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British Gas Energy Trust

Aims/priorities: Grants are available to individuals and families across Great Britain to be used to write off their energy debts.

The Trust currently offers a fund:

  • Individuals and Families Fund

Both are intended to tackle fuel poverty by clearing the energy debts of struggling households and respond to the ongoing cost-of-living crisis.

Who can apply? Individual and Families Fund

Applicants must:

Co-location Opportunity with TOG Mind

Tameside, Oldham and Glossop Mind have some space coming available in Oldham if any organisations are interested in taking a look with a view to co locating with us.

The office fits around 50 people and has 3 small meeting rooms. It has its own welfare space, but is on the 3rd floor with no lift or stair lift. We are based at the top end of Union Street near to Oldham Town centre

Community Business Trade Up Programme

Aims/priorities: The programme aims to support early stage community businesses across England by helping them to:

  • Grow a stronger, more sustainable community business or project.
  • Recover and rebuild income from trading and sales.
  • Benefit from time to reflect and map out next steps.
  • Improve leadership and business skills.
  • Build a local support network of other people running similar organisations.

Who can apply? Community businesses in England are eligible to apply, including:

Home Office - Tackling Modern Slavery In and From Romania

Aims/priorities: The UK Home Office and British Embassy Bucharest are committed to working together to tackle all forms of Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking (MSHT) as set out in the 2023 Romanian-British Strategic Partnership.

This bidding opportunity makes up part of the commitment.

Funding is intened to help meet the following outcomes:

Greater Manchester Green Spaces Fund

Aims/priorities: 

This fund will support projects that take place within Greater Manchester and make the city-region greener, whilst tackling inequalities in access to green spaces and improving accessible spaces through physical improvements to make them better places for nature and people. These projects can take place in parks, community gardens, streets, schools, housing estates, canals/streams/rivers, and existing nature reserves.

The fund is focused on three principles:

Recycle for Greater Manchester Community Fund

Aims/priorities: The fund aims to support projects which prevent, reuse, or recycle household waste, and also reduce contamination, promote sustainable use of waste and resources, and generate wider social benefits for the communities of Greater Manchester.

Who can apply? Applications are welcome from Community and Voluntary Sector organisations, including:

Nationwide Building Society Community Grants

Aims/priorities: The funding is for local housing projects that will strengthen local communities to support the most vulnerable by:

  • Preventing people from losing their home.
  • Helping people into a home.
  • Supporting people to thrive within the home environment.

The Community Boards will favour projects that:

Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) – Project Viability Grants for England

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to help not-for-profit organisations establish whether their project is feasible, ie, how does the proposed particular piece of work or activity help move the project forward and contribute towards revitalising a historic building. At the end of the funded work, organisations should be able to decide whether to commit to further costs, risk and effort in developing their project and have a clear idea of the next steps to be taken.

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