County Durham Community Foundation Useful Resources
Annual Review 2020-21
Our most recent Annual Review is a thank you to all of our wonderful donors, and the groups we fund because of their generosity. Curious to learn more? Get involved and get in touch here
Update from the Poverty Hurts Appeal
Read our April newsletter
Read our March newsletter
Read our February newsletter
Looking back over our pandemic response
Find out how we helped unite our donors and supporters with the communities that needed them.
More than £ 1,888,936 of Covid-19 funding has been awarded to 411 projects with almost 311,000 beneficiaries.
There are 34 wards in County Durham and Tees Valley classified as ‘left behind’; 24 of those wards received over £250,000 in Covid-19 relief funding.
Almost one third of organisations that received funding from County Durham Community Foundation were managed by one staff member or entirely by volunteers.
Read our Covid-19 Reports using the links below
Full colour PDF Covid-19 Report
Plain text version
120 day Covid-19 Report
Annual reviews
Annual Review 2019 – 2020
Annual Review 2018 – 2019
Annual Review 2017 – 2018
Annual review 2016 – 2017
Vital Signs
Annual reports
Grants Awarded
Grants Awarded in financial year 2017/2018
Grants Awarded in financial year 2016/2017
Miscellaneous forms, leaflets and directions to Community Foundation
Grant-making Policy
Whistleblowing Policy
Grant appeals process
Appeals process for grant applicants
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Training and events for groups
Our team runs regular funding phone-ins to help people with grant applications. Book your spot here:
Funding phone-ins with County Durham Community Foundation
Meanwhile, Durham Community Action offer advice and support to voluntary and community groups on a range of topics including grants and fundraising.
DCA regularly run a ‘Completing a Funding Application’ course – dates and more information can be found on their website here
They can also review and give feedback on funding applications – for more information please email [email protected]
Open Data
County Durham Community Foundation is committed to transparency and we work with 360Giving to publish information about our grants.
Using the 360Giving data standard, our awarded grants to groups can be viewed as Excel spreadsheets: COVID-19 Emergency grants here
Between 1st April 2020 and 31st March 2021 we awarded 1,253 grants to groups and individuals totalling £4,945,774. These can be viewed below.
We believe that with better information, grant makers can be more effective and strategic decision makers. 360Giving provides support for grant makers to publish their grants data openly, to understand their data, and to use the data to create online tools that make grant making more effective. For more information, visit http://www.threesixtygiving.org/
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. This means the data is freely accessible to anyone to be used and shared as they wish. The data must be attributed to County Durham Community Foundation.