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   Home  > University > MARS Funding

LCD Support Funding 2003/4

During the next financial year (2003/2004) the Lord Chancellor's Department will spend £5 million on marriage and relationship support, the same as the funding for the financial year 2002/2003.

Rosie Winterton, announcing the grant awards for 2003-04, said,"In providing support to couples, from pre-marriage advice to intensive help for couples in crisis, Government aims to ensure that everyone has the best opportunity to establish positive and lasting relationships."

"This is especially important for anyone thinking about becoming a parent. Every child should have the opportunity to grow up in a safe, stable and loving family environment. A strong, thriving relationship between two parents is one of the best possible ways of achieving this.

"The services available must encompass cultures and traditions that people feel they can identify with so that all couples in society can access them."

This is the second year in which new grants have been made with the specific objective of developing services to help couples who are, for many reasons, unable or reluctant to use more traditional support mechanisms.

At the same time, MARS grants will continue to maintain support for established marriage and relationship support services, such as Relate, Marriage Care, and Parentline Plus. The Lord Chancellor's Department has sought to encourage established service providers and newer organisations to share expertise and learn from each other.

For 2003-04, the Department received 105 bids from 70 different organisations. In total, this year the Lord Chancellor's Department has awarded 44 separate grants, for both core funding and research and development work, to 35 organisations.

The funding has been allocated as set out in the tables below:


Core Funding

Funding Allocated (£'s)
Parentline Plus62,000
Relate2,104,000
Marriage Care300,000
Family Welfare Association30,000
One Plus One242,000
London Marriage Guidance Council103,000
Tavistock Marital Studies Institute464,000
Jewish Marriage Council44,000
Asian Family Counselling Service50,000
2as 1150,000
The Lesbian and Gay Foundation (with Relate)58,000
Muslim Welfare House20,000
The Salvation Army40,000
Aquila Care Trust60,000
Project for Advocacy, Counselling and Education25,000
Basic For Life25,000
The Cogwheel Trust5,000
Prisoners and Families16,000
Alpha International70,000
Reform Synagogues of Great Britain6,000
Total3,904,000


Research & Development Funding

Project Title

Amount allocated (£'s)
Totnes Family Partnership Project funding 50,000
Somerset Family Partnership Project funding 50,000
Family Matters York Project funding 30,000
Poole Community Family Trust Project funding 50,000
University of Exeter, School of PsychologyMoney management and marital commitment in new couples: An evaluation of the efficacy of the FOCCUS Inventory45,000
Relate Relateline telephone counselling service 60,000
Relate Research into the effectiveness of Relate services 57,000
Care For the FamilyAsian Family Matters36,000
London Marriage Guidance CouncilCommunity Development65,000
The Minster CentreAracas Project (domestic violence)69,000
Tavistock Marital Studies Institute TBA 45,000
Sussex Family Mediation Service TBA 25,000
The Church of England TBA 24,000
Marriage Care TBA 70,000
The Richmond Centre TBA 39,000
One Plus One TBA 28,000
2as 1 TBA 50,000
2as 1 TBA 60,000
Brighton Oasis Project Working with relationships damaged by drug abuse. 43,000
Family Welfare Association MARS outreach work for culturally excluded communities. 70,000
Marriage Care TBA 70,000
Students Exploring Marriage TBA 14,000
Contact a Family Project related to disabled children. 16,000
Leeds Animation Workshop Animated video on how couples can cope with the effects of enforced separation. 65,000
Manic Depression Fellowship Researching the difficulties encountered by couples where one or both have been diagnosed with manic depression. 35,000
Total 1,096,000

Our Analysis

We have done an analysis both of the types of organisation, and the use of the funds as illustrated below. Principle observations we can offer are:-

  • Counselling remains the major recipient with 61% (cf 60% last year) of all funding, whilst services to support couples and to prepare them get only 15%(cf 14% last year). The balance of 24% goes to enabling work such as research and access services, with research losing out slightly this year.
  • The traditional recipients of funding (principally Relate, Marriage Care and the research organisations) have 74% of the funding, but the LCD has shifted it's funding so that 22% rather than last years 17% of funding goes to their so-called "Research and Development" projects (described by the LCD as projects forming a distinct piece of work) rather than "core funding".
  • Community Family Trusts have born the brunt of this change, seeing all funding moved from core funding to the project category. Their funding has also been cut to 60% of last year with two trusts losing their funding altogether. However the good news is that the three most established CFT's have had their funding continued and we understand that there is a commitment that this will be continuing for the next three years. Strategically this is really important as it will give time for these key projects to really prove their impact
  • True funding for Research had been reduced by 7% from it's allocation last year.
  • An increase in spending on marriage preparation comes particularly in the form of a grant to Alpha International for publishing their marriage preparation course.


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