Funders 1983 to Present

A & E Education Trust • AEU (donation) • Age Concern National • Age Concern Newcastle • Age Concern, Metropolitan Gateshead Ltd • Air Products (in kind) • Allerdale District Council • Arts Council of England • Arts Resource • Artworks for Industry/Arts Development Strategy of Tyne & Wear Museums Service based at the Laing Art Gallery • Association for Business Sponsorship of the Arts • The 7th (Durham) Battalion, The Light Infantry • Barbour Trust • Barclays Age Resource • Barclays Bank plc • Baring Brothers Co Ltd • Baring Foundation • BBP Ltd • Benfield Motors • Berwick upon Tweed Borough Council • Bishop Auckland Town Twinning Association • Black Arts Network • Blue Circle Cement • Blyth Valley • BME Ltd • Borough of Barrow in Furness • Borough of South Tyneside • Borough of Sunderland • The Bridge Project • British Council • British Gas Northern • British Health Care Arts Centre • British Telecom • Brit Steel-General (formerly British Steel on Teesside) • Bullen Consultants • Business Link • BSIS (The Association for Business Sponsorship of the Arts) • Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation • JW Cameron and Co Ltd • Capital Lottery Grant • Carlisle City Council • In memory of Roger Cartilidge • Charities Aid Foundation • Charity Projects • Chase Charity • Christ's Hospital in Sherburn • City of Carlisle • City of Newcastle upon Tyne • City of Sunderland • City of Sunderland (on behalf of the National Lottery through the Arts Council of England for the Art on the Riverside program) • City of Sunderland College (Tunstall Centre) • Civic Trust • J A Clark Charitable Trust • Cleveland Arts • Cleveland Community Foundation • The Clifford Charity Oxford • Community Foundation • Community Service for Durham • Connexions Tyne & Wear • Continuation Charitable Trust • Countryside Commission • County Durham TEC • T Cowie plc • Cumbria Arts in Education • Cumbria County Council • Cumbria TEC • Customs House Trust • Daiwa Japanese/Anglo Foundation • Darlington Arts Centre • Darlington Borough Council • Darlington Health Authority • Davy Offshore Modules Ltd • Defra • Demon Internet Ltd • Derwentside District Council • Diamond Twig Press • Tilbury Douglas • Dovecot Arts Centre • Dowdales School • Durham Aged Miners • Durham County Council • Durham County Waste Management Co Ltd • Durham University • South Durham National Health Service • Durham Rural Community Council • Easington District Council • EEC • Elephant Trust • Elta Plastics Ltd • English Estates • English Nature • Department of the Environment • Environment Agency • Environmental Action Fund • Environmental Change Network • Dept of the Environment, Transport and the Region's • Ernest Cook Trust • Esmee Fairbairn Foundation • Etta Plastics • European Regional Dev• Fund (D of E) • European Social Fund • Expanded Metal Co • J C Farnes & Co Ltd • Fergusons Industrial Holdings plc • First Tyne International/Arts Dev• based at the Laing Art Gallery • Flambard Press • Flymo • Foundation for Sport & the Arts • Francis C Scott Charitable Trust • Freeman Group of Hospitals • Friends of Newcastle General Hospital • Fujitsu Microelectronics Ltd • Gateshead Borough Council • Gateshead Health Authority • Gateshead MBC • The King George's Jubilee Trust • J Paul Getty Jr Charitable Trust • Glasgow School of Art (in kind) • GMU Young and Others AG Charitable Trust • Great North Forest • Greggs plc • Groundwork South Tyneside • G.S. May Family Fund • The Hadrian Trust • Hall Construction • Paul Hamlyn Foundation • Hancock Museum (in kind) • Hartley Woods • Hawthorn Leslie • Healthquest (Marketing) Ltd • HM Prison Service • HM Young Offender Institution, Castington • Holst Foundation • Home Office • The Hospital Saving Association Charitable Trust • Howard Walker Charitable Trust • IBM United Kingdom Ltd • Institution of Electrical Engineers (retired members section) • Inverforth Charitable Trust • R & L Jacobson Charity Trust • Japan Festival • Japan Foundation • Johnston Press plc • The Joicey Trust • The Joint Stewards Committee, Austin and Pickersgill • Kendall Cross Holdings Ltd • Kings Fund • Sir James Knott 1990 Trust • Laing Art Gallery • John Laing Construction Ltd • Lancaster City Council • Lankelly Foundation • Derek Lincoln • Lloyds TSB Foundation for England and Wales • Loftus Development Trust • Lord Hire Centres • Luxdon Laundry • RW Mann Trustees • Marks and Spencer plc • Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead • Metropolitan Borough of South Tyneside • Middlesbrough Borough Council • MidNAG • Millfield House Foundation • Monkwearmouth College • The Monument Trust • The Museums, Libraries & Archives Council • Musician's Union • NACF • NACRO • NALGO • National AIDS Trust • National Probation Service (Northumbria) • National Union of Mineworkers • National Union of Public Employees • NESTA • Bishop of Newcastle • City of Newcastle upon Tyne Leisure Services • Newcastle Breweries Ltd • Newcastle Building Society Community Fund • Newcastle