Grants Awarded in Rochdale

Organisation

Amount Awarded

Project

Awakening Minds

To continue to supply food parcels, shopping for people who are self-isolating, posting letters and receiving and offering comfort calls.

Delivering afternoon tea packages to vulnerable people and provide online information and activities through Facebook and Twitter pages including daily updates.

Providing food for the NHS staff at the Rochdale Infirmary on the weekends. The organisation has been providing food for 40 staff, every weekend, at the Rochdale Infirmary as the canteen is temporarily shut on the weekends.

To procure adequate PPE supplies and safety kits.

Working in partnership with Link4Life and Cartwheel Arts, to support the creation and distribution of 125 emergency art packs to disadvantaged families on the Darnhill estate, Heywood.

To produce online community centre content such as exercise classes, arts and crafts, advice and informational videos on how to use technology. The group will set up a YouTube channel to keep all the videos together, were they can be easily viewed and sharing them on its Facebook page.

To support the increase in enquires for welfare advice, how to claim sick pay and COVID-19 issues, the organisation will be rolling out the Europia Emergency Fund to Rochdale.

To provide continuing contact, support and signposting to a community that is vulnerable and approximately half of whom do not use the internet or social media. The project will encourage them to keep physically and mentally active in the home by providing a range of activities using both online and offline communications.

Making phone calls to people in isolation. 

To purchase health and safety items for volunteers to use when helping the community with collection and delivery of essential items while self-isolating.

Food parcels will be distributed to registered families twice a week.

To cover volunteer expenses to support the local community.

To support the volunteers who set up a dedicated coronavirus support helpline in Urdu, supporting vulnerable people in the community by connecting volunteers to help out, as well as creating short summaries of the latest guidance in the Urdu language.

To produce art and crafts videos for children and their parents to work together to make the same item to improve their mental health. They send in the pictures to be displayed on the website. 

To support volunteers and keep them safe during the pandemic by undertaking enhanced cleaning, particularly of shared areas of the branch and making sure volunteers travel expenses are covered. All volunteers come from the local area.

To help create a support network online and start up a group video chat using Zoom/WhatsApp or skype call once a day to minimise feeling alone might help with our cohort of service users. The group will also arrange an online chatter and natter with friends and family or with community members as well as developing coping strategies and home exercises. 

To help purchase the extra food in the coming weeks, to meet the demand. The £3 it charges is redistributed to sustain food for people, but also into buying into Fareshare & local supermarkets when Fareshare cannot provide basic household items such as bread, tea, coffee, sugar etc.

To help purchase the extra food in the coming weeks, to meet the demand. The £3 it charges is redistributed to sustain food for people, but also into buying into Fareshare & local supermarkets when Fareshare cannot provide basic household items such as bread, tea, coffee, sugar etc.

To provide basic packs with fun and engaging activities with stationary (pens, pencils, rubbers etc). Each pack is going to cost £8 with the equipment and printing. 

To design and print 200 Rochdale themed painting books based on views of Rochdale. The books will be printed on paper that can be used with watercolours. The books would be distributed in the first instance to residents living in independent living schemes in Rochdale – RBH are supporting this project. 

To provide a small gift (including pens, sweets, toys) to children of vulnerable families.

Working with Fare Share and Food For Life to provide the people of Langley with a local food delivery service and to purchase a chest freezer to support the project.

To employ two sessional qualified tutors in English and Maths to continue to support the 18 young people to complete homework and continue to benefit from booster sessions during the COVID-19 unprecedented crisis. 

To open the foodbank/pantry for a third day each week and to purchase a new refrigerator to store the extra fresh food it is receiving. This will maximise storage and ensure it reaches the recipients in a fresh condition.

To support families that need more computer space as they have more than one child at home and one or more of the parents/carers are needing to work from home using the internet. To buy refurbished ipads to also be used for its projects after lockdown is lifted and people need to get back out into the community.

To create a series of craft packs containing mosaic kits to make place mats and/or coasters. These would include a set of instructions and, for those who are online, a link to a video showing people how to use the kits. 

To obtain and share food parcels containing items which are culturally appropriate and suitable for BAME communities (without excluding others) and for those that have specific dietary needs such as diabetes. The funds will be used to supplement items that are donated and package them up safely and in accordance with health and safety guidelines. 

The group has been offering a voluntary home baked delivery service from the Tree House Community Cafe at Hopwood Park, this service is primarily aimed at isolated and vulnerable individuals and families. The grant we be used to purchase a new oven.

To provide radios for disabled people who are lonely and isolated. It has members who, as a result of COVID-19, are having to spend time on their own, even people who don’t live alone but who are shielding may have to be in a separate room to the rest of their household and don’t have access to a TV or radio.

With the help of volunteers from Rochdale Borough Housing (RBH) to boost morale and wellbeing by delivering boxed afternoon teas to 200 individual RBH sheltered residents across the Borough.

Post activities to the girls who are part of the Brownies group as some don’t have access to the internet. The grant will help to purchase a printer cartridges, paper and postage.

To support its children and activities during the pandemic. Funding for refreshments, quiz games etc, arts & craft etc. It has been carrying out online sessions with its children and families, using zoom. The sessions keep them connected to a number of families on Falinge and Wardleworth. 

For food, ingredients to manage food delivery and to connect via zoom with its volunteers. Funding for cooking, deliveries of food parcels, shop collection, online purchasing, to comply with safety, stationery for printing posters leaflets etc.