**Currently paused until further notice**
Aims/priorities: Grants of up to £1,000 are available to support projects/activities delivered by Tameside & Glossop based Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise groups that:
- Can improve the wellbeing of local people. This can include improving health and wellbeing, tackling poverty or reducing inequality.
- Are delivered for a community of place, interest, or identity in one or more neighbourhoods.
Please note that we are currently not funding trips, garden parties/parties or closed events.
Who can apply? To be eligible to apply, an organisation must be:
- VCFSE (Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise) organisation/ groups who have completed a recent Action Together Membership Form (membership is free).
- Based in Tameside or Glossop.
Grant amount: Up to £1,000.
Application process: You will need to complete a Stage 1 Online Form in the first instance. This should take no longer than 15 minutes. Please note that when completing this form you will need to have your constitution and financial account (e.g. bank statement or income and expenditures sheet) ready to upload. It must be completed in one go. If you log out part way through, your information cannot be retrieved, and you will need to start a new online form.
If you are eligible at this stage, the investments team will email you a Stage 2 application form for you to complete and email back.
A Neighbourhood Investment Panel meeting will be held to review your application and you will be informed of the decision after 2 weeks of the panel meeting date.
We strongly recommend that you read the funding Guidance Notes before making an application.
Deadline: You can apply for the microgrants from Tuesday 23 November 2021, 00:00. The funds will close once it has been exhausted.
Contact information: For more information please email funding@actiontogether.org.uk or tel Roma Hashim on 0161 339 2345.
Be part of the Tameside Community Wellbeing Investment Programme and have your say!
We are excited to announce that we have launched our new Tameside Community Wellbeing Investment Programme. It will aim to sustain or improve the wellbeing offer for the local community and the most vulnerable, and tackle poverty and equalities in neighbourhoods across Tameside. The VCFSE organisations and local partners in Tameside have identified some of the issues and gaps within local communities which have only increased owing to the pandemic, thus the focus will also be on addressing those emerging themes.
We are looking for local members for our panels to help us to make decisions about which applications should be funded in your neighbourhood. We are looking for community representatives to bring their skills, expertise and insight from their communities to the decision-making process to ensure that a fair and balanced approach is adopted. Due diligence will be carried out centrally by Action Together, who will also recommend applications but will not be involved in making overall decisions.
Applications and scoring/comments sheets will be sent to you, and feedback requested by e-mail. If needed, we will also hold a panel meeting (via Zoom) for those applications that require further discussion. You will be provided with Panel Member resources and Fact Sheets as well as a Code of Conduct Agreement for the first panel meeting with full training to follow in the new year. There will be opportunities for you to meet with other panel members and members of Action Together (via Zoom) to discuss any aspect of the process in more detail.
Please contact Roma Hashim if you are interested or would like further information: Email roma.hashim@actiontogether.org.uk or call 0161 3392345.