Charities and voluntary organisations throughout the North East and Cumbria could enjoy a £50,000 investment thanks to the Northern Rock Foundation. The Foundation has joined forces with Newcastle-based venture capital firm Northstar Ventures to launch round two of its Fresh Ideas Fund and has £500,000 to invest in community projects across the region. Now, it [...]
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 [...]
A Tyne Valley charity, which provides support for women and children who have been victims of domestic abuse, has received a grant of more than £75,000 from the Northern Rock Foundation. Hexham-based SixtyEightyThirty, which takes its name from the last six digits of its telephone number, was established in 2003 and has grown steadily since [...]
A North East theatre company, run by and for people with learning disabilities, has received a grant of almost £80,000 from the Northern Rock Foundation. The Lawnmowers Independent Theatre Company, at Swinburne Street, Gateshead, runs a wide programme of events and activities, from workshops to theatrical productions, in which learning disabled company members research, devise [...]
In March 2012 Foundation Trustees approved grants totalling £1.066 million to help tackle disadvantage in the North East and Cumbria. SixtyEightyThirty, based in Hexham, was awarded £75,632 for salary costs. SixtyEightyThirty provide services to victims of domestic abuse across Tynedale. A grant of £80,000 was awarded to Manna House in Kendal, Cumbria towards a project [...]
A report by leading academic Professor Sylvia Walby, UNESCO Chair in Gender Research, and Jude Towers at Lancaster University, raises concern about the implications of public expenditure reductions for the provision of local violence against women services. This report, commissioned by the Northern Rock Foundation and Trust for London, examines the impact of public expenditure [...]
In December 2011 the Trustees approved grants totalling £1.175 million to help tackle disadvantage in the North East and Cumbria. Carlisle Youth Zone was awarded £60,000 to provide one-to-one monitoring to young people who are involved in the criminal justice system. Tin Arts received £62,500 for the core costs of the Flex Dance Company, a [...]
