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The Sir James Knott Trust, which funds charitable activity in Tyne and Wear, Northumberland, County Durham and Hartlepool, has awarded Blue Cabin a grant of £30,000 to support the charity’s core costs.
The funding will be spread over three years, helping to underpin Blue Cabin’s work with care experienced children and young people. Director, Jenny Young, explains the difference the funding makes: “We’re so incredibly grateful to Sir James Knott and all the people and organisations which support Blue Cabin. This core funding gives stability, and means we can continue to focus on bringing trauma informed, creative opportunities to care experienced people.
“The Sir James Knott Trust is a long-term supporter of Blue Cabin and their belief in our work means a great deal to the whole team.”
Blue Cabin focuses all its work on care experienced people, supporting them to develop stronger relationships with the people in their lives through creative activities. The charity also influences best practice across the cultural sector and local authorities.
The impacts of its work include improved confidence, creativity and resilience for care experienced children and young people; stronger relationships between care experienced children and young people and the adults in their lives; and supporting other organisations to better understand the benefits of creativity for care experienced people.
James Knott was born in 1855 at Howdon on Tyne. At the age of 19, he started work as a shipbroker and in 1881 he purchased his first steam ship, the ‘Saxon Prince’. James Knott set up the Prince Line Ltd in 1895. It became the third largest shipping line in the world with 45 ships, many of them built in Tyne and Wear shipyards.
Sir James Knott believed in ‘action not words’ and gave many generous gifts to charities in the North East. In 1990 the Sir James Knott Trust Settlement was divided to form the Sir James Knott Trust based in Newcastle with the reserve remaining in Jersey. Since 1990, the Trust has made over 8,500 grants totalling over £27.8million, many of them to charities known to have been of keen interest to Sir James Knott.
We couldn’t do what we do without the support of people and organisations who have given generously to help us to realise our mission.
