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The aim of the fund is to support capital expenditure on physical community spaces in Oldham where people come together and that enable the lives of Oldham residents to be improved.
Applications should be for projects that meet one or more of the following Oldham…
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Rochdale Creates, supported by Rochdale Borough Council and Rochdale Development Agency, has secured UK Shared Prosperity Funding from GMCA, to fund a number of small arts commissions to feed into the Youth Arts Festival programme. We want to work with artists and arts organisations with a strong connection to Rochdale, to co-create engaging new work or…
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Thanks to funding from Rochdale Borough Council, Action Together is offering small grants of up to either £2,000 or £5,000 to help the VCFSE sector run projects to raise awareness of Climate Change and deliver activities and events that will benefit individuals and communities.
Your project must fall within one or more of the following…
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This funding comes from GMCA's Live Well Community Fund. Live Well is a community-led, system-enabled health and wellbeing movement in Greater Manchester. The priorities of this grant have been co-designed by Rochdale's Anti-Poverty Foundation Group, through root cause analysis, research, and consultation with the cross-sector Anti-Poverty Network.
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Thanks to funding from NHS GM, we are offering grants of up to £10,000 for the VCFSE sector to engage with communities experiencing racial inequality around the following priorities identified by the Rochdale Ethnic Communities Network.
Your project must fall within one or more of the following priorities:
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Aims/priorities: The One Oldham Fund is a strategic single investment fund that uses pooled resources for the voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) sector in Oldham.
This programme is looking to respond to high levels of economic inactivity in Oldham. It aims to strengthen the capacity of the VCFSE Sector in Oldham to deliver holistic,…
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Thanks to funding from Rochdale Borough Council’s Adult Social Care team, Action Together is offering grants of up to £500 to help small, unconstituted groups or those preparing to become social enterprises (such as Community Interest Companies) develop their ideas or projects into sustainable, long-term organisations that benefit Rochdale Borough.
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Thanks to funding from Rochdale Borough Council Public Health team, Action Together is offering micro grants of up to £1,000 to help the VCFSE sector to support individuals, families and communities in the Rochdale Borough.
As there are limited funds, we will be prioritising applications from micro and small groups to our…
Aims/priorities: The funding is for charitable work that meets one or more of the Foundation's current priorities:
- Victims of modern slavery: to provide facilities for and support to victims on their journey back to independent living, better mental health and employment.
- Victims of domestic abuse: to provide emergency safety and to support victims…
Aims/priorities: The funding aims to support a portfolio of arts and culture projects which work to open up conversations about dying, death and grief in new and creative ways at a grassroots level. The idea is to support hospices to build new partnerships, particularly with arts and cultural organisations.
Hospices need to be working with local groups/community…
Aims/priorities: We want to improve outcomes for people with heart disease around Greater Manchester, and to reduce its impact on lives beyond current NHS provision. To this end, we intend to fund a wide range of projects.
All applications must demonstrate a close alignment with one or more of NW Hearts Charity’s funding priorities, namely projects that benefit:…
Aims/priorities: This fund aims to support the regrowth and strengthening of the creative sector in Greater Manchester by enabling a variety of projects for artists, performers, musicians, and small arts organisations, such as purchasing new instruments, replacing costumes, and expanding a theatrical group’s wardrobe, or upskilling through training courses.
Who…
Aims/priorities: This fund aims to support initiatives that alleviate poverty and disadvantage in local communities, including working with people who are homeless.
Who can apply? Organisations working to alleviate poverty and disadvantage across Greater Manchester can apply.
Preference will be given to small-to-medium-sized voluntary…
Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support local community events that enhance and enrich the lives of people over the age of 55 to combat loneliness and sometimes isolation ensuring they stay fit, active, healthy and connected and contributing to their local communities.
Who can apply? Applications are accepted from small community groups and…
Aims/priorities: This fund aims to support individuals and families who are struggling with everyday costs, such as basic living expenses, household items and utilities, or rent arrears.
Who can apply? Applications will only be accepted from recognised third party social organisation, such as charities, housing associations, schools and social services…
Aims/priorities: The WorkerTech Fund focuses on supporting early-stage ventures that use technology to improve working conditions and outcomes for people in low-paid or insecure employment. Its objectives include increasing access to better pay, career development opportunities and skills for affected workers.
The programme aims to enhance worker voice and influence…
Aims/priorities: On 23 September 2025 Ogden Trust announced that following the launch of the Trust’s new strategy, the Trust will no longer offer physics education grants from September 2026. Through the strategy development process, the Trust’s funding has been refocused into providing free professional development support for teachers of physics.
There will be one…
Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support evidence-based projects to reduce reoffending and facilitate rehabilitation across the criminal justice system, while enabling VCSE organisations to propose and test mechanisms that align with the recommendations of the Independent Sentencing Review.
