Northern Rock Foundation

In its Annual Review, published this month, Northern Rock Foundation has celebrated 15 years of providing funding for a wide range of voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations. Alastair Balls Chairman of the Foundation said  “Over 15 years we have given out £215 million to over 2,000 organisations, to tackle some of the most difficult [...]

In July 2013, Foundation Trustees approved grants totalling £1,310,621 to help tackle disadvantage in the North East and Cumbria. Let’s Get Growing was awarded a grant of £66,760 over three years to provide people with mental health problems and people with dementia with the opportunity to take part in a gardening project in Tynedale, Northumberland. [...]