The
Grand Charity
Registered Charity No.
281942
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| Total
Grants made during 2001- £4,657,895 |
| Grants
to Masons and their dependants in distress |
£1,774,900 |
| Grants
to Masonic charities |
£88,700 |
| Grants
to all other charities |
£2,584,295 |
| Emergency
grants |
£210,000
|
| TOTAL |
£4,657,895 |
To see more details of how these grants were distributed,
please select and click on any one of the following
Grants from
the Grand Charity in 2001 to:
| Vulnerable
People |
Help the Aged
part payment of a total grant of £400,000
to the HandyVan scheme |
£160,000 |
Crisis
part payment of total grant of £405,000 for
SmartMove |
£135,000 |
Refuge
part payment of total grant of £300,00 for
a 24hour helpline for victims of domestic violence |
£100,000 |
Abbeyfield
part payment of a total grant of £198,192
to ensure all Abbeyfield homes meet the highest
standard |
£99,100 |
Homestart
part payment of a total grant of £200,000
to provide support for families under stress |
£70,000 |
Guideposts
Trust
a teaching and residential care centre of excellence
for elderly people with dementia |
£50,000 |
Contact
the Elderly
part payment of a total grant of £100,000
to provide social outings for lonely elderly people |
£35,000 |
National
Association of Citizens Advice Bureau
for those affected by the Foot and Mouth outbreak |
£15,000 |
CRUSE
Bereavement Care
training for counsellors to help young people |
£13,000 |
Re-solv
for a helpline for advice on solvent abuse |
£10,000 |
Shaw
Trust
part payment of a total grant of £30,000 for
a Work Preparation project |
£10,000 |
| 19 Grants
under £10,000 were made to total of |
£29,270 |
| |
£726,370 |
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Grants from the Grand
Charity in 2001 to:
| Disability
Charities |
Scope
to improve employment opportunities for people with
disabilities |
£150,400 |
Strode Park
for rehabilitation facilities for people with disabilities |
£52,000 |
Sense
The National Deafblind & Rubella Association
support for elderly people who are deaf and blind
|
£35,000 |
Workable
support disabled students and graduates find jobs
in the financial service sector |
£19,800 |
The
Dyslexia Institute
tutoring for young adults, unable to read or write
|
£15,000 |
Disabled
Living Foundation
publication of disability “fact sheets”
|
£10,000 |
Micro
Anophthalmic Children’s Society – MACS
computers for visually impaired children |
£10,000 |
Seven
Springs
part payment of a total grant of £96,000 for
a national development programme of centres offering
care and recreation |
£32,000 |
Society
of the Autistically Handicapped
part payment of a total grant of £33,664 to
improve the diagnosis and recognition for sufferers
|
£11,200 |
| 18 Grants
were made under £10,000 to the total of |
£40,750 |
| |
£376,150 |
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Grants from the Grand
Charity in 2001 to:
| Health
Care |
Multiple Sclerosis
(Research) Charitable Trust
for training of specialist nurses |
£59,500 |
Encephalitis
Support Group
for advice and support for sufferers and their families
|
£25,000 |
Diabetes UK
for information packs for diabetes sufferers |
£21,900 |
Cancer &
Leukaemia in Childhood
support for children and their families |
£30,000 |
Meningitis
Research Foundation
to raise awareness of the symptoms of meningitis
through the “Baby Watch Campaign” |
£
25,000 |
North
West Air Ambulance
for support and rescue |
£
25,000 |
National
Hospital Development Foundation
to provide and Interventional MRI scanner |
£20,000 |
Remedi
research in the use of physiotherapy for stroke
victims |
£16,000 |
St
Johns Ambulance, Wales
for defibrillators for ambulances as part of a national
programme |
£12,500 |
| 18 Grants
were made under £10,000 to the total of |
£44,130 |
| |
£279,030 |
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Grants from the Grand Charity
in 2001 to:
| Youth
Opportunities |
The Buttle
Trust
support for care leavers in higher education |
£100,000 |
Sea Cadet Association
refit of square rigger TS Royalist |
£20,000 |
Greater London
Scout Group
part payment of a total grant of £30,000 to
support its work with disadvantaged youth |
£10,000 |
| 23 Grants were made under
£10,000 to the total of |
£40,850 |
| |
£170,850 |
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Grants from the Grand
Charity in 2001 to:
| Medical
Research |
National Asthma
Campaign
research into a new lung function test for children
|
£103,900 |
Tommy’s
Campaign
for research into the cause of premature birth |
£99,700 |
Generation Trust
use of confocal optics to study inherited neurological
diseases |
£50,000 |
Cystic Fibrosis
Trust
genetherapy research at the University of Birmingham
|
£
50,000 |
The
Wishbone Trust
part payment of a total grant of £90,000 for
research into limb-lengthening |
£45,000 |
Research
into Ageing
part payment of a total grant of £150,000
for research at Liverpool University |
£34,500 |
Implanted
Devices Group
part payment of a total grant of £150,000
for a specialist engineer to develop medical implants
|
£30,000 |
Epilepsy
Research Foundation
for research into the genetic structure of sufferers
|
£28,800 |
Alzheimers
Research Trust
part payment of total grant of £125,000
for research programme into the fundamental causes
of Alzheimers.
|
£26,500 |
Imperial
Cancer Research
part payment of a total grant of £125,000
for research in the role of chromosome translocation
|
£25,000 |
Medical
Engineering & Research Unit – MERU
development of special chair |
£23,000 |
Motor
Neurone Disease Association
research into cause of this always fatal disease
|
£10,000 |
| 2 Grants
were made under £10,000 to the total of |
£10,595 |
| |
£536,995 |
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Grants from the Grand
Charity in 2001 to:
| Emergency
Grants |
Royal Agricultural
Benevolent Institution
for the Foot and Mouth crisis
|
£100,000 |
Grand Lodge of
New York
for support of the City of New York Fire and Police
Departments after 11 September |
£50,000 |
Floods in India
grant made via the British Red Cross |
£25,000 |
Earthquake in
El Salvador
grant made via the British Red Cross |
£15,000
|
Meningitis
epidemic in Ethiopia
grant made via the British Red Cross |
£10,000
|
British
Red Cross
helpline for the British victims of the New York
terror attack |
£10,000 |
| |
£210,000 |
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Grants from the Grand
Charity in 2001 to:
| Hospices |
Following the practice
of previous years, grants were made during
the year to 193 hospices throughout England and
Wales. A list of
all hospices that received grants is found in
the Grand Charity
Annual Report and Accounts.
 Tell
me more about Grants to Hospices 1984-2001
|
£479,900 |
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Grants from the Grand
Charity in 2001 to:
| Religious
Buildings |
| Blackburn
Cathedral
|
£
5,000 |
| Manchester
Cathedral |
£
5,000 |
| St David’s
Cathedral |
£
5,000 |
| |
£15,000 |
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