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Thanks to funding from Rochdale Borough Council Adult Social Care team, Action Together is offering up to £500 to micro groups to support individuals, families, and communities in the Rochdale Borough.

As part of the Rochdale Communities Fund, our 'Seed Fund' is aimed at Rochdale based micro-organisations and community groups who are…

  • 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 micro grants.…

  • 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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The One Oldham Fund is a strategic single investment fund that uses pooled resources for the voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) sector in Oldham.

The fund is made up of several strands. The current strands are::

Children and Young People Grants up to £1000 

  • Informal groups involved in…
  • Location: Oldham
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Cost of Living Crisis, Covid 19, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Unconstituted Group
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/Priorities: This fund aims to support projects that will help increase early cancer diagnosis rates in communities that are at higher risk of a later-stage diagnosis. 

In Round Three, funding is for projects that will test practical interventions that may help improve early diagnosis rates as well as continue to learn about the barriers and challenges…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Communities Experiencing Racial Inequalities, Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/Priorities: This fund aims to provide charities and not-for-profit organisations with access to data protection consultancy advice and services that ensure they run efficiently, remain compliant with the law, and achieve the following outcomes:

  • Provide immediate access to subject matter experts and a broadly experienced team of data protection professionals.…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, Education and Skills, General, IT/Digital, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) grant funding tests the impact of high-potential projects aiming to raise the attainment and wider outcomes of 2–19 year-olds, particularly those from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds.

The EEF’s funding rounds now focus on particular topics, and projects will be funded within selected themes…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, Education and Skills, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
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The Windrush Day Grant Scheme is part of the Government's work to create more resilient communities, where different religions, cultures and opinions are celebrated, underpinned by a shared set of values that champion tolerance, freedom and equality of opportunity.

For 2025, the focus is on bringing communities together – across different…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Communities Experiencing Racial Inequalities, Community, Faith, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Rochdale Borough has recently been awarded membership of the Sustainable Food Places as recognition for work, including the Borough full of Beans campaign. As part of this campaign, we want the people of the borough of Rochdale to eat more beans, lentils and legumes. That’s because…

  • Location: Rochdale
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • 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 grants of up to £1000 for groups to get involved with The Big Pan Community Cooking programme. 

As part of the project, we expect all groups successful in receiving funding to:

  • To complete a Big Pan cooking champion training session…
  • Location: Rochdale
  • Funding Theme: Community, Education and Skills, Environmental, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: CharityJob, the UK’s largest charity job board, has opened its annual charitable giving fund for applications.

Who can apply? To qualify for a ‘donation’, applicants must:

  • Be a UK-based charity (not a CIC) with 50 or fewer employees.
  • Have an annual income of less than £1 million.
  • Spend less than 25% of their…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Use Your Energy is an Action Together programme funded by Sport England which aims to work with Tameside groups to engage and enable children and young people aged 5-18 years to become more active, more often. We have money to invest in your active ideas, up to £2,000!  Your group can apply for the Use Your Energy funding to make your active idea a reality.

Due to the success of Use…

  • Location: Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Local, 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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Aims/priorities: The BT Group Apprenticeship Fund aims to support SMEs, charities, and public sector organisations across England by providing access to £4 million in apprenticeship funding over four years.

The programme utilises the apprenticeship levy, a government initiative introduced in 2017, which requires companies with a wage bill exceeding £3 million to…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support local community events that enhance and enrich the lives of people over the age of 55 to combat loneliness and sometimes isolation ensuring they stay fit, active, healthy and connected and contributing to their local communities.

Who can apply? Applications are accepted from small community groups and…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local, Older People
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The grants are being fully funded from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and offer the chance for Tameside community groups to create and support events and activities which can benefit the whole community.

The events can include arts, cultural, sports or volunteering activities or exhibitions but must be designed to encourage participation and generate…

  • Location: Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Individual, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The overall aims of the Road Safety Trust are to reduce death and injury on the UK roads through providing independent funding for research and the development of innovative approaches.

The objectives of the grant programme are to:

  • Generate new knowledge about what works.
  • Translate ideas into new measures.
  • Influence road…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The communities this programme hopes to reach includes: 

  • Carers 
  • People from communities who have experienced racial inequality  
  • People living with long term physical or mental health conditions 
  • People who identify as LGBTQ+ 
  • People experiencing socioeconomic crisis 
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Communities Experiencing Racial Inequalities, Community, Disabled People, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: This is the second round of the Fund which focuses on supporting user-led LGBT+ organisations working with targeted under-represented and under-resourced communities.

The aims of the fund are to:

  • Support intersectional LGBT+ organisations to grow and influence the LGBT+ voluntary sector in more equitable ways.
  • Ensure intersectional…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local, Women and Girls
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The Trust’s grants are split into two strands:

  • Curriculum support: to support the teaching and learning of physics from 11-18 in the classroom, including equipment for teaching physics, teaching resources and teacher CPD.
  • Enrichment activities: to support physics extra-curricular activities for school and college students (4 -18) from under-…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, 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 pilot projects or new approaches. Projects will address the needs of geographically dispersed communities of Veterans affected by a specific issue. They will most likely be run on a national or regional basis or, exceptionally, in densely populated localised areas.

