Find Funding in Oldham
Aims / Priorities: Through Action Together on behalf of Oldham Council, Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) makes funding available annually to support projects that help to achieve the priorities of the GM Hate Grime Plan. A new Plan for 2024-2028 has just been launched and you can read it in more detail …
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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.
The fund is made up of several strands. The current strands are::
Children and Young People Grants up to £1000
- Informal groups involved in…
Aims/priorities: The objective of this funding is to support organisations in Greater Manchester that provide essential services to victims of crime whether reported the crime or not. The funds can be used to cover expenses related to the priority funding themes detailed below. This financial support aims to enhance the capacity of victims' services organisations to…
Aims/priorities: The programme is designed to create a partnership of support to community groups, operating within two miles of a One Stop store, who are working to:
- Tackle food poverty.
- Support the vulnerable.
- Support the elderly.
- Support low income families.
- Running youth sports teams.
- Reducing/recycling waste
- …
Aims/priorities: Grants are available to support capital works on church buildings or towards the capital costs of church community projects in the UK.
Who can apply? Applications are accepted from all churches of the Protestant tradition in the UK, but particularly those of the United Reformed and Congregational denominations.
Applicants…
Aims/priorities: Arts Council England has launched the Incentivising Touring scheme to support mid- and large-scale theatre and dance productions in touring across England. Designed to mitigate the financial risks associated with such tours, the scheme aims to demonstrate the potential for productions to generate a financial return with investment. Currently in its pilot…
Aims/priorities: The funding is for enterprise projects that are able to solve a problem experienced within Black and Global Majority communities in England as a result of the Cost of Living Crisis, while bringing in trading income for the organisation.
The funding is for projects with achievable outcomes within a 9-month timeframe that:
- Address Real…
Aims/priorities: To help organisations access the right funding and improve their energy efficiency, Social Investment Business has joined up with Big Issue Invest, Charity Bank, Co-operative and Community Finance, GMCVO, Groundwork UK, Key Fund, Resonance, The Architectural Heritage Fund and The Ubele Initiative to launch the Energy Resilience Fund. It’s a fund worth £15m…
Aims/priorities: The funding is for tree and hedge planting projects taking place during the 2024/25 winter planting season.
Who can apply? Funding can be awarded to:
- Schools.
- Further education colleges and universities.
- Constituted community groups.
- Childcare nurseries or care homes (charity or community…
Aims/priorities: The funding aims to support the sustainability of local sports clubs, thereby ensuring more people have access to local sports.
This year's focus is on supporting adult clubs. Funding will be offered to community groups that support over 18’s only, with an emphasis on 18-25 year olds.
Priority will be given to applications that:
- …
Aims/priorities: The funding is for a lead partner organisation who will work with TNLCF over a one year period (from spring 2025 to spring 2026) to set up a partnership including a range of specialists and community or civil society organisations.
The aim is to increase the knowledge, skills and resilience of civil society organisations. The partners will use this…
Aims/priorities: Before launching the broader programme, TNLCF wants to work with partners from spring 2025 to spring 2026 in a development stage. This could lead to communities being involved in decisions about what and who is funded. But it could also lead to other great ways of involving communities that have not yet been considered. TNLCF wants to find out what works best…
Aims/priorities: As part of its vision for funding in England, and its commitment to its new funding strategy (It Starts with Community), the National Lottery Community Fund (TNLCF) is establishing a £100 million, 10 year Community Power Fund. The aim is to help people influence and change the places…
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 investment from Oldham Council will support the sector’s resilience to enable VCFSE organisations that are locally rooted and active in Oldham to contribute to the…
Aims/priorities: The Stagecoach Greater Manchester Fund welcomes applications from grassroots community groups based in Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale and Tameside.
Who can apply? The Stagecoach Greater Manchester Fund aims to encourage and support grassroots community organisations. This means small, community-based and locally…
Aims/priorities: This fund aims to support young activists, campaigners, disrupters, co-operates, and social entrepreneurs to lead social action to improve their communities and deliver on Co-op’s vision of ‘Co-operating for a Fairer World’ to create safer, more sustainable, and more inclusive places to live.
Who can apply? Groups or organisations with…
Lloyd's Bank Foundation for England and Wales - Funding Programme for Specialist Small Charities
Find out moreAims/priorities: The programme offers both an unrestricted grant and tailored support aimed at helping to strengthen charities and build the knowledge, skills and capabilities of staff and trustees.
The programme is intended for registered charities and charitable incorporated organisations operating mainly in England and/or Wales who are helping people living in…
Aims/priorities: The Fund provides long-term, core funding to organisations who work at the intersection of art and social change so they can continue the work they are already doing and for programmes which are central to their mission.
The Arts Fund supports organisations to do the following:
- Build capacity and resources for culture within historically…
Aims/priorities: This funding aims to support the core costs of running Ofcom-licensed community radio stations.
