In 2005, the Carnegie UK Trust stopped its small grants programme. Below are a list of grants that were awarded prior to this decision. Please note that we are no longer a reactive grant giving Trust.
Awel Aman Tawe
towards the Re-Think! Programme, to promote sustainable rural communities by educating young people on the issues of energy use and global citizenship, which will change lifestyle habits.
Borders Forum of Councils for Voluntary Service Ltd (BFCVS)
to use the methodology of the ten ‘building blocks of the ideal community’, the Forum will work in partnership with the Scottish Borders Rural Partnership to empower five low-capacity communities (one from each of the local authority’s administrative areas) to achieve ‘Ideal Community Status’.
Caledonia Centre for Social Development
to enable the Centre to raise awareness of The Land Reform Act (Scotland) Act 2003, to promote its use and assist communities to make applications to register and/or buy land.
Falkland Heritage Trust
towards a 15-month programme of education in Stewardship to thirty-six individuals recruited from diverse geographical and social areas. The Stewardship applied not only to the natural and cultural heritage but also to communities, institutions and organisations and the project aimed to build the capacity for change in Scotland’s rural communities.
Scottish Crofting Foundation
to assist crofters to take a more positive approach to promoting income generation from a wider range of activities.
Stroud Common Wealth Ltd
to support the set up of community farmland trusts based on sustainable agriculture for the benefit of local communities. An ‘action pack’ based on case studies and compilation of support material will be produced as a resource.
Universities of Hull and Gloucestershire
to undertake over a period of four months, the universities propose to undertake a mapping exercise of the provision of rural community development training and support as a necessary prerequisite of the future development of course materials.
Voluntary Arts Scotland
to hold two seminars, one in Uist and one in Lewis as part of the series of Mapping the Future – the Way Ahead seminars across Scotland.
International Rural Network Conference
to enable representatives from three organisations (Gloucester Rural Community Council; Centre for Mountain Studies; Scottish Community Rural Network) to attend the International Rural Network Conference in Virginia, USA and present the Carnegie Rural Programme to an international audience of experts; and to facilitate Wales/Northern Ireland networking.
International Association for Community Development (IACD)
to research asset-based rural community development methodologies and tools used internationally, particularly in the developing world. The grant would enable IACD investigate the application of these methodologies in a rural UK/Ireland setting.
Rural Community Network, Northern Ireland
to enable members of the Steering Group of the Northern Ireland Action Research Programme organise a nation wide rural community debate about the priorities for rural community development in N Ireland.
Tayside Local Action Group
to enable representatives from all 13 Scottish Local Action Groups attend a conference to consider 2006-13 EU rural programmes. The workshop outputs to be communicated to the Scottish Executive to inform the design and development of the 2007-2013 Scottish Rural Development Plan and feed into shaping the Rural Action Research Programme in Scotland.
Wales Action Research Programme
to organise a national consultation on rural community priorities. The data collected would be analysed and presented at a national conference and the outcomes would not only shape the Rural Action Research Programme for Wales, but would form the basis of a new Rural Strategy for Wales.
UHI Millennium Institute (Inverness College UHI)
to part-fund (with Scottish Executive and Highlands and Islands Enterprise) a ‘shadow’ Scottish Academy for Rural Policy.
Irish Rural Link
to explore the needs of rural communities in Ireland within the six RARP themes identified by the Carnegie Commission.
IRD Duhallow
to appoint a part-time Brussels based officer co-funded by ELARD (European Leader Association for Rural Development) and Carnegie to facilitate the work of the Carnegie Commission in Europe and strengthen the interest of rural communities with the European Commission.
Network of European Foundation (NEF)
to enable the Carnegie Commission to partner in a European-wide citizens panel initiative to examine and inform EU rural development policy. Carnegie will work with the Joseph Rowntree charitable Trust to organise citizens’ panels in two regions in the UK, NW England and cross border Ireland.
Land for People
to enable the organisation to develop a transferable model for Community Land Trusts as a test bed for the delivery of affordable rural housing and to pilot Community Land Trust affordable housing projects in Powys.
Powys Association of Voluntary Organisations (PAVO)
to enable PAVO to be Lead Partner within the Community Planning Framework Development in Wales. This development stage will provide a model for the recruitment of other community planning partnerships.
Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations
to explore the needs of rural communities in Scotland within the context of the six RARP themes identified by the Carnegie Commission. The proposed programme would support rural groups in undertaking Action Research and building their capacity; and be used to inform wider policy development relevant to rural communities.
Southern Uplands Partnership
to enable two consultants to build on the Communities on the Edge work with the Roxburgh Estate and the local agencies in the Scottish Borders, by rolling it out in Dumfries and Galloway and South Lanarkshire developing a three-year development plan.
Community Council Devon
Exbourne & Jacobstowe Community Association (EJCAL)
EJCAL; a social enterprise set up by two remote rural villages in South Devon, in response to the loss of their postal and retail services. The grant would employ a local person on a part-time basis to act as a ‘community animator’.
Merton Marquee and Markets Enterprise
The Enterprise is enabling a remote/deprived rural village in Devon to extend its community services by utilising a piece of waste land adjacent to, and owned by, the village hall. The grant will go towards a marquee and trailer, together with marketing and admin costs.
Wagtails Workshops
to pilot an environmental project for parents/carers and their children. The project would promote parenting skills through networking and confidence-building group activities, using the outdoors as the learning environment.
Voluntary Action Cumbria
Spirit of Frizington
towards a ‘Village Celebration’ to try to encourage more villagers into a variety of community activity which would be closely tied to issues highlighted in the Parish Plan; and towards training for group members in the ‘Roles and Responsibilities of Community Group Members’.
Skool Trax
towards a feasibility study and consultative work to develop and provide long term care for a range of community facilities on what is presently an uncared for, brown-field site, in the middle of a housing estate in Egremont.
The Seascale Youth Development Initiative
to set up a volunteer peer support network to participate in activities such as community arts projects, first aid training, conservation and community work as part of accredited leadership courses for the young people.
Mobex/Groundwork Youth Project
the youth project had operated under the auspices of Groundwork West Cumbria/Mobex. The grant would enable the group to constitute as a new group, with their own aims and structure.
Suffolk Acre
Great Barton Computer Club
to enable the Club purchase a laptop and projector and for six villagers to attend a computer training course run by West Suffolk College.