centre housed in a small portacabin located in the car park. The portacabin, a temporary structure, is cramped, cold, inefficient and expensive to run. We awarded OAB ÂŁ50,000 towards the construction of a new resource centre which would be annexed to the lodge. The new accessible two-storey centre will be energy and costefficient, and will be far better suited to the storage and demonstration of specialist equipment; there will also be space for training, seminars and meetings as well as modest catering facilities. Once fully up and running it will enable OAB to build on their valuable work responding to the needs of, and supporting, people with sight loss to gain greater independence and improved quality of life.
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Woodlands Hospice Charitable Trust provides specialist palliative care for people with cancer and life-limiting illnesses with complex needs. Located on the site of the University Hospital Aintree, the Hospice serves the communities of North Merseyside which has areas of high deprivation. The vast majority of people accessing the charity’s services are aged over 65. The specialist services offered by Woodlands Hospice are round-the-clock inpatient care, outpatient services, a community outreach programme, and carer and bereavement support. Care is delivered by a dedicated team of medical and other clinically-qualified staff including doctors, nurses, complementary-, occupational- and physiotherapists, family and pastoral support workers, and a counsellor. The multi-professional team work closely with other healthcare professionals in the community such as GP’s and district nurses, to ensure that patients receive the optimum, coordinated care. Following a successful £2.3m appeal in 2006, Woodlands Hospice opened its new inpatient unit in 2009. Whereas patients requiring inpatient care previously had to transfer to a designated ward in the adjacent hospital, the new facility offered an integrated service much better suited to the needs of patients. With the completion of the inpatient unit, the Hospice was looking to make further improvements to its outpatient facilities which opened in 1996, and which were badly in need of updating. Having previously awarded £15,000 to Woodlands Hospice in 2003 towards the construction and equipping of the outpatients unit, our £20,000 grant in 2010 was towards the purchase of specialist air and fluid mattresses which are designed to reduce the risk of patients developing pressure sores.
Porthallow Village Association Construction of a village hall to provide a range of activities for elderly people in Cornwall £25,000 Friends of the Elderly Grants for needy elderly individuals
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Hospital of the Blessed Trinity New boiler at a residential care home in Guildford £20,000 Woodlands Hospice Charitable Trust Specialist equipment at a hospice in Liverpool £20,000 Burma Star Association Grants for needy elderly UK veterans and their dependants £17,000 Wandsworth Community Transport Minibus for a charity providing transport services to elderly people in Wandsworth £15,000 ReadiBus Minibus for a charity offering dial-a-ride services to elderly people with restricted mobility in Berkshire £15,000 Maldon Housing Association Walk-in wet rooms at an almshouse in Essex £15,000 Age Concern Richmond-Upon-Thames Van to expand the Handyperson Service for elderly people £11,000 15 grants of £10,000 or less Total: £243,900
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Other St Olave’s The Church of St Olave in Hart Street, London EC3 is the Company’s guild church and just a short walk away from Clothworkers’ Hall. It originated in the twelfth century, and was dedicated to St Olaf – King Olaf II of Norway – who fought alongside King Ethelred against the Danes in the Battle of London Bridge in 1014. It, and its atmospheric churchyard, are approached through a set of entrance gates guarded over by three macabre skulls; Charles Dickens was so taken with them that he included the church in Our Mutual Friend, renaming it St Ghastly Grim. Perhaps the most famous person to worship in St Olave’s was Samuel Pepys, a Seething Lane resident and employee of the nearby Navy Office, and Master of the Clothworkers in 1677. Both he and his wife Elizabeth were buried in the church. It is believed that the Clothworkers’ connection with St Olave’s originated in the late nineteenth century, when parochial reorganisation united the parish with that of All Hallows Staining, next to Clothworkers’ Hall. Since the early twentieth century, the Rector of St Olave’s has also served as the Company’s Chaplain. When the church was near Samuel destroyed by bombing in 1941, the Pepys Company paid for the construction of a temporary church; this was
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Medical Emergency Relief International Charitable Trust Rapid response assistance in emergency and crisis situations £40,000 Friends of St Olave’s Maintenance of the fabric £10,000
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For more than 200 years Neilston, a small town located on a hill overlooking Glasgow and the Clyde Valley, was a major centre for the cotton industry in Scotland. Sadly, the closure of the last mill in the early 1990s, coupled with the decline in small-scale farming, led to a steady decline in the local economy. NDT was set up in 2006 to champion, facilitate, support and drive the regeneration of the area which has pockets of significant deprivation. Following an unsuccessful community campaign in 2005 to prevent the closure of the only bank in Neilston, NDT, supported by a major grant from the Big Lottery Fund, was able to purchase the building with a view to developing it into a community facility. The Bank, as the centre is now known, has been in operation since May 2007 and is extremely popular amongst local residents. It houses a community cafe, and runs a number of activities including yoga, sewing
and craft classes, salsa and a film club. Local businesses are also able to hire the Bank to offer sessions such as glass painting, massage and reflexology. Despite the success of the project, the building was in need of extensive refurbishment and redevelopment, towards the cost of which we awarded a grant of £40,000. Our grant was used to provide space for new services including a credit union and Citizens Advice Bureau, as well as small office units. It also helped support the development and expansion of the community cafe, activities for young people, volunteering opportunities and arts and crafts activities. The newly-refurbished facility will enable the Bank to continue to deliver, and build on, services that make a real difference to people’s lives as a centre for learning, culture and enterprise, and a flagship project for Neilston’s regeneration.
