Skipsey Court Residents

Amount: £100 Location: North Shields

Project: Small grant to purchase recreation equipment for this sheltered housing complex.

The North of England Cadet Forces Trust

Amount: £1000 Location : Region

Project : Invest in Youth Project. To purchase adventure training equipment.

Safety Crackers

Amount: £1000 Location: Meadow Well, North Shields

Project: Home safety equipment loan scheme to provide packages of safety equipment to families with children under school age who are on benefit or low income and who live in the borough of North Tyneside.

Walker Health Project

Amount: £750 Location: Walker

Project: Towards the purchase of a new minibus for the older and disabled members of this charity which works with the local community around health issues.

Rukba

Amount: £750 Location: North Tyneside

Project: Rukba aims to enable elderly people to stay independent in their own homes. They assisted 42 people in North Tyneside last year with grants and annuities totalling £38,000

Fairbridge in Tyne & Wear

Amount: £5000 Location: Walker/Tyneside

Project: Our grant supports 12 young people on a five day basic course and continuing support. These young people between the ages of 15 & 19 who for one reason or another have ‘disconnected’ from normal society.

The Percy Hedley Foundation

Amount: £2000 Location : Tyneside

Project: Specialist teaching and therapy facilities for children with cerebral palsy and speech and language difficulties.

North Tyneside Handyperson Scheme

Amount: £250 Location: North Shields

Project: Our grant was used to purchase sufficient materials for two years for this organisation which undertakes a wide variety of small repair and maintenance jobs for old/disabled /low income families.

St.John’s Church Percy Main

Amount: £500 Location: North Shields

Project: Contribution towards the cost of taking sixteen young people , aged 16, from the Meadow Well to Taize Christian Community in France. These young people are ‘at risk’ because of their backgrounds and the experience is designed to become more positive in outlook.

The Cedarwood Trust

Amount: £1000 Location: Meadow Well,North Shields

Project: To help a group of very disadvantaged young people make a video focussing on young people’s debt and financial exclusion and the connection of these to crime. The video will be educational to the group, other young participants and viewers.

North East Trust Library

Amount: £50 Location: Tyneside

Project: In conjunction with other endowment trusts the total amount of £250 will purchase funding publications for Funding Information North East’s library.

Northumberland Association of Clubs for Young People

Amount: £100 Location : Northumbria

Project: Support for a fundraising event.

Age Concern North Tyneside

Amount: £1000 Location: North Tyneside

Project: To fund the hire of the Jumbo Ambulance used for disabled old people.

Relate Northumberland & Tyneside

Amount: £2000 Location: North Tyneside

Project: To provide counselling for poor families and couples in North Tyneside.

Kids & Us

Amount: £750 Location: East Newcastle

Project: Support for the Gingerbread Trust which supports lone parent families using volunteers.


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Longbenton Community College

Amount: £50000 Location: North Tyneside

Project : Donation towards photovoltaic cells for the City Learning Centre.

University of Newcastle

Amount: £350 Location: Tyneside

Project: Bursary for Engineering Student.

Longbenton Community College

Amount: £300 Location : North Tyneside

Project: Community Action Day.

Newcastle Music Group

Amount: £250 Location: Tyneside

Project: Sponsorship for concert to raise money for charity.


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Community Foundation Serving Tyne ,Wear & Northumberland

Amount: £225 Location: Tyneside

Project: Contribution to The Women’s Fund.

North Tyneside Young People’s Health Advisors

Amount: £350 Location: North Tyneside

Project: Supporting young health advisors to attend a ‘Fair Shares for Children’ conference in London.

Depaul Trust

Amount: £200 Location: East Newcastle

Project: To help fund Healthstart, a project which involves training a key group of twelve young people to carry out research on other young people from ethnic minorities in East Newcastle.

Whitley Bay Baptist Church

Amount: £300 Location: Whitley Bay

Project: Running costs of Whitley Bay ‘Bears’ Junior Football Club which has thirty young people of both sexes on their books between the ages of 9 to 15.

The Sea Cadets - Newburn & District

Amount: £500 Location: Newcastle

Project: Core funding.

