Development Awareness Fund Mini Grants 2009/10

The 2009/10 Mini Grants funding round was, as in previous years, very competitive. DFID received 161 applications, and of these, is funding 43 new projects. There are six new projects in Wales, six in Northern Ireland, seven in Scotland, and 24 in England. This will bring the total number of new and on-going Mini Grants projects to 71.

England
Organisation	Summary of project
Lancashire Global Education Centre Amount awarded: £29,726 Period of funding: 3 years	Global Wise After-School Club: Working with primary schools in Lancashire to enhance their ability to embed development education in their after-school club (ASC) provision; and developing a sustainable model for an after-school club focusing on development education in Key Stage 2.
Bridges DEC Amount awarded: £30,000 Period of funding: 3 years	Dimensions of Global Poverty: Exploring Perspectives 'Through Other Eyes': To explore the dimensions of global poverty from different perspectives with diverse Shropshire communities through the development of the 'Through our Eyes' framework and methodology for use in a youth and community context.
Devon Development Education Amount awarded: £30,000 Period of funding: 3 years	Learning Ourselves/Learning The World: To ensure that pre-school children in Devon receive their entitlement to learn about Global Citizenship, through developing and enhancing capacity of Early Years Practitioners (EYPs), in achieving this goal by working with children, EYP umbrella groups and nurseries in Devon.
Global Link Amount awarded: £30,000 Period of funding: 3 years	The Global dimension in Primary Teacher Training: A project to increase commitment to global citizenship, poverty-reduction and the Millennium Development Goals amongst teacher trainers, trainee teachers and their future students in Lancaster.
Teesside One World Centre (TOWC) Amount awarded: £29,965 Period of funding: 3 years	Global Learning for Sustainability: A project aimed at enabling young people to take informed action as responsible global citizens in the Redcar and Cleveland region.
Workers' Educational Association (WEA), West Midlands Region Amount awarded: £19,000 Period of funding: 2 years	Think Global, Act Local: To promote awareness and understanding of development issues in a range of developing countries among educationally and socially deprived adults in inner city Birmingham.
Norfolk Education Action for Development (NEAD) Amount awarded: £30,000 Period of funding: 3 years	E-Dev Direct: Dev Ed direct for the digital generation: To further develop the capacity of NEAD, Norfolk, and the wider Development Education community to deliver development education in the digital age.
Cheshire Development Education Centre (DEC) Amount awarded: £20,000 Period of funding: 2 years	Thinking Global: A project to enable primary school teachers trained in level 1 Philosophy for Children (P4C) to use global dimension stimuli in their P4C sessions with KS2 pupils. This will help pupils think more deeply about global issues, explore opportunities for them to take action and also record the outcomes of this.
Manchester Development Education Project (DEP) Amount awarded: £30,000 Period of funding: 3 years	Personal to Global: Finance in the real world: To help young people in schools understand the personal and global impact of different economic models. Activities will explore current global economic models and successful alternatives (including participatory budgeting and micro-finance).
Development Education Centre South Yorkshire (DECSY) Amount awarded: £30,000 Period of funding: 3 years	Critical Objects: To enhance South Yorkshire children's understanding of developing countries, their connections with our lives and the imperative of poverty reduction. This will be done by critical engagement in artefacts, images and other information.
African Initiatives Amount awarded: £30,000 Period of funding: 3 years	Global Eyes: To challenge the perception of the developing world of students living in the Bristol and Bath area, and promote positive images of Africa.
The Marlborough Brandt Group (MGB) Amount awarded: £30,000 Period of funding: 3 years	GLOBALVOLUNTEERS@DofE: To forge a new partnership between the MBG and the Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme (DofE) in order to add a global dimension to the volunteering section of young people's awards; engaging young people and their mentors in Wiltshire and Swindon in activities that will increase their knowledge and understaning of development issues.
Cumbria Development Education Centre Amount awarded: £19,800 Period of funding: 2 years	Rights up our Street: Linking human rights and diversity education at Key Stage 3: Enforcing Citizenship teaching in Cumbrian secondary schools, giving young people the opportunity, confidence, knowledge and skills to become active citizens on issues relating to human rights, diversity and poverty.
Praxis UK Amount awarded: £3,800 Period of funding: 1 year	River Voices: Piloting River Expeditions for Development Awareness with the Scout Association: To raise awareness and commitment amongst Explorer Scouts in Surrey of the challenge of sustainable development of rivers (MDG7), and the personal actions which they can take to help address this issue.
Critical Links Community Interest Company Amount awarded: £22,205 Period of funding: 3 years	Campaigning for change: A project allowing the creation of a sustainable model for active citizenship, through using training and teaching resources. This model can be adopted by schools following the three years of this project in North East England.
Krizevac Project Amount awarded: £27,054 Period of funding: 3 years	Global Links for Enterprising Minds in Staffordshire: A project giving teachers the opportunity to build relationships with their counterparts in Malawi. This will help them to introduce a global aspect to their teaching using a real life project.
Development Education Centre (Hull) Amount awarded: £9,599 Period of funding: 1 year	End Child Slavery for Ever: KS3 History Slavery studies Pupil Responses: To enable KS3 history classes to complete their recently extended compulsory study of the slave trade and slavery with their own investigation into child slavery, and to demonstrate to them that MDGs 1, 2 and 3 are essential for ending modern child slavery.
Centre for Global Education York Amount awarded: £30,000 Period of funding: 3 years	Sans Frontieres - French/Engaging with the Wider World Sin Fronteras - Spanish/Engaging with the Wider World: To stimulate and expand pupils' understanding of the wider world by focusing their language learning on French and Spanish speaking countries other than France and Spain, such as Mali, Morocco, Martinique, Bolivia and Chile; and encourage these pupils to develop curiosity and empathy by comparing their lives with the lives of children from different cultures, incorporating the eight concepts of the global dimension.
The Afghan Training Foundation Amount awarded: £30,000 Period of funding: 3 years	Developing social enterprises: Learning from Afghanistan: To pilot the creative development education work used with adults and adapt it for use with young people, in raising awarness of effective international development through learning about Afghanistan, Islam and the wider Muslim world, in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
British Red Cross Amount awarded: £18,497 Period of funding: 2 years	Global and Local HIV Education through Art: To increase knowledge, understanding and critical thought about global and local HIV issues throguh artwork amongst difficult to reach and rural young people in Worcestershire.
Centre for Global Education York Amount awarded: £29,900 Period of funding: 3 years	Embedding the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Global dimension into the Secondary Curriculum: To embed the MDGs as an integral part of the global dimension and sustainable development into the secondary curriculum of at least 6 schools, ensuring that the teachers of these schools can engage pupils in active participatory ways of learning.
Reconnect Amount awarded: £10,000 Period of funding: 1 year	Mobilising refugee resources to incorporate the development awareness message in the education of journalists: To elevate development issues in the national news agenda by engaging with and seeking to influence the UK journalism education curriculum.
Bradford Study Support Network Amount awarded: £18,590 Period of funding: 2 years	Women Supporting Women: To enable Bangladeshi and Pakistani women in Bradford to gain regional/global perspectives on maternal and child health; and education of women and girls, starting with their knowledge of these issues within their villages 'back home'.
Lorna Young Foundation Amount awarded: £27,385 Period of funding: 3 years	Sharing a Brew - Making a Living: To pilot a method of increasing global awareness of young people from deprived communities, linking them with their African peers and establishing ethical trading with entrepreneurial support to establish direct community to community trading of coffee.
Total amount awarded	£585,521

Northern Ireland
Organisation	Summary of project
British Red Cross Amount awarded: £5,000 Period of funding: 1 year	Development Education Champions at Queen’s University Belfast: To provide intensive training for student teachers at Queen’s University Belfast’s School of Education. This will help equip them with the knowledge and skills to be champions for the global dimension within the university and on teaching practice.
Centre for Global Education Amount awarded: £10,000 Period of funding: 1 year	Voices from the Global South: To commission and manage a research project that aims to capture and analyse our increasingly diverse society. This will be done through a case study approach that offers a voice to new and more settled ethnic and migrant communities in Belfast.
Latin American Street Children Organisation (LASCO) Amount awarded: £7,000 Period of funding: 1 year	Solidarity Photography Project: To encourage teachers and youth leaders in Derry to raise awareness of global poverty issues through the medium of photography.
Latinoamerica Unida Amount awarded: £7,900 Period of funding: 1 year	Exploring Latin America through Development Education: To organize and deliver 10 sessions on Latin America focusing on topics related to the Millennium Development Goals, debt and poverty reduction in Belfast.
Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance (NIPSA) Amount awarded: £9,761 Period of funding: 1 year	Promoting Development Education among NIPSA members: To pilot a global issues course focusing on topics central to the international poverty reduction agenda, and delivered in partnership with Oxfam, Trocaire and War on Want. This will be run from Belfast.
War on Want (NI) Amount awarded: £10,000 Period of funding: 1 year	Working together toward a more Equitable world: To work in partnership with the Northern Ireland (NI) Co-op to deliver development education training to 200 NI Co-op members and staff. This project will be run in Belfast.
Total amount awarded	£49,661

Scotland
Organisation	Summary of project
North Edinburgh Trust Amount awarded: £9,947 Period of funding: 1 year	North Edinburgh Action on Development Project: To increase the understanding and knowledge of local people of the global nature of the Millennium Development Goals, particularly on poverty and climate change; to increase people’s awareness of how their behaviour can impact on these issues, and influence their attitude and behaviour in the future. The aim is to build a sustainable project where information on these issues is shared amongst the community and embedded in the practical work undertaken by the community on issues of environmental and social justice.
One World Centre Amount awarded: £30,000 Period of funding: 3 years	My World, Your World, Our World: (a) With reference to the eight Millennium Development Goals, raise awareness of the importance of embedding global awareness within a youth work setting, while demonstrating and supporting how this might be achieved. (b) With young people: raise awareness and develop understanding of the links between our lives and the lives of those across the world and develop the skills and confidence which will empower young people to take action on an identified issue – becoming true global citizens. This project will be run in Dundee.
South Asian Voluntary Enterprise Amount awarded: £20,000 Period of funding: 2 years	Engaging with the West of Scotland Communities of the South Asian Diaspora on issues of international development: To engage communities within the South Asia Diaspora in the west of Scotland and create a sustainable programme of community non-formal education about the MDGs. This project will be run from Glasgow.
West of Scotland DEC Amount awarded: £30,000 Period of funding: 3 years	Developing a World View - Controversial global issues as a learning context for Curriculum for Excellence in schools and museums: To enhance the knowledge, confidence and practice of teachers and museum staff, so that West of Scotland primary school children will be involved in the exploration of controversial/topical global issues, including those underpinning the MDGs, as part of the learning context, experiences and outcomes of Curriculum for Excellence and the developing area of ‘A Scottish World View’. The project aims to do this by building and supporting a “community of enquiry” made up of primary teachers, local authority adviser and Glasgow Museum education staff to explore ways of embedding controversial global issues into the context for teaching and learning both in the classroom and in museum sessions.
Highland One World Group Amount awarded: £11,052 Period of funding: 3 years	Climate Change – a global issue a creative approach, involving the community in Highland Schools: To in-put a global approach to climate change through the education service, drawing on the voices of young people, teachers and minority ethnic members of the community in a creative way. The project will contribute to key government targets of making Scotland a ‘smarter, greener, safer, healthier, wealthier and fairer’ place. Interactive workshops, simulation games which employ active learning methodology, resources, craft activities, story telling, showcasing, etc will be used in the delivery of this project. This project will run from Ross-shire.
Woodcraft Folk Scotland Amount awarded: £24,813 Period of funding: 3 years	Powerpod: To raise awareness of energy & climate change issues in development, focusing on the interdependence of the developed and developing world - a) to empower a group of young people to be 'peer educators' & change makers; b) to raise awareness in schools/community of energy issues and the choices; c) to provide examples of alternative engagement methods and create resources for replication. This project will be run from Lothians.
The Montgomery Development Education Centre Amount awarded: £30,000 Period of funding: 3 years	Developing Whole School Policies linked to Curriculum for Excellence that achieve both Global and Scottish Goals: To develop school policies linked to Curriculum for Excellence that are based on all aspects of Global Citizenship: knowledge and understanding, skills and values. The project will take the form of a partnership with four north-east schools, working with teachers already committed to Global Citizenship and the project, and using action research to develop best practice.
Total amount awarded	£155,812

Wales
Organisation	Summary of project
iEARN UK Amount awarded: £20,000 Period of funding: 2 years	Connecting Youth - Making a Difference in the World: The project will raise awareness of the Millennium Development Goals by directly linking young people in Wales with their peers in a number of countries from across the development spectrum. Participants will explore the impact on individuals of the unequal distribution of the earth’s resources, including the effect of poverty on development. This project will be run from North Wales.
Mess up the Mess Theatre Company Amount awarded: £29,300 Period of funding: 3 years	Cymru, Uganda a Fi: The project will empower young people from disadvantaged areas of Wales to make informed choices in their roles as individuals in global citizenship by piloting a youth arts project as a vehicle to create innovative global peer education. This project will be run from South West Wales.
Somali Integration Society Amount awarded: £10,000 Period of funding: 1 year	Somali Youth for Development Project The project will increase Somali young peoples' understanding of their community’s history and background; increase service providers and the general public’s understanding of the specific family and community context of Somali young people; and increase understanding of the way international and development issues impact on local lives. This project will be run from South Central Wales.
Torfaen Youth Office Amount awarded: £24,146 Period of funding: 3 years	GCPME - Global Citizenship Peer Mentors Education: The main aim of the project is to enhance quality of life and facilitate knowledge transfer by Global Citizenship peer mentor educators and to raise awareness of global issues. This project will be run in South East Wales.
Workers' Educational Association - South Wales Amount awarded: £29,453 Period of funding: 3 years	Embedding Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship (ESDGC) into Adult Learning through food issues: The project will use food and food sovereignty as a theme to raise awareness of poverty and interdependence, sustainable development and global citizenship. The target audience is staff, tutors and learners in both the WEA and the Trade Union movement in South Central Wales.
YMCA Wales Amount awarded: £30,000 Period of funding: 3 years	Youth Justice & Global Life Skills: The project will help young people develop essential skills and to integrate this with raising awareness of global issues such as poverty reduction, sustainability and fair trade and justice issues based on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the UN Declaration of Human Rights. This project will be run from South West Wales.
Total amount awarded	£142,899

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