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Thanks to funding from Rochdale Borough Council’s Public Health team, Action Together is offering small grants of up to £5,000 or £8,000 for VCFSE organisations to provide Wider Essentials to individuals and communities within the Rochdale Borough. 

The fund priorities have been co-produced by a group of representatives from the Anti-…

  • Location: Rochdale
  • Funding Theme: Community, Cost of Living Crisis, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities:

Thanks to funding from Rochdale Borough Council Public Health team, Action Together is offering grants of up to £25,000 to help the VCFSE sector to embed preventative support alongside an existing emergency support offer.

The fund priorities have been co-produced by a group of representatives from the Anti-Poverty Network, Welfare Advice Forum,…

  • Location: Rochdale
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Thanks to funding from Rochdale Borough Council Public Health team, Action Together is offering investment to help the VCFSE groups provide emergency and immediate food offers, as well as investing in supporting the longer-term sustainability of our borough’s food providers. 

The fund priorities have been co-produced by a group of…

  • Location: Rochdale
  • Funding Theme: Community, Cost of Living Crisis, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Thanks to funding from Rochdale Borough Council’s Adult Social Care team, Action Together is offering grants of up to £500 to help small, unconstituted groups or those preparing to become social enterprises (such as Community Interest Companies) develop their ideas or projects into sustainable, long-term organisations that benefit Rochdale Borough.

  • Location: Rochdale
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: Unconstituted Group
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Thanks to funding from Rochdale Borough Council Public Health team, Action Together is offering micro grants of up to £1,000 to help the VCFSE sector to support individuals, families and communities in the Rochdale Borough. 

As there are limited funds, we will be prioritising applications from micro and small groups to our micro grants.…

  • Location: Rochdale
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Health and Wellbeing
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The aim of the ‘Empower Her Football Activity Fund’ is to diversify the women and girls involved in football by ethnicity, faith and low affluence, and to provide opportunities to experience football in different communities and settings across Greater Manchester.

The Empower Her Football Activity Fund will do this, by supporting organisations to:…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local, Sport and Recreation, Women and Girls
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Manchester Football Association

Aims/priorities: This fund aims to support museums with core activities, enabling them to care for collection’s more effectively and efficiently and to meet the standards required for Accreditation. 

Who can apply? To apply, groups must:

  • Be an AIM member.
  • Be a UK registered charity, an organisation with exempt charitable status,…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Community, Education and Skills, General, Heritage, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIO, Constituted Group, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Association of Independent Museums

Aims/priorities: The funding supports community groups and grassroots sports organisations who are working within the most deprived areas of the UK and are making sport more accessible to women and girls, as well as engaging people from other under-represented groups including people with disabilities, from racially diverse communities and from the LGBTQ+ community. 

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Communities Experiencing Racial Inequalities, Community, Disabled People, General, Local, Sport and Recreation, Women and Girls
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The Farming Futures R&D Fund comprises two funding competitions focused on innovation in agriculture: the Precision Breeding Competition and the Low Emissions Farming Competition.

The Precision Breeding Competition supports collaborative industrial research projects aimed at developing precision breeding solutions in either horticultural or arable…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Environmental, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Government UK

Aims/priorities: This fund aims to increase the amount of household items that are donated, shared, repaired, upcycled, and redistributed, and reduce the amount thrown away by:

  • Increasing the number of community projects involved in donating, sharing, repairing, upcycling, and redistributing household items like clothes, shoes, bikes, furniture, tools, books, school…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Greater Manchester Environment Trust

Aims/priorities: During 2025 to 2026, the funding is intended to:

  • Raise awareness of and address any misinformation about the Windrush Compensation and Windrush Documentation Schemes with a focus on non-Caribbean communities and encourage them to apply to these schemes.
  • Build on the insights and learning taken from existing work on Windrush to understand:…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Communities Experiencing Racial Inequalities, Community, Cost of Living Crisis, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Government UK

