Clothworker Annual Report 09

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Clothworkers’ Annual Review

2009

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CONTENTS 3 Introduction The Company 4 Textiles 9 Trusteeship 10 Hall and Collections 12 Support for the Armed Forces The Foundation 14 Review of Charitable Giving 2008 15 Financial Information 16 Encouragement of Young People 18 Disability 24 Elderly 25 Social Inclusion 27 Visual Impairment 28 Autism 30 Mathematics Education 32 Conservation

Grant-Making Guidelines Please visit our website for details of our grant-making policies, guidelines and application form. www.clothworkers.co.uk

Cover: Griffin detail from the West Election Cup designed by Lexi Dick, 2009. The gift of Anthony West, Immediate Past Master This page: the Company’s Courtauld Mace, 1755

Hall Hire If you are interested in hiring the Hall for a function, please visit our website for information on the venue or contact our events team at the Hall on 020 7397 4134 or enquiries@clothworkers.co.uk.

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Great Seal of Edward III, from letters patent confirming a grant of tenements in Mincing Lane, 8 May 1374

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Introduction This Review provides an insight into the activities of the Clothworkers in 2008-09. The Clothworkers comprises a City of London Livery Company and its associated charity, The Clothworkers’ Foundation.

Founded by Royal Charter in 1528, the Company was established to promote the craft of clothworking in the City of London. It supervised the training of apprentices and protected standards of workmanship. Its members were all actively involved in the craft.

The Clothworkers’ Company accumulated considerable wealth over the centuries, largely through bequests of money and property from members and prudent management of its assets.

The Company’s overall objectives are to administer its assets and affairs responsibly, play its part in the civic life of the City of London, support the textile industry in appropriate ways and seek to increase its charitable giving.

Charity has always been at the heart of the Company’s activity, initially supporting members in need, but subsequently also outsiders.

In modern times, the Clothworkers’ charitable activity has been channelled through its grant-making charity, The Clothworkers’ Foundation, and its associated trusts which focus on relief in need, education and blind welfare.

The Company passes its income, having paid the expenses of running the Hall and its activities, across to the Foundation each year. This, together with

income from the Foundation’s own investments, is distributed to a broad range of charities.

The Company remains a membership organisation, although there are no longer direct links with its original trade. Members join as Freemen or Freewomen, and some are elected to the Livery, when they take a more active role in the Company. The Court of Assistants, headed by the Master, runs the affairs of the Company, acting as a board of directors. The board of trustees of the Foundation is drawn from the Court of the Company.

Livery Companies have always had close connections with the City Corporation and their members elect the Sheriffs and Lord Mayor to this day.

The Company has owned a Hall on the same site since the fifteenth century. This contains the administrative offices, together with function rooms used for member meetings and events. The latter are available for hire to third parties to make the venue accessible when not required for the Company’s own purposes.

The Review covers the key activities of the Company: in textiles (where the Foundation is also active), its emerging interest in trusteeship, the focus of its collections, and its support for the armed forces. It also contains information on the broad range of charitable activity undertaken by the Foundation. The Review is directed both at the members of the Company as well as interested outside parties; we hope it will make interesting and informative reading on the modern ■ role of an ancient City Livery Company.

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Hairs dyed using botanical extracts, a project funded by the Clothworkers’ Innovation Fund

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Textiles The Company’s roots are in textiles, although we are no longer directly involved in the trade. However, we are a significant funder of textile and colour science projects in the UK, both through the Company and the Foundation.

Our objectives Support the development of a thriving technical textiles sector ● Maintain our support of academic excellence and innovation in technical textiles, traditional textiles and colour science ● Encourage young adults to pursue studies and a career in these fields ● Selectively support and reward excellence in textile design ● Contribute to the preservation and accessibility of textile collections of national importance. ●

Technical textiles Technical textiles are materials produced using textile technology for a number of applications, ranging from environmental protection to medical products.

Although the UK traditional textiles sector has shrunk dramatically in recent years, technical textiles companies have been able to compete internationally in a rapidly growing market. However, there are a number of areas which warrant attention if the UK is to prosper in this field.

In 2004, following a Government report on the technical textiles sector, we provided £100,000 funding to establish an industry group, Technical Textiles Executive. This had some success in fostering cooperation between companies but ultimately did not take root in the face of a number of pre-existing broader industry bodies.

In order to compete in a global marketplace, collaboration and pooling of resources is a great advantage. Traditionally, UK universities have tended to compete against each other, which can put them at a disadvantage in bidding for major international research grants. Through the Foundation we have provided funding of £120,000 to sponsor two PhD projects at Leeds and Manchester Universities in the expectation that these research projects, one at each university but jointly supervised, will lead to greater collaborative working.

The research is in sustainable textile materials and technology in the field of non-wovens (combining textile fibre and paper technologies) where there is

clear synergy and expertise across both institutions.

Sustainable textiles is a growing area, driven by consumer trends and concern at the environmental impact of production processes and end use. In addition to the Company providing some modest sponsorship for a conference on this issue, the Foundation has agreed to support a PhD project at Leeds University in sustainable textiles through a grant of £60,000 over three years from September 2009, looking into the extraction and identification of natural dyes for sustainable and historical applications.

Academic excellence and innovation in technical textiles, traditional textiles and colour science Leeds University is one of the two leading universities in the UK in textiles and colour science. The Company was one of the founders of the University and the original Textiles and Colour Science Departments in the late nineteenth century, and has been a significant supporter ever since.

We regularly provide grants to the two Departments for equipment to enable them to remain at the leading edge of research capability in their fields. In 2009, the School of Design acquired a sweating guarded hotplate system to measure the breathability of performance textiles through grants from the Foundation totalling £49,000. In 2008, we awarded £25,000 to the Department of Colour Science, the bulk of which was used to purchase a rapid scan spectrophotometer system to study the optical properties of materials.

The academic staff in both Departments have generated many innovative ideas over the years, a number of which have had successful commercial applications. However, inventors struggle to find funding at the very early stage of a project when they need to file protective patents, and undertake proof of concept and initial market assessment work. Approaching venture capital investors at this point is generally disadvantageous if indeed such funding is available.

Visiting the School of Design at Leeds University

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Technical textiles is a growing sector in the UK, and there is an increasing interest in sustainability

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The Clothworkers’ Innovation Fund is helping academics turn ideas into commercial projects

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As a response to this predicament, the Company established in 2006 the Clothworkers’ Innovation Fund in conjunction with the University of Leeds, making an initial commitment of £200,000. The Fund encourages the development and commercialisation of suitable textile and colour science ideas by providing grants of up to £25,000 per project.

In its first three years, fifteen projects have been funded for a total of £198,000, plus £24,000 in student internships to support the academics in developing ideas.

A wide range of ideas have been backed, including a novel dyeing process using polymer synthetics to reduce cost and environmental impact; waterless dry cleaning; developing durable radar-detectable fabrics to be built into clothes to improve pedestrian safety; and producing paper which can be reused with minimal processing or wastage.

In July 2009, the Company agreed to invest a second wave of funding, totalling £200,000 over the next two years. This will be matched by the University, although some of their support will be used to fund the running of the scheme.

Encouraging Young Adults The number of UK students wishing to take a technical undergraduate course in textiles at university has dropped dramatically in recent years. The majority of participants on BSc and MSc courses in textiles are from abroad, and most return home following graduation.

From 2005 to 2008 we awarded MSc bursaries in technical textiles and colour science to UK graduates at Leeds and Manchester – 13 grants totalling £120,000.

Following a review of the programme, we decided to switch the funding to one PhD bursary each year; in 2009 the award will be in sustainable textiles at Leeds.

This year we have also agreed, alongside two other Livery companies with their roots in textiles, to provide a bursary of £15,000 to a UK student accepted on the BSc Textiles Technology programme at Manchester. We will follow the success of this new initiative with interest to see whether it is able to tempt able UK students to apply for the course.

We have joined forces with two other Livery Companies, the Dyers and Salters, to mount annual summer schools at Leeds University in colour science to encourage lower sixth form students to apply to take the subject.

At secondary school level, we supported a programme led by the Drapers’ Company to arouse pupils’ interest in technical textiles. Our grant of £25,000 funded the production of a set of DVDs for use in the classroom as part of this Industrial Trust initiative across the UK. Excellence in Textile Design Textile design is a very popular degree course available in most universities around the UK, in contrast to more technical courses involving textile technology and manufacture.

Our roots as a Company are in the production rather than design end of the industry, and the focus of our support for textiles reflects this.

However, the UK continues to produce some of the best textile designers in the world, and we wish to support and reward excellence in this field.

We are involved with the key textile design competitions for talented UK students. For many years we have been the major sponsors of the Bradford Textile Society fabric design competition which this year attracted a record 700 entries from 26 colleges.

We are also one of the largest backers of Texprint which organises an annual competition that allows

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the 24 winners to present their work to leading figures in the industry at shows in London and Paris.

In 2009 we sponsored for the first time a prize at the prestigious New Designers event which attracts 20,000 visitors each year. The Clothworkers’ Printed Textiles Prize was awarded to Sarah Hyde, a graduating textile design student from Huddersfield University.

The Royal College of Art is generally considered to be the leading institution in the UK for postgraduates in textile design. We have provided bursaries for two MA students each year for some time, and also made a grant in 2008 to fund replacement looms.

The Royal School of Needlework has run the only UK apprenticeship programme in embroidery for many years, and the Foundation has supported an apprentice every year since 1963. In 2009, the RSN is replacing the current three-year apprenticeship scheme with a new two-year student foundation programme. We have agreed a grant of £75,000 towards the considerable capital costs incurred in refurbishing their expanded quarters at Hampton Court Palace.

Since 2006 we have sponsored an annual competition at the RSN to design a kneeler to be used at the Company’s church in the City of London, St Olave Hart Street. The winning design is worked by a group of students as part of their practical work. We are pleased

Sarah Hyde being presented with the New Designers Clothworkers’ Award and an example of her work

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that the competition will continue as part of the foundation course syllabus.

Preservation and Accessibility of Textile Collections The Foundation has been a significant funder of major textile heritage projects, including in recent years grants of £250,000 to both the Ashmolean Museum’s new Textiles Gallery and the Warner Textile Archive, and £173,000 to the University of Leeds International Textile Archive.

Our interest is in cloth, rather RSN kneelers than clothing or costumes, and we limit our support to collections of national importance, recognising that this criterion is somewhat subjective.

In 2008, we made a £90,000 grant to the Bowes Museum towards their new Textiles and Dress Gallery, and specifically the costs of creating a conservation and studio space.

As part of Hampton Court Palace’s exhibition to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII’s accession to the throne, an important 16th century tapestry The Oath and Departure of Eliezer has been ‘virtually restored’ to reveal its original splendour. The natural dyes used had faded over the centuries; by analysing the colour of yarns on the back of the tapestry (which had faded less) with spectrophotometry Bradford Textile Design equipment, conservators Competition winner have used specially-calibrated tiny beams of light to shine on to two million separate sections of the tapestry to ‘return’ each of the yarns temporarily to their original colour. This feature has been one of the most popular in the exhibition. Our grant of £43,000 enabled Manchester University and Hampton Court to purch-

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We sponsor all the key UK textile design competitions

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ase the spectrophotometer used in the project.

Although we established a proactive grants programme in 2008 in conservation, we have actively supported textile conservation projects over a number of years. In addition to the Textile Conservation Centre, we have made grants to textile conservation studios at Blickling Hall (National Trust), Hopetoun House in Edinburgh and the People’s History Museum in ■ Manchester.

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Historic Royal Palaces

Rolling a tapestry for rehanging

Hampton Court Palace

Charitable Grants University of Manchester and University of Leeds Collaborative research initiative in non-wovens £120,000

Texprint Supporting UK textile graduates in showing their work £10,000 Bradford Textile Society Prizes for student fabric design competition £6,000

Bowes Museum Study area within the new textile and dress gallery £90,000 University of Leeds - Centre for Technical Textiles Annual grant £25,000 University of Leeds - Department of Colour Science Annual grant £25,000 Royal College of Art Replacement of two dobby looms, and bursaries for two MA Textile Design students £21,000 University of Leeds – Centre for Technical Textiles MSc bursaries in technical textiles

£20,000

Royal School of Needlework Apprenticeship scheme

£14,000

Total £341,000

Company Support Clothworkers’ Innovation Fund Second wave of funding at Leeds University £200,000 New Brewery Arts ‘Coat in a day’ at crafts festival

£2,500

New Designers Prize in printed textiles

£2,150

RITE Group Sponsorship of sustainable textiles conference £1,000 Total £205,600

University of Manchester – Department of Textiles and Paper MSc bursary in technical textiles

£10,000

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Trusteeship Nearly half of the c170,000 charities in the UK have vacancies on their boards, and 95% of people are unaware that they can support a charity by becoming a trustee.

A common purpose Unlike modern Livery Companies, today’s Clothworkers have no link to a common trade and the only glue which binds them together is, for most, a family link to the Clothworkers, a general interest in charitable work and a sense of community in belonging to an ancient benevolent institution.

The Company has for some time been reviewing the merits of developing a common purpose, effectively replacing the trade bond which originally brought its members together.

We have a membership of 750, including over 200 Liverymen who have a range of skills and backgrounds, and live around the UK. We currently make use of this resource in helping the Foundation assess grant applications, by involving Liverymen in visiting charities seeking funds in order to improve our understanding of the project.

Many of our members are already engaged in civil society, whether by sitting on a board of trustees or acting as a school governor or parish councillor.

Trusteeship in crisis From our discussions with a wide range of people involved in governance in the voluntary sector, it is clear that there are some real issues surrounding trusteeship. Accordingly, the Company commissioned New Philanthropy Capital to research the subject and produce a report both for our use and for the sector generally.

There are an estimated 820,000 charity trustees in the UK. They are responsible for ensuring that their charities are well run and working towards their charitable aims.

Although much has been done over the past decade to emphasise the importance of governance in the voluntary sector, the quality of trustee boards varies greatly.

Recruitment of new trustees is getting harder, and many charities operate without a full range of appropriate skills on the board. Few charities have adequate induction for new trustees or assess their performance as a board.

An individual interested in becoming a trustee is faced with the prospect of searching on a number of

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different recruitment websites with little by way of coordinated support.

Currently, trusteeship is seen as an activity for retired middle class people; nearly half of trustees are aged 60 or over. This lack of diversity can hamper the effectiveness of boards.

The NPC report identified a number of key areas which require attention: increasing the pool of trustees; creating an effective matching service, bringing individuals and charities together; coordinating access to appropriate information on trusteeship; funding research into best practice; and improving trustee boards’ performance.

The report was well received and appears to be prompting action in a number of quarters. It has also been helpful to the Company in informing our thinking about how we might proceed.

The proposed way forward The Company has determined that, building on our longstanding involvement in charity and understanding of the sector, our members’ interests and the situation facing trusteeship in the UK, we should consider how we might make it our common purpose.

As a first step, we are gathering information from our members on their current involvement on the boards of charities, schools etc and also enquiring as to their training needs.

At this stage we view this as a long term programme which will evolve. The Company is prepared to provide some funding for initiatives which help address some of the issues raised in the NPC report.

Over time, we hope that more and more of our Liverymen will be actively involved in civil society. The engagement that many of them have with charities seeking support from the Foundation may arouse an interest in a more direct involvement with a charity.

In the long term, we hope that The Clothworkers’ Company might become known as a centre of excellence in trusteeship. This might encompass, over and above our own members’ involvement, Clothworkers’ Hall becoming an established venue for trustee-related events and there being Clothworker-funded academic activity in effective trusteeship.

We are at an early stage in our thinking, but are convinced that there is a demand and that we have the resources, both in terms of skilled people and money, to make a difference in this area, and to create a ■ modern common purpose for the Company.

The Company hopes that it may, over time, become a centre of excellence in trusteeship

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HALL AND COLLECTIONS

Hall and Collections available online. We hope in time that we can work in conjunction with other Livery Companies to create a common portal through which members of the public can research such genealogical information.

As an historical and independent institution involved with heritage and skills, the Company believes it has a role in supporting artists and craftsmen in selected areas. We periodically commission pieces of plate for use at our functions and to support emerging, as well as established, craftsmen working in silver.

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The Company is based at its Hall in the City of London. This building contains a suite of function rooms used for dinners, meetings and other events of its members, as well as the offices used to run the affairs of the Company and Foundation.

Since we do not use the public rooms continuously throughout the year, we make them available for use by businesses, charities and other Livery Companies. The revenue from this activity contributes to the significant expense of maintaining the building.

We also host pre-arranged tours for groups, generally ten or so each year, and are participating for the first time in the 2009 Open House London weekend, where we are delighted that all the available places on our guided tours have been filled.

We have a wonderfully rich archive with information on the Company’s activities, assets and members dating back to the sixteenth century and beyond.

Our archivist handles enquiries from academics and researchers to those delving into their family history.

We try to be as helpful as we can within our limited resources. In order to make our records more accessible, we are undertaking a major exercise to transcribe all our Freedom and Apprenticeship records with a view to making them

We are making our historical records more accessible to people tracing their family history

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Chased grand cruet by Rod Kelly under construction

We have recently commissioned sets of cruets to commemorate the five hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of The Shearmen’s Company, which merged with the Fullers to form the Clothworkers in 1528. These comprise three sets designed by Steve Ottewill and a low relief chased grand cruet set from Rod Kelly, one of the leading exponents of this technique.

We are pleased to lend pieces to be shown in public exhibitions, and in the recent past loans have been made to the Museum of London for its Samuel Pepys exhibition and to the Goldsmiths for a show on salts.

Bookbinding The Company is also interested in supporting endangered skills, and has recently developed an interest in design bookbinding, a craft which combines the highest level of workmanship with the best of modern, innovative design.

Despite the presence of a body of established design binders working in Britain today, bookbinding skills in a more general sense are in an endangered state. The provision of training in bookbinding Loving Cup

by Toby Russell, 2007

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The Company wishes to continue its long tradition of being a patron of the arts, particularly in endangered crafts

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The Company is seeking to stem this trend by lending its support to the craft. In addition to sponsoring the Open Choice category at the Designer Bookbinders Annual Competition, the Company has recently embarked upon a series of bookbinding commissions.

These will be either of significant new bindings of works already in our Library or of new volumes specifically acquired. It is our aim to develop over a period of many years a fine collection of unique design bindings at Clothworkers’ Hall.

“After that to a booksellers and bought... for the love of the binding...three books” Samuel Pepys

Our bindings Fittingly, the first completed binding to enter our collection are the double-volume Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, the first edition of Pepys’ diary, published by Henry Colburn in 1825. Pepys, perhaps the Company’s most famous Master, was a lifelong bibliophile known to have collected books for his love of their bindings.

The Memoirs have been rebound by Bernard Middleton MBE, a founding member of the society now known as the Designer Bookbinders. Middleton was awarded an MBE in 1986 for services to bookbinding.

The bindings are of brown goatskin with an inlaid yellow goatskin belt, upon which is depicted an open book filled with small black stars. These and the intricate vertical lines of golden pearls and dots have been individually tooled by hand, and are fine examples

of Middleton’s mastery of traditional techniques.

In striking contrast to the Middleton binding, is that by Paul Delrue. Delrue has pioneered his own technique, known as ‘lacunose’, seen here in his binding of the recent history of St Paul’s Cathedral.

Overlapping layers of differently-coloured and textured leather are glued to the surface of the boards and repeatedly sanded until smooth.

Despite this modern treatment, Delrue also employs traditional elements such as his use of foreedge painting. It arose out of the tradition of shelving books fore-edge rather than spine outwards. Not only might you expect to find the title and author’s details written here, but often decorative patterns or indeed paintings. In keeping with this custom, the Delrue binding contains colourful fore-edges, depicting the muddy banks and flowing waters of the Thames.

We are currently awaiting delivery of three further bindings of books to add to the collection: the Company’s history, an encyclopedia of textiles and the history of Mary Datchelor Girls’ School. These works will form the nucleus of a collection which will grow over the years and showcase the best practitioners of ■ this endangered craft.

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S U P P O RT F O R T H E A R M E D F O R C E S

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Support for the Armed Forces Many City Livery Companies have, over an extended period, formed affiliations with particular units of the Armed Services, both in the regular and reserve forces. Nowadays, many Companies consider it part of their civic responsibility to demonstrate support for their countrymen and women who defend our nation and its interests.

The Clothworkers’ Company has three affiliations – with the Scots Guards, HMS Dauntless and the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. These links provide the units with a civilian constituency which will be better informed on their activities and thus able to pass on this understanding to a broader population.

The Company generally makes some financial contribution to each unit to meet costs which are not funded from the public purse, and invites representatives to events where Scots Guards they can meet our members.

For example, in the case of HMS Dauntless, one of the new Type 45 destroyers which is currently undergoing sea trials, we plan to make a grant to the Ship’s Welfare Fund to provide some additional facilities on board for the comfort of the crew.

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With the Scots Guards, we made a £50,000 donation to their Colonel’s Appeal which was launched in 2008 to provide long-term welfare support to wounded soldiers and the families of those killed on operations.

The First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (Princess Royal’s Volunteer Corps) comprises women volunteers who

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support the military and civilian authorities; today their activities include provision of volunteers for the Army’s Incident Bureau and the Police Casualty Bureau. We have funded part of the cost of the Corps’ Adjutant over the last three years and have recently agreed to support their training officer for a similar period, bringing our total support to £55,000 since the affiliation began in 2006.

In common with other Livery Companies, we also have links with cadet units – with Unit 42 Cadet Company Scots Guards in Romford, and the London North East Area of the Sea Cadets. We are currently exploring the possibility of establishing an affiliation with the Air ■ Training Corps.

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We value our links with the armed forces

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Review of Charitable Giving 2008 In 2008, the Foundation and Trusts made grants totalling £5.0m (net of £220,000 cancelled grants), compared to £6.5m in 2007.

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Grants 2004 – 2008 £000 2004 £3,546 2005 £3,660 2006 £4,337 2007 £6,490 2008 £4,951 Financial report Reflecting the turmoil in financial markets, the value of the Foundation’s investments at the end of 2008 reduced to £89m from £111m in 2007. Income dropped from £8.7m to £6.3m, as a result of the Company making a lower donation than in the prior year.

The Trustees are adopting a prudent approach to grant-making in 2009 in the expectation that an extended downturn will have a significant impact on income over the next two years.

Unfortunately, the economic crisis has hit many charities, and as a result we have seen some projects abandoned or downscaled. Sadly, a number of charities have failed, although to date we have had little direct exposure to such closures. However, we are being yet more rigorous in assessing applicants’ financial circumstances and monitoring their progress during the life of a project. We are also being somewhat circumspect in supporting ambitious appeals which are at an early stage, given our lower income, the tight market for fundraising generally and a reluctance to tie up our grant-making capacity for an extended period.

