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MARS support funding 2004/5

The Marriage and Relationship Support Grant supports the adult couple relationship, helping to prevent or eliminate problems and consequently help improve outcomes for any children in the family. Parental conflict results in parents being less emotionally available to children, less consistent in discipline, and more likely to disagree on child-rearing.

Announcing the grants this year, Margaret Hodge said, “The family and marriage and relationship support projects that I am announcing today will provide a range of services from information materials, advice, home support, mentoring, and more structured family support training and education programmes. This funding will help us to make sure more children grow up in a safe, stable and loving family environment".

The 41 grants are tabulated below:


Core Funding

Funding Allocated (£'s)
Aquila Care Trust22,000
ARC19,000
Asian Family Counselling Service50,000
Family Welfare Association30,000
London Marriage Guidance Council103,000
Lubavitch Youth41,000
Marriage Care300,000
Muslim Welfare House50,000
One Plus One242,000
Parentline Plus62,000
Prisoners Families and Friends27,000
Project for Advocacy, Counselling and Education45,000
Reform Synagogues of Great Britain11,000
Relate2,104,000
Tavistock Marital Studies Institute464,000
The Cogwheel Trust6,000
The Salvation Army Counselling Services48,000
2as 1150,000
TOTAL3,774,000

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Research & Development Funding

Project Title

Amount allocated (£'s)
Brighton Oasis ProjectRelationship Support Programme 50,000
Care For the FamilyAsian Family Matters37,000
Contact a Family Making Time For Us - Parental Information & Support Project 10,000
Family Matters York Introduction of FOCCUS 50,000
Family Welfare Association Marriage & Relationship Support Within Healthcare. 70,000
Leeds Animation Workshop Animated video entitled "Minding the Baby". 65,000
The Lesbian and Gay Foundation (with Relate) LGBT Relationship Support Service 40,000
Marriage Care Emotional Literacy & Education Project 61,000
One Plus One Supporting Relationships that need it the Most 60,000
Prisoners and Families For better or worse - Supporting relationship breakdown of prisoners and their partners. 27,000
Poole Community Family Trust MARS Development Project 50,000
Relate Measuring The Outcomes of Marriage and Relationship Support 47,000
Somerset Family Partnership Couple Support 50,000
Students Exploring Marriage Learning By Experience - Evaluation & Video 25,000
Students Exploring Marriage Young Offenders Project 25,000
Sussex Family Mediation Service One stop shop 25,000
Tavistock Marital Studies Institute Brief Psychological Evaluation 45,000
The Minster CentreAricas Project (domestic violence)75,000
The Richmond Centre Videos are valuable 36,000
Totnes Family Partnership48,000
University of Exeter, School of PsychologyEvaluation of FOCCUS Inventory48,000
2as 1 Bridging the gap 85,000
2as 1 Relationship & On Line Counselling Support Service 63,000
Total. 1,126,000

Our Analysis

As in previous years 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:-

  • Overall the funding has fallen by £100,000 (=2%) this year compared with last. There are relatively few changes as 90% of the funding has been rolled forward from previous years. Five organisations have dropped off the list this year, whilst three new ones are added.
  • Counselling remains the major recipient with 58% (cf 61% last year) of all funding, whilst services to support couples and to prepare them get only 16% (cf 15% last year). The balance of 26% goes to enabling work such as research and access services, with research increasing slightly this year.
  • The traditional recipients of funding (principally Relate, Marriage Care and the research organisations) have 71% of the funding. 23% rather of funding goes to their so-called "Research and Development" projects (described by the DfES as projects forming a distinct piece of work) rather than "core funding".
  • Several projects involving support to relationships of prisoners and their families are prominent in the list this year, and also in the related Family Support Grants announced at the same time.


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