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Inheritance tax planning and charitable giving

Children take part in arts and craft session funded by Point North.

Turner Prize & City of Culture bid

Left to right: Joanna Barker, Chair of Board of Trustees at Point North, Dame Susan Snowdon, President of Point North, Michelle Cooper, CEO of Point North.

Dame Susan Snowdon appointed President

Woman standing draws on a paper showing another woman sat down on a chair. Middlesbrough’s creative future

Middlesbrough’s creative future

Round table discussion with County Durham charity leaders, Point North and the Bank of England

Convening the Bank of England in Durham

We’re looking for new trustees

Supporting Cancer Awareness Projects

Unredacted bank statement

Submitting unredacted bank statements

Mayor’s Opportunity Fund Round 4 Webinar

When to become a registered charity?. Girl in blue football kit smiling and holding a yellow plastic bar.

When to become a registered charity

Safeguarding guidance for groups applying for funding.

Safeguarding guidance for groups

Delegates at the Anything is Possible event discussing child poverty in Tees Valley.

Child poverty in Tees Valley

Point North joins representatives in Tees Valley

How to use AI for grant writing

Place-based giving starts with communities

Young people care

£31,334 raised for 30th anniversary year

Our commitment to challenging racism

Celebrating Village Halls in Durham and Tees Valley

Thriving Together Fund Webinar Recording

Thriving Together Fund (Round 2) webinar

Lead the Change comes to Tees Valley

Talking about philanthropy with clients

Guide to the High Sheriff Youth Awards

Help with the cost of living in County Durham

Supporting people living with cancer

Business Giving: If not now, when?

High Sheriff Youth Awards 2026 winners

£35,000 awarded at High Sheriff Youth Awards 

Mayor’s Opportunity Fund Round 3 Webinar

Point North achieves Good Business Charter  

Festive season opening hours​

Impact of the Welcome Spaces Fund

Convening the Bank of England in Teesside

Ned on stage at TEDxTeesside

TEDxTeesside: building climate resilience

care leavers fund. Two young males walking.

Care Leavers Programme in Durham and Tees Valley

Avison Young

Lumiere Wall of Fame: Avison Young

Household Support Fund

Updates to Household Support Fund

Lumiere Wall of Fame: Hargreaves Land

£500,000 for older people in Durham and Darlington

Lumiere Wall of Fame: Prima Cheese

Graham Dolphin awarded The Dover Prize

Northern Cancer Alliance Funds Webinar Recording

Northern Cancer Alliance Funds Webinar

Lumiere Wall of Fame Northern Powergrid

Lumiere Wall of Fame: Northern Powergrid

New Point North commissions announced for Lumiere Durham 2025

Point North commissions for Lumiere Durham

Thriving Together Fund Webinar Recording

Thriving Together Fund Webinar

Nominations open: High Sheriff Youth Awards

Thriving Together County Durham

Know Your Neighbourhood Fund extension secured

Know Your Neighbourhood: extended

Our July Challengers raised over £16,000

‘Child poverty in the North East is not inevitable and ending it is worth working for, together.’ Amanda Bailey

Child poverty in the North East not inevitable

Point North marks 30 years

Community foundations blueprint for better health

B Local North East Change Fund

Mayor’s Opportunity Fund Round 2 Webinar

Opinion: Let’s talk about core costs

My internship at Point North

Point North 38.7 Miles challenge

Point North Challenge: 38.7 Miles in July

Become a changemaker, make a difference

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Northern Lights match fund launched

Point North 2024/25 grantmaking

Case Study: BHP Law Supports Vital Remedial Work on Hurworth Village Hall

BHP Law Supports Vital Remedial Work

Fund Deadlines: May

Funds with a May deadline

Meet our four new trustees

Funding Update: Community Grants Programme

Funding Update: Community Grants

The Dover Prize, an artist studio with canvas paintings in progress.

