Tameside

Tameside

Could Your Group Reuse and Repurpose Testing Booths?

Published date: 
Wednesday, 20th July 2022
Photo of Covid Testing booths

Tameside Council have 30+ testing booths which were previously used at Tameside COVID testing sites. They have been cleaned down and have not been used since July 2021, so there will be no risk of COVID from the booths. The Council want to donate the booths to groups to recycle/re-use.

They are light weight and fit together by interlocking therefore, do not need screws or nails. They are light weight, but a van would be needed for transporting them.

The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service- The MBE for Volunteer Groups

Published date: 
Monday, 18th July 2022
Queens Award for Voluntary Service Logo

As we all know Tameside, Oldham and Rochdale have many voluntary and charitable organisations which do amazing work within their communities.  Without the volunteers who give their time so freely, many of these groups would not survive and so it is right that these bighearted people are recognized in a significant and meaningful way.  The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service is the highest award given to local volunteer groups across the UK. 

Motability - Active Travel Grants

Aims/priorities: Grants are available to local not-for-profit groups for projects which expand access to quality and affordable travel equipment and journeys, and ensure disabled people have the same opportunities to make decisions about how they travel in the UK.

Who can apply? Medium to large charities and organisations with established ways of working may apply. Groups must:

Motability - Research Grants

Aims/priorities: Grants are available for not-for-profit groups to undertake research to help better understand the problems that disabled people face in the transport system and to how they can be solved.

Who can apply? 

Medium to large charities and organisations with established ways of working may apply. This includes academic organisations which are charitable in nature. Groups must:

Pink Ribbon Foundation

Aims/priorities: The Foundation's mission is to fund projects and provide financial support to UK charities which relieve the needs of people who are suffering from, or who have been affected by breast cancer or who work to advance the understanding of breast cancer, its early detection and treatment.

Thomas Pocklington Trust

Aims/priorities: The aim of the grants is to support new and innovative projects that achieve that support the delivery of positive outcomes for blind and partially sighted people in at least one of the priority areas of education, employment, engagement, and collaboration and sustainability.

Who can apply? Registered charities based in the UK can apply.

Grant amount: Most grants will be around £10,000 or less. However, larger amounts will be considered in exceptional circumstances.

National Lottery Heritage Fund - Heritage Innovation Fund

Aims/priorities: Funding is intended to build innovation capacity within, across and between different parts of heritage around a shared priority challenge area: the workforce, skills and ways of working needed for the future. Funding should allow organisations to explore, test and grow new ways of working needed to support the future of heritage.

Challenges which may be addressed include:

  • Ways of working.
  • Who is part of the heritage workforce.
  • What skills are needed.

Who can apply? 

Sea-Changers Innovation Fund

Aims/priorities: The Sea-Changers Innovation Fund aims to encourage new approaches to marine conservation challenges and accelerate possible solutions to issues such as climate change, pollution, over-fishing and the decline of key marine species that are affecting the UK's coast and seas.

In 2022 the £30,000 fund will be split equally between the following three areas:

Art Fund - Reimagine Grants

Aims/priorities: The funding is mostly for organisations that hold collections, which may include fine and applied art and design, archaeology and/or social history. They will also be committed to delivering activity that increases public access to these collections, which has public benefit and aligns with Art Fund’s charitable objectives.

Who can apply? 

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