Groups can apply for up to £500 to help people in crisis access food and essentials (toiletries, household essentials). There must be an additional offer of longer term help e.g., a leaflet with where to go information, variety of formats.
Community Food Poverty Provision Fund (Up to £5,000)
Groups can apply for up to £5,000 to Support Community Food Poverty Provision. This can be existing or new provision. The funds can go towards:
- Food: The cost of purchasing, preparing and cooking food.
- Logistics: Transportation/delivery/storage of food and essential items, purchase of parcels/containers for food supplies or meals.
- Essentials: The costs of any proposed essentials to support those most in need, such as toiletries/hygiene and cleaning products/baby products/pet essentials.
- Rent: Towards the cost of using premises to deliver the Project. Please note that you cannot apply for your full rental costs. Only a percentage of rent can be applied for, and this percentage will be determined by the decision panel members.
- Publicity Production of a leaflet or newsletter to advertise the activities the Recipient is undertaking.
- Expenses, travel, parking or similar costs incurred by volunteers delivering help, support or assistance.
- Training: Necessary courses that the Recipient intends to offer volunteers to deliver the Project.
- Equipment: Essential equipment specific to the delivery of the Project.
- Administration Membership costs (for Fare Share as an example), general costs of running the Project (administration costs should be kept to a minimum).
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The Community Food Poverty provision Fund will be a lifeline for the Foodbank and help to fill the gaps left by fewer donations and higher demand for food parcels. |
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This project with the support of a number of volunteers will support the most vulnerable with some of these issues in the community. As the frontline African community organisation in Tameside, they want to ensure that families basic needs are catered for, to support themselves and their families to the basic amenities we all take for granted. As the whole landscape of our community is changing, they are taking numerous calls and referrals for families who have either lost jobs, benefit sanction or no entitle to a public fund and are now struggling to meet daily needs and are isolated in the community and have nowhere to turn. |
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This group would like to concentrate on helping local people to tackle the current cost of living increases, encourage healthy eating & diet and improving mental & physical health and wellbeing by providing holiday hunger lunch packs to children on a weekly basis for 6 weeks, and also household essentials packs for those in greatest need. Current pantry members and other residents in the OL6 postcode area will register for the packs and these will be delivered from the Food Pantry in Cedar Park by our volunteers in conjunction with Smallshaw Hurst Community Action Group. |
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Together Pantry Delivery 2 U This groups aim is to provide a meaningful service whereby 30 Tameside Households per week experiencing food poverty, will receive a food parcel supporting them through the ongoing fuel crisis |
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BLOOM -Dig & Dine This group will deliver a ‘Dig & Dine’ initiative at our allotment site in Hyde. This would comprise of a twice weekly session where we will prepare and cook healthy meals with up to 30 vulnerable people per session, utilising our allotment grown produce. The people we will support are adults with learning disabilities and / or poor mental health. |
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Increased Capacity CAB – This project will provide high quality generalist advice to local Tameside residents with a range of advice needs across enquiry areas. We will advise residents facing financial difficulties and rising living costs. The cost of living crisis has been growing in scale and impact over the last six months, with inflation reaching historic levels and yet to peak. Those on the lowest incomes are most exposed, and masked within the headline inflation figures are specific increases that are hitting low income households the hardest. We anticipate a volume of participants to be on low incomes, benefit and employment incomes, and to have variable incomes, facing changes in circumstances, bereavement, relationship breakdown, the life events that clients approach us for generalist advice about, those experiencing a financial shock |
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Summer Holiday Food Distribution Programme The main aim of this project is to maintain healthy community through provision of basic food and hygiene products to poor households as they spend the upcoming holiday with their children. |
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Cooking affordable, nutritious food, low cost & low energy This group want to support the Pantry Store members to cook nutritious affordable food, using low energy equipment; to do this we want to help member make best use of existing equipment and supply low energy cooking utensils including slow cookers, pressure cookers, steamers etc. food for recipes and encourage members to share experience and ideas. |
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Ark of Hope |
Community free meal service, The aims of the group are: • To provide meals and other resources for community members who can’t provide for themselves • To support people who are socially isolated and our community as a whole • To enable local people to get involved and give back to their community • To help in any way we can during a national crisis |
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Khush Amdid |
Hot food for the Homeless |
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United Kingdom M’mbondo Community |
M’bondo Community Summer Holiday Support. This group will be supporting members of the M’mbondo community residing within Tameside to maintain good health summer holiday. M’mbondo community is an African subtribe originating from D R Congo. Majority of the community members are refugees who migrated to the UK after civil war to escape civil war. Similar to other communities living in Greater Manchester and Tameside in particular, M’mbondo community have been seriously affected by Covid 19 as majority of the Adults lost their part-time cleaning jobs during the lockdown. The project will involve provision of £50 pounds voucher to a food store whereby the beneficiary will be able to purchase food and hygiene products of their own choice to the limit of the voucher value. |
