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This funding comes from GMCA's Live Well Community Fund. Live Well is a community-led, system-enabled health and wellbeing movement in Greater Manchester. The priorities of this grant have been co-designed by Rochdale's Anti-Poverty Foundation Group, through root cause analysis, research, and consultation with the cross-sector Anti-Poverty Network.
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Thanks to funding from NHS GM, we are offering grants of up to £10,000 for the VCFSE sector to engage with communities experiencing racial inequality around the following priorities identified by the Rochdale Ethnic Communities Network.
Your project must fall within one or more of the following priorities:
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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.
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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…
Aims/priorities: On 23 September 2025 Ogden Trust announced that following the launch of the Trust’s new strategy, the Trust will no longer offer physics education grants from September 2026. Through the strategy development process, the Trust’s funding has been refocused into providing free professional development support for teachers of physics.
There will be one…
Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support evidence-based projects to reduce reoffending and facilitate rehabilitation across the criminal justice system, while enabling VCSE organisations to propose and test mechanisms that align with the recommendations of the Independent Sentencing Review.
Who can apply? Voluntary, community and social…
Aims/priorities: The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) is committed to building cohesive and resilient communities. The Common Ground Resilience Fund was launched in September to support local places, and a key part of this is promoting the important role of the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector.
The UK government’s…
Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support arts and cultural organisations across the UK and Germany to develop partnerships that explore social arts practice.
The funding is for organisations who embody cultural democracy through:
- Placing communities at the heart of their creative work.
- Exploring new ways of connecting arts and society,…
Aims/priorities: The Trust wants to encourage three different types of change through its funding support:
- Change for individuals - achieving significant change for individuals who are the most marginalised in the UK today.
- Change for organisations - enhancing the capacity of organisations to respond more effectively to social needs.
- Change…
Aims/priorities: 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.
- Improving nature-rich spaces and access to them.
The grants can be used for a wider range of sustainable activities, including recycling,…
Aims/Priorities: The Common Ground Award aims to:
- identify and reward good practice in building bridging social capital
- invest in the physical spaces and equipment that enables good practice
- build a community of practice, for knowledge sharing across the voluntary and community sector and with government
Who can apply? To…
Aims/Priorities: The fund aims to support projects that help create or enhance indoor or outdoor community focused facilities. The fund aligns with key objectives of the TRU Sustainable Development Strategy, ‘Our Guiding Compass’. This aims to use TRU as a catalyst…
Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support hospice projects that create sustainable change in care delivery for people experiencing financial hardship or socio-economic deprivation.
Who can apply? Eligible applicants are independent charitable hospices that are members of Hospice UK and based in England, Wales, the Channel Islands, or the Isle…
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.
The Trust’s funding in 2025 focuses on…
Aims/priorities: The funding is specifically aimed at smaller community organisations that have often been started to address a local and unmet need and are rooted in lived experience.
The funding is for work that is currently taking place, work that builds on something that a group is currently doing or a pilot if they want to try something new.
There is…
Aims/priorities: Help the Homeless is a small grant maker with limited funds available for giving.
It provides funding for charitable organisations with the aim of helping homeless people return to the community and enabling them to rebuild their lives.
Funding is targeted at projects to find practical ways to help disadvantaged individuals return to the community…
Aims/Priorities: The funding is intended for the cataloguing of archives, to ensure that significant archive collections, representing the lives and perspectives of all people across the UK, are made accessible to the public for research and enjoyment.
Who can apply? Applications will be accepted from organisations with archival collections in the…
Aims/Priorities: Consortium Grants are designed to bring organisations together, to create projects that are greater than the sum of their parts. The funding is for large-scale consortium projects, bring together multiple archive, heritage and other organisations to deliver specific outcomes related to the goal of Archives Revealed, ensuring that significant archive…
Aims/Priorities: The funding is intended to support early-stage, exploratory projects that aim to spark new ideas and innovative approaches to community engagement with heritage. The grants are particularly designed to help organisations test concepts, build partnerships, or pilot activities, with a strong emphasis on experimentation and learning.
Who can apply…
Aims/priorities: The scheme provides grants to support innovative projects, designed and led by young people in the UK, which aim to increase access to local natural spaces and improve understanding of local biodiversity.
