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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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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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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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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 annual Electricals Recycling Fund is provided and administered by Material Focus, an independent not-for-profit organisation whose mission is to stop electricals from being hoarded and thrown away and ensure they are reused and recycled instead.

Since its launch in 2020, Material Focus has worked with over 100 local authorities, businesses and local…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Environmental, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: 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 holiday activities and food (HAF) programme provides support to children from low-income families during school holiday periods. Research has shown that the school holidays can be pressure points for some families. For some children, that can lead to a holiday experience gap. Children from low-income households are more likely to experience food insecurity…

  • Location: Oldham
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • 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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Aims/priorities: The Strategic Legal Fund (SLF) for migrant groups in the UK is a fund to support legal work in the UK that goes beyond securing justice for an individual and makes a significant contribution to law, practice and procedures to uphold and promote the rights of asylum seekers, refugees and migrants more generally.

The SLF aims to tackle injustices and…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The UK Small Grants programme supports local organisations and projects that work to improve the lives of disabled children and young people up to the age of 25, children and young people with life-limiting conditions, and their families.

Who can apply? Applications are accepted from UK-registered charitable organisations and community…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, Disabled People, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The focus of the fund is getting schools who lack funds and resources to apply for extra financial help they might need to provide healthy food and activities that boost young people's mental and physical wellbeing.

Priority is given to projects working in schools and organisations nominated by Tesco staff.

Who can apply? The…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support the creation of websites or digital products that enable small charities to carry out their work in a more efficient and effective way, resulting in positive social benefit.

As only a limited number of projects can be supported based on the funding available for distribution, each year the Foundation determines priority…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo The Fat Beehive Foundation

Aims/priorities: The funding helps to provide opportunities for children aged 13 years or younger who face financial hardship, systemic inequity, or disability to go on a short recreational holiday or outing they would not otherwise have the opportunity to experience. Priority is given to fun and new experiences, such as camping, adventure activities, or visits to the seaside…

  • 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:
Logo Henry Smith Foundation

Aims/priorities: The Foundation offers financial support to charities whose objects are to:

  • Relieve the needs of people who are suffering from, or have been affected by, breast cancer by providing, or assisting in the provision of, information, care, or emotional, practical, and financial support.
  • Advance public education in the understanding of breast…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Education and Skills, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo The Pink Ribbon Foundation

Aims/priorities: We’re looking for local projects across the UK that will create a meaningful, lasting impact.
This could be:

  • Equipment for inclusive sports or activity groups
  • Revamping a village hall or community centre
  • Supplies for a community garden or green space
  • Equipment for food banks, community larders or support services
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The funding is for purpose-driven projects that address the unique challenges faced by the military community in the UK and overseas.

Beneficiaries of BFBS Big Salute grants must be related to one of the armed services, either regular, reservist, veteran, or family member.

Who can apply? Applications will be accepted from charities…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIO, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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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: Community, Education and Skills, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: This initiative aims to respond to a long-standing challenge in the UK’s GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) and heritage sectors: how to make innovation and learning from community-facing projects more sustainable, transferable, and accessible across the sector. Through a supportive funding structure, it aims to help communities and…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Community, General, Heritage
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The fund is intended to support projects that improve the physical, mental and social wellbeing of men and boys aged 16 and over, with a particular focus on those living in disadvantaged communities or experiencing the poorest health outcomes.

Its objectives include reaching men who are underserved or disengaged from traditional services, delivering…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: Small grants are available to support grassroots community projects that improve quality of life and strengthen local communities. The fund supports practical, community-led initiatives, such as improving shared spaces, providing equipment, or enhancing local services, with a focus on delivering meaningful and lasting impact.

Who can apply…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIO, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to help Armed Forces families access good quality early childhood education and childcare provision that is located close to where they are living or serving.

Who can apply? Applications will be accepted from:

  • Early childhood education and childcare providers operating where armed forces…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, Education and Skills, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The funding supports community groups and grassroots sports organisations who are working within the most deprived and/or rural 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+…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Local, Sport and Recreation, Women and Girls
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
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