The Dover Prize is open for applications

Point North chairs BoE Citizens' Panel

Point North Chairs Bank of England Citizens’ Panel

High Sheriff Youth Awards 2025 winners on stage with certificates and supporters

£30,000 awarded at High Sheriff Youth Awards

Fund Deadlines April

Funds with an April deadline

Atom Futures Fund reopens

Fund deadlines: March

Funds with a March deadline

Funds with February Deadlines

Funds with a February deadline

Sir Paul Nicholson, President of Point North smiling

Remembering Sir Paul Nicholson

It's Time For A New Job lightbox

We’re looking for a Fund Manager

Mayor’s Opportunity Fund Webinar

Northern Gas Network Launches £50,000 Fund

Videographer opportunity with Point North

We’re looking for new trustees

£1m Mayor’s Opportunity Fund now open

High Sheriff Youth Awards winners on stage

Nominations open for the High Sheriff Youth Awards

Impact of the Household Support Fund

Community Foundation for Tees Valley

Be a better business with charitable giving

Point North responds to Chancellor’s budget

Point North responds to Chancellor’s 2024 budget

Hunger and Hardship in North East England

Introducing Point North: our new name

Asking our politicians to end hardship in the UK

Planning for Emergencies

We’re planning for emergency grant-making

Atom bank launch fund with Point North

High Sheriff Youth Awards Photo Gallery

Community groups creating brighter futures

Funds with February Deadlines

Funds with a February Deadline

Fighting poverty and enriching lives in 2023

Poverty Hurts raises more than £1.1 million

Welcome Spaces Fund

Welcome Spaces – up to £3,000 available

Darlington Dover Prize winner announced

The Genesis Project Wins Prestigious King’s Award

Businesses donate £200k to support Lumiere

Lumiere Wall of Fame: DTZ Investors

Women “Bear the Brunt” of Cost of Living Crisis

Lumiere Wall of Fame: BAM Nuttall

Funds with November 2023 deadlines

Grants with November deadlines

Lumiere Wall of Fame: Leonard Curtis

Lumiere Wall of Fame: Citrus Group

Cost of Living Webinar

Join us for a Cost of Living Webinar

Lumiere Wall of Fame: Sherwoods Motor Group

Help for community organisations to go green

Inequalities in County Durham and Tees Valley

Almost £1 million for Poverty Hurts Appeal

Record-breaking night at High Sheriff Awards

Know Your Neighbourhood

Poverty Hurts: Prima team cheque in! 

Have you got a BRILLIANT idea?

Project tackling isolation boosted by grant

Poverty Hurts: The State of Play

Poverty Hurts: An exhibition by Carl Joyce

The Northern Echo backs Poverty Hurts Appeal

Giving Tuesday in County Durham

Supporters: Sandringham Financial Partners

Poverty Hurts Appeal 22 – launch gallery

Community hubs essential to fight poverty

County Durham Poverty Hurts Appeal launches

Collabro concert in aid of Poverty Hurts Appeal

Businesses rally to fight poverty

I Will fund in County Durham and Tees Valley

Give ‘power and resources’ to local people

Memories from a very Royal summer

Queen Elizabeth II 1926 to 2022

Hartlepool charity picks up a Royal honour

Now launched: PHP Community Impact Fund

Supporter event at Beamish Museum

Heatwave prompts emergency response

Michelle receives MBE from Prince Charles

Robson Laidler announces new Community Fund

Climate matters, by Michelle Cooper

Shona is new High Sheriff of Durham

Learning Curve Group annual charity ball

Durham Foundation scores top marks

Durham High Sheriff Awards: £1,000 winners

Durham High Sheriff Awards 2022

Our commitment to flexible funding

Poverty Hurts: Prima Cheese team back Appeal

Solicitors stick by community

Arqiva supports ‘not spot’ households

Looking back at Lumiere 2021

Durham Choir raises funds for Poverty Hurts

Poverty Hurts supports homelessness charity

Teesdale and Wear Valley fund relaunches

Poverty Hurts Appeal: Local businesses rally

Poverty Hurts: Ladies of Steel

Poverty Hurts: LCBC Community Pantry

Sacriston Youth and Community Project

“We saw the pain of this winter coming…”

Roman visit Pioneering Care Partnership

Stanley art group ready to light up Lumiere

Charity boss fights illness to launch crucial Appeal

Saving lives through art and creativity

High Sheriff think local club is a knockout

#iwill project cleans up Seaham beach

#iwill children face climate change together

Allotment uplift helps feed East Durham families

Snappy project eases loneliness

Stanley fund opens for applications

Funding available for young people in sport

Darlington Building Society maximises giving

£50million milestone for North East Foundation

Overcoming loneliness with East Durham Trust

Stand Out for Stanley hailed a success

Dover Prize winner announced

Stand Out, a bright future for Stanley

Congratulations! High Sheriff 2021 winners

Song-writing in Stanley to boost mental health

‘Small charity’ aims high with Foundation funding

High Sheriff Awards tonight

Lastest on Durham’s Lumiere festival 2021

Project helps new mums cope with lockdown

Life-saving defibrillator in Cornsay Colliery village

#RightNow charities are #NeverMoreNeeded

Climbing up the LADDER to Employment

Durham PCVC backs community safety project

Celebrating Village Hall Week

Christmas cheer saved with drive-in carols

Send Lumiere your BRILLIANT entries

Durham PCVC supports survivors of abuse

Community foundation reaches Christmas target!

