Newcastle Building Society has donated £1m to help improve lives for people across the region, by tackling some of the biggest challenges facing communities in the North East, Cumbria, and North Yorkshire.
The donation into the Newcastle Building Society Community Fund boosts its total value to more than £3.5m, making it one of the largest of its type in the country.
The Fund, which is held by the Community Foundation Tyne & Wear and Northumberland, is expected to pay out around £150,000 each and every year to local charities tackling issues linked to food poverty, work and opportunity, debt management, homelessness, and sustainability.
Andrew Haigh, our Chief Executive Officer
"Making grants directly into our communities through the Community Fund is one of the most powerful ways we deliver the Society’s purpose to connect our communities with a better financial future. Making such a sizeable additional donation to the fund allows us to increase its impact, and locks in a reliable source of significant income for our incredible local charities in 2025, and for generations to come."
In the past decade, we've awarded more than £1.8m in grants benefitting hundreds of charities and thousands of people in communities we serve across our expanding branch network.
Andrew continues: “Our long-term partnership with the Community Foundation means we benefit from their unique expertise in maximising returns from the fund and helping direct support to local communities across the region.”
We most recently awarded more than £50,000 to 11 charities across the region.
The deadline for applications for the next round of grants from the Newcastle Building Society Community Fund is 15th April 2025. For more information or to nominate a charity for funding, visit our community grants page.
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Image caption: Our colleagues, customers, and members of the community celebrating our £1m donation to our Community Fund.