In addition, Community Digital Sound Programme (“C-DSP”) stations will be eligible for grants, alongside existing analogue community radio stations, if the station is broadcasting on a digital radio multiplex at the date of their application.
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Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to help organisations and clubs involved in 'on water' elements of the sport of rowing who may be too small to apply for larger sources of funding, such as a National Lottery grant. The foundation also offers funding towards the costs of the refurbishment of boats used by juniors.
Who can apply? Applications will…
Department of Health and Social Care – Community Automated External Defibrillators Fund
Find out moreAims/priorities: The fund will support distribution of 2,000 AEDs across England. These will be selected from applications in areas that most need a defibrillator. Applications will receive a contribution from DHSC and London Hearts alongside their own match funding.
Who can apply? All types of organisations may apply.
To be…
Aims/priorities: This fund aims to support IT projects and activities that relate to one or more of the following priority areas:
- Education.
- Inclusion.
- IT for charities.
Public understanding of IT.
Who can apply? The following can apply:
- Registered charities.
- Educational establishments.…
Aims/priorities: The funding is for ambitious charities working with young people (aged between 7 and 30 years) in the areas of:
- Education
- Employment
- Enterprise
- Mental health
- Physical wellbeing
Priority will be given to charities that can demonstrate growth in recent years, such as improvements in income, reach…
Aims/priorities: The Awards aim to celebrate and support charities working in the fields of youth, welfare, community, and the environment, and to enable charities to develop, raise their profiles, become more sustainable and face the future with greater confidence.
Who can apply? Registered charities in Wales and the North and Midlands of England can apply…
Aims/priorities: The Get Fishing Fund has been established to support organisations delivering a programme of angling activities. These angling activities should aim to help get more people into fishing and retain them within the sport.
Who can apply? Applications are accepted from angling clubs, fisheries, charities, schools and local…
Aims/priorities: Now in its seventh year, the funding is for women’s and girls’ organisations to deliver activism and campaigning to raise awareness of the issues women and girls face.
The campaigns could be targeted at local communities, the general public, local or national government, media, service providers or businesses.
Rosa will fund organisations which:…
Aims/priorities: The objective of the Foundation is to support sculpture across historical, modern and contemporary registers, seeking to fund research that expands the appreciation of sculpture.
Who can apply? Not-for-profit organisations, Not-for-profit art galleries, museums and institutions concerned with art and art history, including UK…
Aims/priorities: The scheme is part of the Government's Hate Crime Action Plan. The scheme is intended to reduce the risk and impact of hate crime at places of worship and associated faith community centres. Funding is available for protective security measures to places of worship that have been subject to, or are vulnerable to a hate crime attack.
From 28 October 2024…
Aims/priorities: The funding is for organisations who are expanding collection and processing services for reuse and recycling, as well as driving awareness of these services among local residents, with the aim of making it easier for everyone to reuse or recycle their unwanted electricals.
In 2024, the funding will support projects to:
- Grow/develop existing…
Aims/priorities: The Alzheimer’s Society Accelerator Programme is open to businesses creating a product or service that makes an everyday task easier for a person living with dementia.
Applicants may be using novel technologies to unblock challenges in the dementia pathway, or they could be giving an existing product a new purpose in the dementia space.
Who…
Aims/priorities: As a partner in the ncat consortium, Connected Places Catapult has launched ncat’s Scaling Innovation Programme 2025. This programme offers SMEs the chance to tackle evidence-based challenges identified through ncat’s research, as well as an open call for any SME working on accessibility innovations in the transport sector. The programme challenges are:…
Aims/priorities: The Small Grants Scheme is provided by the Foyle Foundation to support smaller, grass-roots and local charities in the UK with projects that have the potential to make a significant difference to their work.
Who can apply? UK charities that have an annual turnover of less than £150,000 are eligible to apply. Priority will be given to…
Aims/priorities: The aim of this open call is to fund and evaluate projects that will help YEF build strong evidence for practices and approaches in areas where clear gaps exist.
The funding is available to organisations across England and Wales that are working to reduce children’s involvement in violence and have the potential for rigorous impact evaluation.
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Aims/priorities: The Hinrichsen Foundation offers grants to support organisations and individuals undertaking projects to promote music.
Who can apply? Individuals, organisations and charities in the UK are eligible to apply.
Grant amount: There are two levels of funding available:
- One-off small grants typically between…
Aims/priorities: The Trust currently offers two funds:
- Individuals and Families Fund
- British Gas Energy Support Fund
Both are intended to tackle fuel poverty by clearing the energy debts of struggling households and respond to the ongoing cost-of-living crisis.
Who can apply? Individual and Families Fund
Applicants…
Aims/priorities: The funding is for charitable organisations in the UK, to support core costs in the following areas:
- Children and young people (up to 25 years) who are isolated, at risk of exclusion or involved in antisocial behaviour. This covers gang violence and knife crime, education and mentoring, as well as projects that work to raise self-…
