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Awarding grants since

2016

Total grant recipients

492

Total awarded in grants

£1.7m

Take a look at the local charities and causes we've supported over the years!

2016
  • Daisy Chain Project Teesside - £3,000
  • Henry Dancer Days - £1,500
  • MS Research and Relief Fund - £1,500
  • Nathan Needs - £1,135
  • Whickham Hermitage Community Garden - £1,865
2017
  • Age UK Teesside - £910
  • Baby Equipment Loan Service and Toy Library - £2,000
  • Darlington Samaritans - £840
  • Linskill and North Tyneside Community Development - £1,000
  • The Carlise Youth Zone - £2,250
  • Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade - £1,000
  • Wansbeck Valley Food Bank - £1,000
  • 5th Berwick Scout Group - £941
  • Alnwick Lions - £3,000
  • Berwick in Bloom - £786
  • Blyth Stroke Support Group - £950
  • BRAINBOX - £3,000
  • Breathing Space - £2,500
  • Bright Red - £1,500
  • Cheesy Waffles Youth Project - £1,882
  • Chirnside Common Good Association - £300
  • County Durham Stroke Club - £1,000
  • Cruse Bereavement Care - £3,000
  • East Cramlington & Seaton Valley Conservation Club - £1,000
  • Fighting All Cancers Together - £1,500
  • Forest Hall Chess Club - £500
  • Full Circle Food Project - £3,000
  • Gateshead Indoor Bowls Club - £950
  • Get Cameron Communicating - £1,056
  • Herriot Hospice Homecare - £1,200
  • Independent Advocacy North East - £3,000
  • Josephine and Jack Project - £1,950
  • Laurel Avenue Community Association - £1,000
  • Lesbury Village Hall - £1,000
  • Lets Get Growing - £3,000
  • Lovaine Community Garden - £2,000
  • Lumley Boccia and Social Group - £700
  • Pathways4All - £2,275
  • Percy Hedley Foundation - £1,500
  • Rett UK - £1,000
  • Samaritans of Tyneside - £695
  • Sara's Hope Foundation - £1,500
  • Scotswood Natural Community Garden - £3,000
  • St Oswalds Hospice - £1,000
  • Stargate and Crookhill Community Centre - £500
  • TalkinTarn Amateur Rowling Club - £2,410
  • Tees Valley Wildlife Trust - £1,330
  • Whitley Bay Tea Dance Club - £1,760
  • Zoe's Place Trust - £1,800
  • Barnados Mosaic Project - £1,500
  • Bright Futures North East - £1,250
  • Changing Lives - £1,000
  • Children's Society - £1,250
  • 1016 Berwick Squadron Air Training Corp - £1,500
  • Age UK Sunderland - £1,000
  • Alnwick Stroke Club - £1,000
  • Annie Mawsons Sunbeams Music Trust - £2,768
  • Carlisle Mencap - £2,867
  • Community @NE66 Charitable Trust - £2,000
  • Cramlington United FC - £974
  • Cruse Bereavement Credit Cumbria - £3,000
  • Duns Amateur Swimming Club - £500
  • East End Youth & Community Centre Limited - £2,879
  • Eden Carers - £2,900
  • Families First North East - £2,914
  • Great North Air Ambulance Service - £2,000
  • Hartlepool Community Broadcast - £2,100
  • James Rennie School - £1,600
  • Links Conservation Group (Blyth & Seaton Sluice) - £500
  • Men in Sheds - South Tyneside - £2,571
  • North East Hearts with Goals - £3,000
  • Northbourne Street Youth Initiative - £2,977
  • Pallister  Park Bowling Club - £1,000
  • Pelton Fell Community Partnership - £3,000
  • Rosemount Care Home - £1,500
  • Sans Street Youth & Community Centre - £2,818
  • Silverline Memories - £1,500
  • Soroptimist International Tynemouth, Whitley Bay & District - £1,500
  • South Tyneside (TEN) Training & Enterprise Network - £3,000
  • The BAY Foodbank - £3,000
  • The Cedarwood Trust - Soup-a-Gran project - £2,500
  • The Cedarwood Trust - Wor Bairns project - £2,500
  • Toma Fund - £500
  • West End Bowling Club - £2,500
  • Young Fire Fighters - Team High Hold - £1,000
2018
  • Guide Dogs for the Blind - £3,300
  • 1st Duns Brownies - £780
  • 21st Gateshead Sea Scout Group - £852
  • Abbey Hill School & Technology College - £1,000
  • Age Concern Durham County - £2,912
  • Alwick Garden Town Trust - £1,000
  • Beach Access North East - £3,000
  • BRAINBOX - £2,237
  • Brandon Boxing Club - £795
  • Chasing Rainbows - £1,763
  • Clara Vale Conservation Group - £795
  • Delves Lane Community Association - £1,500
  • Dene Circle Ladies Group - £500
  • Eden District Talking Newspaper Association - £520
  • Fighting All Cancers Together - £3,000
  • Friends of Jarrow Cemetary - £1,910
  • Gateshead Indoor Bowls Club - £2,010
  • Get U Started Training Ltd - £3,000
  • Greystoke Village Hall - £1,839
  • HealthWORKS Newcastle - £2,400
  • Josie's Dragonfly Trust - £3,000
  • Knit Knatter & Kake Community Group - £500
  • LD North East - £2,500
  • Lumley Ladies Football Club - £1,500
  • Out of Sight  - £2,500
  • Pact House - £2,500
  • Reiverdale Scout Group - £675
  • Riverside Community Health Project - £3,000
  • Silver Fox Motorcyclists - £1,125
  • Stainsby Gymnastic Club - £2,908
  • The Charlie Cookson Foundation - £3,000
  • Time Exchange - £2,876
  • Ullswater Yacht Club - £2,000
  • Weardale Community Transport - £1,125
  • West Moor Gardening Group - £711
  • Wooler Netball Club - £1,860
  • Yarm 1914 - £3,000
  • Springfield Community Association - £49,110 (Building Improvement Grant)
  • Barnabus Safe and Sound - £2,000
  • Benwell Christian Shop Project (Cornerstone) - £2,230
  • Changing Lives - £1,645
  • Citizen's Advice Carlisle & Eden - £2,000
  • Coatham House - £2,000
  • Community@NE66 Charitable Trust - £2,967
  • County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust - £2,250
  • Cramlington Voluntary Youth Project - £2,980
  • Denton Burn Community Association - £3,000
  • Durham Christian Partnership - £3,000
  • Fighting All Cancers Together - £1,608
  • Hartlepool & District Hospice - £2,656
  • Newcastle's Vision Support - £2,760
  • Oasis Aquila Housing - £3,000
  • Pathways4All - £1,476
  • Penrith Mountain Rescue Team - £3,000
  • Rape and Sexual Abuse Counselling Centre - £2,862
  • Silverline Memories - £3,000
  • Soroptimist International Tynemouth, Whitley Bay & District - £1,000
  • St Peter's Neighbourhood Association - £500
  • Stargate and Crookhill Community Centre - £1,485
  • Take Heart Support Group - £1,926
  • The BAY Foodbank - £3,000
  • The Kids and Young Adults Klub-Special Needs - £1,500
  • The Oswin Project - £2,823
  • The Road to Recovery Trust - £3,000
  • Tynedale Hospice at Home - £3,000
  • YMCA North Tyneside - £3,000
  • Rainbow Homes - £2,000
2019
  • Darcey's Dream - My Family and Siblings Matter - £3,000
  • Zoe's Place Trust - £2,642
  • Victims First Northumbria - £2,640
  • Grace House North East Children's Hospice - £3,000
  • Heddon Stitchers - £830
  • Silverline Memories - £3,000
  • The Hextol Foundation - £1,975
  • Families First North East - £3,000
  • Carlisle Key - £2,640
  • Durham Association of Boys and Girls Clubs - £2,508
  • Footsteps Children's Services Ltd - £3,000
  • St Oswalds Hospice - £1,953
  • Active Strokes North East - £3,000
  • Eaglescliffe Parish Hall Association - £2,416
  • Howick Village Hall Association - £750
  • Butterwick Children's Hospice - £2,219
  • Down's Syndrome North East - £1,300
  • Chrysalis (Cumbria) Limited - £3,000
  • North Northumberland Hospice - £3,000
  • Friends of Hadrian School - £1,500
  • 28th South Shields & 4th East Boldon Scout Group - £2,994
  • Action4Acomb - £2,846
  • Derwentside Mind - £1,800
  • Amble Youth Project Limited - £2,940
  • Castleside and District Community Association - £1,505
  • Penrith Mountain Rescue Team - £2,972
  • Escape Intervention Services Ltd - £1,000
  • The Children's Foundation - £3,000
  • The Twisting Ducks Theatre Company - £2,959
  • Kids Kabin - £1,600
  • POSCH (Parents and Carers of Special Children) - £3,000
  • Action on Dementia Sunderland - £2,944
  • Epilepsy Outlook - £1,000
  • Soroptimist International Tynemouth, Whitley Bay & District - £2,000
  • Wansbeck Valley Food Bank - £2,000
  • Neoangels - £2,400
  • The Bede Foodbank T/A Newcastle West End Foodbank – £2,688
  • St Cuthberts Care - £2,372
  • The RDA Centre in Cleveland T/A Unicorn Centre - £3,000
  • East End Youth and Community Centre Limited - £3,560
  • Barnabus Safe and Sound - £49,956 (Building Improvement Grant)
  • Earsdon and Wellfield Community Association - £49,288 (Building Improvement Grant)
  • Glendale Gateway Trust - £15,000
  • Cheesy Waffles Youth Project - £2,976
  • If You Care Share - £1,300
  • Willow Burn Hospice - £896
  • Eden Carers - £1,900
  • Carlisle Key - £2,537
  • Eden Valley Hospice - £1,400
  • Lifespan Complementary - £2,009
  • Wansbeck Valley Food Bank - £3,000
  • Litterbugs - £935
  • Tynedale Hospice at Home - £3,000
  • Sunderland Headlight - £1,392
  • Chrysalis at Tynedale - £2,900
  • YMCA Northumberland - £2,993
  • Wooler Community Food Garden - £3,000
  • Zoe's Place Trust - £3,000
  • Great North Air Ambulance Service - £1,058
  • Norton Hockey Club - £750
  • Neoangels - £2,630
  • Pathways4All - £2,700
  • The BAY Foodbank - £3,000
  • Smile for Life Children's Charity - £3,000
  • Darcy's Dream - My Family and Siblings Matter - £2,943
  • Rainbow Foundation Sunderland - £1,080
  • Gateshead Foodbank - £3,000
  • Newcastle U3A - £750
  • Age UK Gateshead - £2,580
  • The Bede Foodbank T/A Newcastle West End Foodbank - £2,885
  • NEH (North East Homeless) - £2,999
  • Baby Equipment Loan Service and Toy Library - £2,07
  • Jesmond Dementia Action Alliance - £3,000
  • Live Well With Cancer - £1,980
  • Children North East - £2,890
  • Newcastle Vision Support - £2,900
  • Walking With North Tyneside - £2,920
  • Land of Oak and Iron Trust - £1,720
  • Liberdade - £2,820
  • TEN North East Limited - £2,984
  • Whickham Cricket Club - £1,875
  • Josie's Dragonfly Trust - £1,50
  • Coldstream Playgroup & Toddlers - £937
  • Silverline Memories - £1,300
  • Berwick Male Voice Choir - £1,000
2020
  • Common Purpose Charitable Trust - £5,000
  • Northumberland Citizen Advice Bureau - £10,000
  • The Road to Recovery Trust - £10,000
  • Bede Foodbank T/A Newcastle West End Foodbank - £2,000
  • Tiny Lives - £2,958
  • SEARCH – Services for Older People - £3,000
  • Fighting All Cancers Together - £2,375
