The Oldham Local Development Pilot is part of the Greater Manchester-wide GM Moving programme funded by Sport England to increase activity levels for people living in Greater Manchester. A big part of the project is understanding on a local level what it takes to secure ‘population scale change in physical behaviour’, through targeted local development pilots in each GM borough.
In Oldham, our overall priorities are projects and community groups in the areas of Glodwick and Failsworth; working with Children and Young People aged 5-18 in out of school settings, people out of work or at risk of becoming workless, and people aged 40 to 60 with, or at risk of, long term conditions (cancer, cardiovascular disease and respiratory disorders).
For the next phase of the Oldham Local Pilot from 2023-24, investment is available in particular for projects and initiatives which:
- Younger parents (aged 16-34) and their families.
- Young people aged 8-12 outside school (late primary/early secondary)
- Workforce encouraging and supporting physical activity in the most deprived neighbourhoods.
Project awarded:
| Group | Amount awarded | Investment Projects |
|---|---|---|
| Chadderton FC Juniors | £500.00 |
Support younger parents (aged 16-34) and their families, Workforce encouraging and supporting physical activity in the most deprived neighbourhoods. |
| Community Premier League Cricket | £500.00 |
Support younger parents (aged 16-34) and their families, Young people aged 8-12 outside school (late primary/early secondary),, Workforce encouraging and supporting physical activity in the most deprived neighbourhoods. |
| Community Premier League Cricket | £1,870.00 |
Support younger parents (16-34) and their families, Workforce encouraging and supporting physical activity in the most deprived neighbourhoods. |
| Fullcircle nw CIC | £482.50 |
Support younger parents (aged 16-34) and their families, Young people aged 8-12 outside school (late primary/early secondary), Workforce encouraging and supporting physical activity in the most deprived neighbourhoods. |
| Greater Manchester South Asian women’s out of hours support | £4,820.00 |
Support younger parents (16-34) and their families, Workforce encouraging and supporting physical activity in the most deprived neighbourhoods. |
| Highfly Youth & Community Organisation | £4,800.00 |
Support young people aged 8-12 outside school (late primary/early secondary), Workforce encouraging and supporting physical activity in the most deprived neighbourhoods. |
| Inspire Oldham | £3,240.00 |
Support younger parents (aged 16-34) and their families, Young people aged 8-12 outside school (late primary/early secondary), |
| Nusrat Ul Islam Mosque Community & Education Centre | £4,750.00 |
Support workforce encouraging and supporting physical activity in the most deprived neighbourhoods. |
| Oak Community Development | £500.00 | Support younger parents (aged 16-34) and their families, Focus on young people aged 8-12 outside school (late primary/early secondary), Workforce encouraging and supporting physical activity in the most deprived neighbourhoods. |
| Saddleworth Bulldogs | £669.41 |
Support younger parents (aged 16-34) and their families.. |
| Saddleworth Bulldogs | £1,022.00 |
Support workforce encouraging and supporting physical activity in the most deprived neighbourhoods. |
| Valley Farm OWL CIC | £2,610.00 |
Support workforce encouraging and supporting physical activity in the most deprived neighbourhoods |
| Yuvanis Foundation | £500.00 |
Support younger parents (aged 16-34) and their families, Focus on young people aged 8-12 outside school (late primary/early secondary), Workforce encouraging and supporting physical activity in the most deprived neighbourhoods. |
The Oldham Local Development Pilot is part of the Greater Manchester-wide GM Moving programme funded by Sport England to increase activity levels for people living in Greater Manchester. A big part of the project is understanding on a local level what it takes to secure ‘population scale change in physical behaviour’, through targeted local development pilot’s in each GM borough.
In Oldham, our overall priorities are projects and community groups in the areas of Glodwick and Failsworth; working with Children and Young People aged 5-18 in out of school settings, people out of work or at risk of becoming workless and people aged 40 to 60 with, or at risk of, long term conditions (cancer, cardiovascular disease and respiratory disorders).
