Grants made 2004-05

During this year we awarded 21 grants for £93,285 - our biggest number and highest spend ever! In 2005-6, we envisage our grant allocation to be nearer to £50,000 and 10-12 grants. Some of these awards included:

Besorah Educational Trust

provides structured/interactive educational opportunities for children and young people to experience life in the Holy Land during the first century AD utilising an extensive collection of Middle Eastern artefacts. A grant of £500 enabled the Trust better advertise its work.


Building as a Mission Resource

is a professional working group developing a workbook to help churches utilise their buildings as 'tools for mission'. A grant of £2,150 helped support the expenses incurred by this voluntary group. The resultant book has been published in May 2006 by the Canterbury Press.

Community Global Health Network
www.chgn.org

is a new initiative to create an effective network between Christian-based health care organisations in the developing world enabling them to support and learn from one another. A grant of £10,000 was made towards the cost of testing the network concept and establishing it.


The Craighead Institute
www.craighead.org.uk

has successfully developed a course in the 'Integration of Life and Faith'. The Trust provided a grant of £2,500 to enable the Institute to adapt the course for utilisation by people with learning disabilities.


Donnisthorpe Community

We provided a further grant of £2,500 to support Steve Berrill continue to develop new forms of social outreach in this deprived former mining community.


Evangelical Mission

to the Deaf in the Pacific is a new initiative to assist deaf people, who are highly marginalised, in Fiji (and other neighbouring Pacific islands). A grant of £2,800 was provided to support research into their needs, and for training and development of awareness raising materials.

MayBe
www.maybe.org.uk

s an experimental project to develop a new expression of being a church with an emphasis on mission to those untouched by traditional patterns of church activity. MayBe develops small groups meeting in one another's homes networked together. A grant of £4,320 was made to fund the development of a discipleship course, and to rent a venue where the small groups could meet together in a common act of worship.


Verba

This grant of £1,000 was to support the development of a Website and provide ongoing support and publicity for the extended commentary on New Testament texts produced by Theo Jackson-Cole received by 'inner locution'.


The Villa Project

This project aims to identify and enable people within disadvantaged communities to build simple, sustainable projects that aim to increase social inclusion and provide educational activities where participants gain accreditation in transferable skills. A grant of £5,000 was provided to support the employment of an accreditation co-ordinator.