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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…

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

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…

  • 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:
Logo National Lottery Community Fund

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…

  • 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.

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…

  • Location: Oldham
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
One Oldham Fund Family Hobs Grants logo

Aims/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…

  • 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 Foundation

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…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Communities Experiencing Racial Inequalities, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
logo Paul Hamlyn Foundation

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…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local, Sport and Recreation
  • Organisation Type: CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo The Rowing Foundation

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.…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Education and Skills, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo WCIT Charity

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…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, Environmental, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Pilotlight The Wester Charity Awards

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:
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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 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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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: Failsworth and Chadderton’s Rotary is interested in funding activities that bring people together and making a difference in your community. Since 2014, many small voluntary groups across the borough of Oldham have applied for and received financial support from the Community Cash Award. Projects include a beehive at Sholver & Moorside…

  • Location: Oldham
  • Funding Theme: Community
  • 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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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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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:

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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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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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Aims/priorities: The aim of the scheme is to support sports projects which provide opportunities for people who are disabled or otherwise disadvantaged to fulfil their potential and to develop other personal and life skills. The Trust will consider applications for capital, revenue or project funding and welcomes applications for projects that:

  • Provide a…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Sport and Recreation
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
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