Our Funders
Co-Operative Foundation – The Co-operative Foundation is an independent charitable trust set up in 2000 and solely funded by The Co-operative Group. The Foundation’s current grant making programme, Truth about Youth, is aiming to challenge and change negative perceptions about young people, by working with seven charities in cities around the UK. The Regional Youth Work Unit runs the North East Truth About Youth Project and is currently in their third successful year.
http://www.co-operative.coop/corporate/ethicsinaction/communities/fundsandfoundations/theco-operativefoundation/
Legacy Trust UK – The Regional Youth work unit were commissioned funds of £1.53m by Legacy Trust UK, an independent charity set up to create a lasting cultural legacy from London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games across the UK. With this funding the Unit developed NE-Generation to create a lasting cultural legacy within the North East.
http://www.legacytrustuk.org/
Arts Council England – Arts Council England champions, develops and invests in artistic and cultural experiences that enrich people’s lives. They support a range of activities across the arts, museums and libraries – from theatre to digital art, reading to dance, music to literature, and crafts to collections. Along with Legacy Trust UK they fund NE-Generation.
http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/
Local Authority Youth Service – For over 20 years, the Unit has been supported by local authority youth services in the region. For a financial contribution based on a Service Level Agreement, the Unit provides a range of services including networking and regional meetings, conferences and seminars, development work and national advocacy. The following authorities contributed to the Unit through the SLA in 2011/12;
- Northumberland
- Newcastle
- Gateshead
- South Tyneside
- Hartlepool
- Stockton
- Middlesbrough
- Redcar and Cleveland
- Sunderland
In addition, Darlington Borough Council contributed to the Unit through funding for the Diamond Model.
Legacy Trust UK and Livity – somewhereto_ is a project which is managed by youth communications agency Livity with support from media partner Channel 4 Education and is part of the Cultural Olympiad. The RYWU-NE have been commissioned by Livity to coordinate the delivery of somewhereto_ in the North East.
http://www.legacytrustuk.org/ , http://livity.co.uk/
Comic Relief – RYWU successfully bid to Comic Relief’s Young People and Mental Health grant in 2011 to run the My Mind Matters project, in partnership with Tyneside Mind. Comic Relief recognises that for many young people, adolescence is a confusing time of change; for those who experience additional difficulties with their mental health, this can be a frightening and isolating time. Their Young People and Mental health grant is for organisations that work directly with young people with mental health problems to provide services to help with these problems, or to provide training to professionals that work with young people to increase their understanding of mental health.
http://www.comicrelief.com/how-we-help/people-issues-we-support
Institute for Local Governance (ILG) - The Institute for Local Governance is a pioneering research and knowledge exchange venture designed to maximise the benefits of collaboration between all five universities in North East England and the wider public realm. In order to support the development of such larger scale initiatives, funding has been earmarked for two major ‘signature’ projects. One of which is The Diamond Model, developed by the RYWU.
http://www.ilg.org.uk/
Millfield House – The North East Youth Network has secured funding to develop their regional campaign on Youth Unemployment from the Millfield House Foundation.
http://www.mhfdn.org.uk/
Policy and Representation Partnership – The Unit gained funding from the policy and representation partnership to support our new Net Assets Project. The Policy and Representation Partnership aims to help the voluntary and community sector to influence public policy. The partnership does this in a number of ways: through quarterly policy forum events, training sessions, researching policy areas and sharing information.
http://www.vonne.org.uk/policy/partnership/
The Sage, Gateshead – The Sage Gateshead is an international home for music and musical discovery, bringing about a widespread and long-term enrichment of the musical life of the North East of England. They fund and work alongside the Unit to strategically develop work with young people.
http://thesagegateshead.org/
Young Minds – YoungMinds is the UK’s leading charity committed to improving the emotional wellbeing and mental health of children and young people. They fund our North East Mental Health Youth Board consultation process within the region.
http://www.youngminds.org.uk/
