RBH Community Fund

Aims/priorities:

Each year Rochdale Boroughwide Housing make grants of up to £5000 available to local groups for the benefit of our communities. We are currently able to award grants that enable the delivery of the following objectives: 

  • Work and Skills - help people to access employment opportunities and update their skills
  • Digital Inclusion - help people access and use digital technology
  • Financial Inclusion - help people to manage their money and make it go further
  • Health and Wellbeing - help increase peoples’ health and wellbeing
  • Lessening social isolation - for example, a parent and tots club, a luncheon club for older people, or a gardening club
  • Providing activities for children and young people - these could include sport or homework clubs.
  • Improving or developing a green space in your neighbourhood
  • Promoting mutuality across neighbourhoods - projects that bring different neighbourhoods and communities together in line with our mutual values

Who can apply?

  • You must be an unincorporated association (community group), registered charity or CIC/CIO (Community Interest Company or Organisation) with a turnover of less than £150,000 in the previous financial year
  • Have a bank account open in the name of the group
  • Ensure your group is not already running an RBH community fund project - we will only fund one project at a time with your group
  • Agree to provide monitoring information on your project as requested by us
  • Keep up to date financial records and retain receipts for all goods and services purchased with the grant if you are successful
  • Ensure monitoring information for any previous RBH community grant has been completed and submitted to us - you won’t be able to apply to our community fund again until this is completed

Your project must:

  • Deliver its funded activities entirely within the borough of Rochdale
  • Clearly explain in your application how your project will benefit RBH households and neighbourhoods
  • Be completed within 2 years from the receipt of your grant
  • Meet any current government guidelines around Covid-19
  • Not have already started

Grant amount:

RBH Community grants are between £250 up to a maximum of £5000.

Application process:

To find out more about this funding and how to apply, please visit the RBH website by clicking here.

Deadline:

The next closing date for applications is on Monday 18th September at 5pm and the panel will meet on Wednesday 4th October.

Contact information: 

If you need support with your project idea or help with completing the grant application, please contact RBH’s Community Investment team on 01706 273977 or email us on communitypartnership@rbh.org.uk.