Oldham Council has been awarded funding from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s (MHCLG) Community Champions Programme.

Aims & Objectives

The aims in Oldham for this funding are to support those communities most at risk from Coronavirus:

• South Asian communities,
• Roma community,
• African communities,
• People with learning disabilities and autism,
• People with sensory disabilities and any others identified through data and insight gathering during the course of this work.

Small grants will be awarded to enable community groups / organisations to support Team Oldham to deliver it’s Covid-19 community engagement strategy within communities most at risk from Covid-19.

Grant amount: You can apply for up to:

• £5,000 if you are: a voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) group working in the borough of Oldham with the communities most at risk (as described above) and a member or are becoming a member of Action Together CIO and you are formally constituted.
• £500 if you are: if you are an formal social action or mutual aid activity. Mutual aid is the term we use to describe people giving each other needed support in communities. Social action is the term we use to describe people coming together (physically or remotely) to help solve the problems that are important in their communities.
  

Application process: Please click the button below to apply now. 

Deadline: Rolling programme

If you have any queries about the application process or would like support to complete the application form, please contact a member of the Oldham Community Development team on grants@actiontogether.org.uk or 0161 339 2345.

We Stand Together, in partnership with The Whitworth, have an opportunity to creatively explore themes such as:

• What community means to you;
• How you see communities building cohesion, or hope they will do; and how you can represent that through creative or performing art

You could:

• Create postcards and send them between communities;
• Put on a display of postcards or other art;
• Create a collage, painting or mural representing diversity in Greater Manchester;
• Create an animation; or
• Come up with any other creative idea you want.

You could also hold an online event yourselves during #WeStandTogether Month in May, Post it  here to share and they will help publicise.

They will also give you an opportunity to present what you've done at two sharing events on the evening of Thursday 27th May and morning of Friday 28th.

For those wanting more incentive, you can affiliate your group or project to #WeStandTogether and win one of 16 awards, up to £2,500, for your cohesion activities. Visit their website for details.

For more information visit We Stand Together.

Any questions? Email at hello@westandtogether.org.uk.

Oldham Council are looking for people who work within the VCFSE who might be interested in a 5 month secondment opportunity into the COVID Community Engagement Team.

They are looking to second 2 full-time equivalent Operational Leads from mid-May until the end of September. Ideally they’d like people who could work a full-time week (36.66 hrs), but we are happy to consider part-time arrangements as well if it can be accommodated operationally.

Please find attached the Job Description and expression of interest form. If you are interested please could you return the form to rachel.dyson@oldham.gov.uk no later than Friday 7th May.

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