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)
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Aquila Care Trust | 22,000
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ARC | 19,000
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Asian Family Counselling Service | 50,000
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Family Welfare Association | 30,000
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London Marriage Guidance Council | 103,000
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Lubavitch Youth | 41,000
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Marriage Care | 300,000
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Muslim Welfare House | 50,000
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One Plus One | 242,000
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Parentline Plus | 62,000
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Prisoners Families and Friends | 27,000
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Project for Advocacy, Counselling and Education | 45,000
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Reform Synagogues of Great Britain | 11,000
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Relate | 2,104,000
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Tavistock Marital Studies Institute | 464,000
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The Cogwheel Trust | 6,000
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The Salvation Army Counselling Services | 48,000
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2as 1 | 150,000
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TOTAL | 3,774,000
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Research & Development Funding | Project Title | Amount allocated (£'s)
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Brighton Oasis Project | Relationship Support Programme | 50,000
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Care For the Family | Asian Family Matters | 37,000
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Contact a Family | Making Time For Us - Parental Information & Support Project | 10,000
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Family Matters York | Introduction of FOCCUS | 50,000
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Family Welfare Association | Marriage & Relationship Support Within Healthcare. | 70,000
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Leeds Animation Workshop | Animated video entitled "Minding the Baby". | 65,000
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The Lesbian and Gay Foundation (with Relate) | LGBT Relationship Support Service | 40,000
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Marriage Care | Emotional Literacy & Education Project | 61,000
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One Plus One | Supporting Relationships that need it the Most | 60,000
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Prisoners and Families | For better or worse - Supporting relationship breakdown of prisoners and their partners. | 27,000
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Poole Community Family Trust | MARS Development Project | 50,000
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Relate | Measuring The Outcomes of Marriage and Relationship Support | 47,000
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Somerset Family Partnership | Couple Support | 50,000
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Students Exploring Marriage | Learning By Experience - Evaluation & Video | 25,000
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Students Exploring Marriage | Young Offenders Project | 25,000
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Sussex Family Mediation Service | One stop shop | 25,000
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Tavistock Marital Studies Institute | Brief Psychological Evaluation | 45,000
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The Minster Centre | Aricas Project (domestic violence) | 75,000
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The Richmond Centre | Videos are valuable | 36,000
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Totnes Family Partnership | Making your relationships work 48,000
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University of Exeter, School of Psychology | Evaluation of FOCCUS Inventory | 48,000
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2as 1 | Bridging the gap | 85,000
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2as 1 | Relationship & On Line Counselling Support Service | 63,000
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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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