This is a free seminar presented by Lemos&Crane and supported by Northern Rock Foundation Date: 16 January 2013 Time: 2pm – 4.30pm Venue: Life Conference and Banqueting, Times Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4EP People with learning disabilities living independently in the community experience a disturbing range of harassment, abuse and related crime with alarming [...]
The North East Dementia Alliance is running two events to build on the success of the report ‘Knowing the Foundation of Dementia Friendly Communities for the North East‘ in Newcastle and Middlesbrough and will include workshops and presentations by speakers including: Alastair Balls (Northern Rock Foundation and Alzheimer’s Society) Ian Sherriff (Plymouth University) Philly Hare [...]
In October 2012 Foundation Trustees approved grants totalling £887,069 to help tackle disadvantage in the North East and Cumbria. This included a grant of £83,931 to the George Hardwick Foundation to employ an advice and information manager who will support carers with health and social care issues in Stockton. The George Hardwick Foundation £83,931 3 [...]
In May & July 2012 Foundation Trustees approved grants totalling £2.239 million to help tackle disadvantage in the North East and Cumbria. Middlesbrough First was awarded a grant of £114,236 over three years to cover the core costs of the organisation. Middlesbrough First provides advocacy and training to people with learning disabilities. Age UK Newcastle [...]
Women do not think the police take rape, domestic violence and stalking as seriously as they should do, according to research by Durham University. The study found that only half the women would definitely report domestic violence if it happened to them. The findings come ahead of elections in November for the new Police and [...]
Communities across the North East and Cumbria have benefited from over £7 million in grants awarded by the Northern Rock Foundation. The Foundation distributed more grants in 2011 than in the previous year, with 146 voluntary organisations and groups, who support the region’s most vulnerable people, receiving 166 grants worth a total of £7.4 million. [...]
A national charity, which helps ex-offenders turn their lives around, is setting up a project in Durham with help from the Northern Rock Foundation. Addaction was founded in 1967 to work with people in the criminal justice system who have misused drugs and alcohol and offers rehabilitation, not only to them but also to their [...]
Two Sunderland charities set up to help families cope with traumatic domestic situations have received grants totalling almost £130,000 from the Northern Rock Foundation. Silksworth not-for-profit organisation, Sunderland Area Parent Support, was established in 2007 to help the families and friends of people struggling with drug and alcohol addictions, by providing practical advice along with [...]
A Cumbrian charity, which provides support to homeless people, is celebrating after receiving a grant of £80,000 from the Northern Rock Foundation. Manna House, at Aynam Road, Kendal, helps homeless people who are not eligible for statutory help from the local council. These are mostly single men but the charity is also increasingly helping homeless [...]
A Middlesbrough charity, which provides support to victims of domestic violence, has received a grant of £90,000 from the Northern Rock Foundation. My Sister’s Place (MSP), at Borough Road, is a specialist service set up to provide legal advice and support to women aged 16 and over who have experienced domestic abuse. As well as [...]