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Depaul UK The following quotes are just two examples of how Depaul UK makes a positive difference to the lives of those accessing their services: “Depaul UK has made me realise that I can change and that I am able to affect my own future”. “I feel great now. Depaul helped me a lot. They gave me the wakeup call I needed”. The charity was set up in 1989 in response to the growing number of young homeless people on the streets of London. Initially providing emergency accommodation, the charity has grown significantly over the last 22 years and now works across the country, and is one of the largest voluntary organisations supporting young homeless people in the UK, with over 50,000 people helped to date. Depaul UK believes that no young person should have to sleep rough, and whilst they provide the accommodation that offers an immediate solution to homelessness, a vital part of their work is also to
Neilston Development Trust Refurbishment of a community centre in East Renfrewshire £40,000 Airedale Voluntary Drug and Alcohol Agency Refurbishment of premises for a charity providing harm reduction services to alcohol and substance misusers in West Yorkshire £30,000 St Peter de Beauvoir Town New community centre in Hackney, East London £30,000 Sedgefield and District CAB Refurbishment of premises in Durham
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YWCA England & Wales IT equipment for education and training centres in Doncaster, Northampton, Truro and West Kent £30,000 Cornwall Neighbourhoods for Change Renovation and refurbishment of a community social enterprise and self-employment facility in a deprived part of Cornwall £30,000
prevent young people becoming homeless in the first place. They aim to tackle homelessness issues from every angle by providing a range of additional services such as prisoner resettlement projects for ex-offenders; a range of training and employment programmes; and a family mediation service to rebuild family relationships. They also run a Nightstop scheme which offers emergency short-term accommodation in the homes of approved local volunteers on a night-by-night basis; in 2010, Nightstop provided over 8,000 nights of accommodation to over 2,000 young homeless people. We were pleased to award £25,000 to Depaul UK towards the refurbishment of two of its hostels, one in London, the other in Bradford; although there are a number of other hostels in both cities, they do not provide the additional support packages which the charity offers.
PCC of St Mary Shirehampton Renovation of a community centre in Bristol £30,000 Loanhead Community Learning Association New community learning centre in Midlothian £30,000 Pennyburn Regeneration Youth Development Enterprise Conversion of a disused public house into a community facility in Ayrshire £30,000 Workaid Workshop premises for a charity in Buckinghamshire which refurbishes tools and equipment for reuse by disadvantaged communities in the UK and overseas £30,000 Aberystwyth Women’s Aid Refurbishment of a centre for a charity supporting female victims of domestic violence £27,000 St John the Baptist Church PCC, Clayton Construction of a community centre in Bradford £25,000
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“I’d like to tell people that YWCA does change people’s lives and makes a big difference. It’s a safe place to go and we learn so much about who we are, how to cope and how the world works” (16 year old who has benefited from YWCA services and activities). The Young Women’s Christian Association was founded in 1855 by Miss Emma Robarts and The Hon Mrs Arthur Kinnaird. Miss Robarts organised groups for young women who were coming to London for the first time, and Mrs Kinnaird opened a hostel in Upper Charlotte Street, London, for Florence Nightingale’s nurses, en route to and from the Crimea. The charity is a member of YWCA of Great Britain, the trustee body for the wider YWCA family in Great Britain. In 2010, the charity changed its name to Platform 51, which it believes more accurately represents what it is: 51% of people are female, and girls and women use the charity as a platform for having their say and for helping them into the next stage of their lives. Platform 51’s 14 women-only centres are located in some of the most deprived parts of England and
Wales and services, activities and programmes are tailored to the needs of girls and women in the local area. Working with often hard-to-reach young women aged 11-30 to overcome prejudice and take charge of their own lives, Platform 51 tackles issues such as poverty, addiction, violence and racism. They also work in schools, community centres, youth clubs, mother and baby units, and prisons. Services provided include education and training, debt and money advice, support for
