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.
Action Together doesn’t just provide funding to our members, we can also support you to develop your project idea, develop or grow your organisation, recruit volunteers, find other funding opportunities, training, demonstrate the difference you make, and more.
To discuss how we can support you please get in touch with us at: development@actiontogether.org.uk
All grant decisions over £1,000 are made by a community panel, which score the applications and may request additional information about your project. We welcome new members on the panel, please contact hayley.tomlinson@actiontogether.org.uk to find out more.
Investors in the Rochdale Communities Fund include:
- Rochdale Borough Council - Public Health
- Rochdale Borough Council - Adult Social Care
- Rochdale Borough Council - Strategic Housing
- NHS GM - Vaccines
- Heywood Middleton and Rochdale Clinical Commissioning Group
- Heywood Middleton and Rochdale Local Care Organisation
- Rochdale Development Agency
- Living Well
Funds currently open for applications
Micro Grants up to £1,000
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. Available for groups who are formally constituted, and are members of Action Together. To find out more about this fund and how you can apply, please click HERE.
Seed Fund up to £500
Available for based micro-organisations and community groups who are unconstituted. Informal groups, of at least three people, actively engaging with an Action Together Community Development Worker, working towards constitution, and who have not already received a Seed Fund will be able to apply for this funding. To find out more about this fund and how you can apply, please click HERE.
Prevention Fund up to £18,000
Thanks to funding from Rochdale Borough Council Public Health team, Action Together is offering grants of up to £18,000 to help the VCFSE sector to embed preventative support alongside an existing emergency support offer. To find out more about this fund and how you can apply, please click HERE.
Wider Essentials Fund up to £5,000
Thanks to funding from Rochdale Borough Council’s Public Health team, Action Together is offering small grants of up to £5,000 for VCFSE organisations to provide Wider Essentials to individuals and communities within the Rochdale Borough. To find out more about this fund and how you can apply, please click HERE.
Food Solutions Fund up to £5,000 or £10,000
Thanks to funding from Rochdale Borough Council Public Health team, Action Together is offering 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. To find out more about this fund and how you can apply, please click HERE.
The Big Pan Fund up to £1,000
Thanks to funding from Rochdale Borough Council Public Health Team, Action Together is offering grants of up to £1000 for groups to get involved with The Big Pan Community Cooking programme. To find out more about this fund and how you can apply, please click HERE.
At Action Together we recognise community action is taking place across Rochdale, and we want to encourage and support this action.
Learn more about some of the groups and organisations that have previously been funded through the Rochdale Communities Fund:
Micro Grants
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.
Developing Recovery Communities Fund
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.
Racial Inequality Learning Programme Fund
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.
Digital Inclusion Fund
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.
Food Solutions Fund
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.
Home from Hospital | Prevention and Wellbeing Fund
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.
Home from Hospital | Culturally Appropriate Support Fund
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.
Refugee and Asylum Seeker Resettlement Support Fund
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.
Wider Essentials Fund
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.
Rochdale Creates Fund
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.
Climate Co-operators Community Fund
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.