Rochdale

Rochdale

Zuto Make A Difference Fund

Aims/priorities: The Zuto Make A Difference 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.

Who can apply? The Zuto Make A Difference Fund welcomes applications from grassroots community groups based in any of the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester.

Alec Dickson Trust

Aims/priorities: The funding is aimed at individuals and groups of young people who are able to demonstrate that through volunteering or community service they can enhance the lives of others, particularly those most marginalised by society.

Who can apply? Applications are accepted from UK based volunteering or community service projects, organised and run by young people (under 30 years).

Grant amount: Up to £500 are available.

Co-op Local Community Fund

Aims/priorities:

The Local Community Fund supports projects in Co-op members’ communities that help to create Sustainable Futures for People and our Planet.

You can apply if you're a not-for-profit group that needs funding to deliver a specific project that benefits your local community. We will only accept one application per group.

You can apply if your project supports People or our Planet in the following ways.

People

We’re looking for projects that enable people to play a part in their community’s future by:

Road Safety Trust

Aims/priorities: The overall aims of the Road Safety Trust are to reduce death and injury on the UK roads through providing independent funding for research and the development of innovative approaches.

The objectives of the grant programme are to:

  • Generate new knowledge about what works.
  • Translate ideas into new measures.
  • Influence road safety policy and practice.
  • Support partnership working and collaboration.

The theme for the Autumn 2024 round is ‘Inequalities in Road Safety’.

Greater Manchester Green Spaces Fund

Aims/priorities: This fund will support projects that take place within Greater Manchester and make the city-region greener, whilst tackling inequalities in access to green spaces and improving accessible spaces through physical improvements to make them better places for nature and people. These projects can take place in parks, community gardens, streets, schools, housing estates, canals/streams/rivers, and existing nature reserves.

The fund is focused on three principles:

Freelands Foundation Inclusive Practices Fund 2024

Aims/priorities: As part of their commitment to address racial inequality in visual art education, the Freelands Foundation and Runnymede Trust published the ‘Visualise race and inclusion in secondary education’ report this year. The report made several recommendations dedicated to tackling the challenges within the education system. The Foundation wishes to act on these recommendations and to this end is offering the Inclusive Practices Fund.

This funding call is for projects that meet one or both of the following areas of interest:

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