The One Oldham Fund is a strategic single investment fund that uses pooled resources for the voluntary, community, faith & social enterprise (VCFSE) sector in Oldham. This investment will support the sector’s resilience to enable VCFSE organisations that are locally rooted & active in Oldham to remain viable, to continue to deliver the ongoing Covid 19 response & to contribute to the delivery of Oldham’s Covid Recovery Strategy priorities.
Phase 2 awarded projects - Small grants up to £10,000 - for formally constituted members of Action Together.
Applications were awarded for projects that meet one or more of the following priorities:
Driving Equality
- Enabling those adversely impacted by COVID-19 to access the help they need
- Reducing inequality & building resilience across Oldham’s communities
- Reducing poverty & helping people get back on their feet
Promoting Health & Wellbeing and Supporting the Most Vulnerable
- Continuing to contain the spread of COVID-19 in Oldham
- Working with residents & communities to improve health & wellbeing, preventing illness & premature death
- Safeguarding & supporting our most vulnerable residents
| Group/Organisation | Amount awarded | Project name | Awarded priorities |
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| African Community Togetherness | £9,710 | ACT adapt & grow project |
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| Centre of Wellbeing, Training and Culture (CWTC) | £10,000 | Building Resilience & Wellbeing in Oldham. |
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| Cracking Good Food | £9,669.60 | Better Food Futures. |
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| Dream Big Sports Ltd | £9,998 | Retrain to Regain Employment Programme |
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| Fullcircle NW CIC | £10,000 | Sholver Youth Project |
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| Girls with Pride and Dignity | £10,000 | East African Women Together |
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| Greater Manchester South Asian Women Support | £10,000 | Mind@Peace |
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| Henshaws Society for Blind People | £9,903.84 | Individual families have been found to have a lack of confidence and understanding around the support of a visually impaired child, especially with the context of additional pandemic challenges. | |
| Higginshaw Community Project | £9,904 | Community Hall Flooring Refurbishment |
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| Home-Start HOST (Oldham, Stockport & Tameside) | £9,876 | Family Support in the Early Years |
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| IGA Learning | £9,997.20 | One Oldham Project (OOP) |
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| Intraquest CIC | £9,279.13 | Virtual Sandtray Therapy |
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| MyColdhurst | £10,000 | MyColdhurst Health & Wellbeing & Football Coaching |
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| NEON | £10,000.00 | NEON Hub is a vital community asset based in East Oldham. NEON has been operating from these premises for over 10 years. As such, the premises are now showing their age, and is in need of some immediate attention to prevent any further deterioration. | |
| Oak Community Development | £10,000 | Training, Advice & Support |
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| OBA Millennium Cultural Centre | £10,000 | Our Safer Community |
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| Oldham Enterprise Trust | £9,960.00 | To inspire, connect and educate people from Oldham with the essential skills for life, learning and work in enterprise and entrepreneurship. | |
| Oldham Play Action Group | £10,000.00 | Family play sessions and learning around the following themes - Art of Play, Wellbeing and Healthy Arts, Art Of Science, Arts On Message - continuing the COVID message and aiding containment, Art Write - Collective Story making session with art and creative writing. | |
| Oldham Table Tennis | £6,552.41 | A Brighter Future |
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| Royton & Crompton Over 60s | £5,300 | Moving Forward into 2022 |
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| Salvation Army | £10,000 | Community project to better the area. |
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| St Mark's Heyside | £5,244.28 | Re-opening of St Marks Parish Hall |
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| Spoons Charity | £9,960 | From NICU to Home - Oldham |
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| The Chatty Café Scheme | £5,845.00 | They will use the grant to purchase a new database system and web-development support to create automated workflows to store, track and manage all data received from volunteers and social prescribers in Oldham. | |
| The Crossley Centre | £5,676 | Creative Crossley |
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| The Oldham Phab Club | £5,000 | The Oldham phab club |
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| Veg in the Park | £10,000 | Connecting People |
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| Voice Assembly | £10,000 | In Conversation Let’s talk about… |
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| WIFI North West | £9,100.00 | The project focuses on family's food, health and wellbeing. It will rebuild confidence and connections after the disruptions and hardship resulting from the pandemic. | |
| Your Home Yoga Community Interest Company | £5,350 | Seated exercise & Wellbeing classes for over 50’s |
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