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Mr. Hicks
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the organisations, their projects and the financial amounts involved whose applications his Department have submitted to the European Economic Community Commission under the provisions of the second European poverty programme; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. John Patten
The United Kingdom Government submitted 245 applications for financial assistance to the European Commission under the Second European Community Programme to Combat Poverty. The organisations are listed. The projects relate to the themes for the programme as follows:
Number | |
Long term unemployed people | 24 |
Young unemployed people | 31 |
Elderly | 23 |
Single parent families | 19 |
Refugees | 13 |
Second generation immigrants | 42 |
Multiple client groups including rural projects | 93 |
LIST OF ORGANISATIONS SUBMITTING APPLICATIONS FOR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
England:
- Age Concern Cumbria
- Age Concern Lancashire
- Age Concern Manchester
- Age Concern Newcastle
- Age Concern Preston
- Age Concern St. Helens
- Anchor Housing Trust
- Ankur Brent Asian Youth Service
- Asha Neighbourhood Project
- Asian Neighbourhood Project
- Asian Womens Resource Centre
- ATD Fourth World
- Aubrey Lloyd Centre
- Bangladesh Welfare Association
- Bangladesh Youth Approach
- Barnardo's
- Barton Hill and Easton Youth Mothers Group
- Battersea Citizens' Advice Bureau Money Advice Project
- Battersea Neighbourhood Aid Centre
- Belle Isle Unemployed Group
- Birkenhead Resource Unit
- Blackfriars Settlement
- Bolton Carnival of Friendship
- Bolton Metropolitan Borough
- Bolton Metropolitan Borough Department of Education and Arts Project
- Bolton Womens Aid
- Borough Council of Calderdale Craigie Lea Family Centre
- Borough Council of Calderdale Lifelines for the Elderly
- Borough Council of Calderdale Neighbourhood Provision for the Unemployed
- Boston Centre for the Unemployed
- Brent Community Transport
- Brent Irish Advisory Service
- Bristol Association Neighbourhood Daycare
- Bristol One-Parent Project
- British Refugee Council
- British Refugee Council (Vietnamese Programme)
- Brixton Neighbourhood Community Association
- Camborne School
- Chare Centre Ltd
- Childrens Scrap Project
- Chinese Information and Advice Centre
- Chinese Welfare Project—Tower Hamlets
- Church of England Childrens Society Central London Teenage Project
- Church of England Childrens Society Leeds Community Project
- Church of England Childrens Society Prospect House Malby
- Church of England Childrens Society Southbank Family Centre
- Church of England Childrens Society Toxteth Family Centre
- City & Hackney—Association for Mental Health
- City of Bradford—Young Mens Christian Association
- City of Manchester
- Clapham Community Project
- Cleveland County Council—Social Services Department
- Community Action for the Young Unemployed
- Common Stock Youth Theatre Ltd
- Community Education Development Centre In co-operation with 3 LEAS
- Community Information Project
- Community Service Volunteers, CSV—Homeless Project, CSV—Sound Advice Leicester
- Coventry Citizens Advice Bureau
- Coventry Community Relations Council
- Coventry Legal and Income Rights
- Coventry Resource and Information Service
- Coventry Trades Council—Unemployed Workers Project
- Coventry Women and Homelessness Steering Group
- Cumbria Social Services Department
- Derwentside Unemployed Group
- Dr. Barnardo's
- East London Black Womens Organisation
- Eddie Brindley Project
- Employment Action Group (Berinsfield) Ltd
- Energy Conservation and Solar Centre
- Family Service Units
- Family Welfare Association
- Federation of Bangladeshi-Youth Organisations
- First Base Centre for Unemployed Young People Ltd Fowlers Yard Youth Project
- Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council Community Action Programme
- Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council Pathways
- Gingerbread
- Greater London Council—Ethnic Minorities Unit
- Greenwich Action Group on Unemployment
- Greenwich Development Company Ground Floor Project
- Hackney Asian Association
- Hackney Cypriot Association
- Hammersmith and Fulham Community Law Centre
- Hammersmith Womens Aid
- Handicapped Children in Hackney
- Haringey Chinese Group and Islington Chinese Group
- Harlesden Advice Centre
- Hopscotch Under Fives
- Housing Aid Trust
- Hat—Mobile Homes Unit
- Huddersfield Youth Association
- Humberside County Council—Social Service Department
- Hull Council for Voluntary Service
- International Voluntary Services
- Iranian Community Centre
- Islington Voluntary Action Council
- Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
- KIITOS
- Lambeth and Wandsworth Vietnamese Support
- Latin American Community Project
- Law Centres Federation and National Association of Cab
- Leathermarket Gardens Community Centre
- Leeds Road Project
- Leeds Vietnamese Support Group
- Liverpool Personal Service Society
- London Borough of Hackney
- London Borough of Lambeth
- London Borough of Southwark—Homeworkers Training Workshops
