NORTHERN CONSORTIUM — grant history

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Latest income

£8.8m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£204k

Accounts grants total

£194k

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: Applications are accepted throughout the year. New applicants must contact the funder for an informal discussion prior to submitting an application. Grant applications require a downloaded form emailed to [email protected], while research funding requires a written submission of no more than six sides of A4 emailed to the same address.

Summarised from www.nccharity.org.uk · nccharity.org.uk/what-we-fund/ · nccharity.org.uk/how-to-apply/ on 14/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded

Education/training (11 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (3 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (3 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (3 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (3 grantees)
Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity (2 grantees)
Other Charitable Purposes (2 grantees)
Amateur Sport (1 grantee)
Disability (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (5 grantees)
Scotland (3 grantees)
Sheffield City (2 grantees)
Barnsley (2 grantees)
Rotherham (2 grantees)
City Of Wakefield (2 grantees)
Leeds City (2 grantees)
Bradford City (2 grantees)
Doncaster (2 grantees)
Manchester City (2 grantees)

What changed: FY2024 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings we have read. A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2024	FY2025
new	UUKi	—	£30k
new	Campaign for At Risk Academics (CARA)	—	£25k
new	THE YOUTH ASSOCIATION	—	£25k
new	the University of Bradford	—	£23k
new	Coach Bright	—	£21k
new	THE MUSIC IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS TRUST	—	£10k
new	OLYMPIAS MUSIC FOUNDATION	—	£8k
new	IVAR	—	£500
not listed	University of Bradford	£25k	—
not listed	COUNCIL FOR AT-RISK ACADEMICS	£25k	—
not listed	THE FOUNDATION YEARS TRUST	£17k	—
not listed	GREATER MANCHESTER LAW CENTRE	£15k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
UUKi	FY2025	£30k	support their study “Gone international: a new generation” examining the real benefits of transnational education opportunities for Higher Education students
Prisoners Education Trust	FY2025	£25k	benefitting 35 learners in North West Prisons to engage with learning opportunities to enhance their knowledge and skills and improve their prospects upon release
Campaign for At Risk Academics (CARA)	FY2025	£25k	supported five scholars from Afghanistan and Palestine to continue their PhD studies at UK universities
the Youth Association	FY2025	£25k	fund their Lads at the Back project, the project is focused on attracting NEET students and is aimed at engaging them to work with their peers and chosen schools and colleges to provide their lived experience to improve educational policy and practice
the University of Bradford	FY2025	£23k	support their delivery of “Empowering futures with a career-readiness Global Mindset Development Programme” to 350 of their students from widening participation groups
Coach Bright	FY2025	£21k	provide mentoring to four schools in the North of England, benefitting a total of 120 students from disadvantaged groups
the Linacre Institute	FY2025	£20k	their Reach Higher programme, this funding (now in its third consecutive year) has enable 50 students from West Yorkshire schools to participate in the programme since 2023
Debate Mate Schools	FY2025	£17k	supported 77 students from disadvantaged groups from four schools in Liverpool, Grimsby and Manchester to participate in the Debate Mate programme
Music in Secondary Schools Trust	FY2025	£10k	fund two secondary schools in the North of England to join its
Olympias Music Foundation	FY2025	£8k	co-funding [alongside the Royal Northern College of Music] to support their engagement of a PhD student to explore the benefits of OMF’s programmes to participating global majority students
IVAR	FY2025	£500	aid the funding of their work
University of Bradford	FY2024	£25k	Going Global programme (widening participation students)
Council for At-Risk Academics	FY2024	£25k	Multi-year funding for CARA fellows
Prisoners’ Education Trust	FY2024	£20k	Distance learning courses for prisoners in the North of England
Debate Mate	FY2024	£17k	Core debating programme in Northern regions
Foundation Years Trust	FY2024	£17k	Co-design and co-produce a manual for Schools programme
Linacre Institute	FY2024	£15k	Reach Higher Programme
Greater Manchester Law Centre	FY2024	£15k	Legal Advocacy and Research Support Project (LARSP) pilot
The Linacre Institute	FY2023	£146k	Reach Higher Programme
Wellspring	FY2023	—	Children & Young People’s Therapeutic Counselling Course and bursaries
The Council for At-Risk Academics	FY2023	—	Support for cara fellows placed within Member Institutions
The University of Bradford	FY2023	—	Going Global programme
The University of Manchester	FY2023	—	Legal Advocacy and Research Support Project (LARSP)
Prevent 2 Protect	FY2023	—	Gang for Life? Project
Greater Manchester Law Centre	FY2023	—	Legal Advocacy and Research Support Project (LARSP)
Teesside University	FY2023	—	Mobility programmes in the USA
Apps for Good	FY2023	—	App for Social Action
Campaign for At Risk Academics (CARA)	FY2022	£20k	funding of E20k was used to support scholars from Syria and Iraq to continue their PhD studies at UK universities
Council for At Risk Academics (CARA)	FY2022	£20k	annual grant of 620, 000

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 204241 vs reference 194241 (5.1% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder and want a correction, contact us.