Rochdale

Aims/priorities: This funding is available for Rochdale Borough groups who are working towards reopening their place of worship/multipurpose community building and ensuring they can do so safely and following all of the recent government guidelines which have been released.

The fund is to help to ensure that places of worship are maintained to a level which is Covid-safe. This could help with additional cleaning, equipment, signage and collection of personal data.

Aims/priorities: We recognise community action is taking place across the Borough and we want to encourage and support this action.  We are refocusing the Community Response Fund and introducing new priorities with an ‘Equalities Focus’ -available for Rochdale Borough groups.

Aims/priorities: The Community Fund is provided by Comic Relief and administered for organisations in England by community charity, Groundwork, which specialises in transforming communities and the local environment for the better.

The Fund aims to deliver long lasting community driven change by awarding Project Delivery grants to organisations whose work delivers on one of Comic Relief’s four strategic themes:

Aims/priorities: Grants are available to help health charities recover from the negative effects of the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic and to support patients and their families who are vulnerable to infection. The funding is intended for UK-based organisations and will support a range of different projects designed to help meet the needs of vulnerable patients during the coronavirus/COVID-19 crisis. The funding aims to enable valuable projects to go ahead.

Aims/priorities: Youth Futures Foundation have partnered with Children in Need to deliver Inspiring Futures, a £6 million programme to fund positive activities which support children and young people to achieve their potential on their journey towards employment.

Prior to the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, there were over 760,000 young people not in education or employment in the UK.  There are fears that the economic impact of the pandemic will lead to an additional 640,000 unemployed 18 to 24-year-olds this year alone.

Aims/priorities: Funding is available for organisations who support people in prison, leaving prison, under license in the community, or serving a community sentence, to continue to work in the context of the Covid-19 crisis or to make adaptations for their long-term work that are necessary due to the effects of Covid-19.

This includes (but is not limited to):

Aims/priorities:  The fund will support additional or adapted drug and/or alcohol support necessitated by the crisis – for service users or family members already supported, or for those not yet accessing drug/alcohol treatment. Examples of types of activity could include: (please note this list is illustrative and not exhaustive)

Aims/priorities: We recognise community action is taking place across the Borough and we want to encourage and support this action.  We are refocusing the Community Response Fund and introducing new priorities with an ‘Equalities Focus’ -available for Rochdale Borough groups.

Aims/priorities: The Rochdale Safer Communities Partnership is accepting applications to the Voluntary and Community Grant Scheme which provides funding to applicants whose work contributes towards the Partnership’s priorities to deliver effective approaches to preventing and tackling crime and antisocial behaviour in the Rochdale borough. Applicants must demonstrate how they will contribute towards the priorities that focus on supporting communities so that they are:

Aims/priorities: The funding aims to provide emergency financial assistance to local homelessness organisations, preventing closure, service cuts or staff  redundancies threatened by increased operational costs and a loss of fundraised income due to the Coronavirus.

It will also support organisations that have needed to expand or adapt their services in light of COVID-19 to support people experiencing homelessness safely and effectively.

Grants must be for revenue expenditure only.

Who can apply?