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support UK-based organisations in developing and delivering creative project development programmes in feature film (narrative, documentary, animation) and/or narrative immersive media. These programmes should benefit participants and projects, supporting creatives such as writers, directors, producers and immersive artists.…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Community, Enterprise, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, Constituted Group, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline: Date not specified.
Logo British Film Institute

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended for projects supporting Disabled or neurodivergent people to exercise their rights on:

  • Income, welfare benefits or debt
  • Housing and homelessness
  • Community care
  • Personal liberty
  • Equal access to goods and services

This programme is for work that helps people in England, Wales,…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Cost of Living Crisis, Disabled People, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Three Guineas Trust

Aims/priorities: The Trust offers grants to charitable organisations working in agriculture, rural development and insurance in the UK.

Currently, the Trust's main objectives are to:

  • Advance the education of the public by means of research and dissemination of information in relation to agriculture.
  • Advance the education of young people within rural…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, Education and Skills, Environmental, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo National Farmers Union

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.

Who can apply? Registered charities working in the…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local, Women and Girls
  • Organisation Type: CIC, Constituted Group, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo The Pink Ribbon Foundation

Aims/priorities: Grants are only made to legally constituted registered charities established in the historical county of Lancashire.

Who can apply? The Fund supports registered charities from within Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside, including the unitary authorities of Blackpool, Blackburn, Warrington, and Halton.

Eligible…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, Disabled People, General, Local, Older People
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Together for Liverpool for Good

Aims/priorities: This fund aims to provide charities and not-for-profit organisations with access to data protection consultancy advice and services that ensure they run efficiently, remain compliant with the law, and achieve the following outcomes:

  • Provide immediate access to subject matter experts and a broadly experienced team of data protection professionals.…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, IT/Digital, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo DPO Centre

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support innovative projects that address key challenges in Greater Manchester's foundational economy sectors, specifically health and social care, early education and childcare, and the local high street. It aims to encourage the use of technology in care, expand early education provision and workforce capacity, and boost…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, Education and Skills, Enterprise, Environmental, General, Health and Wellbeing, IT/Digital, Local
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Greater Manchester Combined Authority

Aims/priorities: This fund aims to support organisations to help provide essential advocacy support for Windrush Compensation Scheme (WCS) claimants.

In Year One, the fund's purpose is to support established organisations experienced in providing Windrush Compensation advocacy support with the WCS process. Advocates will help WCS claimants articulate their stories and…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Government UK

Aims/priorities: Innovate UK is running a competition to support the deployment of digital cognitive assessment (DCA) technologies in dementia diagnosis. The programme will act as a demonstrator to accelerate high-maturity DCA innovations and assess their real-world application as part of the READ-OUT (REAl-world Dementia OUTcomes) blood-based biomarker study. These efforts…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, IT/Digital, Local, Older People
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Government UK

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support access to music for schools, students and teachers by facilitating the purchase of musical instruments and equipment.

Who can apply? Applications will be accepted from schools, teaching the national curriculum, which are based in the UK and Republic of Ireland.

Grant amount:

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Community, Education and Skills, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Universal Music UK Sound Foundation

Aims/priorities: The Awards are intended to facilitate the work of small charities and organisations working to meet the needs of vulnerable communities and to conserve the natural environment.

Who can apply? In the first phase of the programme, applications will be accepted from the United Kingdom, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and South…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Cost of Living Crisis, Environmental, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Jaguar Land Rover

Aims/priorities: This fund aims to support youth-led organisations that are fighting for climate justice in England to deliver projects that empower young people to take climate justice action in ways that are meaningful for them and their communities.

Funding will support existing youth-led organisations that are trialling new climate justice initiatives, ideas at an…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, Environmental, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Blagrave Trust

Aims/priorities: Funding is intended for work that supports vulnerable people to find a place to belong through housing and their community.

