DTI
Modernisation Fund grant programme for 2003/2004
Successful home safety projects for the
final
year of the Scheme were announced in March 2003 by
Melanie Johnson, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of
State for Competition, Consumers and Markets.
The
judging panel of home safety professionals selected
thirty projects throughout the UK, out of a total
of 236 submitted applications, with awards ranging
from just under £12,000 to £50,000.
The
projects for 2003/2004 include schemes targeting vulnerable
members of the Bengali and Jewish communities, support
for 'handy person' initiatives, fitting of low cost
safety equipment for low income families with young
children and electric blanket testing and free replacement
in the remote outer isles of Orkney.
During
the three years of the Modernisation Fund, £2.8m has
been spent on 74 local community home safety projects
involving a wide variety of local authority partnerships.
A further £1.2m was provided to the two national home
safety charities - the Child Accident Prevention Trust
and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.
Some
examples
of good practice from the projects are on the Home
Safety Network website under their appropriate category.
Criteria
for Home Safety project submissions
List of winners in
2003/04
Last updated: 29 March 2004
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