Grants Awarded in Rochdale

Thanks to funding from Rochdale Borough Council, Action Together is offering small grants of up to either £2,000 or £5,000 to help the VCFSE sector run projects to raise awareness of Climate Change and deliver activities and events that will benefit individuals and communities.

Thanks to funding from Rochdale Borough Council, Action Together was pleased to launch the Developing Recovery Communities grant fund. The funding was to support the development and expansion of recovery community and peer support networks to increase the visibility of recovery and support social integration.

Thanks to funding from Rochdale Borough Council, Action Together were able to offer investment to help VCFSE groups provide digital inclusion support to individuals and communities in the Rochdale Borough.

Thanks to funding from Rochdale Borough Council Public Health we were able to fund two local VCFSE organisations to lead one of two small programmes of work that will complement this plan:

• Programme 1: Youth Community Voices
• Programme 2: Culturally Informed Resources & Campaigns

Thanks to funding from Rochdale Borough Council Public Health team, Action Together was able to offer investment to help the VCFSE groups provide emergency and immediate food offers, as well as investing in supporting the longer-term sustainability of our borough’s food providers.

Many communities across Greater Manchester continue to face health inequalities and high levels of deprivation. This funding aims to improve access and reduce these inequalities in groups with low engagement and uptake—particularly in relation to the Covid-19 vaccine.

Thanks to funding from the Better Care Fund, Rochdale Borough Council’s Adult Social Care Team and Action Together worked together on a project to fund community-led solutions to winter pressures and hospital discharge.

The first strand of the fund focused on culturally appropriate discharge support, based on mapping from the GM VCSE Hospital Discharge Alliance which identified this as a gap in the borough. The second strand focused on prevention and wellbeing support targeted at the people most at risk of going into hospital and their carers. 

This funding came from GMCA's Live Well Community Fund. Live Well is a community-led, system-enabled health and wellbeing movement in Greater Manchester. The priorities of this grant have been co-designed by Rochdale's Anti-Poverty Foundation Group, through root cause analysis, research, and consultation with the cross-sector Anti-Poverty Network.

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Thanks to funding from Rochdale Borough Council Public Health team, Action Together offers micro grants of up to £1,000 to help the VCFSE sector to support individuals, families and communities in the Rochdale Borough.

The aim of this fund is to embed holistic preventative support in places with existing ‘crisis offers’. Places with a ‘crisis offer’ could be a foodbank, a warm space, a community centre, or anywhere with a track record of providing an emergency support offer to people living in poverty. 

Action Together secured some investment from the former Clinical Commissioning Group to curate an anti-racism learning programme for VCFSE sector. We invited members to apply via the usual application process to support this programme.

The Rochdale Communities Fund is a mutual fund to invest in and strengthen Rochdale Borough’s VCFSE sector. It funds groups and projects which directly benefit local people and communities, delivered by VCFSE organisations with roots in the borough. 

Thanks to funding from the Department of Communities and Levelling up, small grants provision was allocated to support the resettlement of Refugees and People Seeking Asylum with the Rochdale Borough.

Thanks to funding from Rochdale Development Agency, Action Together offered the Rochdale Creates Community Fund investment to support VCFSE organisations who have not worked with arts and culture before to build relationships with local artists, and start using creativity as a tool for wellbeing and strengthening communities.

Thanks to funding from Rochdale Borough Council Public Health team, Action Together were able to offer grants of up to £5,000 to help the VCFSE sector to support lived experience initiatives and recovery support services to help people start and sustain recovery from problem drug and alcohol use. 

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Two Strands of funding specifically aimed at delivering health engagement events that were culturally relevant to South Asian communities.

Thanks to funding from Rochdale Borough Council’s Public Health team, Action Together offered grants of up to £1,000 for VCFSE organisations to help Rochdale stop smoking by providing support to community members to stop tobacco use. In addition, all applicants were encouraged to identify Smoke Free Champions within their organisation.

Grants of up to £500 were available through our Volunteer Celebration Fund, giving groups the opportunity to say thank you to their volunteers, and recognising the importance of their contribution and commitment.

Grants from this fund could also be an opportunity for groups to focus on recruitment of new volunteers, and in particular to consider how they might look to diversify their team of volunteers by engaging with under-represented communities.

Thanks to funding from Rochdale Borough Council’s Public Health team, Action Together offered small grants of up to £1,000 for VCFSE organisations to provide Wider Essentials to individuals, and communities, within the Rochdale Borough.