Northern Rock Foundation is an independent charity, which aims to tackle disadvantage and improve quality of life in the North East and Cumbria.

The Foundation gives grants to organisations which help people who are vulnerable, disadvantaged, homeless, living in poverty or are victims of crime or discrimination. We also support training, research and demonstration work and gather and share learning from the activities we fund. Where appropriate we seek to inform and influence wider regional and national policies and practice.

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Update from the Foundation

Northern Rock Foundation’s trustees have confirmed their main spending priorities for 2013 and 2014. Trustees have agreed to continue to invest in their current grant programmes over the next two years but to tighten their focus with a particular emphasis on helping voluntary organisations to become more resilient.

The Foundation will continue and increase the Fresh Ideas Fund which helps charities to grow, explore new ways of generating income and achieve greater impact. The Foundation will also work with regional and national partners to seek to increase the levels of grant funding and social investment available to the voluntary and community sector in the region.

Trustees intend to close the current grant programmes at the end of 2014, as part of the completion of the Foundation’s present five year strategy in 2015.

In order to make sure the Foundation makes best use of its funds, to achieve the most impact for disadvantaged people, we plan to target our main grants and work more closely with some of our current grantholders. Trustees have therefore decided to only accept bids for funding by invitation for the next two years. This will also help voluntary organisations by minimising wasted effort on unsuccessful applications.

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Resource Centre

Northern Rock Foundation’s Resource Centre is your source of information on monitoring and evaluation, training opportunities and the Foundation’s library of research.

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Our Grants

To search grants awarded, to read about the Foundation’s Star Projects or to browse through the Foundation’s annual review, please visit our grants page.