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pregnant teenagers and young mothers, counselling, crèche facilities, and help for women leaving the criminal justice system. In 2009 and 2010 Platform 51 helped 428 women cope with drug or alcohol misuse; 250 dealing with domestic violence or crime; 929 improve their parenting skills; 396 dealing with debt and homelessness; and 1,207 gain new skills to go on to further education or find work. Our £30,000 grant was for IT equipment to provide education and training at centres in
Depaul UK Refurbishment of hostels in London and Bradford for young people facing homelessness £25,000 Stockland Green Methodist Church Structural alterations and equipment to provide a community cafe in Birmingham £25,000 Bilston Methodist Church Refurbishments to kitchen at a community centre in Wolverhampton £20,000 LCT Homelink Refurbishment of derelict building for a charity providing horticultural, social enterprise and employment rehabilitation facilities to homeless and disadvantaged people in Littlehampton £20,000 St Andrew’s Children’s Society Refurbishment of premises for a charity providing adoption and foster services in Edinburgh £20,000 Crossens Community Association Extension to community centre in Southport £20,000 National Council for One Parent Families IT equipment for a charity working with single parent families £20,000 Minster Centre Therapeutic sessions for female victims of domestic violence and abuse £20,000
Doncaster, Northampton, Truro and West Kent; it was our second grant to the charity, the first being £25,000 in 2004 towards the refurbishment of their Kirby centre. The new equipment has enabled Platform 51 to run a range of courses and programmes on areas such as numeracy, literacy, employment and parenting for young women including those who are unemployed, have mental health issues, as well as for those with no or poor educational qualifications.
Ipswich Housing Action Group Fixtures, fittings, and redecorating premises for a charity providing housing services for single homeless people £20,000 Dawliffe Hall Educational Foundation Re-cabling the IT network, new equipment and moveable partition walls for a charity providing educational support and training in West London £20,000 Newham Action Against Domestic Violence IT equipment for a charity working with victims of domestic abuse £18,000 Ley Community Drug Services Refurbishments to a kitchen at a residential facility providing drug rehabilitation programmes in Oxford £15,000 Whittington Hospital Charitable Funds Creation of a public garden for use by hospital patients and local Islington residents £15,000 Mediation Plus IT equipment for a charity providing family conflict resolution services in Wiltshire £13,000 Pro-Contact Expert Services Refurbishment of premises for a charity offering family breakdown support services in Manchester £12,000 52 grants of £10,000 or less Total: £1,011,180
Upper Andersonstown Community Forum New computer suite for a charity providing services to disadvantaged people in Northern Ireland £20,000
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We have been supporting maths since 1991, our interest beginning with a £750,000 grant to the Royal Institution (Ri) towards its masterclass programmes. Our decision to choose maths as the first of our proactive grant programmes was based on this initial interest, and on research which showed that the number of students opting to take A level maths was in decline, and that there was a need to develop the skills of maths teachers. A further reason was that, although it underpins many other disciplines including science, engineering, technology and finance, maths itself was relatively underfunded. Our aims in setting up the maths programme were broadly to minimise the decline in the study of mathematics by encouraging greater uptake of mathematics post-16 in an appropriate form, and to improve the learning experience of mathematics students at secondary level. To achieve these aims we have funded a range of projects which offered one or more of the following: enrichment and enhancement activity for pupils to encourage study at a higher level; continuing professional development for teachers, including innovative/new teaching methods/approaches, in order to motivate and enthuse maths teachers and their pupils; and research into curriculumrelated issues.
