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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: Based in Bradford, the supermarket chain Morrisons established the Morrisons Foundation in 2015 to support local good causes across Great Britain. The Foundation, a charity registered in England, Wales and Scotland, receives its funding from a number of different sources. 

The Connecting Communities fund is for capital projects that make a…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Environmental, General, Heritage, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: In response to the cost-of-living crisis and the likelihood of electricity safety being compromised by financial concerns, the Electrical Safety Fund, provided and administered by Electrical Safety First, will help fund electrical safety initiatives through partnerships working at a local level. 

This fund aims to support projects that focus on…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Education and Skills, Environmental, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The Trust currently offers the following grant schemes:

  • Community Grants are for constituted, not-for-profit organisations and local authorities to create or improve community buildings or outside spaces for the benefit of the community.
     
  • Habitat and Biodiversity Grants are for constituted, not-for-profit organisations that are…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Environmental, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The new Maternity Equity Fund is part of the Henry Smith Foundation Getting Started programme, which supports early intervention from conception up to and including birth, helping give babies and families the best start in life. 

This Fund focuses on reducing avoidable harm and inequity during pregnancy and birth, from conception up to birth.…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Environmental, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The Community Gardens Grants scheme was set up in 2011 by the National Garden Scheme and managed in partnership with the Royal Horticultural Society. From 2019 the Award became wholly managed by the National Garden Scheme. In November 2024, the Julia Rausing Trust announce a £1.5 million grant to the National Garden Scheme for the Community Garden Grants…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Environmental, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The Fund supports efforts to create long-term change in society by addressing the causes of injustice and inequality by achieving social, economic, and environmental justice, and ending imbalances in wealth and power. It also gives people a say in where the money goes and is an alternative fund for those who struggle to get funding elsewhere.

In the…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Communities Experiencing Racial Inequalities, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Partnerships and Consortiums, Unconstituted Group
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The funding is intended for both national and local charities across the UK so that they can fix, repair, maintain and improve properties and community facilities specifically for those in need (by reason of financial hardship, sickness, disability or other disadvantage or distress) in the UK.

Due to the very high number of applications received each…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Environmental, General, Heritage, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: Community groups and grassroots organisations across Greater Manchester can apply for up to £500 to support local Black History Month activities, including education, culture, entertainment, heritage, storytelling, wellbeing and community dialogue. 

Who can apply: The programme is particularly aimed at smaller, Black-…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Communities Experiencing Racial Inequalities, Community, General, Heritage, Local
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Social Enterprise, Unconstituted Group
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: This programme is provided by the PRS Foundation. PRS is an independent charitable foundation set up in 2000 by PRS for Music, the performance rights collecting society for composers, songwriters and music publishers. The Foundation aims to stimulate and support the creation, development and performance of new music in the UK. The funding is intended to…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Community, Education and Skills, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Individual
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: This programme is provided by Aberystwyth Innovation and Enterprise Campus and funded by the Dick Lawes Legacy Fund. The LEAP programme provides funding to entrepreneurs and early-stage enterprises in the food or animal feed sector to help them achieve proof of concept, foster collaborations, and bring innovative products or services to market.

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: Individual, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: Let's Celebrate Towns is a joint initiative by Visa and Nationwide. Now in its fourth year, the competition highlights towns across the UK that are overcoming challenges to create thriving, resilient communities. Since its launch, the programme has supported 22 towns nationwide, funding community-driven projects that deliver lasting impact, from cultural…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Environmental, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Partnerships and Consortiums
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The Vinehill Trust is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) registered in October 2019 with the Charity Commission for England and Wales. In December 2023 the charity's name was changed from The Hamish Ogston Foundation to The Vinehill Trust. It is the intention of the trustees to build a broad portfolio of projects that support children and young…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Heritage, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The Music Export Growth Scheme is a partnership between the Department for Business and Trade, the Department for Media Culture and Sport and the UK music sector represented by the BPI. The Scheme is managed by BPI as the 'Accredited Trade Organisation'. The Music Export Growth Scheme provides match-funded grants to UK-registered independent music companies to…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The Northern European Mobility Opportunity (NEMO) is administered by the Nordic Culture Fund in partnership with the arts funding agencies of Ireland, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The programme supports artistic exchange and collaboration among practitioners across the Nordic region, the UK and Ireland. It is specifically aimed at individual…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Individual
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: This fund aims to support a variety of projects and activities that help wheelchair users and disabled people to enjoy greater independence, inclusion, and opportunity.

Who can apply:

  • Individuals.
  • Families.
  • Community groups.
  • Charities.
  • Disability organisations.
  • Sports clubs.
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local, Sport and Recreation
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, Constituted Group, Individual, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The GM Walking and Wheeling Fund (GMWWF) Grants Programme is offering grants of up to £7,000 to VCSE organisations to deliver projects to get more people walking and wheeling in the chillier months.

