Aims/Priorities:
Thanks to funding from the GM Live Well Implementation Fund, Action Together are offering Live Well: Centres, Spaces and Offers grants to local Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) organisations in the Rochdale borough.
GM Live Well is a Greater Manchester strategy focused on ‘ensuring great everyday support is available for everybody in every neighbourhood.’ The strategy aims to strengthen and better connect support offers that focus on prevention and addressing root causes, reduce inequalities, and ensure that every neighbourhood has high-quality offers shaped by what communities need and want.
Your project must fit in one of the priorities below:
Live Well Offers: Live Well Offers are available wherever people live, work and connect in centres, community spaces, neighbourhoods, homes, workplaces and online.
Live Well Centres: Live Well Centres are welcoming spaces where people can get everyday support without stigma, judgement or long waits.
Live Well Spaces: Live Well Spaces are at the heart of everyday community life — informal and welcoming places where people come to connect, belong and get involved.
You will need to explain how your organisation meets the key features of the priority you select.
*You MUST read the Live Well Hallmarks Document which describes the hallmarks for each of the above in more detail, prior to applying for this grant.
This funding can be used to:
Strengthen the way in which you meet the Live Well Hallmarks (read more about the hallmarks here)
Enable your organisation to grow community power, wealth and action in your community
Invest into the core of your organisation to enable you to grow, innovate or better meet the needs of your community
Who can apply:
- you are a voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) group locally rooted or actively working in the borough of Rochdale; and
- you are a member of Action Together CIO (you can register for free to become a member here)
- you are formally constituted.
Grant amount: Up to £30,000
Deadline: Wednesday 25 February, 12noon
Meet the Funder
There is a Meet the Funder booked in for Monday 16 February, 2026, 10am - 11am. We would advise attending this session to find out more about this fund, how's best to apply, the priorities and the process your application will go through, before applying.
Application process: To apply, please make sure you have read the guidance notes, and the Live Well Hallmarks Document then fill out the below Expression of Interest form.
Please note: Responses to the Expression of Interest Form can be written form, video or voice note to the Action Together Grant WhatsApp number. Please read the Guidance Notes for more information.
Live Well Guidance Notes.docx (95.11 KB)
Live Well Expression of Interest form.docx (56.24 KB)
Please email completed forms to: laura.augustine@actiontogether.org.uk