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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)
Relate2,104,000
Tavistock Marital Studies Institute464,000
Marriage Care300,000
One Plus One242,000
2as 1150,000
Asian Family Counselling Service50,000
Family Welfare Association30,000
TOTAL3,340,000

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)
2as1 IT upgrade 52,000
Asian Family Counselling Service 15,000
Chizuk47,000
Marriage Care100,000
One plus one100,000
Prisoners Families and Friends28,000
Safe Ground 80,000
Students Exploring Marriage58,000
Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships 90,000
The Lesbian and Gay Foundation 60,000
TOTAL630,000

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)
Family Matters York Introduction of FOCCUS 51,000
Family Welfare Association Marriage & Relationship Support Within Healthcare. 81,000
Poole Community Family Trust MARS Development Project 67,000
Somerset Family Partnership Couple Support 89,000
Students Exploring Marriage Young Offenders Project 22,000
Tavistock Marital Studies Institute Brief Psychological Evaluation 52,000
Totnes Family PartnershipMaking your relationships work 49,000
2as 1 Bridging the gap 106,000
2as 1 Relationship & On Line Counselling Support Service 65,000
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.


New Development Grants

Project Title

Amount allocated (£'s)
Muslim Welfare House Boushra Marriage 70,000
PACE Support Lesbian and gay relationships 65,000
Partners of Prisoners and Families Support Relationship Officer 50,000
Minster Centre Aricas Project 70,000
Marriage Care Foundations for a good life 69,000
Total. 324,000

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 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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