Trust or foundation, registered charity 1063906

The Northern Rock Foundation

The Northern Rock Foundation has funded at least 1 charity in Wales that we know of.

Themes it funds

Money given to charities working on each theme, as each charity describes itself on the register. Many charities list several themes, so these overlap.

Themes it funds
Theme	Charities
General charitable purposes	1
Education and training	1
Preventing or relieving poverty	1
Animals	1
Environment, conservation and heritage	1
Economic and community development, and employment	1
Recreation	1
Other charitable purposes	1

How it gives

Charities in Wales funded: 1
Grants on 360Giving: 2
Typical grant on 360Giving: £25,587The middle value: half its grants were smaller, half larger.
Largest grant on 360Giving: £37,025

Where

The council area of each funded charity's contact address. Many charities work well beyond the area where their address is.

Powys1

Size of the charities it funds

By each charity's income in its latest year.

£1 million to £5 million1

What it says it does

From its entry on the register of charities.

For operational purposes the primary objective of the Northern Rock Foundation is to tackle disadvantage and improve quality of life in Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, County Durham and the Tees Valley through investing in non-profit-distributing organisations. It also provides or commissions services, conducts research by commissioning others and provides loans on a variety of terms.

Status: Removed from the register on 20 March 2017
Income in its latest year: £149,000, year ending 30 April 2016
Publishes its grants to 360Giving: Yes

This funder on the Charity Commission register

The charities it funds

Newest first. For each charity, given comes from its accounts or from 360Giving, whichever shows more.

The charities it funds
Charity	Given	From	Years
Social Farms and Gardens	Not recorded		2004, 2006

Where these figures come from

Given comes from two places. For each charity, we use whichever shows more: what the charity's own accounts say the funder gave it, or what the funder published to 360Giving. We never add the two, because they often record the same grant. Every figure counts money from 2021 to now and is an at-least figure: a funder appears only when a charity's accounts name it or it publishes its grants, and OpenEconomy has not yet read every charity's accounts.
Charities' accounts: read from the accounts they filed with the Charity Commission by Claude, an AI model, in OpenEconomy's accounts reader, up to 2 November 2026. AI can misread a table, so check a charity's accounts before relying on a figure.
360Giving: grants funders published to 360Giving, loaded by OpenEconomy on 5 November 2026. Only some funders publish there.