Oldham

Aims/Priorities: The funding supports both mission and building projects, helping churches across the North Western Synod to develop their mission, respond to community needs and undertake essential building works. It also encourages churches to offer Warm and Welcome Spaces/Warm Hubs for people in their local communities during the winter and provides grants to support this work.

Who can apply: United Reformed Church churches and congregations within the North Western Synod can apply.

Aims/Priorities: Grants are available to registered blind or partially sighted people in the UK for useful technology that can help them live independently. The grant will support the cost of any item that is on the RNIB list of approved equipment.

Who can apply:  UK residents who are registered blind or partially sighted people and who have been refused funding from their local authority for the items they need. The grant will support the cost of any item that is on the RNIB list of approved equipment. To be eligible, applicants must:

Aims/Priorities: Big Issue Invest, UnLtd and Shift partnered to create the £25 million Growth Impact Fund, designed to address structural barriers that diverse-led social enterprises face in accessing investment. The fund supports social purpose organisations tackling inequality in the UK and was initially established with an ambition to invest in around 50-60 ventures. 

Aims/Priorities: Grants are available for not-for-profit organisations to support ex-Service men or women and their families as they make the transition to civilian life within the UK. The funding is intended to support vulnerable ex-serving members of the Armed Forces and their families in their transition to civilian life in the UK.

The funding is focused on supporting the following priority themes:

Aims/Priorities: CRASH, the construction industry's charity, assists homelessness charities and hospices with construction-related projects through the provision of grants and professional expertise and materials donated by the construction and property industry. The scheme aims to support homelessness charities and hospices with the practical aspects of refurbishment and construction projects, improving their experience of the construction process and helping them create better places for people to live, work and receive care.

Aims/Priorities: The funding is for grassroots sports clubs and organisations based in England and Wales which promote participation in sport and physical activity within their local communities - to help them grow, welcome more people and make a greater difference in their local community. The funding can be used towards a range of essential club costs, including:

Aims/priorities: This funding is for communities in England to make artistic or aesthetic improvements to traffic-free paths on the National Cycle Network route in England, and ultimately encourage more active travel on the network by walking or cycling.

Communities need to manage the project and shapes the outcome. Engaging and delivering locally is essential to a successful project. Communities play a crucial role in encouraging active travel by making areas more enjoyable or interesting to travel through. 

Who can apply? 

Aims/priorities: The Voicescape Community Fund welcomes applications from grassroots community groups based in any of the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester. The Fund will focus on projects which support those most affected by the cost-of-living crisis, as well as projects that provide education and skills development.

Local groups understand how they can best work in their communities, so we don’t want to limit the type of request you can make as long as they meet one of the following fund priorities: