Yorkshire Building Society Charitable Foundation has donated £76,956 in the second quarter of 2021 as part of its support for charities across the UK.

The donations range between £250 to £2,000 and have been made to 52 charities across the country after they were nominated for funding by members and colleagues of Yorkshire Building Society.

One of the charities to receive funding was The Rotary Club of Horbury & Ossett Phoenix which received a £1,149 donation from Yorkshire Building Society Charitable Foundation to purchase a community defibrillator after being nominated by a colleague from the Society’s office in Leeds for financial support.

Steve Brook, community lead for The Rotary Club of Horbury & Ossett Phoenix, said:

We are really grateful for the donation from Yorkshire Building Society Charitable Foundation which will help us continue to provide our services. Of the sudden cardiac arrest deaths that occur each year 90-95% of victims die before they reach hospital. The defibrillator puts the heart back into a normal rhythm and if used within 3-5 minutes of cardiac arrest survival rates jump from 5-10% to 74%, as every minute lost reduces the survival chances by 10%.

Yorkshire Building Society Charitable Foundation is funded through the Small Change Big Difference® scheme where members donate the pennies from the interest on their accounts just once a year to help smaller charities around the UK.

To date in 2021 the Charitable Foundation has donated £127,030 to 92 registered charities around the UK.

For more information about our Small Change Big Difference® scheme and to see an interactive map of recent Charitable Foundation donations visit www.ybs.co.uk/charitablefoundation

Charities that have received funding from Yorkshire Building Society Charitable Foundation in the second funding round of 2021 are:

Charity name

 Amount

Asthma Relief

£950

Autism Angels Ltd

£2,000

B:FRIEND

£2,000

Bare Necessities Toiletry Bank

£2,000

Blackburn Foodbank

£2,000

Blackpool Community Homeless Project

£2,000

Bonce Cancer Research Trust

£1,000

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust

£1,542

Children 1st

£2,000

Children's Hospice South West - Charlton Farm

£1,000

Derbyshire Air Ambulance

£2,000

Derbyshire Carers Association

£2,000

Drighlington Methodist Church

£1,000

EDAN Lincs

£1,000

Emmanuel House Day Centre

£1,000

Fareshare Yorkshire Limited

£1,965

First Days Children's Charity

£1,000

Hillingdon Brain Tumour & Brain Injury Group

£1,000

Home-Start Telford & Wrekin

£1,775

Hour Community

£2,000

Independent Advocacy North East

£1,702

LEO'S

£1,000

MindMosaic Counselling & Therapy

£2,000

NCH&C Charitable Fund

£1,539

NeighbourCare St John’s Wood & Maida Vale

£1,000

Noah's Ark Children's Hospital Charity

£1,932

North West Air Ambulance

£2,000

Ormiston Children and Families Trust

£2,000

Parkinsons UK Peterborough & District

£260

PCC of Christ Church and Holy Trinity Walton Breck

£1,000

Phoenix WoMen’s Aid

£1,585

Sevenoaks Larder

£2,000

Space4autism

£2,000

St Helens Foodbank

£1,500

St. John's Hospice North Lancashire and South Lakes

£1,422

Suffolk Rape Crisis

£1,400

The 3 Pillars - Feeding the Homeless

£1,000

The Cambridge City Foodbank

£1,500

The Children's Hospital Charity

£2,000

The East Lancashire Hospice

£750

The Macular Disease Society

£1,025

The Oxygen Works

£2,000

The Richard Newton Community hall

£1,000

The Salvation Army - Leeds Central

£1,912

The Sunderland Foodbank

£1,000

Their Voice

£500

Tippytoes Babybank

£1,000

United St Saviour’s Charity

£700

Wellspring Therapy & Training

£2,000

WESC Foundation

£1,997

Withy Trees Welfare & Education

£1,000

Zoe's Place Trust - Middlesbrough

£2,000

TOTAL

 £76,956

 

All information correct at time of publication.

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