Community Relations: Finance
Communities and Local Government
Written answers and statements, 3 November 2009
Paul Goodman (- Shadow Minister, Communities and Local Government; Wycombe, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 11 March 2009, Official Report, column 479W, on community relations, how much his Department plans to spend on each type of national Prevent-related project in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11; and how much funding each organisation undertaking such projects will receive for that work in each such year.
Shahid Malik (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Communities and Local Government; Dewsbury, Labour)
The Department supports Prevent-related national projects in a number of areas including: building community resilience; engaging and empowering young Muslims and Muslim women; local partnerships and delivery; faith capacity and leadership; communications; research and evaluation.
Specific national projects supporting these areas of work and how much the Department plans to spend on these in 2009-10 and 2010-11 is listed as follows:
| Specific project | Organisation | Funding in 2009-10 (£) | Funding in 2010-11 (£) |
| Contextualising Islam in Britain | Cambridge University | 56,500 | n/a |
| Islam and Citizenship Education (this is CLG's contribution. DCSF have also contributed jointly) | School Development and Support Agency | 60,000 | 75,000 |
| Radical Middle Way (RMW) | RMW | 275,000 | TBA |
| Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board (MINAB) | MINAB | 208,000 | TBA |
| FSCU (Charity Commission) | Charity Commission | 300,000 | TBA |
| Piloting of the minimum standards for Muslim chaplains engaged by public institutions | Faith Matters | 64,130 | n/a |
| Muslim Faith Leader Training Review | Gloucestershire University | 159,850 | n/a |
| Improvement and Development Agency, Peer support and review | IDeA | 316,518 | TBA |
| Capacity building grant to help improve local Prevent delivery | Government Offices | 750,000 | 750,000 |
| Creative Partnerships to promote positive alternative activities for young people | Creative Partnerships | 250,000 | 250,000 |
| Communications toolkit for local partners: to support delivery of local Prevent communications | Bold Creative | 20,000 | n/a |
| National research projects: | |||
| (a) Qualitative pilot | Ethnos | 52,065 | n/a |
| (b) Literature review | Office for Public Management (OPM) | 18,345 | n/a |
| (c) Understanding trends within Islam | Community Relations Initiative Ipsos MORI/BMRM Consortium | 8,130 | n/a |
| (d) Citizenship Survey | — | — | — |
| National Muslim Womens Advisory Group: supporting three projects: | |||
| (a) Role modelling | Equal to the Occasion | 61,980 | 20,150 |
| (b) Civic participation | Political Skills Forum | 35,910 | TBA |
| (c) Examining the role of women from a theological perspective | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| Young Muslims Advisory Group | Office for Public Management (OPM) | 164,883 | 50,850 |
| Rapid Evaluation Assessment | De Montfort University | 42,320 | n/a |
| Building community resilience through the Community Leadership Fund | Full list of organisations listed in Hansard: HL3068; answered 30 April 2009, Official Report, column WA44 | 1,569,485 | 1,024,179 |