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- Is crowd funding the future for play in London?
- Islington Play plans big improvements to adventure play
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- Battersea no more
- Report reveals dramatic decline in children's independence
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- London SPG on play and informal recreation
- Low cost play is high value
- Lambeth adventure playgrounds closed
- Wandsworth approves playing field sell off
- Free play trumps paid for excursions for summer fun
- Sedentary children display poorer motor skills
- Children's screen addiction creating couch potatoes of the future
- Which mayor would be best for play?
- Recession leads to resurgence in outdoor play
- Out of the ashes - Home Park is reborn
- Cardboard boxes promote active play
- Adventure playground falls victim to cuts
- Playgrounds keep children from sliding into crime, say stars
- Council to take 'adventure' out of Battersea playground
- Triangle lights up in time for Christmas
- Let children play in the street to prevent them getting fat
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- 2012 The Year of the Dragon, a year in play
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- London kids keep it wheel at Go Kart Grand Prix
- London Play survey: play takes a slide down councils' priority list
- Chief executive Dr Ute Navidi to leave London Play
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- Lady Allen of Hurtwood Trust - Travel Awards
- Landfill Communities Fund
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Abbey Charitable Trust
The trustees are committed to supporting local communities, particularly in those areas where Abbey has a significant presence. Priorities for 2004 include supporting disadvantaged people through:
- Education and training - this may lead to a recognised qualification or be part of lifelong learning for disadvantaged people. Charities will need to demonstrate how training will make a lasting contribution to their local community.
- Local regeneration projects which encourage cross community partnerships - to meet this priority different parts of the community need to work together to help regenerate their local area. The aim is to encourage community networks, partnerships and shared resources. This would include intergenerational work, inclusion of disadvantaged people, cross community projects, encouraging diversity or networks of people from different ethnic groups to work together.
The Trust has a donations policy and does not for example make donations which:
- Are for salaries or core costs
- Benefit or sponsor specific individuals
- Support lobbying or political parties
- Would benefit principally a single religious or ethnic group
- Are to help causes outside the UK
- Are to replace statutory funding
- Are for more than one year.
The Trustees favour smaller charities, local charities or local appeals from national charities.
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Contact details: PO Box 911, Milton Keynes MK9 1AD, tel 0870 608 0104 or email
