An initiative ploughing £4 million into tackling domestic violence is at the forefront of the Northern Rock Foundation’s plans for 2004, announced today. The Foundation, which funds causes exclusively in the North East and Cumbria, will also give £18 million in grants to tackle disadvantage and raise quality of life in the region. The Foundation’s [...]
A tool recycling project, a historic railway and a community-run regeneration scheme are among groups set to benefit from grants announced today by the Northern Rock Foundation. The Foundation’s spending has increased year on year, and in 2004 it will top £20 million for the first time. This sets it apart from some other charitable [...]
The Trustees of the Northern Rock Foundation are pleased to announce their Cultural Capital Programme for 2004. The £2 million programme will support significant, ambitious and high-quality capital projects for arts, environmental, heritage or sporting organisations in the North East and Cumbria. It builds on the Foundation’s 2003 capital scheme from which nine projects were [...]
A project working with young people excluded from school, organisations offering affordable finance and a major North East community festival are among schemes set to benefit from grants worth £2,293,438 announced by the Northern Rock Foundation today. 40 organisations across the North East and Cumbria will receive grants to support successful and creative ways of [...]
The Northern Rock Foundation, in partnership with New Writing North, launched the Northern Rock Foundation Writer’s Award in 2002 to offers writers the chance to be freed from other work commitments that limited their writing time. The award honours literary achievement and supports writers in the North East and Cumbria to maximise their creativity. Unlike [...]
The world’s biggest wooden treehouse, a visitor centre for Britain’s oldest floating warship and a first-rate cricket facility are among seven projects from across the region winning a share of £2.3 million for ambitious arts, sports and heritage schemes from the Northern Rock Foundation. The Foundation’s ‘Buildings to Inspire and Delight’ fund, launched in December [...]
The Foundation decided two years ago that it wished to make a serious investment into aspects of domestic violence. One in four women will endure some form of domestic violence during the course of her lifetime, an astounding statistic. Two women a week die at the hands of a partner or close associate in instances [...]
