Rochdale

Aims/priorities: This fund aims to provide essential support to protect and enhance Christian church and charity buildings, ensuring their continued use and viability, and the safeguarding of their heritage.

Who can apply? This programme is open to churches, cathedrals, denominational bodies, and Christian charities.

Organisations that have previously received funding under the General Grants Programme will have to wait two years before making an application.

Aims/priorities: This fund aims to support projects that support crafts that are currently listed as endangered or critically endangered on the Red List of Endangered Crafts and provide opportunities for makers and trainees who wish to develop or share their skills in the crafts that have been identified as being most at risk.

Who can apply? Individuals and voluntary and community organisations that can demonstrate that they are working the skills and knowledge that are listed on the Red List of Endangered Crafts can apply.

Aims/priorities: This fund aims to create partnerships with charities and organisations across the Northwest that will help and support vulnerable Electricity Northwest customers across the region in the event of a power cut and address the following priorities: 

Aims/priorities: The objective of the fund is to support Armed Forces Day events across the UK to show support for our servicemen and women, past and present.

Who can apply? Local councils, voluntary and community organisations, schools, ex-service organisations and individuals in the UK are eligible to apply.

For the 2023 round, applicants must be able to accept a credit card payment as MOD will no longer be using BACs transfer for the grant payment.

Aims/priorities: The funding aims to support the modernisation and improvement of village halls, so that they are fit for purpose and can provide activities which seek to achieve one or more of the following outcomes for their communities:

We're hosting a celebration event at Middleton Arena!

Action Together will be joined by local charities, services, performers and people representing communities from across the borough at a showcase event to celebrate the fantastic impact the voluntary sector makes in Rochdale.

Aims/priorities: The funding is for organisations already providing advocacy support to victims of the Windrush Scandal.

For this fund, advocacy support is taken to mean:

Assisting people with applications to the Windrush Compensation Scheme.

Supporting applications to the Windrush Scheme (formally the Windrush Taskforce).

Signposting to other organisations offering support (for example, signposting more complicated cases to solicitors providing pro bono support).

Aims/priorities: The funding is for projects that will improve accessibility to waterways and facilities thereby enabling greater use of them. There is particular interest in enabling enhanced participation in paddle sports for all people.

Who can apply? Applications are open to clubs, community groups, Parish Councils, Local Authorities or anyone in the UK with an active interest in improving access to water for recreational users and protecting the environment.

Aims/priorities: The Magic Little Grants Fund provides local charities and community groups the opportunity to access funding to launch or deliver their services.

Who can apply? To access the Magic Little Grants Fund, applicants must:

Be eligible to join Localgiving by

Having charitable aims that are not solely for the advancement of religion.

Aims/priorities: The EEF’s funding rounds will now focus on particular topics, and projects will be funded within selected themes under these topics.

For the Spring 2023 grant funding round EEF are looking for applications for programmes that have some evidence of promise for this funding round in the three following research priority areas: 

• Teacher retention and recruitment
• Education Technology (EdTech)
• Post-16.

For further details about these themes, please refer to the guidance notes.