  • Silverline Memories - £3,000
  • Northumberland National Park Mountain Rescue Team - £3,000
  • Teesside Hospice Care Foundation - £2,878
  • Victims First Northumbria - £2,257
  • Cumbria Family Support - £3,000
  • TEN North East Limited - £3,000
  • Contact (Morpeth Mental Health Group) Limited - £2,950
  • The RDA Centre in Cleveland (T/A The Unicorn Centre) - £1,000
  • Daisy Chain Project Teesside - £3,000
  • Josie’s Dragonfly Trust - £1,000
  • Gateshead Citizen’s Advice Bureau - £2,000
  • Teesside Hospice Care Foundation - £5,000
  • St Cuthbert’s Hospice - £5,000
  • North Northumberland Hospice - £5,000
  • Tynedale Hospice at Home - £5,000
  • Marie Curie - £5,000
  • St Oswalds’ Hospice - £5,000
  • Hartlepool Hospice - £5,000
  • Butterwick Hospice Care - £3,000
  • Bright Red - £3,000
  • Fighting All Cancers Together - £3,000
  • Teenage Cancer Trust - £3,000
  • Eden Valley Hospice - £5,000
  • Coping with Cancer - £3,000
  • Live Well with Cancer - £3,000
  • Daft as a Brush Cancer Patient Care - £3,000
  • Harrogate District Hospice Care (Herriot Hospice Homecare) - £3,000
  • Stokesley and District Community Care Association - £3,000
  • Carlisle Foodbank - £5,000
  • Eden Carers - £4,000
  • NEH (North East Homeless) - £3,000
  • Dementia Matter - £5,000
  • Durham Action on Single Housing Ltd - £3,000
  • Harbour Support Services - £4,000
  • Wansbeck Valley Food Bank - £3,000
  • Tees Valley Young Men’s Christian Association - £3,000
  • Carlisle Key - £3,00
  • Little Sisters of the Poor - £3,000
  • Women’s Health in South Tyneside - £3,000
  • Northumberland Domestic Abuse Service - £3,000
  • NEH (North East Homeless) - £3,000
  • Wearside Women in Need - £5,000
  • Little Sprouts Health and Wellbeing - £4,000
  • Hospitality and Hope - £4,000
  • Churches Together in South Tyneside - £5,000
  • Durham Christian Partnership - £5,000
2021
  • Common Purpose Charitable Trust - £5,000
  • Haltwhistle Swimming and Leisure Centre – £2,500
  • Smart Works Newcastle - £2,688
  • The WM Morrison (Darlington) Enterprise - £4,500
  • Real Care (t/a Learning for Life) - £3,000
  • Smile for Life Children’s Charity - £4,000
  • Clean Slate Solutions - £5,000
  • Carlisle Foodbank - £3,000
  • NEH (North East Homeless) - £5,000
  • St Vincent De Paul Society - £2,500
  • Pallion Action Group - £2,880
  • Bright Futures - £3,000
  • Streetwise Young People’s Project - £5,000
  • Choysez - £4,650
  • People and Drugs - £5,000
  • TEN North East Limited - £3,000
  • YMCA North Tyneside - £5,000
  • North Tyneside Disability Forum - £3,000
  • Churches Together in South Tyneside - £3,000
  • The Cedarwood Trust - £3,000
  • South Tyneside Churches KEY Project - £3,000
  • International Community Organisation of Sunderland - £2,941
  • Regal Respite - £3,000
  • Coatham House - £2,940
  • The Mercy Project - £2,991
  • Northumbrian Citizens Advice Bureau - £3,000
  • Citizens Advice Sunderland - £2,500
  • Jewish Community Council of Gateshead - £2,500
  • Berwick Youth Project - £3,640
  • Auckland Youth and Community Centre - £3,000
  • Carlisle Key - £3,000
  • Gateshead Foodbank - £3,000
  • Footprints in the Community (Redcar Foodbank) - £3,000
  • Billingham and Stockton Borough Foodbank - £3,000 
  • Journey Enterprises - £4,908
  • The Recruitment Junction - £3,000
