| Grants Made 2007-8 |
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Examples of our grant giving include the following: Business and Human Rights Resource Centre Reducing corporate human rights abuses, environmental damage and contribution to conflict, by increasing transparency and accountability. Campaign for Better Transport To force a clear and measurable pathway towards cuts in traffic and resulting CO2 from the transport sector which are laid out in national, regional and local government policy. Council for Christian approaches to Defence and Disarmament (CCADD) Core costs. Environmental Justice Foundation To protect the environment and defend human rights by driving consumer, corporate and political action on issues such as pesticide misuse, and child labour associated with global cotton production. Food Ethics Council £8,000 on average for 3 yearsStrengthening Food Ethics magazine to enable it to become financially self-sustaining while continuing its campaigning work at all levels. GeneWatch UK £10,000 1 yearTo enable people to take a more active role in debates about genetics by further enhancing the role of our website. Grassroots Action on Food and Farming £4,000 1 yearTo raise awareness of supermarket power at the European Parliament, and pressure the European Commission to take action on buyer power. Also to support local groups opposing supermarket developments, and raise awareness of the issues locally. International Coalition to ban Uranium Weapons £10,000 for 2 yearsEducational work and information dissemination concerning the effects of uranium weapons. Labour Behind the Label £3,000 for 3 yearsOur aim is to support garment workers' efforts worldwide to improve their working conditions and wages, and ensure their basic rights are respected. Medact £10,000 1 yearTo support the campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Convention (NWC), and raise the profile of the new draft model convention with decision makers leading up to the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Nuclear Information Service - Cumberland Lodge Conference £600 1 yearConference attendance at Cumberland Lodge. Oxford Research Group £10,000 for 3 yearsEstablish “Sustainable Security” as a well-known and well-understood approach for co-operative policy development involving peoples and governments of the developed and developing worlds, and other work. Peace Brigades International £10,000 for 3 yearsStrengthening PBI’s work worldwide. Peace News Trust Ltd Nearly £4,000 on average for 3 yearsThe project will make the unique Housmans World Peace Database available to people worldwide via a newly created website and ensure the database continues to be comprehensive, up to date and maintained. Resonance FM (London Musician's Collective) £5,000 1 yearTo support the rapid transition from a high carbon economy to a low/zero/negative carbon society. Scientists for Global Responsibility £10,000 1 yearTo produce and disseminate a thorough, hard-hitting report on excessive corporate influence on science and technology – drawing together and expanding existing evidence from a range of scientific fields, in order to more effectively challenge the negative effects on society and the environment of this corporate influence. Solar Aid £4,000 on average for 2 yearsA charity that seeks to harness the support of the global solar industry to help poor communities in Africa use solar power to better their education, health, welfare and income. SpinWatch £5,000 1 yearTo hold the nuclear industry to account they propose undertaking investigations examining the government and industry’s PR strategies in relation to: • The economics of nuclear and how they will spin the finances; • The location of sites and new community support; • Nuclear decommissioning and waste. Transition Town Totnes £10,000 1 yearSupporting the development of the Transition Towns national network. WMD Awareness Programme £7,000 1 yearTo launch an ambitious project that aims to begin to change in a positive way the public perception of what it means to be opposed nuclear weapons. |