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Thanks to funding from Rochdale Borough Council Adult Social Care team, Action Together is offering up to £500 to micro groups to support individuals, families, and communities in the Rochdale Borough.

As part of the Rochdale Communities Fund, our 'Seed Fund' is aimed at Rochdale based micro-organisations and community groups who are…

  • Location: Rochdale
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: Unconstituted Group
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo for Rochdale Seed Fund

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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 Trust is to give people of all ages the opportunities to access, participate in and enjoy the arts (particularly the performing arts), and support projects that widen access and have a lasting cultural impact on local communities.

Who can apply? The Trust mostly supports registered charities.

Applications will also…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Scops Arts Trust

Aims/priorities: Google is looking to support organisations working to solve social impact problems using generative AI technology across the following topics:

  • Knowledge, Skills and Learning - provide pathways for people to acquire the knowledge and skills they need to thrive.
  • Scientific Advancement - accelerate breakthroughs and AI-enabled…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Education and Skills, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme makes grants towards the VAT incurred in maintenance and repairs to listed buildings that are primarily used for public worship, or which are listed places of worship owned by, or under the authority of, a number of specified organisations that look after redundant places of worship.

The scheme applies to listed…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Department for Culture, Media & Sport

Background: The School of Social Sciences at the University of Manchester is launching an exciting social responsibility initiative that your organisation may be interested in. 

Aims/Priorities: The aim of the pilot project is to meaningfully engage a cohort of Social Science students as volunteers with a charity/not for profit organisation in an…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Education and Skills, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Background: The Neighbourhood Planning Support Programme is provided with funding from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG). The Government has allocated more than £45 million for the programme between 2018 and 2024.

Locality is managing the support and application process on behalf of the government.

Groundwork are the programme's…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Other
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

Background: The Money Saving Expert (MSE) Charity was established as a registered charity in October 2007.

Funded by Money Saving Expert, the MSE Charity is designed to try and break the cycle of debt. The Charity aims to fight financial and consumer illiteracy and is dedicated to educating and informing adults and children about consumer and debt issues.

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Cost of Living Crisis, Education and Skills, 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 Trust makes grants principally in two sectors: Music and Heritage & Crafts.

Who can apply? Charities, not-for-profit or Exempt organisations that are based in the UK are eligible to apply.

Grant amount: Grants are generally in the region of £2,500 to £7,500.

Application process: There…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Heritage, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo The Radcliffe Trust

Aims/priorities: The funding is for organisations seeking to deliver innovative, well-designed projects that 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 everyday…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Education and Skills, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Clarian Futures Digital Grants

Aims/priorities: This fund aims to support activities that connect museums and galleries’ young audiences to THE HERDS’s journey from central Africa to the Artic Circle. 

Who can apply? Museums, galleries, and cultural organisations that are part of Art Fund’s National Art Pass Network can apply.

Grant amount: Between £500 and…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Children and Young People, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Art Fund

Aims/priorities: The fund supports small charities with projects that promote lifelong learning and development that enables people to enter the labour market or gain additional skills to further develop their career.

The fund aims to:

  • Work directly with young people who are either NEET (not in employment, education or training) or at risk of becoming NEET to…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, Education and Skills, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo CABWI Awarding Body

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,…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The Royal Countryside Fund launched their new strategy on 26 April 2024 in which they set out their vision for the Fund’s work over the next four years (2024 to 2028). 

The…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, Education and Skills, Environmental, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Royal Countryside Fund

Aims/priorities: The funding aims to support projects which specifically address the needs set out in the Trust's latest funding window and fall under the broad objective of promoting and implementing sustainable development.

The theme for the current round is sustainable and active travel.

Who can apply? Applications are accepted from a…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Environmental, 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:
Logo Naturesave Trust

Aims/priorities: The VocTech Activate grant fund supports the development of new ideas that use digital tools and approaches to transform how people in the UK gain skills for work.

The scheme is a ‘test bed’ where the first spark of an idea which could solve a vocational learning problem can be scoped and tested in a supportive environment. Projects that are at a…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Education and Skills, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo VocTech Activate

Aims/priorities: The funding is for groups across the UK to transform urban spaces for the benefit of people and wildlife through planting and championing UK native plants or fungi. 

The funding is for projects that focus on UK native plants, transform an urban space, enhance the biodiversity of the space with planting and growing as a core activity.

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, Disabled People, Environmental, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Grow Wild

Aims/priorities: The funding is for listed and unlisted Christian places of worship, of any denomination, to help with the costs of urgent and essential maintenance and repair projects as well as the costs of developing a church building project.

Who can apply? To be eligible, applicants must meet all of the following criteria:

  • Congregations…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo National Churches Trust

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support the work of charities and organisations whose purpose fits with the objects of the Delamere Dairy Foundation for the benefit of the public, namely:

  • The advancement of agriculture and of environmental protection.
  • The advancement in life of young people by developing their capabilities so that they may mature…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, Education and Skills, Environmental, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Delamere Dairy Foundation

Aims/priorities: The Heat Network Efficiency Scheme (HNES) provides funding to support improvements to existing district heating or communal heating projects that are operating sub-optimally and resulting in poor outcomes for customers and operators.

