It was named in honour of his wife, who had helped establish the original WRVS and Citizens Advice organisations. Its overall aim is to support and encourage the development of a free, stable and socially cohesive society.
What does it fund? In 2005, there are four main programmes: Arts and Heritage; Education; Environment and Social Change; Enterprise and Independence.
Note that the Arts and Heritage programme specifically excludes education or proposals involving young people, but there are opportunities in the other programmes. One promising route may be in the Education programme priority of helping young people excluded from school to re-engage with education. There is also a "new approaches to education" stream that includes a priority area of "improving pupil motivation, behaviour and attainment in schools through strategies that promote young people's emotional, social and moral development". Among the recent recipients is Fairbridge,which received 150,000
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