Avenues Women Ltd

Amount: £320 Location: North Shields

Project: Avenues is a domestic violence support group. Our grant paid for a weeks counselling session for women with a focus on child abuse experience.

St Cuthberts Care

Amount: £1000 Location: East Newcastle

Project: Play equipment for new play are and facilities.

Churches Acting Together

Amount: £5000 Location: North Tyneside

Project: Towards the cost of new premises.

Monster Theatre Productions

Amount: £2000 Location: Newcastle & North Tyneside

Project: Funding for ‘Food Project for the Under Sevens’ to raise awarenss of healthy eating and a balanced diet. The company will work with 600 children and parents in local areas of severe deprivation.

SSAFA Forces Help

Amount: £1000 Location: Tyneside

Project: Help for ex-servicemen and women.

WhitleyBay Stoke Support Group

Amount: £200 Location: Whitley Bay

Project: A group which offers help and encouragement to people living with stroke illness.

Tonbridge United Football Club

Amount: £2000 Location: North Shields/ Meadow Well

Project: To cover the cost of Meadow Well World Cup - an event involving 200 children and parents from this severely deprived area.

North Tyneside Women’s Aid

Amount: £250 Location: North Tyneside

Project: Part costs of day outings for children living in the refuge after fleeing domestic violence.

Meadow Well Community Resource Centre

Amount: £1000 Location: North Tyneside

Project: Equipment to enhance summer programme activities for young people on the Meadowell.

Shieldfield & Battle Hill Community Development Project

Amount: £1000 Location: East Newcastle/North Tyneside

Project: To provide funding for a range of projects which supports young people in this very disadvantaged area.

The Total Learning Challenge

Amount: £1000 Location : North Tyneside

Project: Support for this innovative project which seeks to research solutions to youth disaffection.

Children’s International Summer Villages

Amount: £250 Location: Tyneside

Project: Towards the cost of sending four eleven-year ols children to an International Summer Camp in Iceland.

Tyneside Rape Crisis Centre

Amount: £750 Location: Tyneside

Project: Sponsorship of an ‘Alternative Therapy Taster Day’ for women whose lives have been affected by sexual violence.

Northumberland Association of Clubs for Young People

Amount: £2000 Location: Region

Project: Replacing equipment for the Mobile Club Project & Equipment Loan Scheme.

Calibre Cassette Library

Amount: £500 Location: North Tyneside

Project: To admit a further fourteen blind people into the cassette scheme in North Tyneside.

MIND

Amount: £500 Location: Northumberland

Project: To support the mental health needs of vulnerable people in isolated areas in the aftermath of Foot & Mouth.

YMCA Newcastle

Amount: £500 Location: Byker

Project: To support a group of six young people on a skiing trip in Scotland.


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Community Foundation Tyne & Wear

Amount: £5000 Location: North Tyneside

Project: Awards to volunteer community leaders in partnership with other Trusts. These will provide opportunities for people in the voluntary sector to broaden their experience and develop new skills.

Briardale Cast-Aways Angling Club

Amount: £250 Location: Blyth

Project: Working in Cowpen, a particularly disadvantaged area of Blyth, the club aims to combat the feelings of social exclusion in young people by raising their confidence and self esteem through learning how to fish.

Newcastle Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society

Amount: £500 Location: Tyneside

Project: Support for bereaved parents and families whose baby has died at or soon after birth.

Churches Together in North Shields

Amount: £500 Location: North Shields

Project: To provide a service for a group of actors and musicians to work in six local secondary schools.

Project M2720

Amount: £300 Location: Region

Project: Involving young people in a ship restoration.

Meadow Well Mixed Bingo Club

Amount: £200 Location: North Shields

Project: To support various activities for old people on the Meadowell.

8th Whitley Bay (St John’s Methodist) Scout Group

Amount: £500 Location: Whitley Bay

Project: Supporting two scouts to attend the World Scout Jamboree in Thailand.

Parkside School

Amount: £1000 Location: Wallsend -North Tyneside

Project: Parkside is a special school for students aged 2-19. Our grant is towards the cost of a special hoist which will enable disabled pupils to access Physical Education activities.

