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Community Business Trade Up Programme

Are you running a community business – an organisation that directly benefits your local area? Do you want to increase your impact and sales?…

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Health and Wellbeing

​Core funding and free training for health charities - 2018 GSK IMPACT Awards

GSK’s IMPACT Awards reward charities that are doing excellent work to improve people’s health. Organisations must be at least three years old,…

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Funding and support

Coalfields Community Investment Programme - Funding Support and Practical Help

The Coalfields Regeneration Trust has reopened the enquiry survey for the Coalfields Community Investment Programme providing funding up to £10,000.…

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General News

North East Charity Awards Launched

The Awards, which recognise the best charities in the North East, are running for a third year. This year’s event takes place at the Boiler Shop in…

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General News

Search for innovative Tees Valley businesses

VentureFest Tees Valley are looking for 15 businesses who dare to do things differently to take part in the Innovation Showcase exhibition. This…

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Funding and support

Funding for community groups

Skipton Building Society’s Grassroots Giving community funding scheme has launched for 2017 with a total fund of £82,000 to help small groups…

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Social Investment

Need support on social investment? Get a mentor

Get Informed offers practical support, guidance and information to help board members of charities and social enterprises understand the…

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European Funding

European Structural and Investment Funds: useful resources

The European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) Growth programme is funding for projects that create jobs and supports local growth. The funds…

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Funding and support

Apply to the Life Chances Fund

The Life Chances Fund is an £80 million fund to provide payment-by-results contracts for locally developed projects by socially minded investors.…

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General News

Three Cheers for Volunteers!

Durham Community Action welcomed around 200 volunteers, nominees and VIP guests to their Volunteering Celebration event at Beamish Museum. The event…

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Funding and support

Social Investment Fund for Homelessness Charities

A social investment fund for homelessness charities across England worth £4.5m - said to be the first of its kind - will launch next month. …

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Poverty

Youth Homeless North East Annual Survey

The YHNE survey provides the only opportunity we have of gaining a more detailed picture of youth homelessness specific to the North East, however,…

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