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The Yapp Charitable Trust is offering grants of up to £3,000 per year to small registered charities supporting some of the most disadvantaged and marginalised people in our communities. They prioritise work supporting:

  • Elderly people
  • Children & young people
  • Mental health, disability & learning difficulties
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Education and Skills, Health and Wellbeing, Older People
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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The Green Spaces Fund provides grants to community groups across Greater Manchester who want to increase the amount of accessible, nature-rich green space where people need it most.

The fund is focused on three principles: 

  • To benefit communities in greatest need of quality green and/or blue (water based) spaces…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Environmental
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Can you provide an enriching, fun holiday provision for children who live in Middleton ?

This funding is for organisations in Middleton that aspire to provide engaging, safe and fun activities for children and young people during the summer holidays 2026.

Who can apply:  

  • Organisations…
  • Location: Rochdale
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General
  • 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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The Parkinson’s UK Physical Activity Grants Programme supports activity providers to develop more physical activity opportunities across the UK for inactive people with Parkinson’s to become and stay active, and improve social wellbeing as a result of attending the project.

We are looking for innovative and…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Health and Wellbeing, Sport and Recreation
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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The Rochdale Recovery Micro Fund through Rochdale Borough Council is a fund to invest in and strengthen Rochdale Borough’s Recovery VCFSE sector. It funds groups and projects which directly benefit local people and communities, delivered by VCFSE organisations/individuals with roots in the borough. 

  • Location: Rochdale
  • Funding Theme: Community, Health and Wellbeing
  • Organisation Type: Unconstituted Group
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/Priorities: Groundwork, in partnership with the Postcode Local Trust, Postcode Places Trust, and Postcode Society Trust, is offering grants of between £500 and £2,000 for small grassroots organisations that work to make a positive difference in local communities, particularly those working to support marginalised or vulnerable groups.

Funding is to support the work…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Thanks to funding from the Live Well Fund, Action Together is offering grants to fund one-to-one coaching for local Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) leaders. 

We know how hard it can be to make change happen, fight for social justice and advocate for your community all while trying to keep an organisation or…

  • Location: Rochdale
  • Funding Theme: 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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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…

  • 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 funding is for UK-registered charities which promote a proactive approach to the physical and mental well-being of people who are over 65 years of age.

The charity's work should fall into one of the following categories:

  • Health and welfare - grants are for the refurbishment of residential care housing for the…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local, Older People
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The funding is for organisations seeking to deliver innovative, well-designed projects that primarily support Clarion residents and the wider community to address digital exclusion.

The funding is for projects and activities that focus on:

  • Supporting Clarion residents to discover the full scope of how the internet can assist them in their…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Education and Skills, General, IT/Digital, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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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.

The funding is for projects that support the aims of the Limit Less campaign by reaching one or more of the target groups that are currently underrepresented in the physics community. IOP is…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, Disabled People, Education and Skills, General, Local, Women and Girls
  • Organisation Type: Individual, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The funding is for proposals that align with priorities outlined in the HM Government VAWG Strategy and action plan, with a preference for proposals focused on:

  • Online harms
  • Early intervention/children and young people
  • Prevention
  • Tackling sexual violence.

There is particular interest in funding the following…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Local, Women and Girls
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The funding is for UK-registered charities with projects that address the funder's current priorities:

  • The arts.
  • Education.
  • Support for carers and older people.
  • Early intervention projects for disadvantaged children and young people.
  • Animal welfare.
  • Health and disability.

Who can apply?…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Children and Young People, Community, Disabled People, Education and Skills, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local, Older People
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:

Aims/priorities: The funding aims to strengthen the evidence base for legal support.

There are two different types of grant awards. Funding will support:

  • Organisations who provide free legal support. This is aimed at legal support organisations helping people with social welfare and family law problems, to access timely and appropriate support…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The Arnold Clark Community Fund offers the following support at different times of the year:

  • Cost of Living Support – funding to registered charities and community group that are within a 50-mile radius of an Arnold Clark branch and whose work directly supports those most affected by the cost-of-living crisis, such as foodbanks…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Cost of Living Crisis, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline: Date not specified.
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Aims/priorities: The objectives of the fund are to:

  • Deliver support for users to resolve the multiple barriers that prevent digitally excluded people from accessing HMCTS online services, enabling access to justice for all.
  • Deliver a service that reaches users that require digital support. This includes 'hidden' users and harder to reach groups.
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, IT/Digital, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: This fund aims to support IT projects and activities that relate to one or more of the following priority areas:

  • Education.
  • Inclusion.
  • Tech for charities.
  • Public understanding of Technology. 

Who can apply? Registered charities and organisatoins with a formal not-for-profit constitution, such…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Education and Skills, General, IT/Digital, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: This Fund aims to improve the development of children most at risk of poor Early Childhood Development (ECD) outcomes, by investing in effective parenting support.

The first round is focused on communities where outcome gaps are largest.