Business Equipment • Newcastle City Challenge • Newcastle City Council • Newcastle City Health NHS Trust • Newcastle College • Newcastle Compact • NewcastleGateshead Initiative • Newcastle Health Authority • Newcastle Initiative • Newcastle Lottery • Newcastle and North Tyneside Health Authorities • Newcastle Safer Cities • Newcastle upon Tyne City Council • Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic • University of Newcastle • Newcastle University Hospitals Special Trustees (in kind) • Newcastle University Students Union • JM Norman • The Normanby Charitable Trust • North East Press Ltd • North Eastern Co-operative Society • North of England Building Society • North of Tyne ISSP • North Shields People's Centre • North Tyneside Council • North Tyneside General Hospital • North Tyneside Health Authority • Northern Arts • Northern Arts (Regional Arts Lottery Program) • Northern Electric • Northern Electric Arts Awards • Northern Film and Media • Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art (in kind) • Northern Region Health Authority • Northern Region Trades Union Congress • Northern Arts • Northern Rock • Northern Stage • Mid-Northumberland Arts Group • Northumberland Children's Fund • Northumberland County Council • Northumberland Health Authority • Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Trust • Northumbria Probation Service • University of Northumbria at Newcastle • Northumbrian Water Environmental Trust • Northumbrian Water Group plc • Northumbrian Water's Kick-Start Scheme • NUPE • Nuwater Consultancy (in kind) • One NorthEast/Tyne and Wear Development Corporation • Opera North • Oxhill Youth Club • Paul Hamlyn Foundation • Performing Rights Society Ltd • Peterlee College • Peterlee District Council • The Performing Right Society • Phoenix Steel • Pilgrim Trust • Platinum Trust • Sir John Priestman Charity Trust • Three Prison Establishments at Durham, Frankland and Low Newton • Procter & Gamble • Projects UK • Prudential Corporation • Quaking Houses Environmental Trust • RSA Art for Architecture • Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council • The Rothley Trust • Royal Jubilee and Prince's Trust • Rural Action • Rural Development Commission • Rural Projects Fund • The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation • Hospital Saturday Fund Charitable Trust • Sasakawa Foundation • Savacentre Ltd • F C Scott Charitable Trust • Shell Better Britain Campaign • Shell UK Ltd • Skinningrove Link-Up • South Durham Health Care NHS Trust • South of Tyne ISSP • South Tyneside Borough Council • South Tyneside College • South Tyneside Probation Committee • Southwick Tenants Association • The Sponsors Club • Steetley Building Products Lumley Works • Storey Carpets, Curtains and Furnishing Ltd •City of Sunderland • City of Sunderland & Hartlepool Publishing & Printing Ltd • City of Sunderland Leisure Department • University of Sunderland • Sunderland AFC • Sunderland Arts Development Unit • Sunderland Borough Council • Sunderland City Challenge • Sunderland Echo • Sunderland Health Authority • Sunderland ICCP • Sunderland ISSP • Sunderland Polytechnic • Sunderland Safer Cities Project • Sunderland Social Service • Sunderland and South Shields Water plc • Sunderland Suite Centre • Swan Mountain Trust • Teesside Arts Award • Teesside Development Corporation • Telefact Research Ltd • TGWU • Them Wifies • Thomas Wall Trust • Tilbury Douglas Construction Ltd • Ralph Thompson • Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust • The Michael Tippett Musical Foundation • Transport and the Region's Environmental Action Fund • Transport and General Workers Union • Trimdon Parish Council • The Monument Trust • The TSB Foundation for England and Wales • Tudor Trust • Tyne International • Tyne & Wear Development Corporation • Tyne and Wear Foundation • Tyne and Wear Metropolitan County Council • Tyne & Wear Museums Service • Tyne Tees Telethon Trust • Tyne Tees Television • UCATT • Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians • UK 2000 • UK Environmental Change Network (NERC) • Union of Construction • Union Retired Members Group • Vaux Breweries Ltd • Vaux Group • Vickers Defence System • The Virtual Reality Ctr, University of Teesside (in kind) • Visiting Arts • Voluntary Action Cumbria • Wakeham Trust • Wansbeck District Council • Warner Electric Ltd • Washington Development Corporation • The Wates Foundation • The Wearside Opportunity • Wearmouth Deanery • Wearside Opportunity • Wearside TEC Ltd • Wear Valley District Council • Wear Valley Trades Council • William Webster Trust • West Cumbria Development Agency • West End Health Resource Centre • William Webster Charitable Trust • HDH Wills 1965 Charitable Trust • Wimpey Homes Holding Ltd • Harvey Wood • Workers' Educational Association (Northern District) • Women's Royal Voluntary Service • Write Together • Write Together • Yamaha-Kemble Music Ltd • Year of the Artist • Yorkshire and Humberside Arts • Zone Photographic Gallery