Programmes
Our grant programmes exist to support charitable activities that have particular results, and that contribute to our aims: tackling disadvantage and improving quality of life in North East England and Cumbria.
The Foundation’s grant-making approach now focuses on sustainability. Criteria to support sustainability and consolidation apply to all our grant programmes in addition to their individual criteria.
Click here for more information on these criteria.
Each programme focuses on outcomes – changes or results – that we are interested in. Within the programmes there are approaches that we think work best to bring about those changes. Because our programmes work in this way, you should read all our guidance before applying, rather than looking to see if we have a category that names your group.
Please choose the programme whose description best fits the intended results of your work. Do not tick more than one box on the application form.
Most importantly please do not apply if your plan does not really fit anywhere within our programmes.
The grant programmes
- Managing Money helps people who are in debt or have other financial problems and needs. Find out more…
- Having a Home helps vulnerable people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. Find out more…
- Enabling Independence and Choice helps older people, people with mental health problems, people with learning disabilities, and carers. Find out more…
- Changing Lives helps young offenders and young people within the criminal justice system, refugees, asylum seekers and migrant communities, and people who misuse alcohol and/or drugs. Find out more…
- Safety and Justice for Victims of Abuse supports people who experience domestic abuse, sexual violence and exploitation and child abuse. Find out more…
- Fresh Ideas Fund provides funding for early stage development of new business ideas to help the charities we support to grow in size, increase their impact and improve their long term sustainability. Find out more…