Grant-making activity We made 280 grants in 2008, of which 53% were for £10,000 or less. Our approval rate was 33%, broadly similar to 2007 and considerably higher than earlier years.

A list of all grants over £10,000 made during 2008, split by category, follows together with case studies of a few particular charities we have supported.

Distribution by grants programme £000 Main £3,444 Small £540 Regular £495 Proactive £472 Total

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Reactive giving The bulk of our giving in 2008 was from our Main Grants Programme, under which commitments of £3.4m were made. These were for capital projects at charities in one of six categories: encouragement of young people, social inclusion, disability, elderly, visual impairment and textiles.

This was the second year of our Small Grants Programme, to which we allocate 10% of the total grants budget. Open to smaller charities, it seeks to provide a quick turnaround to requests for grants of up to £10,000. With 89 grants disbursed totalling £540,000 in 2008, we believe it is achieving its objective of helping small organisations proceed with capital projects in a timely manner.

We accept applications for these two programmes from any eligible charity with a project which meets our guidelines. Although we do not have set targets on what type of capital we wish to fund and most grants relate to buildings and equipment, we do receive a lot of appeals for minibuses, IT equipment and community halls, and support a number of these. For community projects, we focus our giving on areas suffering deprivation.

We do not have predetermined allocations to our six categories, and the proportions change from year to year. In 2008, over 70% of the total grant commitments were in the areas of young people, disability and social inclusion.

Our Regular Grants Programme does not accept applications, and comprises a small number of charities selected by the Foundation to receive a grant each year, subject to annual review. In 2008, this accounted for £495,000, the majority of which went to charities which distribute grants to individuals in need, and to provide educational bursaries.

Proactive grants programme Following a strategic review in 2006, the Trustees established a Proactive Grants Programme, under which three areas would be allocated £1.25m each over a five-year period. The areas are autism, mathematics and conservation, reflecting the Foundation’s longstanding interest in disability, education and arts and heritage. The intention is that we should make a significant impact on each area during the life of the Programme. In 2008, £472,000 was committed under this Programme, and a further £550,000 allocated to be awarded in subsequent years. The Foundation selects potential beneficiaries under the Programme, and ■ unsolicited applications are not accepted.

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Combined Summary Financial Information Year Ended 31 December 2008

INCOMING RESOURCES Donations and gifts Investment and rental income Total Incoming Resources RESOURCES EXPENDED Costs of generating funds Charitable expenditure : Grants (net of returned/cancelled grants) Support costs Governance costs Total Resources Expended Net Incoming Resources Gains /(losses) on investment assets Net Movement in Funds Fund balances brought forward at 1 January

2008 £000

2007 £000

2,441 3,894 6,335

5,195 3,492 8,687

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4,951 405 32 5,533

6,490 367 15 7,027

802 (22,012)

1,660 2,002

(21,210) 112,142

3,662 108,480

90,932

112,142

2008 £000

2007 £000

FIXED ASSETS Investments at market value

89,165

110,960

Current assets Creditors due within one year NET CURRENT ASSETS

4,930 (3,163) 1,767

3,056 (1,874) 1,182

NET ASSETS

90,932

112,142

Restricted funds Unrestricted funds TOTAL FUNDS

49,580 41,352 90,932

59,218 52,924 112,142

Fund balances carried forward at 31 December

Grants by category – amounts awarded % Textiles 8% Encouragement of young people Disability Elderly 7% Social inclusion Visual impairment 2% Autism 1% Mathematics Education 4% Conservation 6% Other 2%

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These figures combine the incoming and outgoing resources and assets and liabilities of The Clothworkers’ Foundation, the Clothworkers’ Charity for Education, the Clothworkers’ Charity for Relief in Need, and the Clothworkers’ Charity for Welfare of the Blind, and have been extracted from audited accounts of the charities. The full reports and accounts of the charities can be obtained from the Charity Commission website or the Chief Executive, The Clothworkers’ Foundation, Clothworkers’ Hall, Dunster Court, Mincing Lane, London, EC3R 7AH

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Encouragement of Young People Studio 3 Arts Founded over 20 years ago, Studio 3 Arts promotes and delivers quality arts across the outer East London boroughs to empower local communities and address today’s social issues. It works with a wide range of art forms, mounting projects which maximise engagement and participation for those involved.

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We provided the £17,000 cost of the critical IT equipment needed to create a portable recording and film studio used in their Big Deal East (BDE) programme, a three year initiative to engage hard-to-reach young people. In the first year, the equipment has been used to teach participants music production, graphic design and filmmaking.

Participants are sourced from Youth Offending and Social Services, along with other agencies and self referral.

BDE diverts disengaged teen-

agers from risky behaviour through a series of six week summer projects across Outer East London.

Professional practitioners use informal learning techniques to develop participants’ IT, creative and performance skills by helping them to create all aspects of a multi-media programme. The theme is chosen by the participants, focusing on issues which affect them.

They then create the script, music, lyrics and dance routines; manage and stage the show; and receive training in using digital equipment and software. The first performances of the work will take place in major theatres later in the year.

BDE encourages young people at risk of economic and social exclusion to reengage in learning and develop their employability. Over 1,200 disengaged teenagers will participate in the initiative by 2012. ■

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Halton YMCA Redevelopment of facilities for homeless young people in Cheshire £75,000

Chorley Unit Sea Cadets Corps No 526 Re-roofing, replacing timber flooring and other refurbishments to premises £20,000

St Paul’s Cathedral Foundation Support for two choristers from disadvantaged backgrounds over five years £60,000

Dorchester YMCA Extension to sports hall

Family Action in Rogerfield and Easterhouse (FARE) Construction of multi-purpose community facility for residents of Greater Easterhouse, Glasgow £50,000

Jobs Education and Training Equipping youth resource in a deprived area of Derby £20,000 Studio 3 Arts IT equipment to deliver participatory arts projects to disadvantaged young people in East London £17,000

Hebridean Trust Refurbishment and access improvements to residential activity centre for disadvantaged young people £30,000 King’s College London - Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ School of Biomedical Sciences Intercalated BSc bursaries £30,000 Lancaster and District YMCA Renovation of cafe and kitchen to be used to train homeless people £30,000 London Community Cricket Association Flooring, website and marketing material of indoor centre for charity which uses cricket to engage disadvantaged young people £30,000 St Peter’s Parish Church Refurbishment of community building in Blackpool for use by young people at risk of involvement in anti-social behaviour £30,000 University College London Medical School Intercalated BSc bursaries £30,000 Youth Link: NI Purchase of property to enable expansion of youth programmes in Belfast £30,000 Bring East End Together (BEET) Youth cafe in Glasgow’s East End

£25,000

Christ Church Armley Youth Project Creating additional space at a centre in Leeds £25,000

£20,000

Bentham Playing Fields Association Concrete skate-boarding surface with grind and rail ramps in North Yorkshire £15,000 Big Brum Theatre in Education Company Van to offer drama activities to deprived young people £15,000 Clapton Common Boys Club Playground flooring and equipment for disadvantaged children in Hackney

£15,000

Holborn Community Association IT equipment, installation of security cameras and alarm system £15,000 Leap Confronting Conflict IT upgrade for national charity working with young people to overcome conflict in their communities £15,000 North East Norfolk 1st Rural Scout Group Purchase of Roughton Mill to run activities in an area of rural isolation £15,000 Spitalfields Farm Association New van to provide mobile farm service to East London communities £15,000 West Kent YMCA Two minibuses

£15,000

48 other grants of £10,000 or less Public Initiative for the Prevention of Suicide and Self Harm Repairs to premises in Belfast

Total £1,022,900 £25,000

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Disability Graeae Theatre Company Founded in 1980, Graeae was the first professional disabled-led theatre company; it profiles the skills of actors, writers and directors with physical and sensory impairment. The company tours striking and innovative productions to arts venues throughout the UK. The work created is distinctive, not only through the profiling and promotion of disabled artists, whose skills and vision are often marginalised, but also in the delivery of a theatrical experience that is accessible to all.