Heat networks offer carbon emissions savings by supplying heat to buildings from a central source, avoiding the need for…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Gov.UK

Aims/priorities: The overall focus of the Sustainable Future Programme is on developing and promoting sustainable, low-carbon alternatives to the current consumerist and growth-based paradigm.

Who can apply? Grants are made to a range of organisations. It is not necessary to be a registered charity to apply to the Trust, however, the Trust can…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust

Aims/priorities: The Fund aims to support people to create a world in which power is more equally shared, and in which powerful institutions are responsive and accountable to wider society and aligned with the long-term public interest.

Who can apply? Applications will be accepted from a range of organisations. It is not necessary to be a…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support projects to improve the health, wellbeing and financial literacy of people who are experiencing homelessness.

Who can apply? UK registered charities may apply for a:

  • Small Grant if their turnover is less than £1 million. They can be working anywhere in the UK.
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Leeds Building Society

 

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Rochdale Borough Council created the ‘Innovation Fund’ (‘the Fund’) as part of the Local Welfare Provision programme, which has been in place since the Welfare Reform Act 2012. The Fund provides financial assistance to small community projects each year and is delivered within existing allocated budgets. 

The Fund focusses on…

  • Location: Rochdale
  • Funding Theme: Community, Cost of Living Crisis, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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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.…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Communities Experiencing Racial Inequalities, Children and Young People, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
Logo The Weavers Company

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support early intervention projects that assist military families in accessing services as they relocate. These initiatives will help families integrate into their new communities and build lasting friendships.

Projects will need to contribute towards at least one of the following outcomes:

  • Provide families with…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo The Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust

Aims/priorities: Thanks to funding from Rochdale Development Agency, Action Together is offering Rochdale Creates Community Fund investment to support VCFSE organisations build relationships with local artists and start using creativity as a tool for wellbeing and strengthening communities.

Whether it’s helping someone process their mental health, trauma, build…

  • Location: Rochdale
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, 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:
Logo - Rochdale Creates Fund

Aims/priorities: We are committed to supporting charities that help people experiencing complex issues that don’t have simple solutions, such as homelessness, domestic abuse and addiction. These complex issues make life much harder for people, deepening trauma, impacting their health, leading to poverty and destitution, and preventing people from being able to fulfil their…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Lloyds Bank Foundation

Aims/priorities: Established in 2015, the Fisheries Improvement Programme (FIP) is a means for the Environment Agency to reinvest fishing licence income back into projects that will provide positive outcomes for anglers.

Money for projects to improve habitat and facilities for anglers will be made available through the FIP, which comes directly from fishing licence sales…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Environmental, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Angling Trust

Aims/priorities: The funding is designed to help women enter or return to work, or transition into growing industries by gaining new skills. It prioritises women in greatest financial need and those facing significant barriers, ensuring the grant has the most meaningful impact.

Who can apply? Applications are open to females who are permanent…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Education and Skills, General, Local, Women and Girls
  • Organisation Type: Individual
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Soroptimist International Great Britain & Ireland

Background: The CABWI Lifelong Learning and Development Fund is being provided by CABWI, the awarding body for the water and utilities industries, and is managed by the CABWI charity.

Aims/Priorities: The fund supports small charities with projects that promote lifelong learning and development that enables people to enter the labour market or gain…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Education and Skills, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The priorities of the Main and Small Grants schemes are to:

  • Support energy consumers in vulnerable situations.
  • Deliver benefits to the types of consumers that were negatively impacted by the specific issues that triggered the redress payment.

Who can apply? Registered charities in England, Scotland and Wales that…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Energy Saving Trust

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support charities and organisations with projects and activities that directly benefit the Army community in six key areas: independent living, elderly care, education and employability, mental fitness, families and housing.

Who can apply? All registered charities and other organisations which support the Army…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Education and Skills, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local, Older People
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Army Benevolent Fund

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As part of an exciting relationship, Youth Alliance GM are working with Street Games to explore new opportunities to empower the alliance through physical activity.

Youth Alliance GM is an informal partnership of over 140 organisations and groups supporting children and young people across Greater Manchester, drawn from local VCS sector, public…

  • Location: Rochdale
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Local, Sport and Recreation, Women and Girls
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Youth Alliance GM

Aims/priorities: The funding aims to support young people who want to change their lives through music but cannot because of who they are, where they are from or what they are going through.

The grants are for organisations who want to trial work or test a new way of working, sustain a grassroots programme or disrupt the status quo (or all three).

Who…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Youth Music

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended help early-stage musicians and wider music adjacent creatives to invest in their own projects and make their ideas happen. The fund is especially aimed at those whose lack of finance holds them back from pursuing their goals.

Who can apply? Applications will be accepted from 18-25 year old creatives (under-30s who…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, Disabled People, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Individual, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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