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A. National Cataloguing Grants Programme for Archives
National Cataloguing Programme....... £500,000 over 5 years, currently in year 1 of second 5
year grant.
All the successful applicants to the Grants Programme for 2013 have been informed and the
first instalments of the grants have been paid.
B. Association of Independent Museums
AIM.................................................. £322,500 over 3 years, currently in Year 1 (2077,
£315,000 over 3 years; 2010, £165,000 over 3 years)
Reports from AIM on the two grants programmes (Preventive Conservation and
Conservation) are attached.
C. National Manuscripts Conservation Trust
National Manuscripts Conservation
Trust................................................... £120,000 over 3 years, currently in Year 1 (previous
grant of £120,000 over 3years)
Two projects were awarded grants by the NMCT in December 2013 thanks to the Pilgrim
Trust’s support.
1.
University of Southampton: Conservation of the papers of the first Duke of
Wellington
Grant of £10,000
This is the third grant awarded by NMCT towards this major project. In 2011 a grant of
£12,500 was awarded; in 2012 a further grant was awarded at the same level and this time
using Pilgrim Trust funds. At their meeting on 2nd December, the Trustees decided to award
a further grant of £10,000, again using Pilgrim Trust funds.
Summary of the project and the items being conserved
“The Wellington Papers are the principal collection of the military, official, political and
diplomatic papers of the first Duke of Wellington. The archive contains some 100,000 items
covering the Duke’s life from 1790 until 1852. The archive came with a major burden of
conservation: in 1983, we estimated that some 10,000 items had been seriously damaged,
principally by water and mould, and that the archive needed approximately 50 years of
conservation work. We have made good progress; by 2010 approximately 70% had been
conserved. This application follows on from the support that the NMCT gave in us in 2011,
for two years, and continues the conservation programme with the aim of completing the
work on the archive for 2015, the bicentenary of Waterloo.
The four-year, £420,000 conservation project is focused on the following material:
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Wellington Papers 1 (General correspondence, 1790-1832)
— 16 bundles of papers from 1832 (approximately 600-700 items), of which 6 are in an
extremely fragmentary state
— 300-400 items from 1811, in a similar state
— 47 bundles of papers (approximately 3,400 items) from 1815: all need surfacing cleaning
and flattening, with 50% needing aqueous treatments and 37% repair.
Wellington Papers 2 (General correspondence, 1833-52)
— About 1,550 items have suffered badly from mould and were repaired using
lamination with heat-set tissue in the 1970s. These documents are in some cases
pulling apart vertically with the text adhering to parts of the tissue.
Wellington Papers 9 (Military archives for the departments of the army under
Wellington’s command during the Peninsular War and Waterloo campaign)
— About 9,000 items in the same state as the materials for 1815 in Wellington Papers 1.
Two of the remaining fragmented bundles from 1832 awaiting conservation treatment
2.
Winchester Cathedral Trust: The Winchester Bible
Grant of £10,000
The Winchester Bible is the largest and finest of the great Romanesque Bibles, it is
considered to be a candidate for one of the greatest works of art in England. The Bible has
been rebound several times, the last of which was in 1948, and now consists of four volumes
with oak boards and leather backs. The four Bible volumes show signs of surface damage
throughout and are in need of conservation. In addition, the present binding does not
adequately support the leaves, causing them to arch. About a quarter of the historiated
initials need consolidation.
The Winchester Bible will form the centrepiece of a new exhibition. It is planned to loan two
volumes of the Bible to the Metropolitan Museum in New York from December 2014 –
March 2015. The materials and skills necessary to optimise the conservation conditions for
the Bible are in short supply. In particular, many of the materials of the quality required for
rebinding are no longer produced, and this may be the last opportunity to undertake this type
of work to a standard befitting these volumes.
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From the Book of Jeremiah
Unfinished illuminated initial ‘C’, the page has
instructions for the illuminator
The total cost of this conservation project is very large, £291,000, but the pressure on the
funds available meant that the NMCT Trustees were able to award only £10,000.
Nevertheless, it is hoped that this, together with the funds already secured, will enable the
conservation of the first two volumes to go ahead.
D. National Churches Trust
National Churches Trust.................... £200,000 for 2014 (grant decided annually since early
1950s, previous grant of £200,000 for 2013)
In early December the Director attended a grants committee meeting at the National
Churches. She was astonished by the number of applications that the committee had to
consider and at how difficult it was to choose between the projects. All the churches
presented had urgent repair bills and the choice came down, in the end, to the ability of the
congregation to raise funds from other sources and how active it was within its community.
