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Aims/priorities: The objective of the fund is to support Armed Forces Day events across the UK to show support for our servicemen and women, past and present.

Who can apply? Local councils, voluntary and community organisations, schools, ex-service organisations and individuals in the UK are eligible to apply.

Applicants must be able to accept a…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Armed Forces Day

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

  • In 2025, the first two rounds focused on Access to the Arts. The third and fourth rounds focused on Refugees and Asylum Seekers.
  • In 2026, the first two rounds will focus on People experiencing or at risk of homelessness. The…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust

Aims/Priorities: The objectives of the Trust are:

  • To promote horticulture.
  • To promote the conservation of the physical and natural environment by promoting biological diversity.
  • To promote the creation, development, preservation and maintenance of gardens accessible to the public.
  • The advancement of horticultural education.

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Environmental, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIO, Constituted Group, Individual, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: This fund aims to support group music-making, especially those that involve young people in the process of composing and developing new ideas. 

Who can apply? Projects taking place in or out of school, college or university, or in community settings in the UK will be considered.

Grant amount: This is a highly…

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

Aims/priorities: The funding is for charities and community groups whose projects address one of the Focus Foundation’s three core pillars:

  • Underprivileged children and young people - Helping socially and economically disadvantaged children and young people thrive (UK wide).
  • Mental health charities and initiatives - 
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Focus Foundation

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, Environmental, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo The Wildlife Trusts

Aims/priorities: The aim of the Trust is to give people of all ages the opportunities to access, participate in and enjoy the arts (particularly the performing arts), and support projects that widen access and have a lasting cultural impact on local communities.

The application periods for 2026 are as follows:

  • Round 1 - Music festivals (children's performances…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Children and Young People, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Scops Arts Trust

Aims/Priorities: The funding is intended to support projects focusing on crafts listed as endangered or critically endangered on the Red List of Endangered Crafts. It provides opportunities for makers and trainees to develop or share their skills in these high-risk crafts.

Who can apply? Applications will be accepted from individuals and voluntary and…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Community, General, Heritage, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Individual, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: As a charity our mission is to provide funding opportunities for all good causes to ensure their sustainable future. As part of this, we are happy to announce our Community Grants scheme.

Who can apply? This opportunity is open to good causes, defined as:

  • Registered charities
  • Schools
  • Community Interest…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo The Giving Machine

Aims/priorities: The Charity supports organisations working in the the following areas:

  • Relief of hardship
    • Providing training courses, better facilities, or parenting support.
    • Supporting and empowering those who experience or are at risk of homelessness, including domestic violence/abuse.
    • Working in areas of high deprivation…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Children and Young People, Community, Cost of Living Crisis, Disabled People, Environmental, General, Health and Wellbeing, Heritage, Local, Older People
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
Logo The Grocers' Charity

Aims/priorities: Failsworth and Chadderton’s Rotary is interested in funding activities that bring people together and making a difference in your community. Since 2014, many small voluntary groups across the borough of Oldham have applied for and received financial support from the Community Cash Award. Projects include a beehive at Sholver & Moorside…

  • Location: Oldham
  • Funding Theme: Community
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Unconstituted Group
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The fund aims to support improvement in mental health by providing grants to UK registered charities involved in the mental health and wellbeing of children and young adults.

The fund prefers to target its grant-giving to specific projects that will provide a measurable difference to the charities' users.

Who can apply?

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline: Date not specified.
Logo The Pixel Fund

Aims/priorities: The Arnold Clark Community Fund offers the following support:

  • Cost of Living Support – funding to registered charities and community group that are within a 50-mile radius of an Arnold Clark branch and whose work directly supports those most affected by the cost-of-living crisis, such as foodbanks, accommodation, poverty relief…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Cost of Living Crisis, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local, Sport and Recreation
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline: Date not specified.
Logo Arnold Clark Community Fund

Aims/priorities: The Prize is intended to recognise and advance efforts towards the alleviation of human suffering.  It falls within the Foundation's aim of providing humanitarian aid to the most unfortunate and disadvantaged.  The Prize highlights the worldwide need for humanitarian aid, and to encourage other actors to expand their support.

Who can…

  • 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 Conrad N Hilton Foundation

Aims/priorities: The aim of the Fund is to ensure community spaces are safe, accessible, and fit for purpose by supporting essential repairs, maintenance, and improvements. It is anticipated that the programme will help community spaces expand their capacity, enhance facilities, and provide inclusive environments that meet the diverse needs of local communities.

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo The Asda Foundation

Aims/priorities: The programme aims to support early stage community businesses across England by helping them to develop skills to:

  • Generate income to be invested in their community through trading.
  • Create a resilient, growing community business.
  • Adapt to changes in external environments.
  • Develop emotional resourcefulness.
  • Build and…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Communities Experiencing Racial Inequalities, Community, Disabled People, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo School for Social Entrepreneurs

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: Communities Experiencing Racial Inequalities, Children and Young People, Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local, Women and Girls
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Matrix Chambers

Aims/Priorities: The Hospital Saturday Fund provides grant funding to registered health charities such as hospitals, hospices and medical organisations for medical projects, care, research or support of medical training taking place in the United Kingdom.

Who can apply? Applications will be accepted from registered charities with medical/health…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: This fund aims to support projects and activities that align with the objectives of the Trust: 

  • Improve the quality of life of all communities in the Greater Manchester area, with vulnerable groups and victims of crime being priorities.
  • Support wide-ranging initiatives that address issues of crime reduction concerning the public and…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
Logo - Greater Manchester High Sheriffs Police Trust

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended for a wide range of charities and other community organisations which provide charitable benefits for communities within Greater Manchester. The Trust is especially interested in funding organisations for young people, provision for the sick, the disabled, the elderly and disadvantaged, as well as educational initiatives by…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Children and Young People, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: We are a grant making foundation giving grants to small and medium sized local organisations in the UK with a demonstrable track record of success working to address local issues in communities of extreme urban deprivation and deprived rural districts. Our preference is for front line organisations working directly with people in need. We…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The Greater Manchester Trustees are particularly interested in the following:

  • Trusts, Associations and Institutions that maintain and preserve monuments, Estates and possessions of the Duchy which prove to be of benefit to the public and local community;
  • Organisations which provide care and support for the elderly, infirm and…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Heritage, Older People
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
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