Rochdale

Aims/priorities: Grants are available for local community groups, charities, voluntary groups and social enterprises in the UK for projects that have a positive impact on communities, people, or the environment. The Grants for Good Fund has been launched to extend the impact of the Matthew Good Foundation, and allow small charities, community projects and social enterprises to apply for funding directly. Every three months, £10,000 will be divided between five shortlisted projects that have a positive impact on communities, people, or the environment.

Aims/priorities: Organisations across Greater Manchester are being encouraged to come together to submit bids for local funding after the region secured £500,000 government funding for green social prescribing to improve the region’s mental health.

Aims/priorities: Grants are intended for organisations who are empowering young people in the UK to fulfil their potential by providing safe social spaces, mentoring or work, and social skills. The Foundation aims to fund work that helps young people create firm foundations, by addressing their needs through early intervention.

The funding is intended for projects and activities which:

Aims/priorities: Grants are available to support

• Music-making and music-making related activities for children and young people (aged 0-25) facing barriers,

and/or

• Workforce and organisational development to promote a relevant, diverse, and inclusive music offer for all children and young people.

Projects should be co-designed by children/young people, and support one or more of Youth Music’s priority areas.  These are:

Aims/priorities: ABCT supports charities working where human dignity is imperilled and where there are opportunities for human dignity to be affirmed.

To be eligible, projects should address at least one of the following categories:

• Migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.
• Criminal justice and penal reform.
• Human rights, particularly access to justice.

There is particular interest in charities that seek to address the needs of the most marginalised and neglected groups in society.

Aims/priorities: The Youth Covid-19 Support Fund is provided by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and administered by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

The fund will focus on enabling the struggling, but most impactful, youth organisations in England to continue operating, where they may have scaled back service provision or temporarily closed due to reductions in their income as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. 

Aims/priorities: The Football Winter Survival Package is a fund administered by the Football Foundation on behalf of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and Sport England.

Part of the UK Government's Sport Winter Survival Package, the fund aims to support clubs at Step 3 to 6 of the National League System that have been severely impacted by COVID-19 restrictions.

The funding is focused on supporting football clubs' immediate survival.

Aims/priorities: The MSE Charity, the charitable fund of financial advice website MoneySavingExpert.com, is dedicated to supporting UK voluntary groups deliver financial life skills, which make a lasting impact on the way people think, behave and manage their money.

The charity operates a themed approach for each funding round.  This grant round, Raising the Next Generation is targeting and supporting the younger generation (under 25) who in the current difficult economic climate need support to develop and learn personal financial life skills.

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to help tackle social issues by enabling sustainable enterprises to test new business models, with potential to scale in future. This is funding for an idea that may lead to an impact investment fund, not development funding for individual social enterprises. 

Priority will be given to the following:

Aims/priorities: The British Ecological Society (BES) is providing grants through its Outreach Grants programme to help promote ecological science to a wide audience.