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St Martin’s Church |
Place of Welcome This group hold this community event weekly. There members largely consist of retired people although it is not aimed exclusively to that age group. They welcome anyone who feels that they would benefit from the safe and welcoming space we provide. The lonely, isolated and those struggling with the cost of living. They would aim to provide the members with items of groceries, toiletries and other household items and toiletries which maybe out of their budget and are necessary for a healthy lifestyle |
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Pennine Mencap |
The Need To Get Changed This project shall involve ensuring these women have access to essential appropriate toiletries and sanitary products and to provide education sessions about their menstrual health. Including: How to use different sanitary products, How long they should be used for, Identifying signs when you are due How to stay sanitary during their time. Additionally, they want to purchase pants and underwear to offer out to the women when they are unfortunate enough to not spot these signs and end up in a very uncomfortable situation when they attend the service, they will be able to change into clean clothes and continue with their day. |
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The Tameside Meals Project |
The Tameside Meals Project This groups mission is to provide free, nutritious food using the kitchen facilities at Hyde Town Hall. They source our ingredients from Fareshare i.e. food which would have ordinarily gone to waste. They want to initiate cooking classes with the help of our partners to demonstrate cooking techniques on low budgets |
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Hyde Little Theatre |
Nutritional Cooking for 1 This group would like to create a pay what you can pantry at Studio 9 and will have this available at all times for people to access. They will also provide information in the form of recipe sheets that people can take away and try some of the nutritionally balanced meals. They will also provide items in smaller quantities, i.e. 1 or 2 potatoes for jacket potatoes to negate the need for people to purchase a huge bag. |
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The Together Centre |
Together Pantry The aim is to provide a meaningful service whereby 50 Tameside Households per week experiencing poverty will not also receive a food parcel supporting them through the ongoing fuel crisis, but in addition will now receive a toiletries parcel consisting of Dental Health Products, Hygiene Products, Baby Changing Products, Sanitary Products and MORE! Beneficiaries will also receive a weekly Information Sheet on collection of their Parcels providing further support information along with the contact information of where this can be accessed. |
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The Chinwags |
Just Breakfast This group will provide a simple take away breakfast to those who are experiencing financial hardship. This will be in the form of breakfast cereal and milk and will be available for collection at their existing community social group - The Chinwags on Monday mornings and our Coffee Morning social on Wednesday mornings. The Chinwags group already offers a free hot breakfast each week - plus soup - and the Just Breakfast project will run along side this. People will be able to eat at the group and take away breakfast cereal, if they wish. |
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The Rough Diamonds |
Food Pantry – Emergency Packs This group have a food pantry which is being used more frequently. They will use the funds to provide more supplies as they are getting more referrals. This service is for local people in the St Peters Ward and they offer emergency food for roughly 2 days. This also includes basic toiletries, toothpaste, shower gel, toilet roll, washing up liquid |
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Hattersley and Mottram community Forum |
Vulnerable residents crisis support This group will provide financial assistance for vulnerable residents and families who are in need of emergency crisis support The fund will be accessible through the community hub during opening hours Monday to Friday , avoiding the need for costly travel as tescos is a short walk away The assistance will be by means or either a £10 tesco voucher or a £10 prepayment meter key top up for energy |
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Park house residents Group |
Breakfast club This group will set up a cooked breakfast club to bring people together to eat and enjoy a hot cooked breakfast in a warm safe environment This will be a heavily subsidised meal and any profits will go to offering a number of free drinks or meals as and when possible. |
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Tameside East Foodbank |
Stock for Tameside East Foodbank The grant will be used to purchase food and other essentials for the foodbank |
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The Power of Resilience |
Power of Resilience Crisis Intervention Project The funds will be used to distribute £20 shopping vouchers for food to community members who are in crisis due to the cost of living increase and the rise in fuel bills. They will also give them a leaflet detailing the options for support for debt via Christians Against Poverty, foodbanks and mental health support in the local area. |
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St Gabriel’s Place of Welcome |
St Gabriel’s Place of Welcome Place of Welcome sessions help to alleviate the loneliness and isolation being felt by many in our community. They meet every Monday from 9.30 till 12.00, regularly having up to 25 visitors every week. The visitors feel welcome, cared for and more positive about themselves; the sessions help them to deal with their anxiety, loneliness and general well-being. They feel that they are successfully supporting the social prescribing service within Tameside and helping people to take control of their own health and well-being. They have recently, however, had more visitors coming to us who are struggling financially and are obviously in need of food and basic essentials.The group will use the funds to supply more essential items. |
Action Together’s Development team have a wealth of experience that could help you find and secure funding. Please contact us on Tel: 0161 339 2345 or Email: development@actiontogether.org.uk.