The proactive approach has been successful and will be continued, although there will be some changes to the areas of giving. Mathematics has been an important feature in our grantmaking for a number of years, although we have invested considerably greater effort in this area in the past five years. We have struggled to make the impact we sought, but are pleased to have been able to contribute to the resurgence of the subject. The world of autism has changed significantly since we became involved, although there must be doubts about the ability of Local Authorities to meet the entirely appropriate statutory obligations to people on the autistic spectrum. The Trustees have agreed to extend the programme by a year, although we will continue thereafter to support capital projects for autism charities under our reactive programmes. Conservation is a relatively limited field where we believe we have already made an impact. It is an area which sits comfortably with the ethos of the Foundation and one where we can continue to make a difference. Accordingly, the Trustees intend to continue the proactive programme for a further period. We will be establishing a new proactive programme of £375,000 devoted to giving overseas. The Trustees are keen for this to be sufficiently focused to enable it to have an impact. We expect to decide the emphasis of this new programme by the end of 2011. We will subsequently be exploring areas for proactive programmes to replace maths education and autism when these end. The Trustees have agreed to allocate £1.25m to each of the two new programmes, which are unlikely to begin for a year or so.
Enrichment and enhancement A number of projects we have funded under the maths programme are ones which deliver out-ofschool hours learning activity and which are designed to add value to maths curriculum teaching. Our support of Maths Inspiration (MI), which runs high-quality, fun, interactive lectures for 15-17 year olds held in large venues across the UK will continue until March 2013. Participants at MI events are given the opportunity to experience the UK’s most inspiring maths speakers live, and to see mathematics in the context of exciting, real-world situations. To engage disadvantaged schools MI keeps ticket prices to attend events as low as possible. However, they have become concerned that fewer disadvantaged schools are currently participating than in previous years. The Trustees recently agreed
a further grant of £10,000 to support MI in working to ensure more disadvantaged schools are able to benefit from MI events.
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Having worked closely and cofunded maths projects with the Nuffield Foundation in the past, in 2010 we awarded them £20,000 to fund twenty post-16 maths bursaries. The Nuffield bursary programme gives students a chance to work alongside practising mathematicians, contributing to a range of research or development projects; in 2010, students gained placements with organisations including Rolls Royce, the University of Coventry and Unipart. Projects run for four to six weeks during the summer holidays. We also granted additional support to the Ri with a further £50,000 to extend its scheme providing bursaries to help schools in disadvantaged areas to access enrichment and enhancement activities they would not otherwise be able to afford.
Masterclasses Our support for primary and secondary masterclasses at the Ri continued in 2010. The grant we provided in 1991 created an endowment (now valued at £1.9m), the income of which is to support the secondary programme. We have also made grants totalling £850,000 to underpin the administrative costs of running the primary programme. In addition, we gave the Ri £40,000 to enable them to engage People, Science and Policy to undertake an evaluation of the primary programme (an evaluation of the secondary programme having been completed a few years ago). The report concluded that the programme has been a success and that it provides primary schools, many of which do not have specialist maths teachers, with access to high quality mathematics teaching; importantly, there is no similar activity with a national profile and a distinct identity which offers a unique combination of features.
The report showed the programme to be of value to primary school pupils, and recommended that it should continue. We hope that the Ri will be able to use the report to attract further funding when our support ends in 2012.
Curriculum development We awarded £24,500 to the Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education (ACME) in November 2009 (with Nuffield providing co-funding) towards a research initiative to look at the mathematical needs of key stakeholders. The aim of the research was to provide an evidence base for policy makers in considering changes to the maths curriculum. The findings of the research, Mathematical Needs: Mathematics in the workplace and in Higher Education, have now been published and conclude that the overwhelming message from Higher Education institutions and employers is that there is a need for more young people with a greater knowledge and understanding of maths and how to use it. A number of key recommendations were made including that Government policy should ensure that the majority of young people continue with some form of mathematics post-16; the existing curriculum should be developed to ensure that young people are better placed to benefit from their studies in mathematics; and the 2011 National Curriculum Review should place more emphasis on essential mathematical techniques and the application of mathematics. In 2010, we pledged £250,000 to Mathematics in Education and Industry (MEI) towards a project aiming to embed the use of applied mathematics and statistics across the curriculum at Level 3, involving STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) subjects, business and economics, and social
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which brings Further Mathematics A level tuition to students whose own schools are unable to provide it. The MEI grant was our only major commitment for a curriculum-related project in mathematics, and it dovetails with our support for the ACME project, since the findings of that report will be relevant to the work MEI hopes to do on the application of maths across the curriculum. Unfortunately, the climate for raising funds for maths projects has proven difficult. As a result, MEI has scaled down the project and we are in discussion with them about supporting an initial pilot at a lower level of commitment. The grant was our second to MEI, the first being a £52,000 award in 2009 to run enrichment and enhancement activities across the country for Key Stage Four pupils aged 14-16.