Organisations should be working closely with and understand parents with children aged newborn to five years…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The funding is for a single organisation or group of organisations that are willing to join together to design and deliver a national memorial to mark the significant contribution of Muslims to the First and Second World War.

The memorial is intended to stand as a permanent tribute to the bravery and sacrifice of the hundreds of thousands of Muslim…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/Priorities: The Radcliffe Trust is one of Britain's oldest charities, founded in 1714 by the will of Dr. John Radcliffe, the most eminent physician of his day.

The Trust makes grants principally in two sectors: Music and Heritage & Crafts.

The Trust makes grants principally in two sectors: Music and Heritage & Crafts.

Who can apply?…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/Priorities: The Pilgrim Trust, an independent grant-making trust, was founded in 1930 by Edward Stephen Harkness of New York, with an endowment of just over £2 million, in order to support the urgent and future needs of the UK.

The Trust supports charities and other public bodies that work on preserving the UK's heritage or catalysing social change.

Currently…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/Priorities: The Community Grants Programme is provided by Warburtons, a family run bakery business, and is administered on their behalf by Charities Aid Foundation (CAF). The principle aim of this funding is to focus on supporting families that need help the most, in a way which adheres to their principles of transparency, trust and transformation.

The aim of these…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The Community Based Debt Advice (CBDA) Grant scheme is provided by the Money & Pensions Service (MAPS) to reduce the impact of problem debt on individuals and communities, improve financial resilience and wellbeing, and strengthen local support networks. The funding is intended to ensure services reflect and address local need across England and will thus…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Cost of Living Crisis
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: A small number of grants are available for UK homelessness organisations to become safer and more inclusive for LGBT+ young people. These are long-term development grants to generalist UK homelessness organisations to embed safe, culturally competent and affirming practice for LGBT+ young people. (Generalist is defined here as 'services that are not…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/Priorities: Are you a voluntary, community or social enterprise (VCSE) organisation with an annual income between £50,000 and £250,000 and based and working within one of the ten localities of Greater Manchester?

Does your organisation support people most affected by social inequalities who are struggling to cope with the worst of the cost-of-living crisis?

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Cost of Living Crisis, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The funding is for tree and hedge planting projects taking place during the 2026/27 winter planting season. Each November, the Tree Council organises National Tree Week at the start of the tree planting season.  National Tree Week is the UK's largest annual tree planting campaign and a nationwide festival of trees. Its purpose is to raise public…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Environmental
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, Constituted Group, Partnerships and Consortiums, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/Priorities: ChurchCare is the Church of England's Cathedral and Church Buildings Division. It works in partnership with various grant-giving bodies to provide funding for the conservation of historic church interiors and churchyard structures, to ensure that conservation projects in Anglican churches across England are carried out to a high standard. 

Grants…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Faith
  • Organisation Type: Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/Priorities: The next round of the Greater Manchester Victims Capability and Capacity Small Grant Fund has officially launched as of Wednesday, 13th May 2026.

This initiative is part of our ongoing 3-year small grants programme and is designed to prioritise supporting victims within Greater Manchester, specifically through VCSE victim support organisations. Our goal…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/Priorities: Cellnex, Europe's leading operator of telecommunications infrastructure is launching the Cellnex UK Community Fund, a new grant programme that will invest directly in the communities where its digital infrastructure operates across the UK.

The fund will award grants of up to £5,000 to individual organisations in its first year, representing a total…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline: Date not specified.
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Aims/priorities: Art Fund is offering funding to help museums, galleries and visual arts organisations provide paid opportunities for full-time university students to gain meaningful, developmental work-experience that enables them to further explore their interest in the arts, and related future career options before they graduate. Student opportunities can benefit visual…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Heritage
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims: priorities: The Dan Maskell Tennis Trust is a tennis charity that raises funds for people with disabilities. Grants are available to support people with all disabilities ( physical impairment, deaf, learning disability, visually impaired etc) to play tennis. Grants are available for organisations and individuals. The funding is intended to support people with…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Disabled People, Health and Wellbeing, Sport and Recreation
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, Constituted Group, Individual, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Unconstituted Group, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/Priorities: The Healthy Heart Grants programme supports community groups and projects across the UK that promote heart health and healthier lifestyles, helping communities reduce the risk of heart disease. The funding is for new projects being delivered in small local communities that work with adults and that actively promote heart health or reduce the risk of heart…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Health and Wellbeing
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The aim of the Holiday Hunger Grants is to support organisations and service providers to give disadvantaged children and young people (up to and including 18 years old) access to food and activities during the school holidays. Projects must encourage children to eat more healthily and be more active during the school holidays.

Who…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The Cash for Kids Impact Grant supports community groups, schools and charities working with children and young people affected by and living with disadvantage.

Who can apply? Applications are accepted from registered charities (with an annual turnover less than £1 million), schools, community organisations and other grassroots groups…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The fund aims to improve outcomes for children, young people and families living in poverty in England, delivering measurable improvements such as better school attainment, improved youth employment and reduced youth offending.

It will support projects that address the structural and root causes of child poverty, reducing both the immediate and long-term…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
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