MARS support funding 2005/6
The Marriage and Relationship Support Grant this year is a component in the Strengthening Families Grant programme, having been combined with the old Family Support Grant. We have extraxcted only those elements of the FSG that apply to marriage and adult relationships, there being many that focus on Parenting.
The grants are tabulated below under the titles they now have:
Strategic Funding
This is the new title of what is also known as Sustained Core Funding. In addition to the funding below a total of £2,045K is provided as Strategic Funding to parenting organisations.
Strategic Core Funding
| Funding Allocated (£'s)
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Relate | 2,104,000
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Tavistock Marital Studies Institute | 464,000
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Marriage Care | 300,000
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One Plus One | 242,000
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2as 1 | 150,000
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Asian Family Counselling Service | 50,000
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Family Welfare Association | 30,000
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TOTAL | 3,340,000
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1 Year Infrastructure Grants
Infrastructure grants are to assist organisations maintain their core infrastructure and systems. In addition to the grants below £170K has gone to Parentline Plus.
1 Year Infrastructure Grant (was Core Funding??)
| Funding Allocated (£'s)
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2as1 IT upgrade | 52,000
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Asian Family Counselling Service | 15,000
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Chizuk | 47,000
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Marriage Care | 100,000
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One plus one | 100,000
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Prisoners Families and Friends | 28,000
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Safe Ground | 80,000
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Students Exploring Marriage | 58,000
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Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships | 90,000 |
The Lesbian and Gay Foundation | 60,000 |
TOTAL | 630,000
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Continued 2004/5 Project funding
Certain projects from 2004/5 had funding covering 2 years identified.
Continued R&D Project Funding | Project Title | Amount allocated (£'s)
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Family Matters York | Introduction of FOCCUS | 51,000
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Family Welfare Association | Marriage & Relationship Support Within Healthcare. | 81,000
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Poole Community Family Trust | MARS Development Project | 67,000
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Somerset Family Partnership | Couple Support | 89,000
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Students Exploring Marriage | Young Offenders Project | 22,000
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Tavistock Marital Studies Institute | Brief Psychological Evaluation | 52,000
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Totnes Family Partnership | Making your relationships work | 49,000
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2as 1 | Bridging the gap | 106,000
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2as 1 | Relationship & On Line Counselling Support Service | 65,000
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Total | . | 582,000 |
New Development Grants
In the table below we have listed only those projects directly concerned with adult relationship support. These are from "Strand C" of the development grants.
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 is unchanged from last year. Thirteen organisations have dropped off the list this year, whilst just two new ones (Chizuk and Safe Ground) are added.
- Counselling remains the major recipient with 55% (3% less than last year) of all funding, whilst services to support couples and to prepare them get only 11% (8% down from last year). We have added a category to cover the money being used to develop the relationships of Prisoners which now receives 3% of the total. The balance of 31% goes to enabling work such as research and access services, with research unchanged at 18%.
- The traditional recipients of funding (principally Relate, Marriage Care and the research organisations) have 75% of the funding (up 4% from last year. Just 19% of funding goes to the so-called "Research and Development" projects (described by the DfES as projects forming a distinct piece of work) rather than "core funding".
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