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sciences. Our offer was subject to them being able to raise the balance of the costs of the project from other funders. MEI was set up in the early 1960s. It is an independent UK curriculum development body which aims to improve mathematics education. It is involved in a range of activities including the continuing professional development of teachers and the development of the Further Maths Network (FMN)
Maths in Education & Industry (MEI) Curriculum development project which aims to improve the mathematics skills of students so that they can be better applied across the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) subjects at Higher Education level, and in relevant industries. £250,000 University of Cambridge Nrich Millennium Mathematics Project Extension of the stemNRICH programme to develop and implement training and resource materials for Key Stage 3 and 4 pupils, and to plan and deliver a related programme of continuing professional development for teachers £203,600 National STEM Centre Two one-week residential summer school programmes to develop the practical teaching skills of A level mathematics teachers £80,000
Developing teachers’ skills The maths programme has supported a number of initiatives which aim to build on and develop maths teachers’ knowledge and teaching ability, most recently via our £203,600 grant to the Millennium Maths Project (MMP) at the University of Cambridge. The project will develop and implement key training and resource materials for secondary pupils, as well as a related programme of continuing professional development for teachers. It will produce a bank of challenging and thought-provoking mathematical
Royal Institution of Great Britain Grants to state schools to access enrichment and enhancement opportunities in mathematics £50,000 Nuffield Foundation Bursaries for sixth form students to participate in mathematics projects £20,000 Maths Evaluation External evaluation of the Proactive Mathematics Grants Programme £9,700 British Science Association Three mathematics prizes at the Big Bang Fair £5,550 New Philanthropy Capital Scoping out the objectives and goals of a potential National Numeracy Trust £5,000 Total: £623,850
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problems, posed in STEM contexts directly relating to pupils’experiences with their mathematical knowledge. The resources created through the project will contribute to the pupils’ understanding of how the mathematics they learn in school complements and fits with the science and technology they learn. This was our second grant to MMP, having previously awarded them £78,000 in 2009 to develop the primary section of their NRICH website. Our other 2010 grant in this area was the £80,000 awarded to the National STEM Centre, based at the University of York, to pilot a one-week residential summer school to develop the practical teaching skills of A level maths teachers.
Numeracy We awarded £20,000 to New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) in 2008 towards a research report which focuses on poor numeracy skills. A number of recommendations came out of the report including that there is an urgent need to create a National Numeracy Trust (NNT). We awarded a further £5,000 to NPC in 2010 towards scoping out the objectives and goals of a possible new NNT. The report concluded that the key aims of a NNT should be to meet a gap in current provision, and to focus on tackling very poor numeracy skills across all age groups. Three goals have been set for the NNT: to challenge prevailing negative attitudes towards numeracy; research effective approaches to improving numeracy; and lobby for action in addressing the issue of poor numeracy, raise awareness of the issue, and critically assess the government’s success in tackling it. We are unlikely to take our involvement any further but will keep abreast of developments.
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Evaluation We engaged Dr Martin Hollins (ex Qualifications and Curriculum Authority and a freelance consultant) to undertake an evaluation to help us to establish whether we have succeeded in the aims and objectives of the maths programme. The evaluation looked at how our funding has encouraged young people to continue to study maths; how it has improved the quality of maths teaching; and what impact, if any, it has had on the wider maths education environment. Dr Hollins’ report found that enrichment and enhancement activities (where most of our funding had been focused) had been appreciated by the student beneficiaries, and that they were likely to have influenced longer term attitudes to mathematics, competence in mathematics and choices to continue to study mathematics further. It also found that most projects had considerable positive impact on the teachers involved, although the extent of this was variable and some initiatives could have done more to encourage greater participation in the events and in developing approaches to classroom teaching. Funding from the Foundation had also contributed significantly to producing high quality resources, including on-line resources, for students and teachers which will have an enduring impact. However, since the focus of the programme was ultimately on enrichment and enhancement activities for students and teachers, it was acknowledged that any impact in terms of the wider maths education environment was limited, with benefits likely to be localised rather than national. The report concluded that the maths programme had gained a good reputation in the maths education community and that our grants had made a positive impact.
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Autism Autism has seen its profile raised considerably since we first became involved in 2007, not least as a result of the introduction of the Autism Act 2009 and the Adult Autism Strategy. There is also a much greater awareness and understanding of the condition than before. Now four years into our five year autism programme, the £1.25m budget has been committed in full.
