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Plater Trust awards record number of grants


Archbishop Stack with award winners

Archbishop Stack with award winners

The annual Plater Trust awards ceremony was held at the Cardinal Hume Centre, Westminster on Friday, 20 March. Archbishop George Stack, stood in for the Trust's Chairman, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, to host the evening. A record number of grants were made this year, totalling £270,000. This year's funds have been given to 'imaginative projects providing education for people from the most marginalised sectors of society'.

Women at the Well, based in Euston, was awarded £34,512 for its work supporting women with a complex range of needs relating to street based prostitution, offending and anti-social behaviour, problematic drug and alcohol abuse, rough sleeping and trafficking.

Storybook Dads was given £40,000 for their Me and My Dad, project to help fathers in prison maintain contact with their children, and improve literacy skills through recording stories. Following a successful pilot at HM Prison Dartmoor, it will now be rolled out to HMP Channings Wood.

Four awards were given to projects working with the homeless and jobless. In Sheffield St Wilfrid's, the largest facility for vulnerable and homeless adults with mental health issues in South Yorkshire was given £28,927. Noah Enterprise in Luton, received £29,210. THOMAS in Blackburn which was awarded £40,000 and the Ace of Clubs in Clapham, Southwark Diocese who were awarded £32,424.

The Baytree Club in Brixton, south London received £32,000 for its work with teenagers and young women, offering life skills mentoring and training. Life, a charity which works with pregnant women and single mothers received £33,416.

Participants at the award ceremony were able to meet winners of previous grants and were treated to a presentation by the Chief Executive of the Cardinal Hume Centre, Cathy Corcoran OBE.

The Plater Trust continues the work of the founders of the former Plater College Oxford, which closed in 2006. Grants are given from the proceeds of investments from the sale of the original Plater College. Since the Trust was established, it has awarded grants of nearly £1 million to support 22 projects in the fields of social action and education for the disadvantaged.

The trustees received 29 applications for funding totaling £1 million this year. Cathy Corcoran said that these were mostly of the highest quality and only the limit on the amount available prevented more proposals from being supported.

For more information on the Plater Trust see: http://plater.org.uk/

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