A meeting is planned between the Director of the National Churches Trust and the Director
of the Pilgrim Trust is to take place soon to discuss Georgina’s reaction to the meeting and
the way it was approached.
E. Church Buildings Council
Grants for Conservation of Important
Contents of Churches in England ................. £150,000 for 2014 (previous grant £150,000
grants, decided annually since 1950s)
At the last meeting it was agreed that, in addition to the annual block grant, the Pilgrim Trust
should identify and support one of the Treasures in Church of England Parish Churches
identified as being most at risk by the Church Buildings Division. An early and highly
important brass has been identified of Sir Roger de Septvans in Chartham. Trustees agreed
that they would commit up to £10,000 or the actual cost of the conservation work, whichever
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is the lower. Details of the conservation work and the costs are awaited and Sarah Staniforth
will be consulted before any final decision is made.
Cathedrals Fabric Repair Fund.................... £100,000 for 2014 (grants decided annually, two
previous grants of £100,000 per annum).
The following grants were agreed at the meeting at the end of November of the expert grants
panel.
Cathedral
Project
Birmingham
External repairs
Exeter
Repairs to St
Edmunds Chapel
Repairs to Holy Spirit
Chapel gable
Repairs to north side
of presbytery
Repairs to north nave
roof
Repairs to drains
Repairs to aisle roofs
Repairs to south-west
porch
Repairs to north and
south aisle interior
roofs
Repairs to Central
Tower
Repairs to crypt
Repairs to north wall
of north Transept
Repairs to roof
cresting
Repairs to north-west
turret
Repairs to St Thomas
Chapel
Peterborough
Salisbury
St Albans
Coventry
Norwich
Southwark
Liverpool
York Minster
Coventry
Ely
Exeter
Lincoln
Portsmouth
Total
Amount
requested
Expert panel
recommendation
Previous
fabric
repair
grants no.
Previous
Fabric
Repair
Fund
total
£110,000
£85,000
0
£0
£69,508
£50,000
0
£0
£85,208
£50,000
2
£49,000
£96,027
£45,000
1
£50,000
£85,000
£35,000
0
£0
£29,068
£40,126
£73,425
£20,000
£20,000
£20,000
1
1
2
£54,000
£60,000
£191,000
£49,100
£15,000
0
£0
£22,804
£10,000
1
£20,000
£70,000
£100,000
£0
£0
1
1
£54,000
£100,000
£28,200
£0
0
£0
£95,000
£0
3
£290,000
£50,000
£0
1
£100,000
£1,003,466
£350,000
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F. St Giles Trust
St Giles Trust..........................
£90,000 committed for 2014/15.
£270,000 over 3 years, currently in year 3. Further
At their last meeting, Trustees asked that St Giles report on how it is responding to the
Transforming Rehabilitation agenda and which providers it is partnering.
TRANSFORMING REHABILITATION
MILESTONE: TIER 1 PQQ DEADLINE – REPORT FROM ST GILES
Friday, 15th November was the final deadline for potential primes to submit their expression
of interest to the MOJ for the Transforming Rehabilitation (or Rehabilitation Programme as it
is now being called).
Currently, the Trust is entering into the next phase of the TR Competition with a view to
considering two types of relationships with prime contractors.
The first will be sub-contracting arrangements in which we will seek to negotiate a delivery
role for St Giles Trust primarily around custodial resettlement interventions and through the
gate support of offenders serving less than 12 months. At the moment we have had a number
of discussions with Stonham, Working Links and Capita, who we have signed NonDisclosure Agreements with. These discussions have included what role we might provide
and how we can contribute to the development of their generic delivery model. All of these
have identified at least one Contract Package Area which we regard as a priority (Wales,
Thames Valley, West Yorkshire, Kent/Surrey/Sussex, London,
Northants/Beds/Herts/Cambs).
The second type of relationship is one in which the prime or Tier 1 has offered us a more
integral role within the new Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) as part of a Joint
Venture. To date we have been offered just such an opportunity in partnership with Ingeus
and CRI in which we will receive a small equity stake in any CRC the JV is successfully
awarded. The equity stake comes with no financial risk i.e. we are not required to put up any
capital to support it (this will be covered by Ingeus) and we would not be exposed to any
financial risk if the JV does not hit its performance targets. However we would receive the
appropriate proportion of any PBR reward. Ingeus have submitted their intention to create
such a JV in their PQQ submission and both CRI and ourselves have signed letters of intent
to support this proposal.