For the next phase of the Oldham Local Pilot from 2022-23, investment is available in particular for projects and initiatives which:
- Support younger parents (aged 16-34) and their families to fit physical activity into their busy lives
- Focus on young people aged 8-12 move more outside school
- Support and grow the paid and volunteer workforce facilitating physical activity within deprived neighbourhoods
Project awarded:
| Group | Amount awarded | Investment projects |
|---|---|---|
| Failsworth Walking Group | £400.00 |
The walks address mental health, wellbeing and social isolation, improve social networks and the themed walks provide aspects of local interest and heritage. |
| Fresh Beleaf Integrity CIC | £609.86 |
Delivered 4 Workshops with two mosques and two schools, exploring the potential of Glodwick and the environment, what we could do about it in our locality. |
| £4,400.00 |
They will be taking groups of women and girls outdoors to build, design and create the two garden spaces. The activity will get them outdoors participating in activities that they like and giving them a spaces that they can feel proud of. |
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| Fresh Beleaf Integrity CIC | £3,662.00 |
The group engage with community groups to develop skills, identify potential and provide bespoke program development that bridges opportunity to education and/or employment. |
| Ghazali Trust | £3,147.00 | The #CleanGlodwick initiative is led by Glodwick residents. The aim is for everyone to take ownership in cleaning the immediate area where they live. Everyone cleans the front of their houses and the rear alleyways behind their house on a fortnightly basis. |
| £6,607.00 | They planned activities that provide their participants with the opportunity to experience the country lifestyle, where they take the inner city to the farm. They wanted to pioneer the opportunity to increase physical activity whilst connecting to nature at the same time. | |
| Greengate Masjid | £2,943.94 |
Young people attend the masjid every week, the investment allowed them to equip the space as more of a ‘youth club’ for them. This will allow them to take part in multiple physical activities while in the masjid. |
| Iqra Education Welfare Trust | £2,395.30 |
Applied for the grant to purchase exercise equipment to be able to offer suitable PE lessons for the school and weekend classes to children and teens. Examples include boxing, MMA, wrestling, martial arts, yoga etc |
| Lingua Franca World Community CIC | £1,825.64 | The investment will enable them to continue with another 10 workshops, people are struggling with cost of living crisis. They will also be able to accommodate up to 50 participants, whereas we can only accommodate up to 20 participants at the previous location. |
| Oldham Betal Church | £1,000.00 |
Providing free football training sessions to asylum seekers, refugees and people on low income in their local community in Glodwick where their church is based and for people across Oldham who are aged 16+. |
| Oldham Cancer Support |
£880.00 |
They offered their clients the opportunity to join their Walking Group. All their clients can find themselves very isolated for a variety of different reasons and this has had a knock-on effect to a lack of exercise and a lack of fresh air. |
| Oldham Coliseum Theatre | £4,500.00 |
Theatre Walks The Oldham Coliseum Theatre famed for its world-class pantomime will produce the digital and physical materials to create fun and educational guided walks around the areas of Oldham. |
| Oldham Greenhill Community Sports & Recreation | £5,131.00 | They engaged 40 less active young people from the ages of 6 to 14 years in multi sports activities during Christmas and February school holidays. They provide breakfast and lunches for the young people. The activities ran from 10.00am till 3.00pm Monday to Friday and on weekends from 10 till 2pm enjoying different activities. |
| Oldham Greenhill Community Sports & Recreation | £495.00 | The investment will enable the group to get young people from the ages of 12-16 years old together for a event to promote physical activities and also a workshop around Anti Social, Crime and Drugs. |
| Oldham Personal Advocacy Limited | £5,000.00 |
The project aims to get women moving to stay warm as we approach colder months, also the increase of energy costs are forcing people to have their heating on more. They have seen first-hand how the energy and cost of living increases are impacting on their mental health. |
| Oldham Play Action Group | £1,412.40 |
The group works with all Oldham’s diverse range of communities to extend the quality and quantity of play opportunities for children throughout the borough. |
| Sholver and Moorside Self-Led Walks | £4,965.00 |
Connect different places in Sholver to public transport hubs to improve affordable accessibility facilitate residents, exploring and travelling the area on foot raise awareness of active travel routes to schools, parks and green spaces which are useful to young people and families. |
| Team Taz Muay Thai | £5,000.00 |
They introduced a women's only training facility, this would include treadmills, rowing machines, cycling machines, cross trainers and other strength conditioning machines. The investment will help target the unfit and unhealthy clients within the local community and be encouraged to use the facilities. |
| The Outdoor Collective | £1,357.00 | To provide outdoor guided walking sessions whilst incorporating digital media training." This means that the charity takes people on guided walks around Greater Manchester whilst incorporating training on how to capture and edit media, using different guided learning styles such as kinaesthetic, auditory and spatial. |
| Wheelchair Trust | £730.00 |
Weekly meetings for wheelchair users, arranging activities that are enjoyable and physical. |
| Women's Chai Project | £7,766.00 |
The group was awarded the funding to deliver three different projects to give women from South Asian background’s the opportunity to get active and address poor mental health, family health and social isolation. Delivering a 12 month podcast and partnership with other organisations to run a series of walking groups. |
| Women’s CHAI Project | £2,001.00 |
Dancing is fun energetic, therapeutic, relatable and great way of keeping fit. The dance classes project will help reduce isolation, bring women together to keep fit and healthy, motivate each other. |