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The Greater Manchester Nature Network Grant is designed to support progress towards the ambitions of the Local Nature Recovery Strategy, by giving small grants to charitable and third sector organisations to create more wildlife-rich land with the GM Nature Network. The GM Nature Network Grant is a standalone grant through working with marginalised…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Environmental, Heritage
  • Organisation Type: CIC, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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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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Can you provide an enriching, fun holiday provision for children who live in Middleton ?

This funding is for organisations in Middleton that aspire to provide engaging, safe and fun activities for children and young people during the summer holidays 2026.

Who can apply:  

  • Organisations…
  • Location: Rochdale
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General
  • 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 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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The Rochdale Recovery Micro Fund through Rochdale Borough Council is a fund to invest in and strengthen Rochdale Borough’s Recovery VCFSE sector. It funds groups and projects which directly benefit local people and communities, delivered by VCFSE organisations/individuals with roots in the borough. 

  • Location: Rochdale
  • Funding Theme: Community, Health and Wellbeing
  • Organisation Type: Unconstituted Group
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • 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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Thanks to funding from the Live Well Fund, Action Together is offering grants to fund one-to-one coaching for local Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) leaders. 

We know how hard it can be to make change happen, fight for social justice and advocate for your community all while trying to keep an organisation or…

  • Location: Rochdale
  • Funding Theme: 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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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.

  • 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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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…

  • 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: This programme has a focus on supporting adults who are currently within the asylum process. 

  • build knowledge amongst new communities of rights and entitlements to care and understanding of local systems, and help to build confidence to navigate local health and wellbeing services and resources;
  • create safe spaces …
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo North West Regional Strategic Migration Partnership

Aims/priorities: The UK Government has opened Round 12 of the Green Heat Network Fund (GHNF), a £288 million capital grant programme supporting the transition to low-carbon heat networks. Public, private and third sector organisations in England and Wales can access capital grant funding to help new and existing heat networks move to low and zero carbon technologies, such as…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Environmental
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to enable museums and galleries to fully fund commissions for early to mid-career artists to create innovative, high-quality new work. It supports artists at a pivotal stage in their development while contributing new contemporary works to public collections. It aims to support early to mid‑career artists based in or connected to the UK…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts
  • Organisation Type: Partnerships and Consortiums, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The Support Programme aims to address systemic barriers in adult education and skills development through digital technology, focusing on challenges faced by underserved learners and supporting scalable solutions through collaboration and funding.

Its objectives are to improve access to skills and employment pathways, strengthen workforce development,…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Education and Skills, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The foundation makes grants to projects which support young people (18 years and under) who are challenged by abuse or addiction, who are young carers, or who are homeless/without a safe place to call home.

Who can apply? Applications will be considered from organisations working with young people that require funding in the areas of:…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo The 7 Stars Foundation

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 £500,000. They can be working anywhere in the UK.

Grant…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity
  • 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: Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The Trust’s stated policy is to assist projects engaged in the relief of human suffering in the UK or overseas, particularly those with a Christian emphasis and ethos.

Who can apply? UK-registered charities are eligible to apply.

Grant amount: Funding is at the discretion of the Trustees. There is no set minimum or…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Souter Charitable Trust

Aims/priorities: The funding supports projects that address deprivation or disadvantage in Persimmon communities, especially among children and young people. These include employability and areas of economic and social deprivation.

There are two rounds of funding, with a total of £300,000 available for distribution each year, in the form of six £50,000 donations.

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Perismmon Charitable Foundation

Aims/priorities: The funding supports projects in Co-op members' communities that provide access to opportunities and resources for people to thrive.

The funding is for projects that help people to thrive in one of the following ways:

  • Enable people to access food
  • Create opportunities for young people
  • Improve people's mental well-being
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Co-op Local Community Fund

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support customers back into mainstream HMRC channels by building their capability and confidence and resolving issues which may have become a barrier to direct engagement with HMRC. These may include, for example, HMRC debts and outstanding tax obligations.

The funding is for organisations who can provide tax and related…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Applications are now being accepted for the Tameside Pride in Place Impact Fund.

