Grants awarded under Section 70 of the Charities Act 2006

Arts Council England 433,021 Grant-in-aid funding. British Film Institute 34,925 Grant-in-aid funding. Tampon Tax Fund (multiple recipients) 16,401 The purpose of the Tampon Tax Fund is to allocate the funds generated from the VAT on sanitary products to projects that improve the lives of disadvantaged women and girls. British Council 9,220 The outcomes of the Cultural Protection Fund are cultural heritage protection, training and capacity building and advocacy and education. The National Lottery Community Fund – Youth Investment Fund 5,000 The Youth Investment Fund aims to expand, create and strengthen the sustainability of open-access youth services in six disadvantaged regions in the country. It also expands the evidence base of the open access youth provision, through a £1m evaluation. Access Foundation 5,000 Capacity building for social sector organisations. The National Lottery Community Fund – I will fund 4,606 The #iwill Fund aims works in partnership with major funders to create new opportunities for young people to participate in social action. Horniman Public Museum and Public Park Trust 3,970 Grant-in-aid funding. National Film and Television School 2,425 NFTS’ core objective is to provide world class training and education for film, television and media industries. The overall aim of the grant is to support this, and in particular it covers funding for student fees and bursaries, overhead and project admin costs, as well as capital funding for equipment, general maintenance and repairs. The National Lottery Community Fund – Building Connections (Loneliness) 2,300 The purpose of the Fund is to help individuals, communities and local services connect in a variety of ways and consolidate learning that can support future policy and funding decisions. The Fund will specifically support projects that already are, or with additional support, could tackle loneliness. Geffrye Museum 2,196 Grant-in-aid funding. Nesta 2,000 The Future News Fund pilot will welcome new ideas to address the challenges facing the journalism industry outlined in the Cairncross Review. It will use a number of different approaches to fund innovation, which are due to include a collaboration fund, accelerator prizes and experimentation with existing local news provision. The National Lottery Community Fund- Life Chances Fund 1,953 The Life Chances Fund is an £80m Social Impact Bond (SIB) top-up fund, encouraging commissioners to use SIBs in the pursuit of improve outcomes for those who need help the most. Key Fund 1,540 The grant is to be used for onward social impact investment in cultural and creative organisations in the North of England. The National Lottery Community Fund – Place Based Social Action 1,408 National Lottery and government funding is to increase the capacity of communities, civil society organisations, public sector bodies and businesses to work together to address priorities which matter to people locally through providing grants, planning and implementation support and evaluation. Nesta 1,180 To develop and manage a series of funds designed to find, test and grow innovations which harness the time and talents of 10,000 volunteers (75% of which will be people over 50). Great North Air Ambulance Service 1,000 To support the capital costs of acquiring and refurbishing an existing building and building a hangar/helipad. Centre for Acceleration of Social Technology (CAST) 1,000 This grant will be used to fund the set-up and growth of an innovation cluster focused around growing Tech for Good, social innovation, and digital skills in the social sector. The programme will work to deliver the cross-government aim to champion technology as a real force for social good and to make the UK a world leader in Tech for Good. British Council 984 A soft power initiative to be delivered across the GCC, designed to encourage youth participation in Culture and Sports activities particularly targeting young women and girls. Nesta 954 DCMS will sponsor NESTA to run a Challenge Prize until the end of March 2020. The Challenge Prize aims to stimulate tech innovation in civil society organisations by challenging charities, social ventures and social enterprises to design solutions to specific problems. The prize will also tackle loneliness and social isolation, and build community cohesion. Cornwall Air Ambulance Trust 838 Cornwall Air Ambulance Trust will purchase a new generation air ambulance helicopter to deliver vital pre-hospital emergency services to seriously sick and injured people in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Co-op Community Investment Foundation – Building Connections 800 To support activity in community spaces, with the aim of promoting social connections in deprived areas across England. Co-operative Foundation will make onward grants to community space projects run by VCSE organisations in England. Old Royal Naval College Greenwich 768 Towards the conservation, presentation and interpretation of the collection of buildings, paintings and other artefacts set out across the Old Royal Naval College site. The Fire Fighters Charity 763 To establish a ‘Recovery Centre’. A centre of excellence providing high quality emotional wellbeing services for fire and rescue services personnel. Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance Charitable Trust 700 This grant is a contribution to the purchase of suitable office premises or if suitable office premises are not available, to secure a suitable site and commission a purpose build, to accommodate 40 Staff and Volunteers, in order to provide the charity with a new operations base. Co-op Community Investment Foundation 696 The purpose of the Fund is to help individuals, communities and local services connect in a variety of ways and consolidate learning that can support future policy and funding decisions. The Fund will specifically support projects that already are, or with additional support, could tackle loneliness. The Ambulance Services Charity (TASC) 656 The charity will establish: rehabilitation services complementing existing physical rehabilitation services; the means to take TASC on the road to promote the support services available, membership and raise public awareness; and sustainable income from supporters in the ambulance services and their families. Blavatnik School of Government 500 To conduct research and provide support to local commissioners on outcomes based commissioning. Impact Investing Institute 500 The Impact Investing Institute is being set up in FY 2019/20 and this grant will act as cornerstone funding leveraging further co-funding from DfID and others to deliver the institute’s 3-year business plan. The objective of the Institute is to ‘’accelerate the growth and improve the effectiveness of the UK impact investing market, by mobilising more capital that contributes to solving social challenges’’. Cruse Bereavement Care 371 To develop a bereavement support service for UK police, ambulance and fire/rescue personnel and their families, called ‘Here for You’. This will include providing direct face-to-face and telephone support, and disseminating information via facilitated training, paper leaflets/packs and website information. British Youth Council 341 To carry out a programme of work to deliver the UK Youth Parliament and associated youth voice activities. Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) 300 The Growing Place-based Giving Programme aims to support the development of six place-based giving schemes (PBGSs) work towards becoming sustainable, resilient, and are able to engage local communities and encourage donations to projects that benefit local people and their area. Step Up to Serve 300 Supporting partners to continue to collaborate within and across sectors post-2020. Progress in supporting key system leaders in education, environment and health & social care to further embed youth social action. Progress on securing long-term investment for youth social action that supports the four campaign priorities (quality, sustainability, starting younger, and reaching low-income young people). The Western Front Way 293 Funds to create a new, continuous, permanent, way marked walking path following the line of the 1914-18 Western Front. Nesta 280 To provide funding to Nesta to distribute grants through the Enhancing Impact Fund to a small portfolio of high performing, high impact organisations from the existing portfolio of projects, in accordance with the aims and objectives of the Centre for Social Action. Grantees will be selected, from the existing portfolio from the Second Half Fund, the Connected Communities Innovation Fund, the Early Years Social Action Fund and the Saver Support Fund. Criteria for award of the additional funding will be subject to final agreement between OCS and Nesta and shall include impact to date or impact potential, performance to date, capacity of the team to scale further, demand for services and sustainability. Memorial Grant Scheme 269 Reimbursement of VAT for multiple repairs to National Memorials. Nesta 268 To develop and manage a series of funds which find, test and grow social action initiatives which improve public service outcomes. The funds will have to increase the number of volunteers to 10,000 – 7,500 of which will be over the age of 50. The 2 funds covered under this grant agreement are the Connected Communities Innovation Fund and the Give More Get More Follow On Fund. UK Youth 254 To deliver onward grants to increase positive activities for young people by delivering extra sessions in youth clubs for the financial year 2019/20. Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery Trust 253 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund has four objectives: to increase the number of artefacts on display, to improve physical access to collections, to improve access for disabled visitors, and to improve the quality of interpretation. The scheme is open to four categories of museums and galleries. Museum of East Anglian Life 250 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund has four objectives: to increase the number of artefacts on display, to improve physical access to collections, to improve access for disabled visitors, and to improve the quality of interpretation. The scheme is open to four categories of museums and galleries. British Red Cross Society 243 The proceeds from LIBOR fines are used to support Armed Forces and Emergency Services charities and other related good causes that represent those that demonstrate the very best of values. Hull City Council Museums and Galleries 231 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. Involve 230 DCMS will be providing funding and support to 8 local authorities to pilot opportunities to open up some of their policy decisions to citizen deliberation. As part of the programme, the Democracy Support Contractor (DSC), Involve et al., will make funding available to the eight selected local authorities and will make payments for the benefits of all LAs, supporting the delivery of the citizens’ assemblies. Stoke-on-Trent City Council 210 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. Devon Air Ambulance Trust 208 The grant is a contribution towards the costs of undertaking the professional installation and commissioning of equipment to allow Air Ambulances to operate at night in Devon. Bucks County Museum Trust 200 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund has four objectives: to increase the number of artefacts on display, to improve physical access to collections, to improve access for disabled visitors, and to improve the quality of interpretation. The