Northern Rock Foundation has today announced the final details of its Third Sector Trends Study – an innovative research programme on the scale, dynamics and needs of the voluntary and community sector in North East England and Cumbria. Using a broad definition of the sector, including charities, social enterprises and smaller community groups not on [...]
The grants will help organisations across North East England and Cumbria to tackle disadvantage and improve people’s quality of life. They cover the full spectrum of interests the Foundation has focused on in 2007. Those benefiting include people with mental health problems, children and young people at risk and the long-term unemployed. Arts and heritage [...]
Northern Rock Foundation is today announcing its plans for 2008. The Trustees have set an initial grants budget for the year of £7 million to support work with the following groups: older people; people with mental health problems; people with and learning disabilities; carers; disadvantaged young people; people trying [...]
These grants demonstrate the Foundation’s continuing commitment to tackling disadvantage and improving quality of life in North East England and Cumbria. They cover the full spectrum of the Foundation’s interests. Those benefiting include people with mental health problems, older people, children and young people at risk and the long-term unemployed. Arts and heritage organisations will [...]
Northern Rock Foundation has today announced its latest round of small grants to organisations seeking to tackle disadvantage and improve quality of life in North East England and Cumbria. Community activities, training for disadvantaged young people and services for people with mental health problems are all set to benefit. The latest small grants – awards [...]
An independent evaluation of Northern Rock Foundation’s grants to organisations tackling worklessness and financial exclusion has shown that the investments are making people richer and reaching those that statutory agencies find difficult to help. Drawing on theories of personal change used in psychology, the author, David Wilkinson, concludes that people who are already well motivated [...]
Northern Rock Foundation today launches its new series of research publications, Think, with a report on family and social support for prisoners in the North East. The report highlights the need for better services to help prisoners maintain relationships with their families, and the need for families of prisoners to have meaningful and stress-free visiting [...]
A project supporting lesbian and gay victims of hate crime, and an emergency accommodation project for homeless young people and a unique railway heritage scheme are among projects in the North East and Cumbria set to benefit from grants announced today by Northern Rock Foundation. 35 organisations will receive grants totalling £3,863,899 approved by the [...]
Managers from some of the North East region’s leading voluntary sector organisations have received management honours at a special presentation in Murton on 15th May 2007. 48 managers achieved an NVQ in Management at level three or above, as a result of Project North East’s ‘Building Capacity in Voluntary Organisations’ (BCVO) management development programme, which [...]
Northern Rock Foundation, one of the UK’s largest independent grant-makers, has committed £750,000 over seven years to a unique programme of research into the scale, role and contribution of the third sector in northern England. It has appointed the leading voluntary sector researcher, Cathy Pharoah, to chair an advisory group, which also includes representatives of [...]