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Graeae promotes the inclusion of disabled people in professional performance, through a unique programme of theatre training, offering writing commissions and training to disabled writers.

The company had outgrown its building in North London which in any event had no dedicated rehearsal space. Graeae identified ideal premises in the East End of London, a building called Hackney Omnibus built in the early twentieth century to house tramway horses.

The Arts Council through the National Lottery pledged £2m towards the £2.6m cost of redeveloping and refurbishing the building, subject to Graeae raising

the balance. We committed £50,000 at an early stage of the campaign to help its momentum.

Graeae’s new home represents one of the most sophisticated responses ever made in this country to the rights of disabled people to gain equal treatment in their work, training and professional practice.

The premises include a rehearsal studio with sprung floor and ceiling rig, office space, workshop room, changing rooms and storage space. The venue provides a hub and catalyst for arts and disability arts, helping develop a new generation of artists. It incorporates a number of innovative features, from tactile flooring to using scents to identify particular areas in the building.

During 2009, Graeae has toured around England with its production of Whiter Than Snow and is preparing a forum theatre piece for schools and its first musical, Reasons to be Cheerful, a co-production with Theatre Royal Stratford East. In the build-up to the Olympics in 2012, the company is launching a new programme of outdoor work to reach audiences who ■ would not usually attend Graeae productions.

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The dogs are carefully selected and specially tutored to carry out innumerable tasks, as well as problem solving and emergency procedures. Tasks include pressing emergency aid buttons, fetching help, drawing curtains, retrieving dropped articles and managing the supermarket shopping and check-out. The dogs also offer strong emotional support to their partner.

Since the first dog was placed in 1994, over 200 people with disabilities have directly benefited from an assistance dog, of which 130 are currently in partnership. The dogs generally have a working life of ten years, and there is an ever increasing waiting list for new partnerships. At the end of 2008 the charity had some 70 puppies in training and 17 dogs in advanced training.

As part of a strategy to increase the number of people they assist, Canine Partners developed plans for on-site accommodation to house disabled applicants and their carers during the intensive two-week training course for new partners. The fully-accessible en suite bedrooms will help the charity to grow the number of new partnerships from 27 in 2007 to over 60 by 2012.

The charity raised the £600,000 required to provide the six residential units, and courses are now being run at its base in West Sussex. Our £20,000 grant contributed to the cost of this important resource. ■

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Canine Partners seeks to improve the quality of life and independence of people with substantial physical disabilities through the provision of highly-trained assistance dogs.

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Jubilee Sailing Trust The Jubilee Sailing Trust (JST), established in 1978, is a charity dedicated to promoting the integration of able-bodied and disabled people through the shared challenge of sailing one of its purpose-designed and built tall ships.

These two tall ships, the Lord Nelson and Tenacious, provide life-changing experiences to people of all ages and abilities from all walks of life. As the only two square-rigged tall ships in the world specifically built for people with a whole range of different physical abilities to sail side-byside as equals, they have many special features, from speaking compasses for the visuallyimpaired to hoists and wheelchair lifts for those with limited mobility.

The people who sail on the ships derive many benefits, from greater self-confidence and improved independence to better awareness of disability issues. JST relies on a large band of volunteers to complement the permanent crew on the ships.

To date, over 36,000 people have enjoyed adventure sailing holidays with JST, including over 13,000 disabled people, 5,000 of whom were wheelchair users. On each trip, a ship accommodates 40 visitors as crew, of whom 20 are disabled.

JST’s early experience with two adapted ships showed that purpose-built vessels were required.

In 1984 work began on the Lord Nelson and she made her maiden voyage in 1986. The ship is now over 22 years old and in urgent need of updating and essential repairs to her structure. Accordingly, JST is undertaking a major refit to improve the longevity of the Lord Nelson, splitting the work into two stages to be carried out over two successive winters.

We provided £50,000 towards the £175,000 cost of the first stage, which covered replacing the bridge deck and deckhouse roof, refurbishment of the galley and heads, together with installation of new plant including the engines, generators, radar and winch. This work enabled the ship to undertake her summer 2009 voyage programme, including sailing around the British Isles and entering the Tall Ships Race on the Baltic Sea. We first supported the Jubilee Sailing Trust in 1984 and the latest grant brings the total to over ■ £175,000.

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Royal Star and Garter Home for Disabled Sailors Soldiers and Airmen En suite shower rooms at the new nursing care home in Solihull £150,000 Ealing Mencap Building renovation for charity providing support and services to people with learning difficulties £75,000

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Core Arts Purchase of freehold for arts organisation in East London providing activities for people with mental health issues £50,000 East Kent Mencap Six self-contained flats

£50,000

Elizabeth Foundation Expansion of a centre for deaf children and their families in Hampshire £30,000 Fiveways School Trust Creation of multi-sensory hydrotherapy centre for children with profound disabilities in South Somerset £30,000 Julia Perks Foundation Purchase of a building in Dorset to provide therapy and counselling for life-limited children and families £30,000 Retreat York Extending centre for people with mental health problems £30,000

Graeae Theatre Company Conversion and fit out of a new office, rehearsal space and meeting areas for a leading disabled-led theatre company in London £50,000

Riding for the Disabled Association (Morpeth Group) Specialised leisure and learning facility in Northumberland £30,000

Jubilee Sailing Trust Refurbishment of a tall ship for sailing holidays for people with disabilities £50,000

Safe Anchor Trust Basic boat hull and engine for special needs groups in Yorkshire £25,000

Kids Purchase of care centre for disabled children in Hampshire £50,000

Canine Partners for Independence En-suite bedroom unit at centre in West Sussex to train disabled clients £20,000

Mires Beck Nursery Provision of new building for training, learning and non-work activities for people with learning disabilities in East Yorkshire £25,000

Stable Family Home Trust Repairs and external redecoration of centre in Hampshire for people with learning disabilities £25,000

Refresh Refurbishing family flat, and specialist equipment to provide respite care and holiday facilities for disabled young people and their carers £42,000 Birtenshaw Hall (Children’s Charitable Trust) Play area for disabled children in Bolton £40,000 Martha Trust Hydrotherapy pool for young people with profound physical and learning disabilities in South East England £32,000

Disabled Living Foundation Roof repairs to premises in North West London £20,000 Friends of Mapledown School Gym and hoisting system for specialist school in North West London £20,000

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Friends of Thomas Wolsey School Creation of innovative playground in Ipswich, Suffolk for children with complex physical disabilities £20,000 Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice Reconfiguration and upgrading of day service unit in Glasgow £20,000 Shape London Audiovisual equipment for training rooms to provide a disability arts hub £20,000 Shooting Star Children’s Hospice Music therapy room for London hospice

£20,000

Southview School Fund Installation of therapy pool for use by children with disabilities in Kent

£20,000

Sussex Multiple Sclerosis Treatment Centre Refurbishment of centre £20,000 Sydenham Garden Building within therapeutic garden for people in Lewisham and Bromley suffering from mental illness £20,000 Young Minds Trust IT equipment and office relocation for a mental health charity in Islington £20,000 Ahoy Centre Specialist boat to allow disabled people to sail unaided £15,000 Bag Books Expansion and office/workshop relocation for London-based UK charity providing multi-sensory stories for people with profound learning disabilities £15,000

Deafax Innovation hub to deliver training to deaf people nationwide

£15,000

Lochaber Action on Disability Replacement minibus for disabled people in Scotland £15,000 Northumbria Daybreak Minibus for adults with learning disabilities £15,000 Ryecat Replacement minibus to provide community transport for disabled people in North Yorkshire £15,000 Seeing Ear Web server to produce audio books for disabled children

£15,000

Parity for Disability Adapted minibus for young people in the South East with profound and multiple disabilities £14,000 Leicester Centre for Integrated Living Updating ICT suite computers and equipment to improve accessibility for disabled people £12,500 Mind in Tower Hamlets Improvements to drop-in centre kitchen and alarm system £12,000 29 other grants of £10,000 or less £1,366,000

Centre 404 Refurbishment of basement hall in Islington used to deliver social clubs and health-based activities to people with learning difficulties £15,000 Chrysalis Minibus for adults with learning disabilities in Cumbria

£15,000

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Elderly Family Support Clacton Family Support Clacton was established in 1982 as a befriending service for socially isolated and disabled elderly residents of Tendring, North East Essex.