scheme is open to four categories of museums and galleries. Nottingham City Council – Museums & Galleries 200 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund has four objectives: to increase the number of artefacts on display, to improve physical access to collections, to improve access for disabled visitors, and to improve the quality of interpretation. The scheme is open to four categories of museums and galleries. Manchester Museum 190 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund has four objectives: to increase the number of artefacts on display, to improve physical access to collections, to improve access for disabled visitors, and to improve the quality of interpretation. The scheme is open to four categories of museums and galleries. Tech Talent Charter 189 The proceeds will increase their growth in number of signatories and ensure they fully engage existing members. Establish their sustainable business model, securing funding for all project work (National and Regional Events, TTC Toolkit) and developing a “Foundation” partner model, supported by techUK. Launch their first consumer-focused comms campaign to encourage more working-age women to consider a career in tech. Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust 184 Towards the preservation, conservation and maintenance of the Historic Dockyard, its buildings, ships and collections. Social Investment Business 179 This grant fund is for Social Investment Business to pay for the activities of the PM-Commissioned Implementation Taskforce on Growing a Culture of Impact Investing, in pursuit of their objectives. Chetham’s Library 173 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. Edith Cavell Fund for Nurses 170 The new Cavell Nurses’ Trust project will support nursing professionals and their families by targeting those with children under 18. Sunderland City Council 156 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund has four objectives: to increase the number of artefacts on display, to improve physical access to collections, to improve access for disabled visitors, and to improve the quality of interpretation. The scheme is open to four categories of museums and galleries. Big Lottery Fund 156 To develop and distribute safeguarding training for charities through partnership with a recognised provider and within communities. Tank Museum 137 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. University of Bath 121 Delivery of Initial Industrial AI Masters cohort 2019/20. Tyne & Wear Archive & Museums 116 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL
Museums & Collections, UCL Culture 103 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. The Courtauld Institute of Art 100 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund has four objectives: to increase the number of artefacts on display, to improve physical access to collections, to improve access for disabled visitors, and to improve the quality of interpretation. The scheme is open to four categories of museums and galleries. The Imperial War Museum Development Trust 100 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund has four objectives: to increase the number of artefacts on display, to improve physical access to collections, to improve access for disabled visitors, and to improve the quality of interpretation. The scheme is open to four categories of museums and galleries. Luton Culture 100 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund has four objectives: to increase the number of artefacts on display, to improve physical access to collections, to improve access for disabled visitors, and to improve the quality of interpretation. The scheme is open to four categories of museums and galleries. Centre for Youth Impact 100 To embed the use of evidence and increase understanding of impact measurement across the youth sector. Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust 99 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. Southampton City Art Gallery – Southampton City Council 98 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund has four objectives: to increase the number of artefacts on display, to improve physical access to collections, to improve access for disabled visitors, and to improve the quality of interpretation. The scheme is open to four categories of museums and galleries. National Maritime Museum Cornwall Trust 97 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund has four objectives: to increase the number of artefacts on display, to improve physical access to collections, to improve access for disabled visitors, and to improve the quality of interpretation. The scheme is open to four categories of museums and galleries. Dorset County Museum 95 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum 93 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. Jon Burchell (Sheffield University) 92 Research and Innovation to enable Social Action. Derby Museums Trust 90 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. The Geffrye Museum Trust 90 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. The Horniman Public Museum and Public Park Trust 90 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. Black Country Living Museum 90 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. London Transport Museum 83 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. ScreenSkills 75 To enable ScreenSkills to offer apprenticeships in film and HETV to a cohort of 20, providing high quality placements and recruiting from diverse groups currently underrepresented in the industry. Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford 71 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. Tate Britain 71 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. Science Museum Group 70 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. British Red Cross 70 To help create a new independent charity, the National Emergency Trust, which will activate during a national emergency to raise and distribute funds. Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust (Weston Park) 56 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council 54 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. University of Durham 50 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. SS Great Britain Trust 50 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. The Big Society Trust 42 To allow The Big Society Trust, an independent governance body that acts to ensure independent organisations act in the public interest, to be able to secure appropriate professional advice to evolve their mandate and take on a wider set of oversight responsibilities. Pete’s Dragons 40 In collaboration with emergency services the charity will develop sustainable organisational capacity to help staff at risk of suicide and train Suicide First Aid lead trainers to provide training across emergency services. ACEVO 37 Research into bullying amongst senior leaders in the charity sector. The Cheltenham Trust 37 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. Beth Shalom Ltd, trading as The National Holocaust Centre and Museum 31 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. DotEveryone 31 To enable DotEveryone to conduct discovery phase research into the needs of SMEs and civil society organisations in the online harms ecosystem, focusing on redress and digital rights. The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association 30 Plan to expand the Guide Dogs’ Digital Transformation programme to digitally upskill their trustees and senior leadership. Includes e-learning and face to face workshops. Will enable Guide Dogs to provide meaningful digital services to 500,000 visually-impaired citizens, which leaders currently lack expertise to do. Kensington and Chelsea Citizens Advice 30 Assist with Citizens Advice funding post Grenfell disaster. Stepping Out Foundation 30 Grant recipient (Stepping Out Foundation) will receive funding, which in turn will be used to fund a research piece that is being carried out by an organisation who Stepping Out are being incubated. The research piece will focus on the public’s views on purpose-driven business and the role that it can play in society. It is expected that by funding this piece, the case for championing purpose-driven business will be strengthened, and the Government will gain a clearer understanding as to how their messaging in this area will be more attuned to the views of the public. Chatham Historic Dockyard 30 Towards the preservation, conservation and maintenance of the Historic Dockyard, its buildings, ships and collections. People’s History Museum 25 The DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund supports national and regional museums across England to improve the quality of displays, enhance exhibition spaces and public access, and increase awareness of their collections. YouthFed 24 The Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund pilot aims to increase the diversity and numbers of those working in the UK’s booming cyber security sector. UK Community Foundations 20 To cover UKCF’s staffing costs to administer the Revitalising Trusts programme. Newcastle University Ways to Wellness 18 Assessment of Ways to Wellness Campaign. Child Bereavement UK 16 Deliver a bereavement education programme to air ambulance crews over three years. Big Society Capital 14 The objective of this grant will be to raise awareness of SITR (Social Investment Tax Relief) with investors and organisations; provide guidance and materials to help organisations and investors access the scheme; and to improve the understanding of SITR and its uses among Independent financial advisors and wealth managers. Big Society Capital 8 The objective of this grant will be to raise awareness of SITR (Social Investment Tax Relief) with investors and organisations; provide guidance and materials to help organisations and investors access the scheme; and to improve the understanding of SITR and its uses among Independent financial advisors and wealth managers. Media Trust 6 Media Trust’s Digital Skills programme is free to charities. Funding from Google.org and Marketing Trust enables Media Trust to provide this for free, ensuring it is accessible to charities regardless of their size and income. The Alan Turing Institute 5 Run a project to develop an online tool designed to help SMEs develop their data science capabilities. Good Things Foundation 5 The grant will fund 0.5FTE work for the LDSP Delivery Group by a digital inclusion officer within the Digital Inclusion Team at Good Things Foundation. The digital inclusion officer will undertake work to further the aims and objectives of the LDSP Delivery Group. This includes providing secretariat services to the Delivery Group and assisting with the co-creation of the LDSP framework by Delivery Group members, DCMS, and local partners. ThinkForward 4 The development of a digital tool that will support delivery organisations in their development of social impact bonds. Kingston Voluntary Action (Superhighways project) 2 Superhighways is a Kingston Voluntary Action project that supports small local charities and community groups in London to do more with digital. They work via local infrastructure organisations to co-design services and reach those who need support. To expand their existing training, aimed at charity CEOs and Trustees of small organisations with less than £1.5m turnover, Superhighways would partner with London Plus, NAVCA and the FSI. Training covers everything from basic software skills through to helping leaders understand how to improve their organisational strategy by embedding digital tools and services.