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Apply for support from
the Community Foundation
The Community Foundation provides grants and other support to groups and individuals in the Tyne and Wear and Northumberland areas, thanks to the donors who choose to give through us. We match applications from groups and individuals to our donors’ interests.
The majority of our support is in the form of grants to groups. Many groups who receive grants are small and volunteer-led, but we also fund larger organisations seeking small grants to support particular activities or developments. You do not have to be a registered charity to apply, but the work you ask us to support must be legally charitable. We make occasional ‘Trademark’ grants. These are larger awards combining contributions from our flexible and targeted Thriving Communities fund and contributions from our donors. And some of our funds support individuals seeking to improve their lives.
In most cases we do not have specific deadlines and you should apply using our general application form. A few of our funds have specific criteria or deadlines, which means we have a call for applications at particular times in the year. Current calls for applications are shown below.
How to apply: general Community Foundation grants
Current calls for applications
CNL Young People’s Fund
CNL Young People’s Fund
The fund will support charities and voluntary & community groups
running projects to help disadvantaged young people in Northumberland to overcome the barriers to a successful transition to adulthood.
• Projects will be for young people aged 13-19 (and aged up to 25 if special needs)
• Priority will be given to projects serving isolated communities
• Proposals must be well defined with a clear objective, output & measurable outcomes
• Capital and revenue projects considered
• Requests for general running costs only considered in exceptional circumstances
Most awards will be in the range £1,000 – £2,000
One or two awards of up to £10,000 will be made each year
Deadline for applications: 21st May 2012.
To apply online please use the standard Community Foundation application form and clearly mark it ‘CNL Young People’s Fund’.
P&G Fund
P&G Fund
The P&G Fund is now open for applications from community and voluntary groups that support children aged 0-13 on Tyneside and in Northumberland. .
The deadline for applications is May 25 2012.
To apply online please use the standard Community Foundation application form.
John D Fund
John D Fund
The John D Fund is looking for applications from projects in Tyne & Wear and Northumberland for out-of-school artistic activities that offer young people the opportunity to explore various artistic mediums in a non-academic setting. Grants from £500 to £2,000 are available for artistic equipment and resources, external support, and inspirational trips or visits.
The deadline for applications is 18 May 2012.
To apply online please use the standard Community Foundation application form.
David Dockray West End Young People’s Fund
David Dockray West End Young People’s Fund
The David Dockray West End Young People’s Fund is looking for applications from community and voluntary groups that support young people, particularly those based in the west end of Newcastle. The Fund will support out-of-school activities that encourage young people’s social and personal development.
Groups can apply for up to £2,000 for equipment and resources for activities, external support, small project running costs (for example room hire), and inspirational trips or visits.
The deadline for applications is 18 May 2012
To apply online please use the standard Community Foundation application form.
Surviving Winter
Surviving Winter
As the winter progresses we will be working with National Energy Action (NEA) to support people out of fuel poverty using the money we have raised through the Surviving winter campaign by going directly to our local community and voluntary groups that work with people in fuel poverty every day. The community and voluntary groups will also benefit from a hardship grant that can be distributed to any individual or individuals that use the organisations services.
If you are interested in working with NEA to offer a workshop to help users at your community or voluntary group out of fuel poverty, and to gain access to hardship funding click on the links below to download an expression of interest form and guidance notes.
Surviving Winter Expression of Interest
Surviving Winter Guidance Notes
You can fill the form in and email it back to survivingwinter@communityfoundation.org.uk or post it to the regular Community Foundation address below.
European Social Fund Community Grants
The North East ESF Community Grants 2011-2013 programme provides grants of up to £12,000 to small, third sector, voluntary and community organisations to engage with local communities to deliver a range of skills and employment support to enable people from the hardest to reach communities, experiencing multiple disadvantages, to make progress towards the labour market.
For further information please contact Sue Martin on 0191 2220945 or at esf@communityfoundation.org.uk
To find out more about ESF click here
Read the full “ESF Community Grants in the North East 2011-2013 Guidance” issued by County Durham Community Foundation to see if you are eligible for a grant. They are available here
- To apply online click here
- To download the application guidelines click here
Rolling grant programmes
Readman Family Grassroots Fund
Readman Family Grassroots Fund
Does this describe your organisation and the work you do?
• A smaller organisation run predominantly by volunteers
• In a deprived area in Tyne & Wear or Northumberland, including low income rural areas
• A project where a small grant of up to £4000 or so will have long term benefits and make a tangible difference to local people or communities, but not as a contribution to a larger project.
• A project in an area of low employment which provides positive and innovative activities for young people or gets young people involved in sport when costs would otherwise be a barrier
• A project to get people involved in their wider community
• A project to get older people socialising who may otherwise be isolated
If so, the Readman Family Grassroots Fund would welcome an application from you.
To apply online please use the standard Community Foundation application form and put ‘Readman Family Grassroots Fund’ at the start of the section where you describe the project you want a grant for.
Northumberland High Sheriff
Northumberland High Sheriff
Established to give awards to community groups that encourage useful and beneficial pursuits for young people aged 10-25, helping them to be upstanding citizens and steer them away from crime and anti-social behaviour. There is an annual celebratory event for all recipients of an award during the year.
- Click here to download the application form.
- Click here to download the guidelines.
Northumberland Group Fund
Northumberland Group Fund
The Northumberland Group Fund is providing grants of up to £1,000 to individuals, aged 16 to 25 years (at 1st September 2011), residing in Northumberland who are accessing employment, a vocational training course or a further educational college course in Northumberland for the first time and who need funding for training fees, materials or equipment to enable them to take up the education, training or employment opportunity.
- Click here to download the application form and guidelines.
Young Musicians Fund/Alan Hull Award
Young Musicians Fund
Established in 1996 by Kathryn Tickell to develop the musical skills of children and young people in Tyne & Wear, Northumberland and Durham under the age of 18 who are struggling to pay for tuition fees or want help to purchase an instrument.
- To apply online to the Young Musicians Fund click here
Brian Roycroft Fund
Brian Roycroft Fund
Established to mark the retirement of the late Brian Roycroft, former Social Services Director in Newcastle, to help young people who have been in local authority care who are entering adult life.
- Click here to download the application form (PDF version available here).
Dulverton Trust Fund
Dulverton Trust Fund
Grants of £500 to £5,000 are available to community and voluntary groups with an annual income under £200,000 in Northumberland, Tyne & Wear, County Durham and Tees Valley that provide youth opportunities; address disadvantage and improve the natural and built environment.
You can apply online using the standard Community Foundation form above and please let us know when you send your supporting documents that you wish the application to be considered by the Dulverton Trust Fund.
To download the Dulverton Trust Fund advice notes click here.
Terms and conditions
When you receive a grant from us, you must agree to our terms and conditions about how the grant will be used, and how you will report back to us. For more information, click here.
Monitoring Form
After you have received a grant from us you must complete and return a monitoring form when the project is finished or within seven months from the date of the final payment of the grant (whichever is shortest), unless we have approved a longer reporting period. To download a copy of the monitoring form click here.
