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Helping donors double their money - Grassroots Grants
Click on the image below to watch a short film grassroots level community support and how the Grassroots Endowment Challenge can help you double your donations!
Find out more about Grassroots Grants and the Endowment Challenge
County Durham Foundation gives grants to local good causes that make a real difference to people’s quality of life in County Durham and Darlington. Individuals, families, local companies and public bodies make this possible by setting up their own charitable funds with us. Last year these funds gave out almost £2m in grants to the local community.
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Read our blog!
If you would like to get the inside track on activities at the Foundation,
or are interested in reading a bit of gossip from around the County, why not
follow our Chief Executive Barbara Gubbins' blog for the Northern Echo. Barbara
will be chatting about local events that she's been to, people she's met and
of course all the news from the Foundation.
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here to read or subscribe to this blog.
400-year-old
charity is the latest to set up a Grassroots Fund
Long-standing local trust, the Henry Smith's Charity, recently became our
8th Grassroots fund holder by creating a £50,000 fund for the benefit
of small, local community groups supporting the disadvantaged elderly.
Comic Relief comes to County Durham Foundation!
County Durham Foundation has just heard that it will be managing
Comic Relief's local grant making in County Durham and Darlington for the
next two years. This good news follows our very successful management of their
Sport Relief programme in 2005-2008. Information about applying for a grant
will be available shortly.
Dig
Deep for Durham and Darlington
This new campaign aims to get those who have been least affected
by the economic crisis to support those who are struggling to cope in Durham
and Darlington. Find out how you can double your money when
you support this campaign! Click here to read more.
Grant of the month
Durham
Bee Keepers Association introduces new people to the craft of beekeeping and
honey production by providing courses free of charge, with the aim to make
the activity available to all people, especially those on low incomes.
Click
here to read more about this group.
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