Aims/priorities:
Thanks to funding from Rochdale Borough Council Adult Social Care team, Action Together is offering up to £500 to micro groups to support individuals, families, and communities in the Rochdale Borough.
As part of the Rochdale Communities Fund, our 'Seed Fund' is aimed at Rochdale based micro-organisations and community groups who are unconstituted. Informal groups of at least three people, who are actively engaging with an Action Together Community Development Worker, working towards becoming a constituted group, and who have not already received a Seed Fund will be able to apply for this funding.
The project must fall within one or more of the following priorities:
1. Challenging poverty and driving equality
- Support people and communities to get back on their feet and take more control over their lives – i.e. practical support, advice or peer support
- Reduce inequalities and help more people reach their potential
- Strengthen community voice and action on the things that matter most to them
2. Promoting health and wellbeing
- Enabling people and communities to support their social, mental and physical wellbeing
- Challenging health inequalities through working with marginalised groups whose needs are not being met by existing services
- Build strong relationships in and across communities
Who can apply:
- you are a social action group or micro group locally rooted or actively working in the borough of Rochdale; and
- you are a member of Action Together CIO
- you have not already received a grant through the Seed Fund
- you are working towards becoming a formally constituted group and receiving support from a Community Development Worker
Grant amount: Grants of up to £500 are available
Application process:
To apply for this fund groups will be required to meet with a Community Development Worker to discuss their idea and answer some basic questions about their project. The Community Development Worker will complete an application on the group’s behalf and submit this application for a grant decision.
If your group is based in Rochdale or Pennines, please contact Julie Durrant: Julie.Durrant@actiontogether.org.uk
If your group is based in Heywood or Middleton, please contact Fi Oakes: Fi.Oakes@actiontogether.org.uk
Grant decisions will be made by Action Together and will be assessed on the basis that your group and project meet the below criteria:
- Compliant – the group is in the process of setting up a group or prepared to do this.
- Competent – the group has a relationship with their Community Development Worker and we are confident that they have the skills and capacity to deliver the project
- Comprehensive – there is a need for the project and there is a plan in place on how the group will use the funding and what the money will go towards
For more information, please read the Guidance Notes.
Deadline: This is a quarterly rolling programme - this grant will be paused when the funding currently available for this quarter has been allocated and will reopen the following quarter.
Contact information:
For more information, please either call 0161 339 2345 and ask for Hayley Tomlinson or please email: hayley.tomlinson@actiontogether.org.uk