The Gillian Dickinson Trust offers support to small charities in Northumberland, Tyne & Wear and County Durham. Our aims are to promote creativity in young people and to help those who have a deprived life.
The Trustees are committed to achieving the goals, and to live up to, the aspirations left to us by Gillian. This website is therefore an opportunity to demonstrate the progress we have made and to invite eligible organisations to apply for funding support.
Gillian asked us to support charities in Northumberland, Tyne & Wear and County Durham. She wanted our support to go to smaller charities rather than those with national status. Aside from promoting creativity she particularly wanted to help those who have a deprived life whether through disability, illness or circumstance.
Young Pianist of the North is a stepping stone between local festivals, competitions, and established national and international contests. Through music making...
It is often said that there is no better way to learn new skills than to perform them yourself, so funding from the Gillian Dickinson Trust proved hugely...
After the Gillian Dickinson Trust awarded Seven Stories with a £10,000 investment for their educational programme - Amazing Archives...
Samling Outreach Project
Live Theatre
Durham University
Theatre Royal
Tyneside Cinema
Seven Stories
Calvert Trust Kielder
Cosi Fan Tutte & Don Giovanni
Gillian Dickinson Writers’ Room, First Draft
The Assembly Rooms
Gillian Dickinson Way, Eutopia
Northern Stars
Writing Project
Quiet Garden Project
£135,000
£90,000
£70,000
£60,000
£35,000
£10,000
£10,000
The Trustees have decided that over the next five years their priority for making the grants will be as follows:
Making grants for capital or one-off revenue projects that promote excellence and which will be life changing for the recipient charity and/or its beneficiaries, primarily through the promotion of creativity, particularly in the young and disadvantaged.
More young people can come and watch and hopefully be inspired by it.
Paul James, Live Theatre
We couldn’t have managed the Northern Stars project without the continuous support of the Trust.
Holli McGuire, Tyneside Cinema