The fund aims to improve the health and wellbeing of communities in Greater Manchester by encouraging people who are less active or inactive to walk or wheel…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
GM Walking Fun

Aims/Priorities: The aim of this project is to create an official, digitised oral history collection documenting the lived experiences of women veterans. The project should capture experiences from recruitment and military service through to transition from the Armed Forces, including the impact on family life. The primary audience is the general public, with outputs also…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Heritage, Women and Girls
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/Priorities: This is a collaborative programme which requires that projects involve partnership between armed forces organisations and specialist non-armed forces organisations.

The focused is on improving access to appropriate mental health and wellbeing support for underrepresented groups within the armed forces community through tailored interventions that respond…

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

Aims/Priorities: The funding supports both mission and building projects, helping churches across the North Western Synod to develop their mission, respond to community needs and undertake essential building works. It also encourages churches to offer Warm and Welcome Spaces/Warm Hubs for people in their local communities during the winter and provides grants to support this…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Cost of Living Crisis, Faith
  • Organisation Type: Other
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/Priorities: Grants are available to registered blind or partially sighted people in the UK for useful technology that can help them live independently. The grant will support the cost of any item that is on the RNIB list of approved equipment.

Who can apply:  UK residents who are registered blind or partially sighted people and who have…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Disabled People, Health and Wellbeing
  • Organisation Type: Other
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/Priorities: Big Issue Invest, UnLtd and Shift partnered to create the £25 million Growth Impact Fund, designed to address structural barriers that diverse-led social enterprises face in accessing investment. The fund supports social purpose organisations tackling inequality in the UK and was initially established with an ambition to invest in around 50-60 ventures.…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Communities Experiencing Racial Inequalities, Community, Disabled People, Education and Skills, Enterprise, Health and Wellbeing, IT/Digital, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Big Issue Invest

Aims/Priorities: Grants are available for not-for-profit organisations to support ex-Service men or women and their families as they make the transition to civilian life within the UK. The funding is intended to support vulnerable ex-serving members of the Armed Forces and their families in their transition to civilian life in the UK.

The funding is focused on supporting…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Cost of Living Crisis, Education and Skills, Enterprise, General, Health and Wellbeing
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Unconstituted Group, Other
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/Priorities: CRASH, the construction industry's charity, assists homelessness charities and hospices with construction-related projects through the provision of grants and professional expertise and materials donated by the construction and property industry. The scheme aims to support homelessness charities and hospices with the practical aspects of refurbishment and…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Cost of Living Crisis, Older People
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/Priorities: The funding is for grassroots sports clubs and organisations based in England and Wales which promote participation in sport and physical activity within their local communities - to help them grow, welcome more people and make a greater difference in their local community. The funding can be used towards a range of essential club costs, including:

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Health and Wellbeing, Sport and Recreation
  • Organisation Type: CIC, Constituted Group, Individual, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/Priorities: Tameside Futures (TMBC) is pleased to invite organisations to apply for funding through the Tameside Futures NEET Grant 2026/2027.

Funding is available to support projects that help young people who are Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET) progress into education, employment, or training. We are particularly keen to receive applications for…

  • Location: Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Education and Skills
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The funding is for projects supporting serving personnel and their partners or children; veterans, reservists, and their families.

Projects must work to address one or more of the following main programme outcomes:

  • Victim-survivors from armed forces communities have clear routes to access support, including the ability to recognise and report…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The scheme is intended to support registered charities in the UK that are undertaking charitable projects in at least one of the following fields:

  • Quaker Work and Witness.
  • Environmental Action and Sustainability.
  • Peace and Reconciliation.
  • Social Action.

Who can apply? Charities registered in the…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Environmental, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: With the new report that a mosque has been attacked every five days for the past year in Britain, we are resharing information around our emergency travel fund.

Who can apply? Muslims in Greater Manchester 

Grant amount: Currently covering up to three taxi journeys per person.

Application process…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Individual, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Unconstituted Group, Other
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The focus of the fund is getting schools who lack funds and resources to apply for extra financial help they might need to provide healthy food and activities that boost young people's mental and physical wellbeing.

Priority is given to projects working in schools and organisations nominated by Tesco staff.

Who can apply? The…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The funding is for projects taking place in the UK that address one of the following:

  • Asylum Seekers and Refugees - For organisations working to provide essential services which help meet the needs of asylum seekers and refugees and support their integration/participation in the wider community.
  • Penal Affairs…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local, Women and Girls
  • Organisation Type: CIO, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The Strategic Legal Fund (SLF) for migrant groups in the UK is a fund to support legal work in the UK that goes beyond securing justice for an individual and makes a significant contribution to law, practice and procedures to uphold and promote the rights of asylum seekers, refugees and migrants more generally.

The SLF aims to tackle injustices and…

  • 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 Foundation aims to support charitable projects in the UK that provide care for the sick and elderly, conserve and improve the environment, promote education, and help those in need as a result of disaster or as a consequence of social and economic circumstances.

Who can apply? The Trustees prefer to support smaller charities.

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Education and Skills, Environmental, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: This free 12-month support programme is a gateway to social investment for charities, social enterprises and community organisations that want to strengthen trading and move nearer to investment readiness within the next three years.

Applicants must be intending to grow their organisation through applying for social investment in the next three…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
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