What this kind of arrangement means is that St Giles Trust will be elevated to the status of
Tier 1 albeit with small shares and minimal financial risks. However we are aware there are
other risks associated with such a status. This offer has arisen because we have expressed
interest in “sitting at the top table” and influencing the design of delivery models in order to
ensure our distinct approach is embedded thereby enhancing our ability to deliver services
our way. However, the Tier 1’s we are in discussion with are wishing to develop a generic
delivery model which can be applied across all the CPA’s for which they are bidding. For us
to influence this therefore we need to be involved in all of these CPA’s and not just the ones
of our choosing.
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One of the initial risks therefore is that we will find ourselves in “national” agreements with
multiple Tier 1’s who are shortlisted for the same CPA’s. In such cases Tier 1’s will be
unhappy at us being privy to sensitive commercial information and talking to their
competitors and therefore we may face a choice of withdrawing from one or more of these
partnerships. This could clearly have a negative impact on ensuring we are in the best
position to protect the services in our priority CPA’s.
To mitigate the above scenario we believe there may be two options which will need further
exploration:
 Where we have existing HIAS contracts with the Prison Service (London, Thames
Valley and Surrey, Sussex and Kent CPA’s) we seek negotiations with all shortlisted
Tier 1’s that these contracts be “novated” to the new CRC with St Giles Trust
continuing to deliver the services. This would protect existing work and potentially
enable us to work with at least one Tier 1 to scale up this work considerably.
 We negotiate national arrangements to provide for us to be excluded from having
access to the sensitive commercial information for CPA’s where we may be working
with more than 1 provider. This exclusion would only be for the period of the tender
and if the Tier 1 wins the contract we would then return to the table to discuss
establishing a footprint at a later date in the contract. This option has the potential to
work best in those CPA’s where we have no existing footprint and therefore still
enables us to plan for further growth during the period of these contracts.
It is also worth noting that in London, which is our Number 1 priority CPA it is unlikely we
will be involved in anything other than a sub-contracting arrangement with Tier 1’s and
therefore the scenario outlined above is less likely to happen.
What will the benefits of seeking national arrangements with Tier 1’s (particularly outside
London) actually look like? How will it enable us to deliver services our way?
1. We are being offered the opportunity to work with Bid teams on all aspects of the
delivery model design thereby ensuring that employment of Peer Advisors is central
to their thinking. It enables us to have a proactive discussion on this subject rather
than a potentially reactive one which might occur if we are a sub-contractor receiving
an offer of delivery.
2. We will have representation on the Boards of the new CRC’s . This will ensure that
we will have a permanent voice on the management and direction of the new CRC’s
and allow us to continue improving the way in which ex-offenders are employed to
deliver services.
3. It will give us leverage to build into delivery models a level of involvement from us
which is sensitive to our own capacity to scale up and directly deliver services. In
effect we can decide which CPA’s we wish to deliver in from day 1 and those that we
wish to scale up into at a later date. The length of the contracts (mooted anything from
10-13 years at the moment) provides us for the first time with a realistic opportunity
for long-term planning for growth.
4. Following on from the above, this is a unique opportunity for us to spread the St Giles
Trust model properly onto a truly national stage without having to do it all at once!
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Next Steps:
 Internally we will now be prioritising the development of a financial model which
will enable us to assess the level at which we can scale up not just from Day 1 but
over the first few years of the planned contracts.
 Joint Venture activity – with Ingeus we are now moving towards negotiation of a
Bidding Agreement which will also provide the Heads of Terms for the final
Shareholders Agreement for any CPA which the JV may win. We will be seeking
legal advice during these negotiations. .
 Between now and when the CPA shortlisting is announced there are likely to be
further discussions with Stonham, Working Links and Capita around partnership
structures and provisional delivery offers.
The Ministry of Justice has recently announced the successful organisations/consortia that
have passed the first stage of the competition to win the 21 regional resettlement and
supervision contracts:
Bidder name
Partners include
A4e Ltd
ARCC Ltd
Fabrick Housing; the Wise Group; Safe in Tees Valley; Tees Esk and
Wear Valleys Foundation Trust; the Vardy Foundation; Changing Lives
in the North East CIC (Potential Durham Tees Valley staff Mutual) ;
Stockton Borough Council; Darlington Borough Council.
