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 [...]
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.
Over the past five years the Foundation has invested £3.5 million in a multi-agency domestic abuse initiative.
Study into the extent and characteristics of the sex market and sexual exploitation in County Durham and Darlington. These reports are the latest in a series giving findings from research undertaken by Barefoot Research Evaluation
Two major studies chart the strengths and the vulnerabilities of the voluntary sector in the North East and Cumbria and point to the actions organisations will need to consider in order to respond to change whilst facing additional demand and managing an uncertain financial future.