Who can apply? Individuals and organisations who are linked to a school or community-based organisation that works directly with…
This funding supports the delivery of winter school holiday activities with food for children in receipt of benefit’s related free school meals across Rochdale Borough. It is part of the Government’s Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme, funded by the Department for Education, which has provided healthy…
Aims/Priorities: The funding is for gardening projects carried out within local communities in England, Wales or Northern Ireland.
The scheme is committed to:
- Sustainability in gardening so proposals need to demonstrate that they will be using sustainable gardening methods – for instance being as far as possible peat-free.
- Celebrating biodiversity so…
Aims/Priorities: The funding is for projects taking place in the UK or Channel Islands that support the Foundation's mission 'that every child and young person should have a fair start in life, which isn’t always the case for people who are care experienced'.
The funding is intended to make a difference / to improve the lives of people who have grown up in care and will…
Aims/Priorities: We’re keen to support initiatives that will help our communities stay warm, connected, and supported during the colder months. So, whether you’re tackling food poverty, reducing isolation, or boosting wellbeing, we want to hear from you!
This round will focus on Winter Resilience - projects that will keep communities warm, connected, and supported…
Aims/Priorities: This fund aims to support flexible, unrestricted grants for small grassroots organisations that are working to make a positive difference in local communities, particularly those working to support marginalised or vulnerable groups.
Who can apply? Small, local, constituted voluntary and community organisations, including…
Aims/Priorities: The funding is for community organisations primarily working with at least one of the following under-served audiences to support activities and projects that are inspired by how data can support health and wellbeing within their local community:
- People from low socio-economic backgrounds
- People from minority ethnic backgrounds
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Aims/priorities: The 2025 programme is focused on supporting adult participation in sport. Funding is available to groups that support over 18s only.
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 from specific under-represented groups.…
Aims/priorities: The Access Fund is designed to help registered Arts Award centres who would not otherwise be able to complete Arts Award due to a lack of funds. It is managed by Trinity College London in association with Arts Council England and was launched in 2005. It is now flourishing in arts centres, colleges and schools, community projects, libraries, galleries, local…
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.
The application periods for 2025 are as follows:
- Round 1 - Local music festivals (children's…
Aims/priorities: This investment programme supports venues, festivals and promoters, recording studios and rehearsal spaces as well as sector bodies operating in grassroots music. It also supports grassroots music sector bodies in their work to develop and support the sector.
Eligible projects support the transition of artists, bands and industry professionals to…
Aims/Priorities: The funding is for projects that improve the physical infrastructure of the institution concerned to enhance the display, care and accessibility of significant collections
Who can apply? The Fund is open to bids from accredited museums, museum services and galleries in England falling into one of the following categories:
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Aims/Priorities: The Trust offers grants to registered charities who are working towards a just and equitable society through three separate programmes:
- Themed Grants - accepting applications in September 2025. This year's theme is ‘the rehabilitation of imprisoned and formally-imprisoned offenders in England and Wales’.
- Small Grants - accepting…
Aims/Priorities: The funding is for churches, charities, and not-for-profit organisations affiliated with the Church of England, the Church in Wales, the Scottish Episcopal Church, or the Church of Ireland for initiatives that promote the wellbeing of Anglican clergy.
Projects should focus on services like peer support groups, retreats, mentoring, or pastoral care to…
Aims/Priorities: The Foundation aims to support innovative projects and initiatives that drive positive, life-saving, and life-transforming change in communities in the UK and around the world.
Who can apply? In this funding round, UK-registered organisations that have a global operation can apply.
Organisations must have been…
Aims/Priorities: The Ockenden International Prize is awarded to registered charities with existing projects/programmes that have been successful in improving the lives of refugees and/or internally displaced people. Projects can take place anywhere in the world.
The judges are looking for projects primarily from small-to-medium-scale organisations that promote self-…
Aims/Priorities: This fund aims to support projects that focus on tackling risks associated with electrical products, increasing the public’s awareness of electrical safety, and promoting changes in behaviour to keep people safe in their homes.
Who can apply? Charities, community interest companies (CICs) trusts, and registered not-for-profit…