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With 70 volunteers and 15 paid staff, it serves over 1,250 clients, offering day care centres, lunch clubs, outings, shopping trips, befriending and carer sitting. Participants benefit from social interaction and therapeutic activities, and staff provide a range of services from assistance with personal hygiene to help with filling in benefit claim forms.

Tendring is a deprived area with a higher than average elderly population.

Many of Family Support’s users live in

rural locations with minimal public transport or are unable to travel by public transport.

The charity’s vehicles provide an important lifeline for these elderly people, as without them they would be unable to attend sessions at the day centres. Family Support operates five ageing wheelchair-accessible minibuses which are constantly in need of repair and as a result expensive to run; like many similar small charities, Family Support struggles to provide for replacement vehicles from its regular income.

We awarded a £15,000 grant towards a new twelve-seater minibus to allow the charity to continue its ■ valuable service.

Elderly St John’s Home, Northampton Construction of a stand-alone dementia unit at a residential care home £75,000 Canonbury Baptist Church Refurbishment of building in Islington housing recreation centre for the elderly £25,000 Edward Mayes Trust Construction of four new properties for the elderly in Manchester £25,000 Friends of the Elderly Grants for needy individuals Age Concern Northwest Cumbria Community resource centre

Family Support Clacton Vehicles to support elderly residents of a care centre £15,000 Fenland Association for Community Transport (FACT) Minibus for the elderly £15,000 North Holderness Community Transport Wheelchair-accessible minibus in East Yorkshire for the elderly £15,000 Orkney Disability Forum Bus to improve and expand service delivery for the elderly £15,000

£22,000 Age Concern Torbay New van and IT equipment

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Burma Star Association Grants for needy elderly UK veterans and their dependents £17,000 All Hallows Centre Disabled and upgraded toilet facilities at a community centre for the elderly in Liverpool £15,000

Subco Trust Wheelchair-accessible carrier for charity providing services to elderly Asian people with dementia and mental health issues £12,800 Age Activity Centre Minibus for a centre in Tooting

£12,000

12 other grants of £10,000 or less Total £387,200

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Social Inclusion F N Charrington Tower Hamlets Mission Provision of self-contained flats in London’s East End for homeless men in alcohol/drug recovery and rehabilitation £75,000 Nelson Trust Treatment centre for women in recovery from alcohol or drug addiction £50,000 New Heights Warren Farm Community Project New community centre in Birmingham £50,000 Wirral Churches’ Ark Project Extension to hostel for the homeless

£50,000

Clark’s Old School Foundation Renovation of community centre in North Yorkshire £40,000 Langley House Trust New assessment, training and residential centre for the homeless in Torbay £40,000

St Paul’s Parish Church Major upgrade of community hall in Durham £40,000 East Berkshire Women’s Aid New children’s centre on the premises of a safe house £30,000 Link Family and Community Centre New community premises in Newtownards, Northern Ireland £30,000 Village Centre New community facility in Glasgow

£30,000

Christian Action Resource Enterprise Refurbishment of shop providing furniture to needy people in North East Lincolnshire £25,000 Grange Park Church Community centre in Northampton

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Hounslow Community Transport Minibus for people with restricted mobility in South West London £20,000

Grove Hill Methodist Church Remodelling of inside of church in Middlesbrough for community activities £15,000

Lanner Village Hall Trust Enhancing village hall in South West Cornwall £20,000

Missing People Upgrade of IT system for a charity supporting young runaways, missing people and their families £15,000

Mendham and Withersdale Village Hall Internal works for new village hall in Norfolk £20,000

Quaker Social Action Van to deliver furniture to low income families in East London £15,000

One25 Refurbishment of supported housing mother and baby unit in Bristol providing parenting skills for women sex workers, and help to overcome addiction £20,000

Vital Regeneration Van and IT equipment for an organisation promoting community and economic development in inner city areas of London £15,000

Space Counselling Service Renovation of building and security upgrade for a charity providing counselling and therapy to disadvantaged people in Berkshire £20,000 Villager Community Bus Service Minibus for rural communities in Oxfordshire £20,000 Killin Community Bus Community minibus for people in rural Perthshire and Stirlingshire £16,400 Community Furniture Store (York) Steam cleaning workshop and industrial cleaner to supply low cost furniture to low income families and homeless people £16,000

Sheriffs’ and Recorder’s Fund Support for offenders, ex-offenders and their families £12,500 Watford New Hope Trust New van for charity providing welfare services and accommodation for homeless people £12,500 Attlee Foundation Grant for ‘Tickets Please’ scheme, which helps families around the UK maintain contact when a member is ill, in rehabilitation or prison far from home £12,000 Cardinal Hume Centre IT server and hardware at a centre for homeless young people in London £11,000 45 other grants of £10,000 or less Total £988,200

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Other Medical Emergency Relief International Charitable Trust (MERLIN) Rapid response assistance in emergencies and crisis situations £80,000

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Friends of St Olave’s Maintenance of fabric at Company’s church £10,000 Total £90,000

Visual Impairment Metropolitan Society for the Blind Grants and pensions for needy visually-impaired individuals £34,226 St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital General funds

£25,000

Advisory Council for Alcohol and Drug Addiction Health education resources for visually-impaired young people £15,000 3 other grants of £10,000 or less Total £99,100

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Individuals are affected by autism to very different degrees along a spectrum, from classic autism (with language impairment, repetitive behaviour and severe learning difficulties) to Asperger Syndrome (so-called autistic savants, with high IQ but who may find it hard to live independently). Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is believed to affect one in every hundred children, and it is estimated that over 500,000 people in the UK have autism.

The incidence of autism is increasing, although this may be due to better diagnosis. Since it was only discovered some sixty years ago, it is thought that a number of long term adult residents in institutions do in fact have ASD, but were not diagnosed as such.

Autism is a life-long developmental disorder that has a profound effect on the individual and their family. There is no cure, although much research is being done to identify the cause. It is not a popular cause for which to raise funds, and the costs of care can be very significant.

Proactive grants programme Over the years the Foundation has supported a number of capital projects for autism charities under its Main Grants Programme. These include £100,000 for TreeHouse Trust to construct a new school in North London, £50,000 for Prior’s Court for teenage student accommodation at a school in Berkshire and £30,000 for a National Autistic Society school campus in Ayrshire.

This involvement had given us some understanding of the condition, which was enhanced by an in-depth research report by New Philanthropy Capital in 2007. As a result, the Trustees decided that one of the three Proactive Grant Programmes should be in autism.

The NPC report identified a number of areas which required funding, and this guided our thinking on the

focus of the programme. The Trustees determined that we should deploy our funding, at least initially, in the areas of early intervention, education, families and transition to adulthood.

