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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…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline: Date not specified.
Logo Henry Moore Foundation

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…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Gov UK

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…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Material Focus

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…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Alzheimer's Society

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:…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Individual, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Catapult Connected Places

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…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Foyle Foundation

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. 

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, Education and Skills, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Youth Endowment Fund

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…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Individual, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Hinrichsen Foundation

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…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Cost of Living Crisis, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Individual
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo British Gas Energy Trust

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-…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, Education and Skills, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo The Woodward Charitable Trust

Aims/priorities: The Foundation provides grants to eye clinics, hospitals, schools, libraries and other organisations helping visually impaired people in the UK and overseas. It also funds medical research and the provision of facilities for the treatment or alleviation of visual impairment.

Who can apply? Applications are accepted from any…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Ulverscroft Foundation

Aims/priorities:  The Peter Harrison Foundation supports projects working with children, young people and adults who are disadvantaged or with disabilities. It offer small and major grants to charities and community amateur sports clubs in the UK and south east of England under the following two grant programmes:

  • Active Lives – opportunities through sport and…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, Disabled People, General, Local, Sport and Recreation
  • Organisation Type: CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Peter Harrison Foundation

Aims/priorities: Funding is intended to support charities in the UK with projects to encourage young people, in particular those between 11 and 18 from disadvantaged backgrounds, to study science subjects and go on to further education or training in STEM related subjects, in particular the area of Material Science. The Foundation considers Materials Science to be science…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, Education and Skills, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Ironmongers Company

Aims/priorities: This fund aims to support groups to create or enhance green spaces within a 5-kilometre radius of Starbucks stores that bring people closer to nature and align with the following criteria:

  • Involving the community - Projects that bring people and communities together around nature and green spaces. 
  • Commitment to reaching new audiences…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Environmental, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo - Community Nature Network

Aims/Priorities: The Trust views communication skills as critical capabilities for people who want to improve their employment prospects, self-confidence, resilience, and life chances.

The funding is for registered charities that are working to develop communication skills for people from disadvantaged groups who want to improve their employment prospects.

As an…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Communities Experiencing Racial Inequalities, Community, Education and Skills, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo for Thomas Wall Trust

Aims/Priorities: This fund aims to provide charities and not-for-profit organisations with access to data protection consultancy advice and services that ensure they run efficiently, remain compliant with the law, and achieve the following outcomes:

  • Provide immediate access to subject matter experts and a broadly experienced team of data protection professionals.…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Education and Skills, General, IT/Digital, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo for DPO Centre

Use Your Energy is an Action Together programme funded by Sport England which aims to work with Tameside groups to engage and enable children and young people aged 5-18 years to become more active, more often. We have money to invest in your active ideas, up to £2,000!  Your group can apply for the Use Your Energy funding to make your active idea a reality.

Due to the success of Use…

  • Location: Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Local, Sport and Recreation
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo for Use Your Energy Return to Play Fund

Aims/priorities: The BT Group Apprenticeship Fund aims to support SMEs, charities, and public sector organisations across England by providing access to £4 million in apprenticeship funding over four years.

The programme utilises the apprenticeship levy, a government initiative introduced in 2017, which requires companies with a wage bill exceeding £3 million to…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
Logo BT Group Apprenticeship Levy Transfer

Aims/priorities: The grants are being fully funded from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and offer the chance for Tameside community groups to create and support events and activities which can benefit the whole community.

The events can include arts, cultural, sports or volunteering activities or exhibitions but must be designed to encourage participation and generate…

  • Location: Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Individual, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The Trust’s grants are split into two strands:

  • Curriculum support: to support the teaching and learning of physics from 11-18 in the classroom, including equipment for teaching physics, teaching resources and teacher CPD.
  • Enrichment activities: to support physics extra-curricular activities for school and college students (4 -18) from under-…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Ogden Trust

Aims/priorities: The funding is for pilot projects or new approaches. Projects will address the needs of geographically dispersed communities of Veterans affected by a specific issue. They will most likely be run on a national or regional basis or, exceptionally, in densely populated localised areas.

Projects must meet the following outcomes:

  • Veterans’…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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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.