Projects must meet the following outcomes:

  • Veterans’…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The One Oldham Fund is a strategic single investment fund that uses pooled resources for the voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) sector in Oldham.

This investment from Oldham Council  will support the sector’s resilience to enable VCFSE organisations that are locally rooted and active in Oldham to contribute to the…

  • Location: Oldham
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The One Oldham Fund is a strategic single investment fund that uses pooled resources for the voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) sector in Oldham.

The funding for this grant is provided by Oldham Council to invest in the capacity of the VCFSE Sector to improve the lives of children, young people and their families in Oldham.…

  • Location: Oldham
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
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This programme is being launched under the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust’s three-year Funding Framework which will award £30 million in grants over the next three years. 

The funding is for projects that explore and pilot solutions for family members-collectively and as individuals of wounded, injured and sick serving personnel or Veterans.  

Projects will…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Disabled People, Health and Wellbeing, Older People, Women and Girls
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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COSARAF is offering grants of up to £2,000 to organisations that support families and individuals from across the UK who are in financial need and struggling with everyday costs such as basic expenses, utilities, or rent arrears.

Through the Hardship Granta Programme, recognised third-party social organisations, such as charities, housing associations, schools, and social services which…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Cost of Living Crisis
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Background: Hate incidents and Hate Crime divides communities, creates a culture of fear, makes people’s lives a misery and are a common occurrence every day that are under reported. Hatred, intimidation and abuse because of their belief, protected character or identity should not be tolerated by anyone and by Tackling Hate Together we can understand cultures…

  • Location: Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Communities Experiencing Racial Inequalities, Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, Constituted Group
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
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The funding is intended to support projects to improve the health, wellbeing and financial literacy of people who are experiencing homelessness.

Projects must meet the Foundation's purpose through one or more of its criteria themes. Examples of eligible projects include:

  • Sustainability - projects that help with fuel poverty, energy…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Environmental, Health and Wellbeing
  • Organisation Type: CIO, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: Funding is intended to provide training to encourage greater collaboration and interchange of ideas amongst staff in hospices and in care homes, particularly around dementia care for those approaching the end of life.

The purpose of the education and training is to:

  • Encourage increased collaboration, sharing of knowledge and good…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: Other
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • 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 £500 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 micro grants.…

  • Location: Rochdale
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Health and Wellbeing
  • Organisation Type: CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Unconstituted Group
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
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The Masonic Charitable Foundation (MCF) offers grants to local and national charities in England and Wales as part of its work to help thousands of disadvantaged and vulnerable people to live happy, fulfilling lives and participate actively in society. Over the last 40 years, the MCF has provided more than £130 million to charities. The MCF’s work is…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People, Older People
  • Organisation Type: Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The funding is for organisations already providing advocacy support to victims of the Windrush Scandal.

For this fund, advocacy support is taken to mean:

Assisting people with applications to the Windrush Compensation Scheme.

Supporting applications to the Windrush Scheme (formally the Windrush Taskforce).

Signposting to other…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Community, General, Local
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: £10,000 to £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: 

  • Do you want to make your building more energy efficient to help tackle the cost of living crisis?
  • Do you need to make your space more accessible?
  • Do you have a building that needs renovating or refurbishing, or do you have plans to purchase or build something?
  • Do you have a great idea for a business with social…
  • Location: Oldham
  • Funding Theme: Community, Enterprise, General
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support older people who are of, or over, state pension age (66 years) and living on low incomes in England or Wales. There are four grant streams:

  • Home Essentials – to help with the cost of replacing everyday items in the home (white goods such as washing machines, fridges, freezers etc. and furnishings), small…
  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Older People
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, Partnerships and Consortiums, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise, Other
  • Funding Amount: up to £1,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The aim of the Foundation is to support Christian charities working with art and healing and those seeking to offer social inclusion. The Foundation awards grants for projects (including projects abroad) that address the following:

  • Healing
  • Arts
  • Social inclusion

Applications for capital or revenue funding…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Arts
  • Organisation Type: CIO, Registered Charity
  • Funding Amount: £1,000 to £10,000
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The Children in Need Grantmaking Strategy 2022-2025 focuses on the principles of:

  • Sharing power with children and young people.
  • Acting flexibly.
  • Using its voice to build awareness and empathy around issues.
  • Building partnerships to bring communities and investors together.

This stream offers core…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Children and Young People
  • Organisation Type: CIC, Registered Charity, Other
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: The Rochdale Fund For Relief in Sickness is a local charity which was set up in 1903 to help any individual who requires help as a result of hardship caused by sickness, injury, disability or infirmity. This includes both physical and mental sickness, or deprivation of a nature likely to impair physical or mental health e.g. poverty or other…

  • Location: Rochdale
  • Funding Theme: Disabled People, Health and Wellbeing, Local
  • Organisation Type: Individual
  • Funding Amount: Not specified
  • Application Deadline:
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Aims/priorities: Grants are available to local not-for-profit groups for projects which improve and expand private transport options for disabled people and their families in the UK.

Who can apply? Medium to large charities and organisations with established ways of working may apply.

Grant amount: Grants of £100,…

  • Location: Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside
  • Funding Theme: Disabled People
  • Organisation Type: Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Registered Charity, Social Enterprise
  • Funding Amount: over £25,000
  • Application Deadline:
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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: Children and Young People, Community
  • 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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