Charitable Foundation donates more than £50,000 in first quarter funding | YBS
Charitable Foundation donates more than £50,000 in first quarter funding
Yorkshire Building Society Charitable Foundation has donated £50,074 in the first quarter of 2021 as part of its support for charities across the UK.
The donations range between £250 to £2,000 and have been made to 40 charities across the country after they were nominated for funding by members and colleagues of Yorkshire Building Society.
One of the charities to receive funding was Henshaws Society for Blind People which received a £1,900 donation from Yorkshire Building Society Charitable Foundation after being nominated by colleagues at the Society’s Harrogate branch for financial support.
Gemma Young, Yorkshire fundraising manager at Henshaws, said:
At Henshaws Specialist College in Harrogate, students have their own personal aims which can range from being able to express their emotions to getting into paid work. Technology is built into each student’s learning and development, but they are restricted by the amount of equipment available. Thanks to this generous donation from Yorkshire Building Society Charitable Foundation this will be a fantastic help to support students learning and communication.
Yorkshire Building Society Charitable Foundation is funded through the Small Change Big Difference® scheme where members donate the pennies from the interest on their accounts just once a year to help smaller charities around the UK.
Gordon Rogers, Chair of Trustees for Yorkshire Building Society Charitable Foundation, said:
The continued impact that coronavirus is having across the country including the charity sector is having significant detrimental challenges to their operations. With our quarterly funding we are aiming to help charities that support the ongoing needs of the most vulnerable people in our communities to continue to provide their services which can be a lifeline to many of their beneficiaries.
In 2020, the Charitable Foundation donated £419,915 to 359 registered charities nominated by members and colleagues from around the UK.
For more information about our Small Change Big Difference® scheme and to see an interactive map of recent Charitable Foundation donations visit www.ybs.co.uk/charitablefoundation
Charities that have received funding from Yorkshire Building Society Charitable Foundation in the first funding round of 2021 are:
Charity Name |
Charity no. |
Donation amount |
AberNecessities |
48788 |
£1,992 |
Advocacy Alliance |
1163787 |
£1,000 |
Asthma UK and British Lung Foundation Partnership |
326730 |
£2,000 |
Blackpool Food Bank |
1153538 |
£2,000 |
Brook Lane Community Church |
1125098 |
£2,000 |
Bury Society for Blind and Partially Sighted |
1102525 |
£1,000 |
Cardiff Foodbank |
1139456 |
£1,000 |
Cardiff Mind Ltd |
1020633 |
£1,796 |
Chartwell Childrens Cancer Trust |
1162907 |
£1,500 |
Community Lives Matter |
1189401 |
£2,000 |
Dartmouth Caring |
900226 |
£2,000 |
Friends of Bridlington and District Hospital |
225316 |
£1,125 |
Friends of Bury Young Carers |
1124313 |
£1,600 |
Glasgow City Mission |
1499 |
£1,133 |
Glasgows Golden Generation |
8200 |
£1,000 |
Henshaws Society for Blind People - Henshaws Specialist College |
221888 |
£1,900 |
Hope housing Bridlington |
1182912 |
£1,925 |
Making A Difference Maidstone |
1169055 |
£250 |
Mikeysline |
46574 |
£2,000 |
Mind In Bradford |
1142357 |
£1,000 |
Multiple Sclerosis Society - Head Office |
1139257 |
£1,000 |
Norwich Food Bank |
1143528 |
£500 |
Oasis Cardiff |
1131306 |
£550 |
Over the Rainbow Children's Charity |
1163971 |
£500 |
PCC St George's Church |
622175 |
£1,000 |
Pontefract & Castleford Talking Newspaper Association |
514383 |
£270 |
Pontefract Community Kitchen |
1182510 |
£475 |
Relate Kent Consortium |
1084818 |
£900 |
Rotary Club of Horbury and Ossett Phoenix Trust Fund |
1042627 |
£1,149 |
St George's Crypt |
1144474 |
£2,000 |
Sue Lambert Trust |
1120957 |
£1,000 |
Swansea Music Art Digital CIO |
1190983 |
£1,000 |
The Haven Torbay |
7832748 |
£2,000 |
The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Paignton |
1128706 |
£840 |
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution - Eastbourne RNLI |
209603 |
£309 |
UK Time's Up |
1189328 |
£1,750 |
United Response |
265249 |
£2,000 |
Wirral Foodbank |
1167967 |
£2,000 |
YMCA Doncaster |
250973 |
£800 |
Young Enterprise |
313697 |
£500 |
TOTAL |
£50,764 |
All information correct at time of publication.
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