40 New Philanthropy Capital Our initial involvement coincided with a 2007 NPC report on autism; A Life Less Ordinary showed there was an increase in the diagnosis and incidence of autism, but that timely diagnosis and appropriate access to support and education were patchy at best, and that the sector was underfunded. Having been impressed with the 2007 NPC report, which was extremely useful to us as we developed the programme, in 2010 the Trustees awarded £35,000 to NPC to produce an update on it. Key findings of the report, Changing Lives, included that: ● The Autism Act 2009,which led to a national autism strategy, had raised awareness of the condition but that it was too early to assess the impact of the strategy on the lives of people with autism. ● Since they rely heavily on government funding, autism charities are likely to face major funding challenges which could create instability. ● The autism voluntary sector appears to have become stronger and more developed in the past three years. The report has been welcomed by sector organisations, and we hope that it will prove as useful to them as its predecessor was.
Centre for Research in Autism and Education The autism programme focused initially on autism education, including early detection and intervention, and the cornerstone of the programme is our major £700,000 grant to the CRAE at the Institute of Education (IoE). A partnership between the IoE, the leading centre for education and social research, and Ambitious about Autism (formerly TreeHouse), the charity for young people with autism, CRAE aims to improve the lives of people with autism and their families. It is committed to understanding which factors, intervention programmes, or classroom environments affect the learning outcomes of autistic children. It seeks to achieve this by: undertaking ground-breaking scientific research to improve knowledge around intervention, education and outcomes for people with autism; and by building partnerships within the scientific community, nationally and internationally, to ensure that researchers are working collaboratively. CRAE also works with professionals on the ground, and in partnership with schools, other universities and third sector organisations to maximise the impact of their work on practice and policy. The ultimate aim is that CRAE will make significant long-term advances in the understanding of what actually works in autism education. Our support underpins the Centre for the first five years, with the expectation that thereafter it will become self sustaining.
Transition to adulthood Having focused initially on education and early intervention and detection, in 2010 our interest shifted to transition to adulthood; we developed a project specification and invited selected autism charities known for their outstanding work in this field to bid for a grant of up to £200,000. The quality of the applications received was extremely high and, after careful consideration, the Trustees awarded the £200,000 grant to Ambitious about Autism. This was our second grant to them, the first being the £100,000 awarded in 2006 (when they were TreeHouse) towards the construction of their specialist autism school and National Centre for Autism Education in north London. Currently 29% of young people with disabilities in the UK are not in employment, education, or training. Around 60% of adults with autism are likely to be entirely dependent on others for all aspects of their lives. In addition, fewer than 10% of adults with
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autism have the basic skills that would enable them to live any kind of independent life, and fewer than 6% are in full time work. There is a severe shortage of specialist college day care provision for young adults with severe and complex autism and the need for a model of provision that enables young people on the autism spectrum to make a better transition towards adult life is great. Our grant is to support Ambitious about Autism in developing an innovative and unique New Pathways College which will support young people with autism in the transition stages to supported living, social, leisure and employment opportunities. The hope is that the New Pathways College will eventually lead the way and become a model for future provision. It will challenge existing low expectations for young people with autism attending college, as well as the assumption that these young people are better off in full-time residential support.
Wargrave House Refurbishment of a new residential teaching college for post16 students with autism in the North West of England £50,000 St Christopher’s School Refurbishment of a property in Bristol to accommodate children with severe learning disabilities £40,000
A specialist curriculum will be developed and, while this will not be a one-size-fits all, the hope is that this too can be replicated in due course.
Main Grants Programme Our Main Grants Programme allows us to support capital projects for autism charities. 2010 saw us award four grants totalling £120,000. They included; £50,000 to Wargrave House to help them refurbish their new post-16 residential teaching college in the North West; and £40,000 to St Christopher’s School, a specialist residential facility providing care, education and therapy to children and young people aged 5-19 with severe and complex learning difficulties, with over 70% of the young residents on the extreme end of the autism spectrum. Our grant to St Christopher’s was to support the refurbishment of the facility in Bristol.
Woodside School Fund Specialist outside play area to develop the physical, communication and social skills of children with autism £20,000 Bexley Autism Support and Information Centre IT and media equipment to improve the quality of life of people with autism unable to communicate verbally £10,000 Autism Concern Purchase of a card printing machine
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Conservation 2010 was the third year of our proactive grants programme in conservation to which the Trustees have allocated £1.25m over five years. The focus of the programme continues to be on the preservation of endangered skills and on increasing the influence and raising the profile of the sector.
