Here is a list of some of the projects recently funded by The Anchor Foundation :

ST LUKE’S CHURCH - £500 for a Community Development and Outreach project in Oxford

KIDZ KLUB – £598 for a digital camera and puppets in Preston

KARIS NEIGHBOUR SCHEME - £1000 – To support a drop-in group for refugee women and children of many nationalities often newly arrived in Birmingham.

RIVERSIDE SCHOOL OF PERFORMING – £1050 - RSPA trains young Christians to use their performing skills to help young people.

SOMEWHERE ELSE – £1500 – Costs of teaching people in Liverpool to make bread together and to equip a prayer room

WHITEFRIARS CHURCH, RUSHDEN - £2000 –Towards the cost of running ‘The Prayer Store’ in the town centre

HAVEN IN ROMANIA - £2000 - Supporting its work with the frail and elderly in partnership with a Baptist Church in Romania

LIVERPOOL LIGHTHOUSE- £3808 – To pay for music equipment – a player and turntable for Project Harmonise

USPG - £4000 – For a Healthcare project in Southern Malawi working with adults and children and including provision of HIV protection packs

THE PILGRIM BIBLE SOCIETY - £4500 – To support a part time teacher to work with travellers and gypsies teaching literacy and training ministers to teach the Bible

SAT 7 – £5000 Towards the production and broadcast of 7 episodes of a programme for women aired on the SAT 7 channel in the Middle East and North Africa

STREETREACH- Summer Madness – £5000 - work with young people to develop positive murals in Belfast and also to pilot street drama groups

THE OK CLUB - £5000 – Founded by Christian graduates from Oxford University in 1958. Salary support for their schools worker and volunteer’s supervisor in Kilburn

CARLISLE CATHEDRAL – £5000 - To provide materials and publicity for a project making icons

BREAKOUT ADVENTURE – £5000 - For the renovation of a wooden sailing ship for young people and adults in South Wales enabling outdoor adventure programmes

THE ROCK COMMUNITY PROJECT - £6000 in total over 3 years – Revenue funding for outreach work with young people in Stirling

THE IONA COMMUNITY'S CAMUS PROJECT - £6000 to enable disabled people to use their boat.

RIDING LIGHTS - £6000 – For their Roughshod Community Theatre work particularly
in prisons and areas of urban deprivation

EXOUSIA - £7000 – To help with equipping their venue in Swansea for arts related events and develop production of a DVD based on the Beatitudes

SPRINGS DANCE COMPANY – £10,000 - Towards creating a tour performance based on the fruits of the Spirit to be taken to churches, schools, community venues etc

PSALM – (PROJECT FOR SENIORS AND LIFELONG MINISTRY) -£7200 over 3 years – to widen the scope of workshops about aging for the Christian community

FISCHY MUSIC - £9000 over three years – To assist with implementing team building for projects to promote the emotional and spiritual development of children in Scotland

THE NEHEMIAH PROJECT - £9000 over 3 years – For the salary of a Support Worker for their pioneering rehabilitation programmes in a London prison

THE FERRY PROJECT - £9000 over 3 years for arts based programmes for the homeless and unemployed run by this project founded by Wisbech Churches

CHRISTIANS AGAINST POVERTY – £10,000 - funding to assist this debt counselling charity to expand and increase the number of centres offering financial advice

HAND TO MOUTH PUPPETS - £10,000 to employ someone with media skills to make a DVD of the successful puppet programmes taken into schools

OASIS UGANDA –£10,000 in total over 2 years - For education programmes in Uganda – core costs and the rent of class rooms

CHASTE – £5450 – for artwork and design of a mobile exhibition about the work of CHASTE in addressing Sex Trafficking in Europe

WILLOWFIELD PARISH CHURCH – £10,000 in total over 3 years - for the salary of a children’s worker running life skills groups for Primary school children in N Ireland

HULL LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT – £10,500 in total over 3 years - Outreach costs to isolated women and sexually exploited children involved in prostitution

COLOSSIANS THREE SIXTEEN TRUST- £12,000 in total over 3 years – supporting Phil Baggaley’s musical and mission work at the ‘Soul Studio’ in Derby

CRANHILL PARISH CHURCH - £15,000 over 2 years – Funding for a faith and community worker using creative arts as outreach in a variety of settings in Glasgow

THE MALT CROSS TRUST COMPANY - £16,000 over 3 years – Towards the Arts and Events Co-ordinators salary at this ecumenical project for Christian artists