Who can apply? To be eligible, organisations must be a not-for-profit organisation based and delivering work in the UK, this includes but is not limited to:

  • Registered charities.
  • Charitable…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Cost of Living Crisis, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo LinkedIn

Aims/priorities: The fund aims to increase the amount of household items that are donated, shared, repaired, upcycled and redistributed to reduce the amount we throw away, by…

  • Increasing the number of community projects involved in donating, sharing, repairing, upcycling and redistributing household items like clothes, shoes, bikes, furniture, tools, books, school…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Recycle for Greater Manchester

Aims/Priorities: The Local Youth Transformation (LYT) Pilot is provided in England by the UK Government's Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). 

The fund aims to support 10 to 12 local authorities to start to rebuild a high-quality offer for young people and the transition back to local youth services leadership. The fund will test ways to best rebuild…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/Priorities: The programme to organisations working to deliver activities, support and services aimed at preventing homelessness within the Greater Manchester area. In particular we would encourage applications from organisations that are directly addressing at least one of the following issues:
•  Safe Accommodation
•  No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF)…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The purpose of the Fund is to prevent or reduce negative impacts on UK coastal and marine environments and species by reducing marine litter, through the provision of well-located coastal water fountains that will significantly reduce the use of non-reusable plastic drinks bottles.

Who can apply? Applications are welcome from all types…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Environmental, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Sea Changers

Aims/priorities: This fund aims to support Christian organisations to deliver projects that will make a positive and transformative impact on lives and communities and contribute to the following objectives:

  • Growing congregations and Christian communities.
  • Addressing social challenges facing communities.
  • Enabling wider community use of church…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, Education and Skills, Faith, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline: Date not specified.
Logo Benefact Trust

Aims/priorities: The Trust holds two grants rounds per year:

  • The Spring round is for proposals wanting to work with young people who already have a criminal conviction.
  • The Autumn round is for proposals focused on targeted work with high-risk young people on the edge of the criminal justice system.

This year both rounds will once again be focused…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Local, Women and Girls
  • Organisation Type: CIC, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo The Triangle Trust

Aims/priorities: The Trust operates a three-year rotation system, with different fields of interests being funded each year:

  • In 2024, the first two rounds focused on Disability specifically employment and training to ensure better access. The third (July) and fourth (September) rounds were focused on Food Poverty given the increasing levels across…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Community, Cost of Living Crisis, Disabled People, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust

Aims/priorities: The funding is for individuals or organisations, focusing on the most deprived areas, to rescue their locally cherished, at risk historic sites and buildings.

This funding will support projects which seek to repair and enhance a variety of heritage buildings to benefit the local public and community, like shops, pubs, parks, and town halls. …

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Environmental, General, Heritage, Local
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Individual, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Historic England

Aims/Priorities: The scheme aims to fund small capital improvements to theatres run by charities and not-for-profit groups that will make a big impact to a theatre's resilience, sustainability or accessibility, or to improving the diversity of audiences.

Who can apply? To be eligible, applicants must meet the following requirements:

  • Own or…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, Constituted Group
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/Priorities: The funding is for charitable work that meets one or more of the Foundation's current priorities: 

  • Victims of modern slavery: to provide facilities for and support to victims on their journey back to independent living, better mental health and employment.
  • Victims of domestic abuse: to provide emergency safety and to support victims…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Faith, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/Priorities: The funding is for a non-profit distributing organisation that has a track record of supporting victims of crime or discrimination, particularly Muslim people, or has capability to do so.

The key objectives for the grant recipient will be to: 

  • Receive, record and analyse instances of anti-Muslim hate.
  • Increase awareness of…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Communities Experiencing Racial Inequalities, Community, Faith, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/Priorities: The funding is intended to help communities across England rescue and repurpose neglected historic buildings.

The programme will focus on regenerating historic buildings in town centre locations by supporting community organisations to take ownership of, adapt and reuse the local heritage assets that matter to them, transforming them into thriving…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Heritage, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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