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 [...]
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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 [...]
Northern Rock Foundation has confirmed that its main grant programmes will continue unchanged in 2012. £8.7 million will be available this year to help people who are vulnerable, disadvantaged, homeless, living in poverty or are victims of crime or discrimination. Penny Wilkinson, Chief Executive, said: “In recent months we have seen rising levels of poverty, [...]
Northern Rock Foundation is giving around £1.8 m to support groups in the North East and Cumbria in its latest round of grants – with two awards geared at tackling the problem of reoffending. Forty nine per cent of adults who serve time in prison are reconvicted within one year of their release and, for [...]
Northern Rock Foundation welcomes the announcement that Virgin Money will become the new owner of Northern Rock plc and that the current arrangement between the bank and the Foundation will be extended until the end of 2013. Alastair Balls, Chairman of the Foundation said: “We look forward to working with Virgin Money and their not-for-profit [...]
Northern Rock Foundation is calling on voluntary organisations and social enterprises to come up with fresh ideas to help them grow in size, improve long term sustainability and increase their impact.
TWO Cumbrian companies can carry on caring thanks to grants from Northern Rock Foundation.
As part of its latest round of grant handouts, the Foundation has awarded more than £120,000 to carer support organisations Eden Carers and Cumbria Crossroads.
The Foundation has commissioned CAADA, Women’s Aid and Respect to deliver courses in Newcastle in 2011/12. The Foundation will fully fund the cost of each course on the understanding that if learners do not complete the course their organisation will have to re-pay the full cost.
Supporting the work of volunteers, encouraging partnerships between business and charities, and helping voluntary organisations to find new and innovative ways to provide services are just a sample of the 147 projects funded by the Northern Rock Foundation in 2010 and reported in the 2010 Annual Review which has just been published.