The organisation hosted a visit from Andy Preston, Chair of the Foundation who met with some of our apprentices at our Middlesbrough office.  We are actively discussing a series of further projects with the Foundation, one of our trustees has already took part in the annual Big Sleep Out to raise money for work with […]

The forum looked at the development and legacy of the recent Empty Homes Community Grants Programme and heard from David Mullins from Birmingham University who presented his research on the impact of the grants programme in the North East,Yorkshire and Humberside. We also welcomed a guest from Japan, Kenichi Matsutomi who presented information on working […]

The Futurebuilders Fund is managed by Social Investment Business, the UK’s largest social investor.  It provided loan financing, often combined with grants and professional support to third sector organisations in England that needed investment to help them bid for, win and deliver public service contracts. Community Campus received Futurebuilders investment in 2007, the purpose of […]

Community Campus would like to thank Northumbrian Water for their second donation of furniture this year. Staff from Community Campus travelled to Kielder to collect the donation of sofas from the Kielder Water and Forest Park Lodges on Monday 10 August 2015.  When the lodges are revitalised, the furniture is recycled by Community Campus and […]

We visited the workshop run by local charity Allied Resource Community, the workshop is based in the Larchfield Community and ran by an old friend of ours, Jim Pearson. The Allied Resource Community uses volunteers to refurbish old hand tools that are donated by local individuals and businesses – the tools are repaired, reused and […]