Who can apply? Voluntary, community and social…
Aims/Priorities: The programme aims to reduce health inequalities by supporting inclusive, locally tailored initiatives that engage people at higher risk of CVD and diabetes. These risks may be linked to lifestyle factors, social determinants of health, or membership of particular demographic groups.
While funded projects should be designed to attract and support…
Aims/priorities: The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) is committed to building cohesive and resilient communities. The Common Ground Resilience Fund was launched in September to support local places, and a key part of this is promoting the important role of the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector.
The UK government’s…
Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support arts and cultural organisations across the UK and Germany to develop partnerships that explore social arts practice.
The funding is for organisations who embody cultural democracy through:
- Placing communities at the heart of their creative work.
- Exploring new ways of connecting arts and society,…
Aims/priorities: The Trust wants to encourage three different types of change through its funding support:
- Change for individuals - achieving significant change for individuals who are the most marginalised in the UK today.
- Change for organisations - enhancing the capacity of organisations to respond more effectively to social needs.
- Change…
Aims/priorities: The funding is for organisations whose main aims and objectives fit with one of the following Fund's themes:
- Contributing to nature recovery and responding to the climate emergency.
- Improving nature-rich spaces and access to them.
The grants can be used for a wider range of sustainable activities, including recycling,…
Aims/Priorities: The fund aims to support projects that help create or enhance indoor or outdoor community focused facilities. The fund aligns with key objectives of the TRU Sustainable Development Strategy, ‘Our Guiding Compass’. This aims to use TRU as a catalyst…
Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support hospice projects that create sustainable change in care delivery for people experiencing financial hardship or socio-economic deprivation.
Who can apply? Eligible applicants are independent charitable hospices that are members of Hospice UK and based in England, Wales, the Channel Islands, or the Isle…
Aims/priorities: The Trust holds two grants rounds per year:
- The Spring round is for proposals wanting to work with young people who already have a criminal conviction.
- The Autumn round is for proposals focused on targeted work with high-risk young people on the edge of the criminal justice system.
The Trust’s funding in 2025 focuses on…
Aims/priorities: The funding is specifically aimed at smaller community organisations that have often been started to address a local and unmet need and are rooted in lived experience.
The funding is for work that is currently taking place, work that builds on something that a group is currently doing or a pilot if they want to try something new.
There is…
Aims/priorities: Help the Homeless is a small grant maker with limited funds available for giving.
It provides funding for charitable organisations with the aim of helping homeless people return to the community and enabling them to rebuild their lives.
Funding is targeted at projects to find practical ways to help disadvantaged individuals return to the community…
Aims/Priorities: The funding is intended for the cataloguing of archives, to ensure that significant archive collections, representing the lives and perspectives of all people across the UK, are made accessible to the public for research and enjoyment.
Who can apply? Applications will be accepted from organisations with archival collections in the…
Aims/Priorities: Consortium Grants are designed to bring organisations together, to create projects that are greater than the sum of their parts. The funding is for large-scale consortium projects, bring together multiple archive, heritage and other organisations to deliver specific outcomes related to the goal of Archives Revealed, ensuring that significant archive…
Aims/Priorities: The funding is intended to support early-stage, exploratory projects that aim to spark new ideas and innovative approaches to community engagement with heritage. The grants are particularly designed to help organisations test concepts, build partnerships, or pilot activities, with a strong emphasis on experimentation and learning.
Who can apply…
Aims/Priorities: These grants are to help community groups and organisations to support people to eat well and stay warm and healthy during the winter months.
Projects should be designed to deliver local resilience to the risk of crisis, this can include providing food related support and help people to keep warm.
Support must be provided to people who would be at…
Aims/priorities: The scheme provides grants to support innovative projects, designed and led by young people in the UK, which aim to increase access to local natural spaces and improve understanding of local biodiversity.
Who can apply? Individuals and organisations who are linked to a school or community-based organisation that works directly with…
Aims/Priorities: The funding is for gardening projects carried out within local communities in England, Wales or Northern Ireland.
The scheme is committed to:
- Sustainability in gardening so proposals need to demonstrate that they will be using sustainable gardening methods – for instance being as far as possible peat-free.
- Celebrating biodiversity so…
Aims/Priorities: We’re keen to support initiatives that will help our communities stay warm, connected, and supported during the colder months. So, whether you’re tackling food poverty, reducing isolation, or boosting wellbeing, we want to hear from you!
This round will focus on Winter Resilience - projects that will keep communities warm, connected, and supported…
Aims/Priorities: This fund aims to support flexible, unrestricted grants for small grassroots organisations that are working to make a positive difference in local communities, particularly those working to support marginalised or vulnerable groups.
Who can apply? Small, local, constituted voluntary and community organisations, including…