  • Headliners (UK) - £2,000
  • The Junction Foundation - £3,000 
  • Vision25 - £3,000
  • Way Out - £3,000
  • Community Action Northumberland - £3,000
  • Hospitality and Hope - £2,983 
  • Bensham and Saltwell Alive - £3,000
  • Healthworks Newcastle -  £2,980
  • Bell View (Belford) - £3,000
  • Community@NE66 Charitable Trust - £3,000 
  • Glendale Gateway Trust - £1,000
  • St Paul’s Community Partnership - £1,000
  • Durham Christian Partnership - £3,000
  • Upper Teesdale Agricultural Support Services - £3,000
  • Citizens Advice Newcastle - £1,850
  • Age UK Northumberland - £2,960
  • The following 8 hospices and cancer care services have each received a grant of £3,000:
  • Tynedale Hospice at Home, Northumberland - £3,000
  • Butterwick Hospice Care, County Durham - £3,000
  • Eden Valley Hospice with Jigsaw, Cumbria - £3,000
  • St Oswald’s Hospice, Tyne & Wear - £3,000
  • Coping with Cancer, Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - £3,000
  • Daft as a Brush Cancer Patient Care, Tyne & Wear - £3,000
  • St Cuthbert’s Hospice, County Durham - £3,000
  • The North Northumberland Hospice - £3,000
2022
  • Common Purpose Charitable Trust - £5,000
  • Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association (SSAFA) - £2,000
  • Whitley Bay Tea Dance Club - £1,300
  • Sunderland Bangladesh International Centre - £3,000
  • Gateway into the Community - £2,000
  • Yarm Youth and Community Association - £2,000
  • Kids Kabin, Middlesbrough - £1,000
  • Auckland Youth and Community Centre - £1,500
  • Age UK North Yorkshire & Darlington - £1,300
  • Headway Arts - £1,000
  • Barnabas Safe & Sound - £2,890
  • Blyth Resource and Initiative Centre - £2,520
  • Skills 4 Work (Gateshead) Limited - £2,940
  • The Oswin Project - £2,000
  • Cleveland Housing Advice Centre - £3,000
  • Search Newcastle - £3,000
  • Tiny Lives - £2,940
  • North East Autism Society - £3,000
  • West Northumberland Foodbank - £3,000
  • Wansbeck Valley Food Bank - £3,000
  • Bede Foodbank (t/a Newcastle West End Foodbank) - £3,000
  • Benwell Christian Shop Project (Cornerstone) - £1,758
  • The Customs House Trust - £2,400
  • Age UK Teesside - £3,000
  • East Durham Community Development Trust- £3,000
  • Caring Hands - £3,000
  • Eden Support Group (a branch of Parkinson’s Disease Society of Great Britain) - £3,000
  • Wooler Young People’s Association - £3,000
  • Chronicle Sunshine Fund - £3,000
  • Josie’s Dragonfly Trust - £3,000
  • Oasis Aquila Housing - £3,000
  • People & Drugs - £3,000
  • The Children’s Foundation - £2,689
  • Apna Ghar - £2,978
  • Five Lamps - £3,000
  • Pathways4All - £3,000
  • NTC Touring Theatre - £3,000
  • Mind Active  - £3,000
  • Calvert Trust Lake District - £3,000
  • Sunderland and North Durham Royal Society for the Blind - £3,000
  • Feeding Families - £3,000
  • Durham Wildlife Trust - £3,000
  • Yatton House Society - £3,000
  • Scotswood Natural Community Garden - £3,000
  • Age UK Teesside - £3,000
  • The Comfrey Project - £3,000
  • Groundwork NE and Cumbria - £3,000
  • Berwick and District Cancer Support Group - £3,000
  • Teesside Hospice Foundation - £3,000
  • Bright Futures NE - £2,997
  • Bliss = Ability Ltd - £2689
  • International Community Organisation of Sunderland (ICOS) - £3,000
  • Sunderland Women’s Centre - £6,880
  • Chilli Studios - £3,000
