Issue 7/2011

NEWSLETTER

A total of 40 grants were approved at the Foundation's October meeting – 32 Henry Duncan Awards, of which 15 were over £5,000, and eight Capacity Building Grants.

The largest award, £8,017, went to Down’s Syndrome Scotland, a charity which provides a vital service to families across the whole of the country.

As ever, the Foundation’s grants will support a range of charities delivering a variety of projects. A number of these projects concentrate on work directly to support young people, children or adults with learning disabilities; other projects are focused on working with whole families to address specific problems; and some are specifically for youth development for at-risk young people. There is also support for ‘older’ young carers, befriending for elderly people, community transport provision and volunteer support.

Most of the projects being supported address an immediate need, crisis or disability, and help people to develop coping mechanisms to deal with difficult situations. However, 35 per cent of the awards will support work of a preventative nature, working with individuals and families at an early point and providing guidance and support to steer them in the right direction. This is an important balance for the Trustees of the Foundation, as we recognise the need for both responsive and preventative measures to be delivered by the voluntary sector.

The 32 projects funded by the Henry Duncan Awards in October will ultimately benefit around 6,800 people in communities across Scotland.

For more information of the awards we made in (Link to be inserted once awards are on the website)

The Henry Duncan Awards application pack has been tweaked and is now available online for you to take a look at.

Capacity Building At their recent Board meeting, Trustees agreed to review the Capacity Building Programme to identify the best way to deliver capacity building from 2012. As a result, final Capacity Building grants, in their present form, will be made at the December Board meeting. The deadline for applications is 19th October. We will continue to honour awards already agreed and payable over 2012.

The Partnership Drugs Initiative targets children and young people in families in which parents misuse drugs or alcohol, pre-teen children who are at risk of developing problems with substance misuse and young people who are developing or who have established problems with substance misuse. This programme is a partnership between the Foundation and the Scottish Government.

Full details of these programmes and their criteria are available on our website.

Never heard of Henry Duncan?

In 2010, to mark the 200th anniversary of the founding by Henry Duncan of the world’s first trustee savings bank, Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland named its main grant programme in his honour.

Charities throughout Scotland now receive Henry Duncan Awards, ensuring that his name lives on in the Foundation’s work.

But what was that work and why is Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland determined that his name should live on?

Find out on our website, www.ltsbfoundationforscotland.org.uk

Here, we continue our series looking at some of the charities which have received financial support from the Foundation with an insight into some of the work being carried out by Dr Bell’s Family Centre, Leith.

A Michelin-starred chef is backing a project supported by the Foundation that aims to encourage disadvantaged parents to give their families nutritious food.

Martin Wishart has thrown his weight behind plans by Leith-based charity Dr Bell’s Family Centre to serve up cookery classes for parents in the area.

Dr Bell’s, in Junction Place, is launching the classes because of concerns that poor diet is endemic in parts of Leith, and that children are being brought up with no concept of healthy eating.

Mr Wishart, whose company has given the project financial support and has kitted out the kitchens, said: “I set my business up in Leith and felt I wanted to support this project, which works with those in the area who are perhaps a little less fortunate. Many people lack the basic skills needed to cook nutritious food, but it doesn’t take long to teach them.”

Dr Bell’s cookery classes, to be held in the adjacent Stanwell Nursery, will teach parents about nutrition and basic cookery skills.

The centre’s cook/trainer, Steve Cochrane, will also take parents round local butchers and fishmongers, giving them advice on what to buy and how to cook it.

And at the end of each class the parents will be able to take home a health family meal for four for under £6.

The new venture has been given the backing of the Foundation, which has awarded it £6,000 towards Steve’s salary – a grant which took to £30,000 the amount the Foundation has given Dr Bell’s over the years.

Mary Craig OBE, the Foundation’s Chief Executive, said: “Most families could benefit from moving away from processed foods and towards cooking with fresh ingredients, but it is even more important for families with low incomes or chaotic lifestyles. Dr Bell’s cookery classes are a fantastic way of showing families how easy this can be – not only resulting in improved health, but helping to stretch the family budget.

“Leith is an area where poverty and wealth sit side by side, and Dr Bell’s provides a valuable service to those in the area who are affected by poverty, domestic abuse, mental health problems, substance misuse – and poor diet.

“The cookery classes are a great idea and I am sure they will make an important contribution in an area where many people do not realise that healthy eating need not be prohibitively expensive.”

Lesley Craise, project manager at Dr Bell’s, said poor diet was a “real problem” in parts of Leith.

She said: “Many parents in this area have been brought up eating nothing but fast food and frozen meals that’s of poor nutritional value. They are eating too much salt, sugar and fat, and not enough fruit, veg, fish, etc, resulting in obesity, poor dental health and emotional impairment, and making them more susceptible to a range of medical conditions.

“What’s more, many haven’t a clue how to shop for nutritious food. They will never have been in a butcher’s shop or a fishmonger’s because they wouldn’t know what to buy or how to cook it.

“We run the risk of the next generation being as ignorant as many of today’s parents about healthy eating.”
The six-week cookery classes, which should be up and running in October, will take six parents at a time.

The initiative is part of a wider ‘Families and Food’ programme at Dr Bell’s. The centre also has a community café, which is designed to bring people into the centre and which issues a low-key healthy-eating message. It has in the past been supported by the Foundation.

It also organises community meals, which bring together groups within the centre to eat healthily and discuss various issues.

The charity CHILDREN 1st is celebrating the news that the Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland recently awarded it a £154,253 grant by holding a learning event at the Health Sciences Centre at Raigmore Hospital Campus in Inverness.

The grant was awarded through Partnership Drugs Initiative (PDI), which the Foundation runs in partnership with the Scottish Government.

PDI targets children and young people in families in which parents misuse drugs or alcohol, pre-teen children who are at higher risk of developing problems with substance misuse and young people who are developing or who have established problems with substance misuse.

The learning event, ‘Family Solutions and Recovery’, will be held on Monday, 14th November. As well as celebrating news of the grant, it will launch the charity’s new Family Group Conferencing service for families of pre-birth and pre-school children affected by parental alcohol and drug use.

The new service, which offers a unique, family-focused way to keep children safe and happy, has already has its pilot stage up and running from its base in Killen, by Avoch, Ross-shire. The project puts the family at the heart of decision-making and planning for the safety and well-being of their young children.

Among the speakers at the learning event will be PDI programme manager Elaine Wilson, of the Foundation.

As part of its ongoing commitment to investing in the Scottish community, Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland holds a series of surgeries for registered charities interested in applying for funding.

The surgery is an opportunity for charities to have a one-to-one session with one of our assessors, and to discuss how they can go about making an application to the Foundation.

Charities wishing to find out more about our grants and how to apply can attend one of the surgeries below.

Please call 0131 444 4020 to arrange an appointment at a surgery.

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