Grants Awarded in Rochdale

Thanks to funding from Rochdale Borough Council Public Health team, Action Together offers micro grants of up to £1,000 to help the VCFSE sector to support individuals, families and communities in the Rochdale Borough.

Thanks to funding from Rochdale Borough Council, Action Together was pleased to launch the Developing Recovery Communities grant fund. The funding was to support the development and expansion of recovery community and peer support networks to increase the visibility of recovery and support social integration.

Action Together secured some investment from the former Clinical Commissioning Group to curate an anti-racism learning programme for VCFSE sector. We invited members to apply via the usual application process to support this programme.

Thanks to funding from Rochdale Borough Council, Action Together were able to offer investment to help VCFSE groups provide digital inclusion support to individuals and communities in the Rochdale Borough.

Thanks to funding from Rochdale Borough Council Public Health team, Action Together was able to offer investment to help the VCFSE groups provide emergency and immediate food offers, as well as investing in supporting the longer-term sustainability of our borough’s food providers.

Thanks to funding from the Better Care Fund, Rochdale Borough Council’s Adult Social Care Team and Action Together worked together on a project to fund community-led solutions to winter pressures and hospital discharge.

The first strand of the fund focused on culturally appropriate discharge support, based on mapping from the GM VCSE Hospital Discharge Alliance which identified this as a gap in the borough. The second strand focused on prevention and wellbeing support targeted at the people most at risk of going into hospital and their carers.

The GM VCSE Hospital Discharge Alliance mapped the support available across Greater Manchester and identified a gap in Rochdale Borough around culturally appropriate support.

Thanks to this funding from Rochdale Borough Council, Action Together launched the Home from Hospital - Culturally Appropriate Support Fund.

We funded projects which can build a diverse community offer with a focus on marginalised communities. 

The Rochdale Communities Fund is a mutual fund to invest in and strengthen Rochdale Borough’s VCFSE sector. It funds groups and projects which directly benefit local people and communities, delivered by VCFSE organisations with roots in the borough. 

Thanks to funding from the Department of Communities and Levelling up, small grants provision was allocated to support the resettlement of Refugees and People Seeking Asylum with the Rochdale Borough.

Thanks to funding from Rochdale Borough Council’s Public Health team, Action Together offered small grants of up to £1,000 for VCFSE organisations to provide Wider Essentials to individuals, and communities, within the Rochdale Borough.

Thanks to funding from Rochdale Development Agency, Action Together offered the Rochdale Creates Community Fund investment to support VCFSE organisations who have not worked with arts and culture before to build relationships with local artists, and start using creativity as a tool for wellbeing and strengthening communities.

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.

The aim of this fund is to embed holistic preventative support in places with existing ‘crisis offers’. Places with a ‘crisis offer’ could be a foodbank, a warm space, a community centre, or anywhere with a track record of providing an emergency support offer to people living in poverty.