Find Funding in Oldham
Aims/priorities: The Gardens Trust Community Grants Fund is provided by a donation from the Gentian Trust. This fund aims to help seed-fund volunteer projects that will support historic designed landscapes in the UK.
Who can apply: Volunteer groups across the UK can apply. Preference will be given to smaller charities.
Grant amount…
Aims/priorities: Postcode Neighbourhood Trust operates its own society lottery and receives all of its funding from players of People's Postcode Lottery. The funding is intended to support organisations whose core purpose and everyday work align closely with one of the Trust's current themes:
- Enabling participation in the arts.
- Preventing or reducing the…
Aims/priorities: This programme is funded by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) and administered by Social Investment Business (SIB). The Better Futures Fund (BFF) is a 10-year, £500 million UK Government programme designed to improve outcomes for children, young people and families and address the structural causes and impacts of child poverty in…
Aims/priorities: The Fund is provided and administered by The Worshipful Company of Information Technologists (WCIT) Charity. The funding is for projects that use technology in a meaningful way and support one or more of the charity's priority areas:
- Education
- Inclusion
- Tech for charities
- Public understanding of technology.
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Aims/priorities: The British Science Association, a charity, is offering the new Curiosity Grant and Explore Kit Boxes in 2027 as part of a wider six year programme - funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) - to engage the public with research and innovation across the UK. During this first year (2027), some activity for this new programme will be delivered through the…
Aims/priorities: As part of its 'A Game Free from Discrimination' strategy, the Football Association is working with faith communities across England to support participation, engagement and inclusion across football and has launched the new Faith and Football Fund. The funding may support football programmes that:
- Increase participation in football at any…
Aims/priorities: The Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) is launching the third annual round of its Community Fund, with £270,000 available this year to support projects that make a lasting difference in local communities.
Grants of £5,000 are available, but applicants can request an uplift to £10,000 where they can demonstrate that the additional funding would…
Aims/priorities: The LGBT+ Fund: Get Active Fund provides support for community-based LGBT+ sports and physical activity organisations and projects across the UK. The fund aims to increase resources available to groups that are under-recognised by funding initiatives and improve access to physical activity for LGBT+ communities.
The fund will prioritise grassroots…
Aims/priorities: The Better Futures Fund (BFF) is a 10-year, £500 million UK Government programme designed to improve outcomes for children, young people and families and address the structural causes and impacts of child poverty in England. The fund will primarily support Social Outcomes Partnerships (SOPs), through which government funding is linked to the achievement of…
Aims/priorities: This fund aims to support artistic projects that promote the sharing of traditional and contemporary Asian culture.
Who can apply? Not-for-profit arts organisations that are actively engaged in the cultural sector can apply, including:
- UK-registered charities.
- Charitable incorporated organisations (CIOs). …
Aims/priorities: This fund aims to strengthen Black-led leadership in the UK research ecosystem by helping organisations to grow sustainably, strengthen governance and leadership, boost operational readiness, improve financial resilience, and build long-term impact.
Who can apply? The following can apply:
- Registered charities.
- …
Aims/priorities: The funding is for groups whose core focus is providing food aid to their service users, for example, food banks, community pantries, social supermarkets, soup kitchens, breakfast clubs. (Please note that any group that does not already offer a food provision as its core purpose may not apply for this grant.)
Who can apply? Not-for-…
Aims/priorities: A key change this year is that there are two project pathways, and applicants should offer support along one of the pathways:
- In-service support – for projects providing support to currently serving personnel and their family members where care needs significantly affect daily family life. Beneficiaries under this pathway will…
Aims/priorities: This funding aims to support core and equipment costs of running Ofcom-licensed community radio stations.
In addition, Community Digital Sound Programme ("C-DSP") stations will be eligible for grants, alongside existing analogue community radio stations, if the station is broadcasting on a digital radio multiplex at the date of their application.
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Aims/priorities: The LCF Primary Fund Programme supports capital improvement works to public amenity projects for community use
Who can apply? To be eligible, applicants must:
- Be run on a not-for-profit basis. This could include community groups, parish councils, charities, community interest companies, sports clubs, community associations,…
Aims/priorities: The funding is intended for registered charities working in the current priority areas:
- Supporting offenders and ex-offenders into work, specifically for those looking to build skills and capability to get into sustainable work.
- Helping specific groups within the criminal justice sector that are less popular with funders than others.…
Aims/Priorities: Grants are available for UK-registered charities working in the North East of England, York, Harrogate, Greater Manchester, and the City of Bradford in the areas of culture and the arts, education, the natural environment, community development, and promoting health and medicine. The Foundation offers funding to charitable organisations to support projects in…
Aims/priorities: The grants are for registered charities operating in Greater Manchester to support a wide variety of purposes under the general heading of "social welfare", such as assisting people with medical conditions, disabilities, addictions, to help the aged, youth work etc.
Applications for new work are welcome and the Trustees give special consideration…
Aims/Priorities: This fund aims to assist parishes with the costs of building repairs.
