Welcome to Virgin Money Foundation
We support local people to deliver positive change in the communities where it is needed the most
About Us
We seek to make a real and lasting difference in the places that need it most by working in partnership with organisations that are committed to regenerating their area and by investing in community activities that have a meaningful impact. The Foundation was established in 2015, and has awarded over £13million to incredible initiatives. Each grant creating positive change in a local community.
Our Foundation is supported by Virgin Money and our work is supercharged by Virgin Money colleagues who donate significant time helping our funded organisations and the brilliant people who lead them.
Find out more about the foundation
Community Anchors' Fund North East
The fund offers grants of up to £30,000 to community-led organisations based in the North East of England that want to make positive changes to their neighbourhood.
Community Anchors' Fund Glasgow
Offered in partnership with HFD Charitable Foundation, the fund offers grants of up to £30,000 to community-led organisations in the city of Glasgow that want to make positive changes to their neighbourhood.
Leading The Way
A tailored learning programme for leaders of community enterprises in the North East of England and Yorkshire and the Humber.
Young Change Makers Fellowship Programme
A programme of funding and support for young people aged 18 to 26, who have the drive to create change in their local community, from the North East or North West of England and Yorkshire and the Humber.
Justice Prince
Justice Prince is based on and works across the Longbenton Estate in North Tyneside, tackling social injustice. It supports local people into work, tackles food poverty, runs community gardens, has established a community kitchen and operates a community café to name just a few of their initiatives.
We have funded Justice Prince to support a range of their services over the years, including the creation of an employment and skills programme and contributed towards the costs of employing both a finance and data manager and a catering manager.
Find out more about our Community anchors.
CREST
CREST aims to promote racial equality and to assist people from minority ethnic communities in South Tyneside. It works to support them to access education, training and employment, helping them to raise their aspirations and to ensure their collective voice is heard.
CREST has delivered many successful projects in education, training, employment, housing and social welfare for all ages and ethnically diverse communities. We have provided funding to CREST to enable the essential work it provides to continue.
Find out more about our community anchor organisations helping tackle Racial inequity.
Young change maker Roukagia
Roukagia is a Manchester based law student of Syrian and Ukrainian heritage. She is passionate about tackling islamophobia and amplifying the voices of women from ethnic minority backgrounds, to provide them with access routes into leadership positions in our society.
During the Fellowship and with the support of her Virgin Money method group and mentor, Roukagia has established Northern Muslim Women and is working to dismantle stereotypes and advise local employers and leaders on issues of diversity and discrimination concerning Muslim women in the north.
Find out more about our Community leaders and Change makers.
Open data
The Virgin Money Foundation is committed to being transparent and we work with 360Giving to publish information about our grants. We believe that with better information, grantmakers can make more effective decisions. 360Giving provides support for them to publish data openly, understand that data and use it to create online tools to make grantmaking more beneficial. For more information, visit http://www.threesixtygiving.org Link opens in a new window
To view information on our grants, in the 360Giving data standard.
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We are proud to be a Living Wage Funder, committed to tackling low pay by encouraging and enabling the organisations we support to pay the real Living Wage Link opens in a new window.