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The Teacher Development Fund is provided and administered by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation (PHF).

The purpose of the Fund is to support delivery of effective arts-based teaching and learning opportunities in the primary classroom, and to embed learning through the arts in the curriculum. It aims to do this through supporting teachers and school leaders to develop the necessary skills, knowledge, confidence and experience.

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The Fund is focused on:

Friends Provident Foundation is a registered charity founded in 2001 that aims to create a fair and sustainable economic system through grant-making and investment in local community assets.

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The aim of this fund is to support projects that aim to create a fair and sustainable economy that is characterised by the four D's:

• Diversified.
• Decarbonised.
• Democratised.
• Decentralised.

Amount: Grants of up to £100,000 are available

The Road Safety Trust is an independent charitable trust dedicated to supporting projects and research aimed at making roads across the UK safer for all road users.

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The overall aims of the Road Safety Trust are to reduce death and injury on the UK roads through providing independent funding for research and the development of innovative approaches.

The objectives of the grant programme are to:

Aims/Priorities: The Community Resilience programme will have a budget of £200k and will distribute funding on a commissioning basis with Community Partnership Managers identifying local needs based on data and local knowledge. Grants of up to £25,000 will be made available for organisations that can deliver support services to Great Places customers in our key places around core themes of:

>Increasing and stabilising household incomes

>Helping local people to overcome fuel, furniture and food insecurity

> Financial literacy

Aims/priorities: The Energy Industry Voluntary Redress Scheme, known as the Energy Redress Scheme, is funded through payments from energy companies who may have breached rules. The priority of the scheme is to support energy consumers in vulnerable situations and to deliver benefits to the types of consumers that were negatively impacted by the specific issues that triggered the redress payment.

Aims/priorities: The Carbon Emissions Reduction Fund, which opened in January 2021, will support initiatives principally aimed at reducing the climate change impact associated with energy use, which relate to Ofgem’s regulated areas of energy generation, distribution, supply and use.

Aims/priorities: The Trust currently offers three grant schemes:

Aims/priorities: The Foundation’s objective is to support civil society institutions and schools in delivering creative and innovative solutions to problems facing refugee children in the Middle East and Europe.

The autumn 2022 call will focus on projects that specifically address innovative solutions to accessing formal education as well as employment-focused vocational training, answering specific needs and presenting realistic solutions for refugee and displaced children and youths.

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The One Oldham Fund is a strategic single investment fund that uses pooled resources for the voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) sector in Oldham.