Tameside
Aims/priorities: The Large Grants programme (formerly Cornerstone Grants) supports structural repairs and maintenance issues costing more than £100,000 or the installation of kitchen and toilets costing over £30,000.
Who can apply? Places of worship of any Christian denomination and age can apply.
Applications will be considered from listed and unlisted Christian places of worship across the UK.
Aims/priorities: The funding is intended for local not-for-profit organisations based or working in Greater Manchester to set up a bike library in which bikes are loaned out to members of the community for free.
Aims/priorities: The programme aims to support organisations to address loneliness and the wellbeing of people over 65 years old by supporting one-to-one projects, particularly for residents in areas of deprivation.
Who can apply? Community organisations, registered charities and other groups (including CICs limited by guarantee) may apply.
Aims/priorities: The aim of the Cash for Kids Sports Challenge is to encourage participation of disabled or disadvantaged children and young people to engage in sport. Applicants must compete in a fundraising challenge to potentially receive more funding for their project.
Who can apply? The following organisations who work for the benefit of disadvantaged young people (up to and including the age of 18 residing in the UK) are eligible to apply:
Aims/priorities: The funding is for charitable organisations and causes that are unpopular or do not receive widespread public attention. This could be due to negative focus within the media; due to difficulty in accessing statutory, voluntary and institutional funding; due to the cause being seen as politically controversial; or because the issue is not typically seen as a charitable cause.
Examples of these types of causes or groups may be:
Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support local community events that enhance and enrich the lives of people over the age of 55 to combat loneliness and sometimes isolation ensuring they stay fit, active, healthy and connected and contributing to their local communities.
Who can apply? Applications are accepted from small community groups and charities in the UK.
Priority will be given to applications that have a connection to, and are championed by, a local Home Instead office.
To be eligible, applicants must:
Aims/priorities: The Institute of Physics provides funding for projects across the UK and Ireland that improve people’s relationship with physics in their family or community groups.
In 2024, the funding will continue to focus on physics engagement projects that align with IOP’s Limit Less campaign, which aims to encourage young people currently underrepresented in the physics community to carry on doing physics post 16.
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The funding is intended to help not-for-profit organisations cover some of the costs of developing and co-ordinating their historic building project and taking it towards the start of work on site. To qualify, organisations must have established that the end use of the project is likely to be viable and have decided to take the project forward. At the end of the funded work, organisations should be at or closer to securing capital funding to enable the delivery of their project.
Who can apply:
Aims/priorities: The IMPACT Awards recognise and reward small to medium-sized charities in the UK that are doing excellent work to improve people's health and wellbeing.
Who can apply? Charities that are located and registered in the UK are eligible to apply.
Charities must:
Aims/priorities: The funding is aimed at very small charities working in their communities to address health inequalities and who find it hard to access unrestricted funding and support for their leaders. This is particularly true for organisations led by and supporting the most disadvantaged communities – such as those supporting ethnic minority communities, people with disabilities, people from the LGBTQ+ community and others.