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Thanks to funding from Rochdale Borough Council Public Health team, Action Together is offering grants of up to £1000 for VCFSE organisations to help Rochdale stop smoking by providing support to community members to stop tobacco use. In addition, all applicants are encouraged to identify Smoke Free Champions within their organisation.

  • Location: Rochdale
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo - Rochdale Communities Fund

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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:
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Aims/priorities: 

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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The One Oldham Fund is a strategic single investment fund that uses pooled resources for the voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) sector in Oldham.

The fund is made up of several strands. The current strands are::

Family Hubs Grants

  • Formally constituted members of Action Together locally…
  • Location: Oldham
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Cost of Living Crisis, Covid 19, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Unconstituted Group
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: This fund aims to foster new and ambitious community rewilding projects, and to remove barriers to rewilding projects within Britain, whether they’re at the early planning stages or want to move a project one step wilder. Funding will be awarded to projects with potential for the highest impact for people and nature.

Who can apply? To…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Environmental, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Other
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The Everyday Energy Competition challenges young people aged 5-11 to create a banner to inspire their community to make small energy saving changes every day. Their design should detail the changes that they will make to uphold their class's Everyday Energy pledge and include an inspirational message to encourage others to get involved.

Who can…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, Education and Skills, General, Local, Sport and Recreation
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Get Set

Aims/priorities: This is a two-stage programme, which will award a single grant of up to £1.8 million to an organisation which will lead a portfolio of support for the bereaved military community. (Portfolio of support here refers to a collection of organisations working cohesively to achieve the programme outcomes.)

The lead organisation will be responsible for building…

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

Aims/Priorities: The purpose of the Fund is to prevent or reduce negative impacts on UK coastal and marine environments and species by reducing marine litter, through the provision of well-located coastal water fountains that will significantly reduce the use of non-reusable plastic drinks bottles.

Who can apply? Applications are welcome from all types…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Environmental, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Unconstituted Group
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The programme aims to support organisations providing services for people over 65 years old with dementia in areas of deprivation affecting older people in Great Britain. Memory cafes and dementia clubs are supported.

Who can apply? Community organisations, registered charities and other groups (including CICs limited by guarantee)…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local, Older People
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo McCarthy Stone Foundation

Aims/priorities: The grants programme aims to give a helping hand to projects and initiatives across the UK that are seeking to bring music to their communities. The funding is for groups that need assistance to fulfil their potential in developing truly sustainable music programmes.

Who can apply? Groups, schools and organisations that are bringing…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
Logo - Music for All

Aims/priorities: This fund aims to support advice-focused organisations to improve the quality of, and access to, advice for older people facing financial hardship and achieve outcomes against the following themes:

  • Income – Older people facing financial hardship will have sufficient income and receive the financial support they are entitled to, such as Pension…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Cost of Living Crisis, General, Local, Older People
  • Organisation Type: CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo - Independent Age

Aims/Priorities: The funding aims to support smaller charities and good causes in the north of England to make a difference to their community for the benefit of people and planet.

Who can apply? Local charities and other not-for-profit organisations based and working in the north of England can apply.

To be eligible, applicants must have:

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Communities Experiencing Racial Inequalities, Community, Environmental, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local, Sport and Recreation
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The Peter Harrison Foundation supports projects working with children, young people and adults who are disadvantaged or with disabilities. It offer small and major grants to charities and community amateur sports clubs in the UK and south east of England under the following two grant programmes:

  • Active Lives – opportunities through sport and…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Disabled People, General, Local, Sport and Recreation
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Peter Harrison Foundation

Aims/priorities: The funding aims to strengthen links between farms and charities to help solve the problem of food surplus on farms with the objective of helping  organisations fight hunger in communities.  

Proposals need to:

  • Build stronger collaborations with farmers to access surplus food.
  • Expand logistical capacity to…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Government UK

Aims/priorities: The Government is inviting Expressions of Interest during the month of February 2025 to inform the future design and development of the grant scheme.

The aim of the national support line is to:

  • Provide 24/7, trauma-informed support to victims of sexual violence and abuse, regardless of whether they wish to report the crime to the police…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Government UK

Aims/priorities: This fund aims to support the two objectives of the Foundation:

  • To award grants to support the development of group music-making especially involving young people, with composing central to the project.
  • To support the performance or recording of works by Michael Tippett.

Who can apply? Projects taking place in or…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Heritage, Local
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Michael Tippett Musical Foundation

Aims/priorities: Grants are for registered charities operating in the charity's key areas of interest, with the aim of supporting activity which creates a significant impact on individuals and/or communities, and leaves a lasting legacy.

Who can apply? Registered charities in the UK are eligible to apply.

Applications by organisations that award…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Education and Skills, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
Logo The Wingate Foundation

Aims/priorities: This fund aims to support community groups in delivering sustainable walking, wheeling, and cycling activities to people in their local area.

Successful applicants will receive a package of support including:

  • Grant funding of up to £5,000.
  • Training and development opportunities.
  • Opportunities to participate in networking and…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Disabled People, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local, Sport and Recreation
  • Organisation Type: CIC, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Transport for Greater Manchester

Aims/priorities: The Voicescape Community Fund welcomes applications from grassroots community groups based in any of the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester. The Fund will focus on projects which support those most affected by the cost-of-living crisis, as well as projects that provide education and skills development.

Who can apply? The …

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Cost of Living Crisis, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Forever Manchester

Aims/priorities: The Bright Futures Fund welcomes applications from Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector community groups based in any of the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester. The Fund will focus on projects aiming to improve social mobility, develop skills and otherwise support people from a wide variety of backgrounds…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, Education and Skills, General, Local, Sport and Recreation
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Forever Manchester

Aims/priorities: The funding can support:

  • Autistic-specific activity programmes that run in the school holidays in the UK (including sessions for siblings), OR
  • The costs to include autistic children and young people who require two-to-one or greater support to take part in other (non autistic specific) play and activity schemes.
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Three Guineas Trust

Aims/priorities: The Holiday activities and food programme is a government initiative that aims to provide healthy hot food and enriching activities during the Easter school holidays, primarily to children and young people aged 5 to 16 who are eligible for benefits related free school meals.  It is funded by the Department for Education (DfE).  The aim is for…

  • Location: Oldham
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Oldham HAF

Aims/Priorities: This fund aims to support organisations with a focus on making art available for public benefit and emerging talent in the arts throughout the UK.

Who can apply? Groups working to make art available for public benefit can apply.
Groups must provide a copy of their organisation's latest audited accounts (smaller charities should…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: After pausing for applications in September 2024, the funder is reopening in early March 2025 with two focus areas through which it aims to drive social impact,

The focus going forward will be to help people experiencing hardship and/or underserved groups to:

  • Access a place to call home.
  • Improve financial wellbeing.

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Cost of Living Crisis, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Skipton Building Society

Aims/priorities: Grow Wild Youth Project funding is a youth-led process for people aged 16-25 to deliver a creative project that celebrates and shares why UK native plants and/or fungi are so special.

Who can apply? Applications will be accepted from young people aged 16 to 25 years old who live in the UK.

To be eligible, applicants must:

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, Environmental, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Individual, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

Aims/priorities: The Fund's objective is that every individual in the UK living with a genetic condition and their family is able to access the appropriate support at the time they need it so that they feel supported, valued and included.

The funding is intended to support projects that:

  • Create added support networks or develop existing ones.
  • Inform…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Education and Skills, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Jeans for Genes

Aims/priorities: The funding aims to support frontline genetic condition specific charities in the UK to:

  • Be empowered, strong and sustainable.
  • Be flexible and responsive to changing circumstances.
  • Invest in organisational development, systems and processes.
  • Strengthen their governance.
  • Effectively demonstrate the impact that they…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Disabled People, Education and Skills, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Jeans for Genes

Aims/Priorities: Based on the generous legacy Robin Estill left, The Robin Estill Fund has been established to promote the general wellbeing and therapeutic benefits of the arts in relation to supporting people with poor mental health, autism, and or learning disability needs who live in Tameside.   

This is a partnership fund, aiming to bring together…

  • Location: Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Children and Young People, Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • 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.

In 2025, the funding will continue to focus on physics engagement projects that align with IOP’s Limit Less campaign, which aims to encourage young people currently underrepresented in the…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Communities Experiencing Racial Inequalities, Children and Young People, Community, General, Local, Women and Girls
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Institute of Physics

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended for projects across the UK that will:

  • Increase or enhance existing public access points to water for all forms of paddlesport.
  • Create launching and landing sites, to and alongside water, for all sectors of the community and all abilities, that are designed to be durable and use sustainable materials when applicable.…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local, Sport and Recreation
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Canoe Foundation

Aims/priorities: The Trust operates a three-year rotation system, with different fields of interests being funded each year:

  • In 2024, the first two rounds focused on Disability specifically employment and training to ensure better access. The third (July) and fourth (September) rounds were focused on Food Poverty given the increasing levels across…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust

Aims/priorities: The Arts Society is an arts education charity with a global network of local Societies that aims to bring people together through the arts.

Who can apply? UK-registered charities with an annual turnover of less than £3 million whose main activity is in the arts, crafts, and heritage sectors, can apply.

Applicants must provide a…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo The Arts Society

Aims/priorities: This fund aims to encourage and empower local organisations working in the fields of environment, sustainability, creativity, and addressing local problems to deliver projects that enhance the well-being of communities and promote sustainable development. 

Who can apply? The following can apply:

  • Charities.
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Environmental, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Imperial Polythene

Aims/priorities: This fund aims to support charities and community interest companies working with young people aged between 10 and 30 and help to build monitoring and evaluation (M&E) capacity and achieve the following aims:  

  • Funded organisations are more confident they are collecting the right data to make informed decisions on programme delivery, staff…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, Education and Skills, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Prudence Trust

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The Rochdale Borough Culture Network aims to support individual artists & arts organisations, as well as voluntary groups, faith and social enterprises that widen access to arts & culture in the borough.

  • Funding for Rochdale-based artists to develop their practice
  •  Funding for Rochdale-based artists / arts organisations to…
  • Location: Rochdale
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Individual, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo - Cartwheel Arts

Aims/priorities: The specific objectives of Alpkit Foundation are:

  • To help young people, especially but not exclusively through leisure time activities, so as to develop their capabilities that they grow to full maturity as individuals and members of society.
  • To provide or assist in the provision of facilities in the interests of social welfare for…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Communities Experiencing Racial Inequalities, Children and Young People, Community, Education and Skills, Environmental, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
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