Rainbow Trust

Amount: £2000 Location: North Tyneside

Project: Funding for a support worker to work with families living in North Tyneside who have a child with a life threatening or terminal illness.

Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities

Amount: £1400 Location: North Tyneside

Project: Helping people with disabilities to find employment.

John Spence Community High School

Amount: £2500 Location: North Tyneside

Project: Sponsorship to help the school become a Specialist Sports College.

Children’s Heart Unit Fund

Amount: £2000 Location: Tyneside

Project: To purchase a new Scanner for the Children’s Heart Unit at the Freeman Hospital.



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University of Newcastle

Amount: £2900 Location: Tyneside

Project: Prizes and Bursaries for Engineering Students.

Friends of Tynemouth Station

Amount: £750 Location: North Tyneside

Project: Supporting an arts event in Tynemouth Station which involves members of the local community.

North Tyneside Games 2002

Amount: £1000 Location: North Tyneside

Project: Annual sponsorship of the games which includes abled and disabled people.

Newcastle Benfield Saints F.C.

Amount: £500 Location: East Newcastle/North Tyneside

Project: Assistance in maintaining ground which is used by all sections of the community.

The Northumberland and Newcastle Society

Amount: £500 Location: Newcastle & North Tyneside

Project: To support a field officer for this organisation which will underpin the voluntary work of this charity which aims to protect and enhance the beauty and amenities of Northumberland, Newcastle & North Tyneside.

Barnado’s

Amount: £2000 Location: Whitley Bay

Project: Towards the running costs of this organisation which supports young people between 16 and 25 years in the area of homelessness, unemployment and social exclusion.

Whitley Bay Council for Voluntary Service

Amount : £1000 Location: Whitley Bay

Project: A special toilet for disabled people.

East End Community Health Project

Amount: £1000 Location: Walker

Project: Walker is a very disadvantaged area in all respects. Our grant is towards the work done in working with groups and individuals around various health related issues.

Ocean Youth Trust (North East)

Amount: £500 Location: North Tyneside

Project: A bursary for young people from North Tyneside to sail on James Cook, a 70ft training ketch.

Adventure Holidays Ltd

Amount: £250 Location: Newcastle

Project: Holidays for needy or deprived children at their centre at Beadnell.

Cancer Bridge

Amount: £1000 Location: North East

Project: Support for sufferers of Cancer.

Burnside Avenue Tenants & Residents Association

Amount: £400 Location: North Tyneside

Project: To furnish a new community facility.

Hotspur Childcare Scheme

Amount: £500 Location: East Newcastle

Project: Support for Treehouse which is a childcare scheme.

Meadowell Ravers

Amount: £250 Location: North Tyneside

Project: To support a group of residents on the Meadow Well who get together and put ona variety of shows to entertain and inform young and old residents living on the estate.

The Northumberland, Tyne and Wear Youthbank Committee

Amount: £2500 Location: Northumbria

Project: To allow Youthbank which is a committee of young people supported by the Community Foundation, make five grants of £500 to help other young people benefit their communities.

Alzheimers’s Newcastle

Amount: £1000 Location: East Newcastle

Project: To provide a system of external staff and volunteer training, and the provision of literature etc to groups in the east of the city.

No 242 (Cramlington) Squadron Air Training Corps

Amount: £500 Location: North Tyneside

Project: Towards a new IT training room.

Sharks Wheelchair Basketball

Amount: £500 Location: North Tyneside

Project: Support for thirty people with disabilities to take part in basketball.

Susan Crame

Amount: £1000 Location: East Newcastle/ North Tyneside

Project: Core funding for the organisation which provides access to horses etc for those who would normally be excluded for reasons of finance, access or disability.

HMS Trincomalee Trust

Amount: £500 Location: Region

Project: Restoration of the oldest British Warship afloat which is used by a variety of organisation in the region.

Mobex North East

Amount: £1000 Location: North East

Project: Support for their Disability Project which provides new learning experiences for young people with disabilities.

St. Anthony of Padua Community Association

Amount: £1500 Location: Walker

Project: Towards the cost of refurbishing the community centre in Walker.


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Disability North

Amount: £10 Location: Tyneside

Project: Raffle tickets.

Sea Cadet Corps. T.S.Comus

Amount: £2000 Location: North Tyneside:

Project: Annual support for this very successful unit for young people from Wallsend.

Hand in Hand

Amount: £500 Location: North Ty7neside

Project: Contribution towards Christmas activities for lonely people from Wallsend.

Blyth Detached Youth Project

Amount: £1000 Location: North Tyneside

Project: Working with young people on the streets of Blyth.

Whitley Bay YMCA

Amount: £4000 Location: Whitley Bay

Project: Provision of additional security for the centre.

Samaritans of Northumbria

Amount: £250 Location: Northumberland

Project: Office equipment and furniture for the Ashington branch.

Whizz-Kidz

Amount: £2000 Location: North Tyneside

Project: Helping disabled children achieve their full potential through increased mobility and independence.

Shiremoor Credit Union

Amount: £500 Location: North Tyneside

Project: Towards the cost of equipment to offer an improved service to the people in this very deprived area.

Balkwell Bowling Club

Amount: £750 Location: North Shields

Project: Modernising the club which is used by various sectors of the community.

Youth Against Crime Award Scheme

Amount: £500 Location: Northumberland

Project: Support for the High Sherriff’s award scheme which supports groups throughout the County working with young people ar risk of criminal involvement.

Northern Stage

Amount: £750 Location: North Tyneside

Project: To buy tickets for primary school children living in the most deprived areas of North Tyneside to see the Christmas production of Pinocchio.

Whitley Bay & District Sea Cadet Corps 361

Amount: £2000 Location: Whitley Bay

Project: Repairs to the roof of the Scout Hut.

North Tyneside Young Disabled Peoples’ Project

Amount: £250 Location: Whitley Bay

Project: To link and include disabled young people in a variety of ways.

Stepping Stones

Amount: £500 Location: Newcastle

Project: A direct access supported hostel for homeless 16-21 year old people.

Tyne Tees Crimestoppers

Amount: £500 Location: North Tyneside

Project: To support their work in North Tyneside.

North East England Bengali Puja Association

Amount: £200 Location: Newcastle

Project: Support for a four day celebration and party which aims to raise awareness of their religion and culture.

Priory Singers

Amount: £200 Location: Newcastle

Project: To support a performance of a charity concert which raised money for the Tyneside Kidney Patients Association.

Community Furniture Service

Amount: £1000 Location: Byker

Project: Towards replacing the transport.

The Fishermen’s Mission

Amount: £500 Location: North Shields

Project: Support for the North Shields Centre.

Residents of Iona Court

Amount: £200 Location: North Shields

Project: Supporting the residents of this retirement housing scheme in Wallsend.

Different Stokes North East

Amount: £250 Location: Region

Project: Support for their @Exercise for Life’ project.

North Tyneside Handyperson Scheme

Amount: £1000 Location: North Shields

Project: This scheme employs one co-ordinator and five volunteers who provide a range of maintenance services for old and poor people. Our contribution provides for extra hours for the co-ordinator.

Mencap- Northumberland and Tyneside

Amount: £2000 Location: Tyneside

Project: Empowering people with special difficulties to take greater control over over their own lives and take part in decisions that directle affect them.


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Sea Cadet Corps - T.S.Comus

Amount: £1500 Location: North Tyneside

Project: Running costs.

Streetwise

Amount: £750 Location: Newcastle

Project: Counselling sessions for young people and general youth support.

Coping with Cancer

Amount: £500 Location: North East

Project: Supporting an organisation which offers a range of support activities for people wioth cancer and their families.

North Tyneside Disability Forum

Amount: £1000 Location: North Shields

Project: A young disabled peoples project.

Funding Information North East

Amount: £2000 Location: Region

Project: Core costs for FINE which helps groups and charities to access funds.