Early intervention Research indicates that early diagnosis and intervention can have a significant effect on an autistic child’s development. Further, clinical experience shows that many children with ASD have behavioural and emotional problems that are not core autism features but become deeply entrenched, with profound secondary consequences for family members.

The Trustees sought a proposal in the area of early intervention from Research Autism, one of the two major UK charities funding and commissioning ASD research. As a result, we have made a grant of £158,000 to a team at Guy’s Hospital over a two-year period to ascertain the prevalence and impact of a wide range of emotional and behavioural problems in young children with ASD. The ultimate objective is to be able to influence particular problems in individual children (such as sleeping, toileting, eating or challenging behaviours) before they become embedded.

Education Currently, the provision of education to children with ASD is inadequate, and there has been little proper evaluation of different approaches used. A joint initiative between the Institute of Education, one of the leading centres of educational inquiry, and TreeHouse Trust, the national charity for autism education, seeks to rectify the lack of educational research in this area.

The Centre for Research in Autism Education has been established, largely through a £700,000 grant from the Foundation, with our commitment unlocking a further £350,000 in Government funding. The Centre is headed by Professor Tony Charman, a leading figure

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Autism is not an easy condition to understand. There are no obvious physical signs; instead, autism affects how the brain develops and processes information.

This can cause behavioural difficulties in the areas of communication, social interaction, and flexible and imaginative thinking.

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in the ASD field internationally, and will be scoping and augmenting existing research into autism education, building a network of researchers and practitioners, developing programmes of teaching, and providing evidence-based policy recommendations.

materials to recruit and train carers. At a more local level, we gave £10,000 to Resources for Autism, which provides day care for children with ASD in North London, to buy a minibus to allow more participants to attend the centre.

Families Families of people with autism can be put under intense pressure: coming to terms with the diagnosis, securing help, and learning to deal with their child whilst coping with the normal demands of family life.

The incidence of relationship breakdown, hardship, social isolation and health problems amongst families of people with ASD is high.

Providing a break for parents to deal with chores and give attention to siblings is a huge benefit.

However, there is a serious shortage of government funding for short breaks and too few carers. Shared Care Network is a national charity which trains carers looking after autistic children. We provided a £145,000 grant to allow them to mount events and produce

Transition Having committed £1m to grants under the autism proactive programme in its first year, the Trustees are currently taking stock and getting an understanding of the major issues surrounding transition to adulthood. Two reports on this subject have been published in 2009, by the National Audit Office and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Autism. Both reports found that there was a lack of joined-up and accessible provision for adults with autism.

We shall follow the debate carefully and review where we might wish to intervene. In the meantime, we continue to support capital projects being undertaken by autism charities around the UK under the ■ Main Grants Programme.

Wirral Autistic Society Building costs of a respite unit for people with autism £50,000

Sussex Autistic Society Vehicle to facilitate programme of community activities for young people with autism £20,000

Rowdeford Charity Trust Performance studio providing psychotherapy for children with complex and profound learning difficulties including autism £40,000

Hope for Autism Office equipment

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Resources for Autism Minibus for day centre

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Autism Cymru Development of on-line technology to provide web-based autism training opportunities across the UK £25,000

Total £163,000

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Mathematics Education Our interest in maths education began almost twenty years ago when we made a grant of £750,000 to the Royal Institution towards its maths masterclass programme.

ramme we have deployed our funding largely into enrichment and enhancement activity, seeking to enthuse and motivate maths students, predominantly in secondary education, directly and via their teachers.

The objectives of the programme are to increase the number of pupils continuing to study maths post16 in an appropriate form (which may not be a full A level) and to improve the learning experience of maths students at secondary level.

The connection has continued to this day and our funding now totals £1.9m, which has supported both secondary and primary masterclasses.

These are delivered by volunteers around the country on Saturday mornings to groups of schoolchildren interested in For Sixth formers and Year 11s Enrichment and enhancement maths.

In addition to our support of the Royal Our involvement broadened a few Institution’s maths masterclasses, we years ago in the knowledge that maths have funded several other initiatives education in the UK was in crisis – studwhich seek to enthuse and motivate ent numbers post-16 (when it is no longer pupils beyond the classroom. a compulsory subject) were plummetThe FunMaths Roadshow travels to ing, and there was a growing shortage of schools around the country delivering adequately qualified maths teachers. pupil-centred hands-on events which Regrettably, it is perfectly acceptable Autumn 2009 engage 10,000 school children each year in the UK to profess to be incompetent in solving maths problems in an enjoyat maths – an admission that would not able way. The Foundation has made a grant of £40,000 be made voluntarily in most developed countries. The to enable the Roadshow to develop an internet-based trend towards incessant testing and league tables has version which schools can access remotely, and to led to schools ‘teaching to the test’ rather than produce additional physical materials. ensuring pupils understand the underlying processes Maths Inspiration is a programme of interactive and applications of what they are learning. Furtherlectures held for large audiences of 15-17 year olds more, persistent tinkering with the curriculum has around the UK. They seek to inspire the audience’s contributed to demotivation and confusion amongst interest in the subject by experiencing it in the context both teachers and pupils. of real life situations eg building a sports stadium or Over the past five years the Government has filming animation. commissioned a number of reviews of mathematics The programme started in 2004 and now attracts education, the outcomes of which should, over time, lead to a material improvement in the situation. Although audiences of 10,000 students a year. The Foundation a lot will be done using Government funding, much of has been a major supporter of Maths Inspiration since the burden will fall on the voluntary and private sectors.

2006 – our grant of £132,000 in 2008 brings our total Unfortunately, many foundations and companies support to £207,000, and will provide a base of funding focus their support on the disciplines which apply for the programme through 2012. mathematics eg science, engineering, computing and The Exicoe Mathematics Bursary Scheme is run in finance, rather than on the enabling discipline itself. conjunction with Imperial College and, since 2005, has Against the above background, and on the back of our longstanding involvement through the Royal Institution, the Foundation decided in 2007 to make mathematics education the object of one of its three proactive grant programmes.

Initially, the expectation was that the programme would focus on curriculum development, particularly in contextual maths. However, we have been very conscious that it would be easy to spend considerable amounts of money in this field without any impact if the projects funded were not aligned with Government policies.

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encouraged 350 students from disadvantaged backgrounds in London to pursue their maths studies beyond 16 and improve their maths skills. The scheme allows participants to attend six weekend teaching sessions during the school year and receive support and tuition from undergraduates and postgraduates at Imperial.

The children receive a modest bursary to fund their attendance at the workshops. As an adjunct, we have also supported maths summer schools at Imperial for similar cohorts in 2007 and 2008. We have approved a £50,000 grant to fund bursaries for 100 youngsters in 2009/10, bringing our total support of the Exicoe scheme to £290,000.

Maths Inspiration Support over three years for UK-wide interactive lectures to engage and inspire young people in maths education £132,000 Exicoe Mathematics bursaries for A-Level students from deprived backgrounds £50,000 New Philanthropy Capital Research project on numeracy

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Improving teachers’ skills We have supported several initiatives which seek to help improve teachers’ knowledge and ability to deliver quality teaching in the classroom.

Through King’s College London, we have given £60,000 to fund events for state school teachers around the UK to receive and practice with materials they can use to make maths lessons more interesting and enjoyable, and thereby raise students’ levels of achievement. We have also supported intensive summer schools for maths teachers working with children between 11 and 16.

We have been keen to support initiatives which develop resources that maths teachers can use to make their lessons more relevant and challenging.

Most recently, we have made a grant of £78,000 to the Millennium Mathematics Project. The MMP is based at Cambridge University and supports maths education through a number of activities, including the NRICH website which contains a large database of free problems, puzzles and teacher notes. The NRICH primary project was started in 1997 with the support of the Clothworkers via the Royal Institution. It provides an important resource to help primary teachers deliver effectively through the website and a CPD programme.

