Developing Recovery Communities - Rochdale Borough

Aims/priorities: Rochdale Borough Council have received Section 31 grant funding for additional investment in substance misuse treatment. Part of this includes funding to support the development and expansion of recovery community and peer support networks to increase the visibility of recovery and support social integration.

Applications should meet at least one of the following priorities:

• The development and expansion of recovery communities and peer support networks for substance and alcohol misuse in Rochdale,
• To increase the visibility of recovery from substance and alcohol misuse and support social integration networks, or
• Improved networks of social connections so that people facing social exclusion through substance and alcohol misuse have the opportunity to live healthy and fulfilling lives through involvement in a community that supports their recovery, encourages social integration, builds their abstinence and wellbeing and is led and organised by their peers and families

Amount: Up to £5,000

Who can apply? 

• You are a voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) group locally rooted or actively working in the borough of Rochdale; and
• You are a member of Action Together CIO (you can register for free to become a member here); and
• You are formally constituted; or can evidence that you are actively working towards this.

How to apply: 

Please click here to complete the application form.

Please click here to see the Guidance Notes.

Please send all completed application forms to hayley.tomlinson@actiontogether.org.uk

Deadline: Monday 31 October 9am

To watch the Meet the Funder session which took place on Monday 12 September, please click here.