Who can apply: Church of England consecrated church buildings within the Diocese of Manchester and licensed places of worship can apply.
Parishes must meet the following criteria:
- Must have paid the previous year’s Parish Share in full.…
Aims/Priorities: This fund aims to stimulate and assist community sustainability projects in Oldham and the surrounding area, particularly projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In this funding round, priority will be given to applications that will enable young people to participate in activities concerning renewable energy and projects that deal with the…
Aims/priorities: Help people find or sustain a stable home through a specialist accelerator programme. Open to anyone addressing the causes and consequences of homelessness in England and Wales, this programme will help you build a resilient business model through a tailored learning programme and grant funding. You’ll learn from experts and each other to grow both your…
Aims/Priorities: The foundation's objective is to sustainably improve lives among the sick, the elderly, the disabled and the disadvantaged, particularly in the UK. Funding is available to support special projects or the purchase of specific equipment that will make a tangible difference to the relevant charity (for example, where the Foundation can meet a significant…
Aims/Priorities: The Trust aims to promote and maintain to a high standard the choral services of the Church of England, the Church in Wales and the Church of Ireland.
Who can apply: Applications must be submitted by an institution in England, Wales or Ireland. Usually this will be a cathedral, choral foundation, parish church, choir, or choir school.…
Aims/Priorities: Financial payments are available for LGBT veterans who served in HM Armed Forces between 27 July 1967 and 11 January 2000 and who have been affected by the Ban on LGBT personnel serving in HM Armed Forces. The scheme provides two types of payment to recognise the discrimination and the detriment suffered by LGBT personnel under the Ban:
- LGBT…
Aims/Priorities: The Rewilding Challenge Fund, a new annual fund, is provided and administered by Rewilding Britain, an independent charity committed to catalysing rewilding and influencing rewilding policy across all of Britain.
This fund has two main aims:
- Nurture and enable one large-scale project to create a shared vision for a …
Aims/Priorities: The primary aim of the programme is to improve the evidence on effective support for young people aged 16-24 facing significant barriers to work to develop essential employment skills and ultimately access good jobs.
The funding is to initiate or develop partnerships between stakeholders, which may include employers, educators, third sector providers,…
Aims/priorities: Grants are available for charities, not-for-profit social enterprises and community interest companies in the UK that are working to support young people with criminal convictions or young people at high risk of offending for the first time. For the 2026 funding rounds, the focus is specifically on young women and girls who have been in the criminal justice…
Aims/priorities: Grants are available to registered charities and not-for-profit groups across Great Britain for projects that improve nature for local communities.
The funding is for organisations whose main aims and objectives fit with one of the following Fund's themes:
- Contributing to nature recovery and responding to the climate emergency.
- …
Aims/priorities: The Trust operates a three-year rotation system, with different fields of interests being funded each year:
- In 2025, the first two rounds focused on Access to the Arts. The third and fourth rounds focused on Refugees and Asylum Seekers.
- In 2026, the first two rounds will focus on People experiencing or at risk of…
Aims/priorities: The Edward Holt Trust invites applications from charities working in Greater Manchester for ambitious new pilot projects that aim to lift people out of poverty and/or prevent homelessness.
They are looking for bold, practical and locally rooted proposals focused on prevention. Projects should tackle root causes,…
Aims/priorities: Grants are available for UK-based charities to deliver projects and activities that make the arts more accessible and support the communities that keep them thriving.
This fund aims to support projects and activities that enable access to the arts and heritage.
The theme of the current funding round is Community Engagement. Proposed…
Aims/priorities: Launched in June 2021, the Shoosmiths Foundation is a grant-making body working to help address societal issues, to empower sustainable change and to improve the lives of the people and the environment in the UK.
Grants are available for registered charities across the UK to deliver projects that widen access to legal and business services careers for…
Aims/priorities: Through this fund, we want to help sustain access to specialist domestic abuse counselling. We will provide five-year grants to organisations that have a deep understanding of domestic abuse and the needs of victim-survivors, enabling them to continue providing counselling that helps people recover and rebuild their lives.
This fund is part of our Safer…
Aims/priorities: Grants are available for the conservation, repair and conversion of listed buildings of all grades, historic buildings in conservation areas, registered parks, gardens and scheduled monuments in England to help people save the historic sites that are important to them, especially those areas most in need.
The Heritage at Risk Capital Fund's objectives…
Aims/priorities: This programme is provided by the PRS Foundation. PRS is an independent charitable foundation set up in 2000 by PRS for Music, the performance rights collecting society for composers, songwriters and music publishers.The Foundation aims to stimulate and support the creation, development and performance of new music in the UK.
The funding is intended…
Aims/priorities: Unrestricted grants are available for community and voluntary sports groups across the UK and Ireland, delivering activities for a social purpose to under-represented communities.
Since Cash4Clubs aims to get vital funds to clubs that need it most, priority will be given to applications from groups working in areas of high deprivation and engaging adults…