Aims/Priorities: This is a £1.5 million investment to improve local pride and community spaces by March 2027. With some funding already committed a remaining £1.3 million is available for 26/27, with funding focusing on three types of improvements:

  • Community spaces, by…
  • Location: Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Individual, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Unconstituted Group
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The funding aims to mitigate the impact of separation and relocation for families of serving personnel and reservists through a place-based (location focused) portfolio of projects.

Projects should focus on serving families (including reservists) affected by service-related separation (for example: deployment, exercises/training, unaccompanied…

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

Aims/priorities: The Trust's funding is intended to support its emphasis on the provision of homes, not just housing. It awards grants and interest-free loans to charitable organisations undertaking projects to provide housing for those in need.

The Trust offers the following support and informal advice to grassroots housing organisations across Britain:

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Disabled People, General, Local, Older People
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Quaker Housing Trust

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support organisations working with racially minoritised young men aged 18 to 25 who are in contact with the criminal justice system. The key aim of the fund is to increase these men's access to specialist services designed to meet their specific needs.

The Fund will provide multi-year grants to organisations with a focus…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Henry Smith Foundation

Aims/priorities: The funding is for UK-registered charities working, either at the national or regional level within the UK, in one or more of the Foundation's priority areas:

  • Families experiencing financial disadvantage - support families facing long-term, sustained economic hardship, rather than short-term or one-off events, that…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Card Factory Foundation

Aims/priorities: Oldham’s Town of Culture Micro Commissions support artists, individuals, and organisations to develop new work—whether that’s a new concept, a workshop, a performance, or a collaboration. These commissions provide investment and the chance to showcase work as part of Oldham’s GM Town of Culture year, enriching festivals, events, and community activity across…

  • Location: Oldham
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Children and Young People, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Individual, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Unconstituted Group, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Oldham Heritage Libraries & Arts

Aims/priorities: The funding is aimed at individuals and groups of young people who are able to demonstrate that, through volunteering or community service, they can enhance the lives of others, particularly those most marginalised by society.

Who can apply? Applications are accepted from UK-based volunteering or community service projects, organised and…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Alec Dickinson Trust

Aims/priorities: The Carbon Emissions Reduction Fund (CERF) supports initiatives principally aimed at reducing the climate change impact associated with energy use, which relate to Ofgem’s regulated areas of energy generation, distribution, supply and use.

The funding is for projects that demonstrate measurable and lasting reductions in the carbon…

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

Aims/priorities: The fund, provided by Ofgem Energy Redress Scheme and piloted under the scheme’s Carbon Emissions Reductions priority, aims to build the capacity of the community energy sector and deliver impactful renewable energy projects. It seeks to demonstrate how a just transition to net zero can benefit everyone.

The funding is intended to enable greater…

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

Aims/priorities: This fund will support projects which deliver all of the following:

  • Deliver advice and other supportive interventions to energy consumers in vulnerable situations.
  • Monitor and report on the tangible impact for clients that have been advised.
  • Monitoring of other metrics such as customer attitudes, wellbeing indicators and Social…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Energy Saving Trust

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? Applications will be accepted from:

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

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended for registered charities, not-for-profit organisations, schools, local authorities and social housing providers for practical projects which help with both people and planet health.

Who can apply? Applications will be accepted from non-fee paying schools, registered charities, not-for-profit organisations, local…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Environmental, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Unconstituted Group, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Bupa & Groundwork

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support creativity across the UK. There are three focus areas:

  • Creative Education - supporting projects that provide young people (ages 0-29) with opportunities to engage in creative activities. This includes funding for workshops in schools, field trips to cultural sites, and the purchase of materials for student…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Children and Young People, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £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.

The funding is for projects that support the aims of the Limit Less campaign by reaching one or more of the target groups that are currently underrepresented in the physics community. IOP is…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, Disabled People, Education and Skills, General, Local, Women and Girls
  • Organisation Type: Individual, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The funding is for proposals that align with priorities outlined in the HM Government VAWG Strategy and action plan, with a preference for proposals focused on:

  • Online harms
  • Early intervention/children and young people
  • Prevention
  • Tackling sexual violence.

There is particular interest in funding the following…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Local, Women and Girls
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
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