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Rochdale Borough Council’s social care team have received funding to help people stay well at home or recover when they get out of hospital. 

When someone is discharged from hospital, they might need support to boost their confidence, avoid being isolated, make sure their home is safe, and practical support like delivering prescriptions or…

  • Location: Rochdale
  • Funding Theme: Community, Disabled People, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local, Older People
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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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 …

  • Location: Oldham
  • Funding Theme: Communities Experiencing Racial Inequalities, Community, Disabled People, Women and Girls
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Unconstituted Group
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Thanks to funding from Rochdale Borough Council Adult Social Care team, Action Together is offering up to £500 to micro groups to support individuals, families, and communities in the Rochdale Borough.

As part of the Rochdale Communities Fund, our 'Seed Fund' is aimed at Rochdale based micro-organisations and community groups who are…

  • Location: Rochdale
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: Unconstituted Group
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
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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 micro grants.…

  • Location: Rochdale
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Health and Wellbeing
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
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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…
  • Location: Oldham
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Cost of Living Crisis, Covid 19, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Unconstituted Group
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The funding is aimed at individuals and groups of young people who are able to demonstrate that through volunteering or community service they can enhance the lives of others, particularly those most marginalised by society.

Who can apply? Applications are accepted from UK based volunteering or community service projects, organised and…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Rochdale Borough Council created the ‘Innovation Fund’ (‘the Fund’) as part of the Local Welfare Provision programme, which has been in place since the Welfare Reform Act 2012. The Fund provides financial assistance to small community projects each year and is delivered within existing allocated budgets. 

The Fund focusses on…

  • Location: Rochdale
  • Funding Theme: Community, Cost of Living Crisis, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo - Rochdale Borough Council

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended for registered charities working in the current priority areas:

  • Supporting offenders and ex-offenders into work, specifically for those looking to build skills and capability to get into sustainable work.
  • Helping specific groups within the criminal justice sector that are less popular with funders than others.…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Communities Experiencing Racial Inequalities, Children and Young People, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
Logo The Weavers Company

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support early intervention projects that assist military families in accessing services as they relocate. These initiatives will help families integrate into their new communities and build lasting friendships.

Projects will need to contribute towards at least one of the following outcomes:

  • Provide families with…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo The Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust

Aims/priorities: We are committed to supporting charities that help people experiencing complex issues that don’t have simple solutions, such as homelessness, domestic abuse and addiction. These complex issues make life much harder for people, deepening trauma, impacting their health, leading to poverty and destitution, and preventing people from being able to fulfil their…

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

Aims/priorities: Established in 2015, the Fisheries Improvement Programme (FIP) is a means for the Environment Agency to reinvest fishing licence income back into projects that will provide positive outcomes for anglers.

Money for projects to improve habitat and facilities for anglers will be made available through the FIP, which comes directly from fishing licence sales…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Environmental, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Angling Trust

Aims/priorities: The funding is designed to help women enter or return to work, or transition into growing industries by gaining new skills. It prioritises women in greatest financial need and those facing significant barriers, ensuring the grant has the most meaningful impact.

Who can apply? Applications are open to females who are permanent…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Education and Skills, General, Local, Women and Girls
  • Organisation Type: Individual
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Soroptimist International Great Britain & Ireland

Background: The CABWI Lifelong Learning and Development Fund is being provided by CABWI, the awarding body for the water and utilities industries, and is managed by the CABWI charity.

Aims/Priorities: The fund supports small charities with projects that promote lifelong learning and development that enables people to enter the labour market or gain…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Education and Skills, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The priorities of the Main and Small Grants schemes are to:

  • Support energy consumers in vulnerable situations.
  • Deliver benefits to the types of consumers that were negatively impacted by the specific issues that triggered the redress payment.

Who can apply? Registered charities in England, Scotland and Wales that…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Energy Saving Trust

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support charities and organisations with projects and activities that directly benefit the Army community in six key areas: independent living, elderly care, education and employability, mental fitness, families and housing.

Who can apply? All registered charities and other organisations which support the Army…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Education and Skills, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local, Older People
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Army Benevolent Fund

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The funding is intended to enable and deliver accessible mental health and wellbeing support for those with seldom heard needs in Armed Forces communities, with a focus on prevention and early intervention - through collaborative projects between Armed Forces organisations and non-Armed Forces specialist organisations.

The funding should benefit…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Armed Forces Convenant Fund trust

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As part of an exciting relationship, Youth Alliance GM are working with Street Games to explore new opportunities to empower the alliance through physical activity.

Youth Alliance GM is an informal partnership of over 140 organisations and groups supporting children and young people across Greater Manchester, drawn from local VCS sector, public…

  • Location: Rochdale
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Local, Sport and Recreation, Women and Girls
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Youth Alliance GM

Aims/priorities: The funding aims to support young people who want to change their lives through music but cannot because of who they are, where they are from or what they are going through.