- London Employment Project for Migrants, Immigrants and Refugees
- London Hazards Centre
- Mansfield Gingerbread Day Care Fund Trust
- Metropolitan Borough of South Tyneside
- MST—for The Disabled
- MBST—Welfare Rights Service
- Migrant Services Unit—London Voluntary Services Council
- Montague Community Action Campus—Voluntary Management Committee
- Moonshine Community Arts Educational Workshops
- Muslim Youth Organisation
- National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux Merseyside Area
- National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders Neighbourhood Development Unit
- National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders
- National Childrens Home
- National Council for One Parent Families
- National Council for Voluntary Organisations
- National Council for YMCAs
- National Right to Fuel Campaign
- Necheus Community Development Project
- New Grapevine
- Newham Parents Centre
- North Lambeth Day Centre Ltd
- North Manchester Health Authority
- North Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council
- NTMBC—an Integrated Programme to Counter Poverty in Killingworth
- North Yorkshire County Council—Welfare Benefits Scheme
- Nottinghamshire County Council
- Nuneaton Centre for Recreational Activities
- Ocean Estate Tenants Association
- Oldham Resource and Information Centre
- Open Door Project
- Park Hill Project
- Partington Youth and Community Project
- Pensioners Link Ltd
- Pilkington Charitable and Trust Funds
- Pitt Street Settlement
- Progressive Youth Organisation
- Project Fullemploy
- Providence Row Night Refuge
- Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association
- Rochdale, Youth and Community Service
- Rochdale—Chance
- Salford Urban Mission
- Salford Council for Voluntary Service
- Salford Womens Education and Resource Centre
- Seaham Action Research Project
- Sedgemoor Manor Junior Mixed Schools
- Sefton Social Services Department
- Services Workers Action and Advisory Project Shelter
- Soho Family Centre
- Somali Womens Association Group
- Southall Community Law Centre
- Southall Rights Ltd
- South Sheffield Inner City Community Project Ltd.
- South Tyneside Council for the Disabled
- Southwark Mediation Scheme
- Southwark Womens Action Group
- Spitalfields Housing and Planning Rights Service
- Staffordshire County Council Social Services Department
- St. Giles Day Centre
- St. Helens Metropolitan Borough Council—Action Research Project
- St. HMBC—Community Jobs and Training Initiative
- Stockport Council for Voluntary Service
- SUBAH
- Taunton Deane Single Parent Association
- Thameside Social Services Department
- The Beth Johnson Foundation
- The Birmingham Settlement
- The Bolton Neighbourhood Economic Development Agency
- The British Refugee Council Refugee Education and Training
- Th Circle Trust—New Cross Branch
- The Disablement Income Group
- The Factory Community Project and Youth Centre
- The Handsworth Play and Community Bus Association
- The National Group on Homeworking
- The Ten Twenty Project Advice Centre
- Thorne Rural Development Area Strategy Committee
- Tooting and Balham Law Centre
- Tottenham Community Project
- Tower Hamlets Afro Caribbean Association
- Tower Hamlets Womens Aid
- Toynbee Hall—Universities Settlement in East London University Settlement Bristol Community Association
- West Indian Concern Ltd.
- WIC LITD—Action Research Project
- West Indian Womens Association
- Willowbrook Urban Studies Centre
- Wolverhampton Borough Council (Graisley Action Project)
- Wolverhampton Citizens Advice Bureaux
- Wolverhampton Trades Council
- Yesodey Hatorah Nursery
- Youth Outreach Service
Wales
- Mid Glamorgan County Council
- Heads of the Valleys Anti-Poverty Action Committee/St. Johns PCC
- Rhymney Valley District Council
- Delyn Borough Council
- Newport Borough Council
- Gwent County Council
- Swansea City Council
- Afan Community Aid Council
- Dyfed Association of Voluntary Services
- West Glamorgan Community Services Council
- Wales Council for Voluntary Action
- South Glamorgan Care for the Elderly
- Wrexham Maelor Community Agency
- Church of England Childrens Society
- Mid Glamorgan Health Authority
- Rhondda Community Development
- Age Concern—Clwyd
- Wales Cooperative Development Agency
- Rhyl Community Agency
- Workers Educational Association
- Newport Resource Centre
- Gingerbread
- South Riverside Community Development Centre
- National Childrens Home
- Welsh Housing Aid
- Family Planning Association
- Swansea Council for Voluntary Service
Northern Ireland
- Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action/Voluntary Trust/ Rural Association
- Strabane and District Citizens' Advice Bureau
- Belfast Unemployed Centre
- Deny Unemployed Workers Group
- Northern Ireland Association of Youth Clubs
- North West Centre for Learning and Development Ltd. Gingerbread—NI
- Falls Community Council
- Praxis Mental Health
- Community Concern Programme of the Flax Trust
- Age Concern (NI)/Child Poverty Action Group (NI)/Coleraine Women's Information Centre
- Farset Youth and Community Development Ltd.
- The Extern Organisation