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Influencing policy One of our first grants under this scheme was to the Institute of Conservation (ICON), the lead voice for the conservation of cultural heritage across the UK. Our £180,000 grant was to fund a new chief executive post for three years to support ICON in driving the conservation agenda forward by strengthening their financial sustainability, developing their conservation register, and formulating a National Conservation Education and Skills Strategy which aims to bolster conservation education and skills in the UK. ICON has consulted widely on the proposals and we look forward to hearing the results of the consultation, prior to the implementation of the Strategy in due course. We are pleased with the progress ICON has made on all fronts since the appointment of Alison Richmond as chief executive in 2010. Her stewardship has also seen ICON undergo a recent organisational restructure which will position them better to deliver their five-year strategy.
Education and skills Since a key area of interest for us is the preservation of endangered skills, we have continued to fund a number of internships in a wide range of conservation disciplines which allow recentlyqualified conservators to gain valuable skills and develop their knowledge. Our continuing professional development programme is designed to allow conservators to keep their specialist knowledge current. The scheme, to which we have allocated up to £30,000 a year over the five years, offers bursaries of up to £1,000 for
Three Ladies in a Grand Interior by Hogarth at Tate qualified conservators to attend relevant conferences, events and short courses around the world. Since launching the scheme in March 2009 we have awarded 87 bursaries totalling almost £42,000 for attendance at events covering a huge range of disciplines including stained glass conservation in Lisbon, adhesives and consolidants for conservation in Ottawa, care and conservation of manuscripts in Copenhagen, stone conservation in Rome, and pest control at the British Museum. Our conservation fellowship programme supports an experienced conservator to be seconded within their organisation to a specialist research and/or conservation project; their post is back-filled by a junior conservator at an early stage of their career. Having awarded the first fellowship to the Tate in 2009 for the conservation and research of British paintings from 1530 to 1790 (including a painting of Three Ladies by Hogarth), we were both disappointed and surprised not to receive any applications in 2010. Accordingly, we were pleased both with the number and quality of applications submitted for the 2011 fellowship, so much so that the Trustees took the unusual decision to award three fellowships. The awards were: £80,000 to the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford for the conservation of all 215 objects in the Cook Voyage Collection which represent one of the great collections of 18th century Pacific art and material culture; £65,500 to the Courtauld Institute of Art for the conservation and study of Gerino da Pistoia’s major painting, Virgin and Child with Saint Lawrence, John the Baptist, Monica and Augustine (1510) which the gallery has been unable to display since acquiring it in 1966 due to its fragile structural condition; and £37,600 to the British Museum for the research, conservation and storage of a group of
Maori knife from the Cook Collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum
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Pitt Rivers Museum exceptional naturally-mummified Nilotic human remains. Work on these projects will begin this autumn. We will advertise for the 2012 conservation fellowship later in the year. We awarded four grants for internships in 2010. Internships offer invaluable ‘real life’ experience to work under the supervision of qualified, experienced conservators; they can be an important stepping stone in a chosen career path, giving the intern impetus to move on to the next stage whether it be academic training, further experience, a first job or a head start to professional accreditation.
The 2010 internship grants were to the Horniman Museum, the Hamilton Kerr Institute, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and ConstructionSkills. Our £25,000 grant to the Horniman Museum in South East London was for a one year internship, administered by ICON, in the conservation of taxidermy. Aside from the Natural History Museum, the Horniman has the largest taxidermy collection in London, comprising over 3,000 items. As well as learning a range of practical skills as part of their training, there will also be opportunities for the intern to take up ‘mini’ placements with private practitioners, and to attend appropriate courses and seminars during their year at the Horniman.
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In 2011, we have so far awarded two grants for internships: one of £25,000 to National Museums Scotland for a one year internship in the conservation of engineering and mechanical artefacts to be administered by ICON; and one of £25,100 to the National Trust at Fenton House in Hampstead for the first year of a two-year internship in the conservation of early keyboard instruments.
