Oldham

DUE TO EXCEPTIONALLY HIGH DEMAND APPLICATIONS TO THIS FUND ARE CURRENTLY PAUSED

Aims / Priorities:

Aims / Priorities:

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. This investment will support the sector’s resilience to enable VCFSE organisations that are locally rooted and active in Oldham to remain viable, to continue to deliver the ongoing Covid 19 response and to contribute to the delivery of Oldham’s Covid Recovery Strategy priorities.

Aims/priorities: Grants from £100 - £750 are available for faith organisations to run activities that will support people from the communities of identity or experience below that may struggle to achieve higher levels of mental wellbeing. The communities we want to reach in year 3 are:

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended for strategic work, including policy work, campaigning and research, which has the potential to improve financial wellbeing at a national scale. The Foundation is interested in funding projects that examine and promote measures to:

Aims/priorities: Funding is intended to address challenges to accessing appropriate, quality and affordable wheelchairs. This has the potential to increase social, professional and leisure opportunities as well as improvements to basic mobility. 

Grants should be used to:

Aims/priorities: The aim of the Trust is to give people of all ages a better quality of life by enabling them to understand, participate in and enjoy the arts, particularly the performing arts (music, drama, opera and dance).

Aims/priorities: Grow Wild is offering grants of up to £500 to young people aged 14-25 to deliver creative projects that celebrate and share why UK native plants and/or fungi are so special.

To be eligible, applicants must:

• Have a great project idea.
• Find a supporting organisation, such as a school, university, youth club or a local community group, to help them deliver the project.

The funding is for projects that:

Aims/priorities: Through the Changemakers programme Royal London provides funding and support to social entrepreneurs to create, develop and invest in bold ideas and sustainable solutions.

In 2022 the programme is targeting its support to social ventures which:

• Help people build financial resilience.
• Help people engage in the societal impact of the move to net zero.

Who can apply? Applications will be accepted from social entrepreneurs based in the United Kingdom.

The This is What an Activist Looks Like in Tameside video was commissioned by the Greater Manchester Older People’s Network and supported by Tameside Council, Population Health, Talking About my Generation, Ambition for Ageing, Spirit of Manchester, Age Friendly Tameside and the National Lottery Community Fund.

Aims/priorities: The purpose of the Youth Music Trailblazer Fund is to provide support for organisations delivering projects that help children and young people facing barriers to make, learn or earn in music. The fund is designed to support organisations who want to trial work for the first time, test a new way of working, or disrupt the status quo.

Who can apply? Constituted community organisations based in England may apply.

The fund has a particular focus on supporting: