A Wearside charity offering essential support to grandparents and families who take on the role of parents to keep vulnerable children out of the fostering or adoption system, is making fresh plans to provide more help after gaining vital new financial backing. Sunderland’s ‘More than Grandparents’ helps over 300 families, many…
The Bernicia Foundation Annual Report 2020-2021 is available now. In what’s been an uprecendented year, the Bernicia Foundation has continued to support organisations and individuals across the North East. The two funding programmes available – Inclusion and Inspiration – were established to encourage social and economic inclusion and support inspirational…
Up to 50 young carers who spend much of their spare time looking after parents, family members or siblings, are to be treated to specially-arranged respite breaks after The Bernicia Foundation donated more than £9,000 to a Hartlepool charity. Staff from Hartlepool Carers, which supports more than 300 local children…
A North East distribution charity which delivers surplus food items to volunteer groups, community projects and other local charities, is calling on the region’s supermarkets, food chains and producers to offer up more of their excess, unwanted stock in the run up to Christmas. Fareshare North East is urgently asking…
A further £110,000 of monetary donations have been given to more of the North East’s smaller charities, volunteer groups and grass roots initiatives as part of The Bernicia Foundation’s most recent round of funding. Delivered as part of an ongoing drive to make a real difference to the region’s communities…
Staff from a local community venue who help young people stay safe, navigate personal challenges and provide a social space to meet, have spoken of the rising pressures they’re facing, and how donations have become a much-needed lifeline to keep supporting more than 400 local teenagers. Youth leaders from the…
Staff from a County Durham charity which delivers training and courses for people with complex learning needs, disabilities and mental health issues have spoken of how money donated by The Bernicia Foundation has helped them alleviate the pressures facing their organisation over the last 18 months. Real Lives: Real Choices,…
A voluntary women’s support organisation that has helped thousands of Teesside women over the last 32 years, is calling for support after seeing rising demand for its services post-lockdown whilst being hit hard financially over the last 14 months. The Tees Valley Women’s Centre (TVWC) is calling for help to…
A South Tyneside young people’s counselling and support services charity is calling for help to fund ongoing operational costs after a challenging year aiding more than 300 families and children facing difficulties. South Shields-based, Escape Intervention Services, is seeing rising demand for its services post-lockdown from young people aged from…
A programme helping people with mental health issues, learning disabilities and special educational needs to maintain a level of routine, purpose and social contact, will continue to be delivered thanks to funds donated by The Bernicia Foundation. £10,000 was given to The Hextol Foundation to help staff continue engaging…
Talented teenage climber Fred Williams is reaching out to grab his Olympic dream with the support of The Bernicia Foundation. A £1,000 Inspiration Grant from the charity will take his development to the next level, ensuring he can learn from the some of the country’s best coaches in the Precision…
The next round of funding opens on 23 November to support people and communities across the North East. The Bernicia Foundation has so far awarded nearly £210, 000 this year among 22 organisations as well as releasing £200,000 in April for local authorities to help charities and organisations tackle hardship…
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