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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:
Logo Hugo Burge Foundation

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:
Logo IOP Institute of Physics

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:
Logo Gov.UK

Aims/priorities: The funding is for UK-registered charities with projects that address the funder's current priorities:

  • The arts.
  • Education.
  • Support for carers and older people.
  • Early intervention projects for disadvantaged children and young people.
  • Animal welfare.
  • Health and disability.

Who can apply?…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Children and Young People, Community, Disabled People, Education and Skills, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local, Older People
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:

Aims/priorities: The funding aims to strengthen the evidence base for legal support.

There are two different types of grant awards. Funding will support:

  • Organisations who provide free legal support. This is aimed at legal support organisations helping people with social welfare and family law problems, to access timely and appropriate support…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo The Access to Justice Foundation

Aims/priorities: The Arnold Clark Community Fund offers the following support at different times of the year:

  • 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…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Cost of Living Crisis, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline: Date not specified.
Logo Arnold Clark Community Fund

Aims/priorities: This fund aims to support IT projects and activities that relate to one or more of the following priority areas:

  • Education.
  • Inclusion.
  • Tech for charities.
  • Public understanding of Technology. 

Who can apply? Registered charities and organisatoins with a formal not-for-profit constitution, such…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Education and Skills, General, IT/Digital, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo WCIT Charity

Aims/priorities: This Fund aims to improve the development of children most at risk of poor Early Childhood Development (ECD) outcomes, by investing in effective parenting support.

The first round is focused on communities where outcome gaps are largest.

Organisations should be working closely with and understand parents with children aged newborn to five years…

  • 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 a single organisation or group of organisations that are willing to join together to design and deliver a national memorial to mark the significant contribution of Muslims to the First and Second World War.

The memorial is intended to stand as a permanent tribute to the bravery and sacrifice of the hundreds of thousands of Muslim…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Gov.UK

Aims/Priorities: The Radcliffe Trust is one of Britain's oldest charities, founded in 1714 by the will of Dr. John Radcliffe, the most eminent physician of his day.

The Trust makes grants principally in two sectors: Music and Heritage & Crafts.

The Trust makes grants principally in two sectors: Music and Heritage & Crafts.

Who can apply?…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
The Radcliffe Trust logo

Aims/Priorities: The Community Grants Programme is provided by Warburtons, a family run bakery business, and is administered on their behalf by Charities Aid Foundation (CAF). The principle aim of this funding is to focus on supporting families that need help the most, in a way which adheres to their principles of transparency, trust and transformation.

The aim of these…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The funding is for tree and hedge planting projects taking place during the 2026/27 winter planting season. Each November, the Tree Council organises National Tree Week at the start of the tree planting season.  National Tree Week is the UK's largest annual tree planting campaign and a nationwide festival of trees. Its purpose is to raise public…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Environmental
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, Constituted Group, Partnerships and Consortiums, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
The Tree Council logo with green tree.

Aims/Priorities: ChurchCare is the Church of England's Cathedral and Church Buildings Division. It works in partnership with various grant-giving bodies to provide funding for the conservation of historic church interiors and churchyard structures, to ensure that conservation projects in Anglican churches across England are carried out to a high standard. 

Grants…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Faith
  • Organisation Type: Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
The Church of England logo

Aims/Priorities: Cellnex, Europe's leading operator of telecommunications infrastructure is launching the Cellnex UK Community Fund, a new grant programme that will invest directly in the communities where its digital infrastructure operates across the UK.

The fund will award grants of up to £5,000 to individual organisations in its first year, representing a total…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline: Date not specified.
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Aims/priorities: Art Fund is offering funding to help museums, galleries and visual arts organisations provide paid opportunities for full-time university students to gain meaningful, developmental work-experience that enables them to further explore their interest in the arts, and related future career options before they graduate. Student opportunities can benefit visual…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Heritage
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Art fund logo in blue

Aims: priorities: The Dan Maskell Tennis Trust is a tennis charity that raises funds for people with disabilities. Grants are available to support people with all disabilities ( physical impairment, deaf, learning disability, visually impaired etc) to play tennis. Grants are available for organisations and individuals. The funding is intended to support people with…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Disabled People, Health and Wellbeing, Sport and Recreation
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, Constituted Group, Individual, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Unconstituted Group, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The aim of the Holiday Hunger Grants is to support organisations and service providers to give disadvantaged children and young people (up to and including 18 years old) access to food and activities during the school holidays. Projects must encourage children to eat more healthily and be more active during the school holidays.

Who…

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

Aims/priorities: The Cash for Kids Impact Grant supports community groups, schools and charities working with children and young people affected by and living with disadvantage.

Who can apply? Applications are accepted from registered charities (with an annual turnover less than £1 million), schools, community organisations and other grassroots groups…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Cash for Kids

Aims/priorities: The UK Small Grants programme supports local organisations and projects that work to improve the lives of disabled children and young people up to the age of 25, children and young people with life-limiting conditions, and their families.

Who can apply? Applications are accepted from UK-registered charitable organisations and community…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, Disabled People, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo The True Colours Trust

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, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Tesco

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support the creation of websites or digital products that enable small charities to carry out their work in a more efficient and effective way, resulting in positive social benefit.

As only a limited number of projects can be supported based on the funding available for distribution, each year the Foundation determines priority…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo The Fat Beehive Foundation

Aims/priorities: The funding helps to provide opportunities for children aged 13 years or younger who face financial hardship, systemic inequity, or disability to go on a short recreational holiday or outing they would not otherwise have the opportunity to experience. Priority is given to fun and new experiences, such as camping, adventure activities, or visits to the seaside…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Henry Smith Foundation

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: CIO, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo The BFBS Big Salute

Aims/priorities: This fund aims to support Christian organisations to deliver projects that will make a positive and transformative impact on lives and communities and contribute to the following objectives:

  • Growing congregations and Christian communities.
  • Addressing social challenges facing communities.
  • Enabling wider community use of church…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Education and Skills, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Benefact Trust

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, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
Logo People's health trust

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: CIC, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust Funded by HM Government

Aims/priorities: Delivery must take place within the Manchester City Council boundary area and be for the benefit of residents living there.

Successful applicants agree to sign up to Manchester Active’s Provider Portal, where they will upload their documentation to demonstrate they meet Manchester Active’s delivery standards (public liability insurance of £10m,plus…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Manchester Active Cycling

Aims/priorities: The Large Grants programme (formerly Cornerstone Grants) supports structural repairs and maintenance issues costing more than £100,000 or the installation of kitchen and toilets costing over £30,000.

Who can apply? Places of worship of any Christian denomination and age can apply.

Applications will be considered from listed and…

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

Aims/priorities: The funding supports physical activity projects for people living with Parkinson's across the UK, with a particular focus on encouraging those who are currently inactive to get involved and connect with local opportunities that help them move more creatively.

The priorities for this year's grants programme are:

  • Supporting people with Parkinson…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts, Community, Environmental, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
Logo Parkinson's UK
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