Oldham

Aims/priorities: To help organisations access the right funding and improve their energy efficiency, Social Investment Business has joined up with Big Issue Invest, Charity Bank, Co-operative and Community Finance, GMCVO, Groundwork UK, Key Fund, Resonance, The Architectural Heritage Fund and The Ubele Initiative to launch the Energy Resilience Fund. It’s a fund worth £15m funded by Better Society Capital, Access – The Foundation for Social Investment, and Social Investment Business Foundation.

Aims/priorities: The funding is for tree and hedge planting projects taking place during the 2024/25 winter planting season.

Who can apply? Funding can be awarded to:

Aims/priorities: The funding aims to support the sustainability of local sports clubs, thereby ensuring more people have access to local sports.

This year's focus is on supporting adult clubs. Funding will be offered to community groups that support over 18’s only, with an emphasis on 18-25 year olds.

Priority will be given to applications that:

Aims/priorities: The funding is for a lead partner organisation who will work with TNLCF over a one year period (from spring 2025 to spring 2026) to set up a partnership including a range of specialists and community or civil society organisations.

The aim is to increase the knowledge, skills and resilience of civil society organisations. The partners will use this funding to deliver support to some of TNLCF grant holders as well as others that need support most. They will identify and develop the support package that communities need.

Aims/priorities: Before launching the broader programme, TNLCF wants to work with partners from spring 2025 to spring 2026 in a development stage. This could lead to communities being involved in decisions about what and who is funded. But it could also lead to other great ways of involving communities that have not yet been considered. TNLCF wants to find out what works best for people.

Partners’ roles will include:

Aims/priorities: As part of its vision for funding in England, and its commitment to its new funding strategy (It Starts with Community), the National Lottery Community Fund (TNLCF) is establishing a £100 million, 10 year Community Power Fund. The aim is to help people influence and change the places they live, the services they use, and decisions that affect their lives across England

Aims/priorities: The One Oldham Fund is a strategic single investment fund that uses pooled resources for the voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) sector in Oldham.

This investment from Oldham Council  will support the sector’s resilience to enable VCFSE organisations that are locally rooted and active in Oldham to contribute to the delivery of Oldham Council’s plan for Family Hubs.

Aims/priorities: The Stagecoach Greater Manchester Fund welcomes applications from grassroots community groups based in Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale and Tameside.

Who can apply? The Stagecoach Greater Manchester Fund aims to encourage and support grassroots community organisations. This means small, community-based and locally controlled groups that manage themselves, encourage people to get involved as volunteers and who just need a bit of financial help to be able to work with their community in the way they’d like.