The grants are for organisations who want to trial work or test a new way of working, sustain a grassroots programme or disrupt the status quo (or all three).

Who…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Youth Music

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended help early-stage musicians and wider music adjacent creatives to invest in their own projects and make their ideas happen. The fund is especially aimed at those whose lack of finance holds them back from pursuing their goals.

Who can apply? Applications will be accepted from 18-25 year old creatives (under-30s who…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, Disabled People, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Individual, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Youth Music

Aims/priorities: Funding is intended to allow organisations to connect archives with their communities and the wider public in alignment with key moments of national significance.

This year's funding is for projects that address the theme of ‘Community’. Projects can either reach out to new audiences or connect with old audiences in new ways.

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo The National Archives

Aims/priorities: The Trust offers grants to registered charities working in the following two areas:

  • Arts Grants: Nurturing Early Stage Professionals - grants support training opportunities for emerging professionals, working creatively and backstage, within the performing and visual arts, post-training, and at an early stage in their career.
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Idleworld Trust

Aims/priorities: Small and local specialist charities working with people to overcome complex issues such as homelessness and domestic abuse can now apply for an unrestricted grant of £75,000 over three years.

Alongside funding, charities will receive tailored development support to strengthen their charities and services. …

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

Aims/priorities: The Trust currently offers three grant schemes:

  • Community Grants are for constituted, not-for-profit organisations and local authorities to create or improve community buildings or outside spaces for the benefit of the community.
  • Environmental Improvement Grants are for Environmental Bodies that are enrolled with ENTRUST, the regulator…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Environmental, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Veolia Environmental Trust

Aims/priorities:

This fund aims to support organisations led by and for Black and Global Majority groups that are working for the health and well-being of their communities in innovative and disruptive ways to challenge structural racism, disrupt systemic and discriminatory ways of operating, build community resilience, health and well-being, promote racial and social…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Communities Experiencing Racial Inequalities, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIO, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo - African health policy network

Aims/priorities:

The foundation makes grants to projects which support young people (16 years and under) who are challenged by abuse or addiction, who are young carers, or who are homeless/without a safe place to call home.

Who can apply:

Applications will be considered from organisations who require funding in the areas of:

  • Abuse…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo - 7stars Foundation

Aims/priorities: The funding aims to get more people active and increase sports participation across England.

Priority will be given to projects where there is the most need.

There is particular interest in projects providing opportunities for groups facing barriers to activity, such as: 

  • People living on low incomes.
  • Disabled people or…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Communities Experiencing Racial Inequalities, Children and Young People, Community, Disabled People, General, Local, Older People, Sport and Recreation, Women and Girls
  • Organisation Type: CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Sports England

Aims/priorities: The Strategic Legal Fund (SLF) for migrant groups in the UK is a fund to support legal work in the UK that goes beyond securing justice for an individual and makes a significant contribution to law, practice and procedures to uphold and promote the rights of asylum seekers, refugees and migrants more generally.

The SLF aims to tackle injustices and…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Communities Experiencing Racial Inequalities, Community, Education and Skills, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Strategic Legal Fund

Aims/priorities: The Memorial Grant Scheme is a VAT reclaim scheme which means the funding is intended to cover the costs of VAT already paid.

The funding is intended for registered charities or faith groups excepted from registering as a charity to help with the cost of works like repairing and cleaning public memorials or installing a new memorial. 

The…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Gov.UK

Aims/priorities: The Trust aims to make it possible for artists and those presenting their work to undertake and complete projects when frustrated by lack of funds. It is committed to helping artists and art institutions and galleries that depart from the routine and signal new, distinct and imaginative sets of possibilities.

Who can apply? Funding…

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

Aims/priorities: The Royal Countryside Fund launched their new strategy on 26 April 2024 in which they set out their vision for the Fund’s work over the next four years (2024 to 2028). 

The Fund…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, Education and Skills, Environmental, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo The Royal Countryside Fund

Aims/priorities: The Capacity Building Fund is designed to support the creation of a sight loss sector that is coherent, sustainable, and resilient to the rising demand for equal service provision across the UK.

The fund offers unrestricted grants for organisations in the sight loss sector across the UK whose growth and sustainability are challenged by the uncertain…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Cost of Living Crisis, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Fight for Sight

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…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Communities Experiencing Racial Inequalities, Community, Cost of Living Crisis, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Greater Manchester Combined Authority

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
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, Cost of Living Crisis, Environmental, General, Local, Older People, Sport and Recreation, Women and Girls
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Groundwork

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…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Congregational & General Charitable Trust

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…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Communities Experiencing Racial Inequalities, Community, Cost of Living Crisis, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Make it Big With Pathway Fund

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…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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