Aims/priorities:
Each year Rochdale Boroughwide Housing make grants of up to £5000 available to local groups for the benefit of our communities. We are currently able to award grants that enable the delivery of the following objectives:
- Work and Skills - help people to access employment opportunities and update their skills
- Digital Inclusion - help people access and use digital technology
- Financial Inclusion - help people to manage their money and make it go further
- Health and Wellbeing - help increase peoples’ health and wellbeing
- Lessening social isolation - for example, a parent and tots club, a luncheon club for older people, or a gardening club
- Providing activities for children and young people - these could include sport or homework clubs.
- Improving or developing a green space in your neighbourhood
- Promoting mutuality across neighbourhoods - projects that bring different neighbourhoods and communities together in line with our mutual values
Who can apply?
- You must be an unincorporated association (community group), registered charity or CIC/CIO (Community Interest Company or Organisation) with a turnover of less than £150,000 in the previous financial year
- Have a bank account open in the name of the group
- Ensure your group is not already running an RBH community fund project - we will only fund one project at a time with your group
- Agree to provide monitoring information on your project as requested by us
- Keep up to date financial records and retain receipts for all goods and services purchased with the grant if you are successful
- Ensure monitoring information for any previous RBH community grant has been completed and submitted to us - you won’t be able to apply to our community fund again until this is completed
Your project must:
- Deliver its funded activities entirely within the borough of Rochdale
- Clearly explain in your application how your project will benefit RBH households and neighbourhoods
- Be completed within 2 years from the receipt of your grant
- Meet any current government guidelines around Covid-19
- Not have already started
Grant amount:
RBH Community grants are between £250 up to a maximum of £5000.
Application process:
To find out more about this funding and how to apply, please visit the RBH website by clicking here.
Deadline:
The next closing date for applications is on Monday 18th September at 5pm and the panel will meet on Wednesday 4th October.
Contact information:
If you need support with your project idea or help with completing the grant application, please contact RBH’s Community Investment team on 01706 273977 or email us on communitypartnership@rbh.org.uk.