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Aims/priorities: 

Our grants go directly to the child…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General
  • 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 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 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, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: This programme aims ensure that materials relating to Jewish heritage and culture in archives, libraries, museums and professional institutions are made available to a wider audience, and to support the digitisation of material to make these collections accessible for diverse audiences

Who can apply? Any organisation or institution…

  • 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 Strengthening Civil Society (SCS) programme supports UK organisations to use legal tools to achieve social change. From 2026, the programme focuses on supporting action to address corporate harm, particularly where corporate behaviour contributes to discrimination or disadvantage.

The current funding round focuses on migration.

Who can…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity
  • 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, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The Fore provides unrestricted grants to small charities and social enterprises based in the UK.

The funding is intended to have a transformational impact on the organisations being supported by unlocking significant development in areas such as sustainability, growth, capability, efficiency, or other major steps forward.

There is a particular…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Children and Young People, Community, Disabled People, Education and Skills, Environmental, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local, Sport and Recreation, Women and Girls
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The funding is for projects that contribute to one or more of the following objectives:

  • Access to justice
  • Equality of opportunity
  • Sustainable environment

Priority will be given to organisations:

  • Based in London, and/or
  • Those whose focus is on supporting the needs of vulnerable persons such as:
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, Disabled People, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local, Women and Girls
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to improve the lives of children and young people (up to the age of 25 years), enabling them to access the transformative benefits of inclusive community sport.

Who can apply? Applications are accepted from local community groups and sports clubs (with priority given to sports clubs):

  • Based in Greater…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Local, Sport and Recreation
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The Jobs Guarantee is a UK Government programme that will provide eligible young people aged 18 to 24 with a fully funded six-month paid job and tailored employability support. The scheme is aimed at young people who have been claiming Universal Credit and actively seeking work for 18 months.

The national rollout will be delivered through grant-funded…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, Education and Skills, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support organisations whose core purpose and everyday work align closely with one of the Trust's current themes:

  • Enabling participation in the arts.
  • Preventing or reducing the impact of poverty.
  • Supporting marginalized groups and/or tackling inequality.
  • Improving mental health with a focus on…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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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,…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Disabled People, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • 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: CIO, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: This funding round forms part of a wider YEF programme of funding, evaluation and research over the next three years on what works to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls (VAWG).

For this round, YEF are focused on the early stages of VAWG prevention through supporting the delivery of universal education on healthy and respectful…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, Education and Skills, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local, Women and Girls
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Youth Endowment Fund

Aims/priorities: The funding is for UK-based visual art education projects that creatively engage audiences with the process of making and exploration of materials.

The aim is to support exploratory projects that embrace openness, collaboration and iteration, enabling organisations 'to work in an expansive way with materials, unpicking and challenging preconceptions…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Community, Education and Skills, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: BBC Children in Need Emergency Essentials Programme supports children and young people who are facing exceptionally difficult circumstances. This Fund is administered by Family Fund Business Services.

This programme provides items for the most basic needs of vulnerable children and young people who may be:

  • Living in severe poverty and…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, Cost of Living Crisis, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to provide solutions and support for partners of serving personnel, including reservists, to reduce the challenges that service life can sometimes present.

The direct and primary beneficiaries must be current non-serving partners of currently serving personnel or reservists only. Indirect beneficiaries will be the wider…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: History in the Making is a grant that enables underrepresented young people (aged 13-25) to discover, engage, and connect with their local stories and ensure the history that matters to them is not forgotten. Using different art forms, from artworks and murals to immersive walking trails and theatre productions, young people decide who and what to celebrate…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Heritage, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Unconstituted Group, Other
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The Fund is designed to support organisations to move beyond basic awareness of trauma and embed trauma-responsive environments within their services, systems, and setting

All proposals must align with at least one of the priorities below. Strong applications will demonstrate a clear understanding of trauma‑informed principles, explain…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Education and Skills, Health and Wellbeing
  • Organisation Type: CIC, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • 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:
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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:
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