Aspire2 Change Ltd (Essex Probation Trust Potential Mutual)
Capita Plc
Chalk Ventures Ltd
A4e Ltd; Bridges Ventures LLP; Co:here (Potential Kent Surrey Sussex
staff Mutual)
Crime Reduction Initiatives Ltd
CRR Partnership Ltd Carillion Plc, Reed in Partnership Ltd; Rehabilitation for Addicted
Prisoners Trust (RAPt)
EOS Works Ltd
GEODelta
GMCSodexo
Hampshire
Rehabilitation
Services
Home Group Ltd
Ingeus UK
Geo Group UK Ltd; Delta Rehabilitation Ltd (potential Humberside,
Lincolnshire and York and North Yorkshire staff Mutual)
Sodexo; Greater Manchester and Cheshire Staff Group (Potential Greater
Manchester and Cheshire Staff Mutual)
Hampshire County Council; Altered Images Management Ltd (Potential
Hampshire Probation Trust Staff Mutual)
Ingeus UK; St Giles Trust; Crime Reduction Initiatives (CRI)
Innovo (CLM) Ltd
Innovo (CLM) (Potential Cumbria, Lancashire, Merseyside staff Mutual);
The Manchester College
Interserve Investments Ltd
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Home Group and
Home Group; Mercia Community Action (Mercia Community Action is a
Mercia Community CLG comprising a potential mutual of staff from West Mercia and
Action
Warwickshire Probation Trust and Willowdene Rehabilitation)
Momentis and Home Home Group; Momentis (Potential Mutual including Leicestershire and
Group
Rutland Probation Trust staff)
MTC Amey
MTC (UK) Ltd; Amey Community Ltd
Northern Inclusion DISC; The Cyrenians; Groundwork NE; Mental Health Concern;
Consortium Ltd
Spectrum Community Health CIC
Pertemps People Development Group
Prospects Services
Prospects Resolutions Prospects Services; Resolutions Ltd (Potential West Yorkshire staff
Ltd
mutual).
Seetec Business Technology Centre Ltd
Sentinel Offender Services Ltd
Shaw Trust
Shaw Trust; (Potential involvement of Dorset Devon and Cornwall staff
mutual)
Sodexo UK & Ireland
The GEO Group UK Ltd
The Manchester College
The Rehabilitation
Catch 22 Ltd; Turning Point; Williams Lea (division of DHL)
Company
Working Links
G. Prison Reform Trust
As it is such a short time since the previous report was received, no further information has
been requested since. However, Jenny Oppenheimer attended a Steering Group meeting in
December and her note follows:
Update on PRT’s Advisory Committee meeting on December 2nd
The full minutes of the meeting have yet to be circulated. See below for key points covered
during the meeting.
 Juliet Lyon acknowledged that the government’s Advisory Board on Female
Offenders was more- or-less window dressing. She gave as an example the recent
prison estate review – the Advisory Board was not consulted and only saw a copy of
the review at the very last minute.
 There are a number of judicial reviews being conducted about the closure of HMPs
East Sutton Park and Askam Grange. The reviews are being done by the inmates
themselves.
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Women in Prison (WIP) has received funding to develop a new women's centre in
Lambeth. WIP is working with the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC),
the Council and Eves (Eves works with trafficked women and WIP brings criminal
justice experience).
PRT is working with the Big Lottery London on a bid for BIG England. The
intelligence is that BIG wants to see a reduction in the number of women being
imprisoned and will consider supporting up to 3 women centres. It’s likely that BIG
will be looking at areas were women offender numbers are high e.g. Haringay and
Lambeth.
Revolving Doors has published a review of the Police and Crime Commissioners one
year on and highlighted women as a priority area.
Developments with the Offender Rehabilitation Bill - the Human Rights Commission
has asked the MOJ to explain what it is doing about equality impact assessments.
However, the MOJ still can't provide any reliable information on how many women
they anticipate will breach under Transforming Rehabilitation (TR). A suggested
approach was for PRT to say that TR would have a disproportionate effect on women
and that women's community services could be an answer.
Following John Podmore’s suggestions, the Prison Reform Trust has developed a graph
showing the women’s prison population and total prison receptions. These are attached.
The Prison Reform Trust has published a survey of good practice abroad in community
disposals for female offenders. This can be found at:
http://www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk/Portals/0/Documents/international%20good%20practice
%20final.pdf
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