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Curriculum development To date, our involvement in this area has been modest.

However, we are in discussion with a number of organisations on potential projects, some of which may lead to grant awards.

One of the unintended consequences of introducing greater flexibility into the applied part of the maths A level syllabus several years ago is that the number of students opting for mechanics has dropped dramatically. Since Newtonian mechanics plays a vital role in preparing students for subjects like engineering and physics, this decline means that they are illequipped in the essential skills of mathematical modelling and problem solving.

We funded a symposium at Cambridge University in 2008 which brought together all the key interested parties. A report was produced and circulated to the appropriate quarters, with a set of recommendations.

We anticipate that these will result in some interesting projects for potential funding.

Poor numeracy amongst young people and adults is a growing problem. We are co-funding a research report by New Philanthropy Capital into the issue and expect that its findings may create possible opport■ unities.

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We hope that our programme will help to increase the number of pupils continuing to study maths beyond 16

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Conservation In 2008 the Foundation launched its proactive programme in conservation. The Trustees intend to distribute £1.25m over a five-year period. Although we have traditionally been a significant supporter of textile conservation projects, the proactive programme will cover a much broader range of disciplines, including textiles.

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Background Conservation serves a critical role in allowing the enjoyment of the visual arts, crafts and the built environment. For the purposes of the programme, conservation is defined as covering the preservation and restoration of works of art and artefacts of historical significance, and refers to both preventive and remedial work. Our focus will be on ‘moveable heritage’ and

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In its first year, the programme has funded the salary cost of the industry body’s CEO, created internships in textile conservation and established a fellowship programme

excludes the natural environment.

As part of the preparation for the programme, we co-funded a piece of research by the leading think tank Demos entitled ‘It’s a Material World – Caring for the Public Realm’ which was launched at a conservation conference at the end of 2008.

The report concluded that conservation is important to the public realm, and that the UK profession has an excellent reputation internationally. The sector body, the Institute of Conservation (ICON), had been key in providing a lead voice for the sector, but it needs to make itself heard at policy level to ensure that Government understands the important role conservation plays. This is particularly important given actual and threatened course closures.

The Textile Conservation Centre, which has received significant support from the Foundation over many years, is closing in late 2009. The University of Southampton, of which the TCC is part, has determined that the Centre is not financially viable. Separately, a joint Victoria & Albert Museum/Royal College of Art course is ending in 2010 and Durham’s programme in archaeological conservation ended in 2005.

The House of Lords Science and Heritage report in 2006 concluded that the conservation sector in the UK was in serious decline and a national strategy was required. It contained a number of recommendations for action by Government; however, the only result has been an allocation to a research funding programme through the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

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Influencing policy The Trustees were of the view that much needed to be done in the conservation sector and that ICON was the appropriate body to take the agenda forward. However, in order to do this it required additional resources.

Accordingly, we have agreed a grant of £180,000 to ICON to allow them to recruit a full-time Chief Executive for a three year period. Jessica Wanamaker has been appointed to the role with effect from July 2009.

Education and skills Initial training and learning and continuing professional development are equally important in the conservation sector.

The Heritage Lottery Fund has run an internship programme in conservation, but this will end in 2010.

The pressure on institutions’ budgets means that conservators are increasingly focused on exhibition preparation rather than collection care or research, and more staff are being employed on short-term contracts.

In light of the above, and in response to the closure of the Textile Conservation Centre, we have committed £140,000 to fund a programme of textile conservation internships at Historic Royal Palaces. Based at Hampton Court Palace, HRP has the largest textile conservation programme in the UK with fourteen specialists.

The first twelve-month placement, aimed at recent textile conservation graduates, begins in September 2009. Further internships will be offered in the subseq-

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uent four years of the programme.

Through our long association with the City & Guilds, we have established a joint programme to provide bursaries totalling £50,000 in stone and wood conservation over five years to undergraduates at the City & Guilds of London Art School.

We have also established a research fellowship programme, for which £400,000 has been allocated over a five year life. Institutions may apply for funding to allow an experienced member of staff to take time out from their day to day role to carry out a piece of research for a period of up to two years.

Whilst the senior conservator is working on this project, their post will be back-filled by a junior conservator who will be able to gain valuable experience in a museum at the start of their career. Our £80,000 funding pays for the salary and on-costs of the junior fellow over two years, whilst the senior fellow continues to be paid by their employer.

The first fellowship was awarded in July 2009 to the Tate to allow an experienced conservator, Rica Jones, to continue her research into methods and materials used in painting in Britain from 1530 to 1790.

Continuing professional development (CPD) is critical for conservators to stay abreast of developments in their discipline. Conferences and seminars are held internationally and budget constraints mean that many conservators struggle to raise the necessary funds.

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We launched a programme in March 2009 to provide bursaries of up to £1,000 towards the cost of conservators attending such events. The Trustees have allocated £30,000 per year for five years to the programme. We are seeing a good flow of applications across a range of disciplines.

We are fortunate to have the benefit of expert advice in helping us to judge applications under the fellowship and CPD programmes – David Saunders, Head of Conservation at the British Museum, Leslie Carlyle, former Head of Conservation at Tate, and Nell Hoare, Director of the Textile Conservation Centre (and a Liveryman of the Company).

Next steps We have made a good start with the programme, with the above initiatives representing £870,000 of the £1.25m budget over five years.

Our focus will continue to be in the development of skills and increasing the influence of the sector, but may also encompass equipment funding and conservation science projects on a selective basis.

We are able to support textile conservation projects separately through the main reactive grants programme and are in preliminary discussions on several potent■ ially interesting initiatives.

Institute of Conservation Chief Executive’s salary over three years £180,000

National Museum of Labour History Textile conservation studio in Manchester

Historic Royal Palaces Postgraduate textile conservation internships £140,000

City and Guilds of London Institute Bursaries in stone and wood conservation at City and Guilds of London Art School £25,000

Textile Conservation Centre Foundation Research paper on the cultural value of conservation, and MA scholarships £45,800

Total £430,800

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T H E C L OT H WO R K E R S ’ C O M PA N Y 2009-2010 Master Neil Foster Wardens Richard Jonas John Stoddart-Scott DL David Bousfield Sir Jonathan Portal Bt Assistants Emeriti Lt Cmdr Peter Angell MBE DSC RN Peter Luttman-Johnson TD Richard Horne John Horne JP Geoffrey Purefoy The Viscount Slim OBE DL Alan Mays-Smith DL Professor John Waterlow CMG Anthony Purefoy MBE Alastair Ingham Clark Sir John Hall Bt Philip Sumner Errol Mews Nigel Yonge Paul Wates

Court of Assistants Alastair Leslie TD John Hutchins Richard Saunders Richard Jones Paul Bowerman John Jones John Papworth Timothy Morgan Christopher Jonas CBE Anthony West DL Henry McDougall Robin Booth Christopher McLean May Michael Malyon Antony Jones Michael Howell Rear Admiral Michael Harris JP Oliver Howard Melville Haggard David Sutcliffe OBE DL Timothy Bousfield Robert Wade Michael Jarvis Timothy Roberton Carolyn Boulter Peter Langley John Wake John Coombe-Tennant

T H E C L OT H WO R K E R S ’ F O U N DAT I O N Chairman John Stoddart-Scott DL

Deputy Chairman Carolyn Boulter

Trustees Neil Foster Christopher Jonas CBE Melville Haggard Richard Jonas Oliver Howard Michael Malyon Michael Howell Christopher McLean May Michael Jarvis Sir Jonathan Portal Bt

Clerk to the Company and Chief Executive of the Foundation Andrew Blessley Beadle and Hall Manager Michael Drummond

Grants Manager Philip Howard

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