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National Museums Scotland Internships are actively encouraged within the conservation department at the Victoria and Albert Museum which, since there are currently few upholstery conservation specialists in the UK, wished to promote upholstery as a specialism. We awarded £25,000 to the V&A for the first year of a three-year NVQ Level 4 internship in upholstery. The V&A intern, now in his second year, has worked on projects such as the conservation of a 1929 papier mâché chair and of a Houghton chair, and will continue to work on the collection which is to be exhibited in the new Furniture Galleries due to open in 2012. The Hamilton Kerr Institute, which is affiliated to the University of Cambridge, received £30,000 to support internships in painting conservation. They chose to allocate the first £15,000 portion of the grant to three interns; all three have completed their one year internships successfully and one, having shown exceptional promise, has been selected by Hamilton Kerr as the sole beneficiary of the remaining £15,000 for the second year of the grant. Acknowledging that internships are not the only way to deliver effective training, we awarded £13,000 to ConstructionSkills to offer an apprenticeship in stonemasonry. Our grant is supporting two apprentices in gaining NVQ Level 3 qualifications.
Courtauld Institute of Art Specialist microscope for non-invasive examination of paintings
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Camberwell College of Arts Equipping a conservation studio
£30,000
Hamilton Kerr Institute Supporting interns in painting conservation £30,000
Equipment grants During 2010 we continued to invite selected university conservation departments and public institutions to apply for funding for specialist conservation equipment. Equipment grants were awarded to Camberwell College of Arts and the Courtauld Institute of Art. Our £30,000 grant to Camberwell College of Arts was to equip the undergraduate conservation studio with new benching and storage to allow maximum flexibility for contemporary practice. The new equipment will enable Camberwell to maintain, and build on, its international reputation as a provider of high-quality conservation education and training, particularly in the field of paper. The £36,600 awarded to the Courtauld Institute was for a specialist microscope to be used in the non-invasive examination of paintings. The microscope provides an invaluable new resource for undertaking important research in the fields of conservation and technical art history for students and staff in the conservation department, as well as for affiliated Courtauld scholars and researchers. In 2011 we have so far awarded one equipment grant of £34,000 to the University of Lincoln for a digitiser to be used alongside their existing Faxitron X-ray equipment.
Horniman Museum One-year internship in the conservation of taxidermy £25,000 Conservation Bursaries Bursaries to cover the travel and course costs for conservators’ continuing professional development £17,880 ConstructionSkills One-year apprenticeship in stonemasonry
Victoria and Albert Museum One-year internship in upholstery conservation £25,000
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Conservators at the Hormiman Museum repairing a merman (top) and conserving feather and beetle wing elements to a Wai Wai apron (below)
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Future priorities Our focus will continue to be on skills development. We intend to fund further internships and CPD bursaries, together with a fellowship each year.
The Trustees have recently agreed to extend the programme by a further three years to 2016 and allocated additional funding to bring the total for the programme to ÂŁ2m.
Conservators at the Courtauld examining a painting using a specialist Leica microscope
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Grants Programmes from 2012 Reactive Grants Programmes The Main Grants Programme supports charities with annual operating income of up to £15m. The Small Grants Programme is limited to charities with annual income of less than £250,000 where the total cost of the project to be funded does not exceed £100,000. Grants of up to £10,000 are made under this programme.
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Following a review of our grant-making policies, the Trustees have made some refinements to the areas of giving under those grant programmes which are open to application.
The Foundation will consider applications from eligible charities for capital projects in the following areas:
Homelessness
Disadvantaged young people
Alcohol and substance misuse
Disability
Domestic and sexual violence
Elderly
Prisoners and ex-offenders
Visual impairment
Integration of disadvantaged minority communities
Textiles
This is a summary. Within each of these areas, the Foundation has particular priorities and interests. Would-be applicants should visit our website www.clothworkers.co.uk for full details of our grant-making policies and guidelines.
Proactive Grants Programmes
Regular Grants Programme
The Foundation has selected specific areas where it wishes to make an impact through a multi-year programme of giving. Unsolicited applications are NOT accepted. The initial areas have been mathematics education, autism and conservation, each of which has been allocated £1.25m. During 2012, we will be establishing a new programme in overseas funding and giving thought to other areas.
This programme, which is NOT open to applications, provides annual grants (subject to review) to a limited number of charities with which we have an ongoing relationship. The recipients are either charities which make grants to individuals in particular groups, such as the elderly, veterans or visually-impaired, or students in specified disciplines, including textiles. Following the review we are making a few minor refinements to this programme.
Livery Fund Members of the Clothworkers’ Company make regular donations to the Foundation. These contributions are matched by the Company and the members select a small number of charities each year to receive a grant from the funds raised. Applications are NOT accepted for this programme.
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