Comfort and Joy appeal nears target

Karbon Homes donate £10k to Covid Recovery

From couch to creative with Durham charity

This Giving Tuesday – bring Comfort and Joy

Opening new doors for Derwentside Hospice

800k NHS funding for winter resilience

New Life inDurham fund launches

Facemask sales fuel progress

£50k to fight winter deaths and loneliness

Darlington Finance team pledge support

MBE for our Chief Executive Michelle

Dogger Bank Windarm support Redcar lifeline

Local children redesign community centre

Durham charity helps mums keep fit

Charity tackles begging in Darlington

Lumiere set to return in 2021

Teesside Hospice won’t be stopped by pandemic

Young Women’s Film Academy, music video

Hartlepool project feeds thousands

Brandon Boxing Club fight back

Cleveland Mountain Rescue awarded £2k

Middlesbrough group spreads Ubuntu

County Durham charity lifeline for disabled adults

Show goes on for dementia choir

Middlesbrough community spirit shines

Reaching our 25th Anniversary

Power communities through the pandemic

Thanks a million – Durham charity milestone

£1million in grant-making through Coronavirus

Durham cancer charity helps out

Darlington charity helps COVID-19 isolation

Darlington group back bikes

Durham charity team support key workers

North East charity help groups

Funding for suicide-prevention charity

Tackling domestic abuse during lockdown

BME Tees Valley women get support

TEESDALE families thrown a lifeline

Durham charity delivers hope through lockdown

Durham charity helps those ‘terrified to go out’

Cleveland charity motor to the rescue

Darlington communities support the vulnerable

Support for Durham, Darlington and Teesside

Important information for groups about Covid-19

Farewell to North East musician ‘Ukulele Bill’

Kevin Ball visits Stanley youth project

Funding boost for Darlington groups

Helping people see the light over plastic pollution

Charities doing more thanks to support

Exhibition on the horizon for over-55s craft project

New players needed for County Durham baseball

Wanderers Club pots funding for facelift

Women’s Autumn Lunch Gallery

Women’s Autumn Lunch 2019

Barnard Castle arts centre adds new classes

Brandon Boxing Club wins grant for facility upgrades

Living exhibit opens at Beamish museum

Ron Hogg visits Jack Drum Arts in Crook

The Cornforth Partnership celebrates 21st birthday

High Sheriff Youth Awards 2019 Gallery

Record sum handed out in prestigious youth awards

Community safety in County Durham

Winner of the Dover Prize Award is revealed

Bishop Auckland school delve into their heritage

Express your feelings through poetry

Youngsters host poetry event at welfare hall

Teesdale medieval site archaeological project

Darlington businesses champion accessibility

Railway garden proves to be a hit with pupils

Our partnership with Durham University

Nature reserve to host artistic project

Millions invested to help people get active

Big-screen debut for play filmed in Barnard Castle

Boost for our Winter Warmth Fund

Women and girls projects get a share of £3.4m

Bulmer Stone inspiration for Dover Prize exhibition

Unlocking historic funds to benefit the North East

£300k of grants awarded by REG Power

ESB West Durham grants £200k to local people

Women’s Spring Lunch – County Durham Talent

Darlington friends ease miscarriage heartache

Record sum handed out in prestigious youth awards

Funding to protect traditional craft

Funding a young cricketer heads to South Africa

Band play on thanks to 5k funding boost

£1,260 raised in memory of PC Gavin Smith

Our new Chief Executive, Michelle Cooper

Ending the misery of fuel poverty

Swimming club launches SOS for volunteers

Blind cricket star bowled over by support

Football Club scores cash boost from legacy fund

Training to aid domestic abuse survivors

Delivering much more than food…

Rebuilding the red kite population

James Fenwick is our new Chairman

£5,000 boost for appeal to restore arson-hit play area

Tribute to Trustee, Brian Manning

High Sheriff Awards at Bowes Museum

Fund launched to help cricketers of the future

Applications open for Community Safety Fund

Our Sherburn House Partnership

Dover Prize winners revealed

Street Dancer becomes Charity’s CEO for the Day

Partnership with British luxury brand Burberry

£30 million milestone in grant-making

NHS fund awards grants of over £100,000 to community health projects

PRIZE FUND OF £10,000 FOR ARTISTS

GRANT PROVIDES NEW KITCHEN FOR BOWLING CLUB

Designer brand funding created jobs

Funding to help keep communities safe

New CDCF Trustee Colin Fyfe visits Café JJ

Durham’s High Sheriff Rewards unsung heroes

County Durham Community Foundation’s New Health Boost

Award winning Afternoon Tea raises over £2,000

Community Safety Fund set to help many more across the County

County Durham Community Foundation welcomes new Chief Operating Officer

Grand Finale to 20th Year

Durham nursery ground gets cash

High Sheriff Awards celebrate the achievements of young people

Northumbrian Water lights up Staindrop!

East Durham Learning Working Earning Programme now open!

Trustees get fit for charity

Funding available for Teesdale & Wear Valley

2D Ltd Legacy Fund Now Open!

Armed Forces Community Covenant Grant Scheme now launched

Safely off the streets this summer

CDCF Dedication Service at Durham Cathedral

Residents at High Shincliffe celebrate the creation of a new-look playground

£25,000 awarded to Foundation for Jobs

1st Newfield Scout Group receive £5,000

Youngsters launch 20th anniversary of CDCF

Poverty Hurts 22: Stowe Family Law

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