  • Three13 Training Enterprise - £3,000
  • Junction 42 Foundation - £3,000
  • NE Youth - £3,000
  • St Vincent De Paul Society - £3,000
  • St Martins Centre Partnership - £3,000
  • Fenham Association of Residents - £3,000
  • Sangini - £3,000
  • Rock Currock Youth Project - £3,000
  • Northumberland County Blind Association - £1,500
  • Free the Way - £3,000
  • Fareshare - £3,000
  • Foundation Futures - £3,000
  • Marsden Road Community Centre - £1,500
  • Full Circle - £3,000
  • Middlesbrough Environment City Trust Ltd - £3,000
  • North East Red Squirrels - £1,500
  • North Tyneside Disability Forum - £3,000
  • Emmaus - £3,000
  • Women’s Workshop - £3,000
  • Hygiene Bank - £1,500
2023
  • Common Purpose Charitable Trust - £5,000
  • Grace House - £4,997
  • Women’s Health in South Tyneside - £4,391
  • West View Advice & Resource Centre - £3,00
  • Fiscus North - £3,000
  • North of England Refugee Service - £3,000
  • Foundations Furniture and Gardening Service - £2,000
  • Community Campus 87 - £4,000
  • Clean Slate Solutions - £5,000
  • Percy Hedley Foundation - £3,000
  • TEN - £2,500
  • Patchwork Project - £3,000
  • Hartlepower - £3,000
  • Kids Kabin - £2,925
  • The Children’s Foundation - £4,788
  • Tyne Rivers Trust - £2,500
  • West End Women and Girls Centre - £3,000
  • Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery Trust - £2,000
  • Family Gateway - £4,100
  • Walking With In North Tyneside - £5,000
  • YMCA Newcastle - £4,798
  • Boldon Community Centre - £4,500
  • The Community @NE66 Charitable Trust - £4,732
  • Streetwise Young People’s Project - £3,000
  • Hartlepool Foodbank - £3,000
  • Fighting All Cancers Together - £2,700
  • RTProjects - £2,000
  • Berwick Community Development Trust - £2,000
  • Henshaws - £3,000
  • Hawes Market Hall - £3,000
  • Cleveland Housing Advice Centre - £5,000
  • Bridges Tees Valley CIO - £5,000
  • Jewish Community Council of Gateshead - £5,000
  • Parker Trust - £4,914
  • True Colours Theatre - £4,622
  • Building Self-Belief CIO - £5,000
  • Cumbria Action for Sustainability - £5,000
  • Building Futures East - £4,450
  • Children North East - £4,886
  • Gateshead Football Club Community Foundation - £4,950
  • Action for Children - £5,000
  • The Albert Kennedy Trust - £1,666
  • YMCA North Tyneside - £4,834
  • Moses Project - £2,000
  • AF&V Launchpad - £5,000
2024
  • Bridges Family and Carer Service - £5000
  • Jewish Community Council of Gateshead - £5000
  • Parker Trust - £5000
  • True Colours Theatre - £4622
  • Building Self-Belief - £5000
  • Cumbria Action for Sustainability - £5000
  • Building Futures East - £4450
  • Children North East - £4886
  • Gateshead Football Club Community Foundation - ££4950
  • Action for Children - £5000
  • The Albert Kennedy Trust - £1666
  • YMCA North Tyneside - £4834
  • Moses Project - £2000
  • AF&V Launchpad - £5000
  • Carlisle and District CAB - £5000
  • Northumberland Pride - £5000
  • Skills4Work (Gateshead) - £4924
  • Meadow Well Connected Ltd - £5000
  • Berwickshire Swap - £4000
  • Angel Trust – A Charity for People - £4097
  • YMCA Northumberland - £4097
  • The PCC Ecclesiastical Parish of St Nicholas Church - £4097
  • Hambleton Foodshare - £5000
  • Whitley Bay Big Local - £5000
  • Impact Family Services - £4999
  • Emmaus North East - £4887