Weston Spirit

Amount: £1500 Location: North Tyneside

Project: Supporting young excluded people in North Tyneside and help them develop a personal strategy for their lives by using a wide range of activities.

Wallsend People’s Centre

Amount: £250 Location: North Tyneside

Project: Funding a publicity drive for this important centre.

Newcastle Gang Show

Amount: £250 Location: Newcastle

Project: To support the scout’s gangshow.

Community Enterprise Direct

Amount: £1000 Location: North Tyneside

Project: To create effective community enterprise among the young people on the Meadow Well Estate.

Marie Curie Cancer Care

Amount: £1000 Location: Newcastle

Project: Providing specialist medical, nursing , day-care and out-patient facilities for patient6s and carers.

People and Drugs

Amount: £750 Location: North Tyneside

Project: A youth project in Blyth which works with a number of other agencies in the drug and abuse area.

Royal National Institute for the Blind

Amount: £500 Location: North Tyneside

Project: Talking book service for North Tyneside.

Sammy Johnson Memorial Fund

Amount: £300 Location: Tyneside

Project: Supporting creative talent on Tyneside.


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Age Concern North Tyneside

Amount: £10000 Location: North Tyneside

Project: Towards purchasing and equipping new headquarters to deliver a comprehensive service to the older people of North Tyneside.

The North of England Cadet Forces Trust Fund

Amount: £250 Location: Tyneside

Project: To support the cadet forces.

Tyne & Wear Play Association

Amount: £1000 Location: North Tyneside

Project: Providing play areas in the deprived areas of North Tyneside.

Newcastle Council for Voluntary Services

Amount: £3000 Location: Newcastle

Project: Towards core costs.

Longbenton Families Activities Group

Amount: £750 Location: North Tyneside

Project: Co-ordinating activities for families who suffer inequalities with regard to housing and access to jobs.

Depaul Trust

Amount: £1000 Location: Newcastle

Project: Refurbishing Simonside Hostel in Newcastle.

3rd Killingworth Scout Group

Amount: £250 Location: East Newcastle

Project: Contribution towards international trip for 15 scouts.

Friends of Walker Park

Amount : £500 Location: East Newcastle

Project: Residential courses for young people to widen their knowledge of the countryside.

St Peter’s Parish Church

Amount: £1000 Location: North Shields

Project: Heating system for community centre.

Second Chance

Amount: £1000 Location: National

Project: A charity which caters for children with special needs by encouraging angling.

International Chidren’s Trust

Amount: £156 Location: International

Project: Sponsorship for an Indian child.

The Revive Youth Project

Amount: £500 Location: North Tyneside/Blyth

Project: Working with young people who have experienced a variety of problems to help them get into the work place through supported programmes.

Humbledon Outdoors Activities Base

Amount: £500 Location: Region

Project: Towards a new minibus for this organisation, which provides opportunities for people with disabilities to take part in sport and education.

North Tyneside Youth Theatres

Amount: £500 Location: North Tyneside

Project: Providing weekly theatre workshops for young people in North Tyneside aged 8 and above.

Winged Fellowship Trust

Amount: £750 Location: North Tyneside

Project: To subsidise holidays for physically disabled guests.

BTCV

Amount: £1500 Location: Tyne & Wear

Project: Supporting volunteers in sustainable development of the environment via personal development and practical nature conservation in the North East.

Friends of Hotspur School

Amount: £500 Location: East Newcastle

Project: Supporting primary school children who have special needs.

Delaval Nights

Amount: £500 Location: North Tyneside Guides

Project: International camp at Seaton Delaval.

In general terms the Trustees have powers to make grants to any organisation which is charitable but they prefer to support charities, voluntary groups and educational establishments in the North Tyneside and East Newcastle areas.

Grants made have varied between regular annual donations, small one-off donations and grants for capital projects. The Trust has made grants of between £100 and £10,000 but the average size of grant awarded is £1000.

Most of the beneficiaries in recent years have been youth groups (both uniformed and non-uniformed), children , people with disabilities, older people, schools, colleges, councils for voluntary service and other advice agencies. The Trustees are unable to make grants to individuals.