The funding for this grant is provided by Oldham Council to invest in the capacity of the VCFSE Sector to improve the lives of children, young people and their families in Oldham.…

  • Location: Oldham
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
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This programme is being launched under the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust’s three-year Funding Framework which will award £30 million in grants over the next three years. 

The funding is for projects that explore and pilot solutions for family members-collectively and as individuals of wounded, injured and sick serving personnel or Veterans.  

Projects will…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Disabled People, Health and Wellbeing, Older People, Women and Girls
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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COSARAF is offering grants of up to £2,000 to organisations that support families and individuals from across the UK who are in financial need and struggling with everyday costs such as basic expenses, utilities, or rent arrears.

Through the Hardship Granta Programme, recognised third-party social organisations, such as charities, housing associations, schools, and social services which…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Cost of Living Crisis
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: Funding is intended to provide training to encourage greater collaboration and interchange of ideas amongst staff in hospices and in care homes, particularly around dementia care for those approaching the end of life.

The purpose of the education and training is to:

  • Encourage increased collaboration, sharing of knowledge and good…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:

Aims/priorities: 

Thanks to funding from Rochdale Borough Council Public Health team, Action Together is offering micro grants of up to £500 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 micro grants.…

  • Location: Rochdale
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Health and Wellbeing
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Unconstituted Group
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities:

The Masonic Charitable Foundation (MCF) offers grants to local and national charities in England and Wales as part of its work to help thousands of disadvantaged and vulnerable people to live happy, fulfilling lives and participate actively in society. Over the last 40 years, the MCF has provided more than £130 million to charities. The MCF’s work is…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Older People
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The funding is for organisations already providing advocacy support to victims of the Windrush Scandal.

For this fund, advocacy support is taken to mean:

Assisting people with applications to the Windrush Compensation Scheme.

Supporting applications to the Windrush Scheme (formally the Windrush Taskforce).

Signposting to other…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: 

  • Do you want to make your building more energy efficient to help tackle the cost of living crisis?
  • Do you need to make your space more accessible?
  • Do you have a building that needs renovating or refurbishing, or do you have plans to purchase or build something?
  • Do you have a great idea for a business with social…
  • Location: Oldham
  • Funding Theme: Community, Enterprise, General
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support older people who are of, or over, state pension age (66 years) and living on low incomes in England or Wales. There are four grant streams:

  • Home Essentials – to help with the cost of replacing everyday items in the home (white goods such as washing machines, fridges, freezers etc. and furnishings), small…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Older People
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The aim of the Foundation is to support Christian charities working with art and healing and those seeking to offer social inclusion. The Foundation awards grants for projects (including projects abroad) that address the following:

  • Healing
  • Arts
  • Social inclusion

Applications for capital or revenue funding…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts
  • Organisation Type: CIO, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The Children in Need Grantmaking Strategy 2022-2025 focuses on the principles of:

  • Sharing power with children and young people.
  • Acting flexibly.
  • Using its voice to build awareness and empathy around issues.
  • Building partnerships to bring communities and investors together.

This stream offers core…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People
  • Organisation Type: CIC, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The Rochdale Fund For Relief in Sickness is a local charity which was set up in 1903 to help any individual who requires help as a result of hardship caused by sickness, injury, disability or infirmity. This includes both physical and mental sickness, or deprivation of a nature likely to impair physical or mental health e.g. poverty or other…

  • Location: Rochdale
  • Funding Theme: Disabled People, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: Individual
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: Grants are available to support charities, community groups and educational establishments with projects working with displaced children and young people both internationally and in the UK.

Who can apply? Applications are accepted from UK registered charities.

Grant amount

UK projects…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The aim of the grants programme is to support communities to thrive by funding projects that:

  • Build strong relationships in and across communities.
  • Improve the places and spaces that matter to communities.
  • Help more people to reach their potential, by supporting them at the earliest possible stage.  

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The aim of the grants programme is to support communities to thrive by funding projects that:

  • Build strong relationships in and across communities.
  • Improve the places and spaces that matter to communities.
  • Help more people to reach their potential, by supporting them at the earliest possible stage.  
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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