Oldham

Aims/priorities: The British Ecological Society (BES) is providing grants through its Outreach Grants programme to help promote ecological science to a wide audience.

Aims/priorities: Grants are available for regionally based organisations that can deliver support to people who are offline or on a low income in England, Scotland or Wales to ensure they understand how smart meters can benefit them. Smart Energy GB, the national campaign for the smart meter rollout, launched the five year Smart Energy GB in Communities Fund in May 2016 with the aim that every home in Britain would be offered a smart meter within five years at no additional cost.

**Online informational workshops will be held on 2 February and 11 February 2021. Further details can be obtained by emailing mwindrushprojects@communities.gov.uk. Please include ’bidder workshop’ in the subject line.**

Aims/priorities: The Resilience and Recovery Loan Fund (RRLF) is a new fund administered by Social Investment Business (SIB) with an initial investment of £25 million from Big Society Capital.

Aims/priorities: The Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust offers grants to UK based charitable organisations that work in the following areas of interest:

Aims/priorities: The funding is for charitable activities that seek to support children, young people and adults with mental illness and mental disability in north west England.  Applicants should be able to demonstrate how the work will be financed after the Trust's grant has ended. Priority is given to local organisations. National organisations will need to demonstrate that any spend can be restricted to the local area.

Who can apply? Charities or not-for-profit organisations working in north west England may apply. 

Aims/priorities: Grants for not-for-profit organisations to define, test and develop digital solutions, or re-purpose existing technology in order to meet a social need or challenge in one of Comic Relief's core issue areas. The COVID-19 crisis has since increased the need for organisations to explore how digital and design approaches can be used to create more impact for the people they work with. The funding is most suitable for organisations or partnerships that have undertaken a small amount of early stage discovery work.

Aims/priorities: The Community Business ReBoost Fund is provided by Power to Change and run in partnership with the Community Shares Unit (CSU), a joint initiative between Co-operatives UK and Locality.

Aims/priorities: The National Churches Trust supports church and chapel buildings open for worship throughout the UK. It funds urgent repairs and modernisation, provides expert advice on church maintenance and on how churches can continue to serve local communities and promote church heritage and tourism.

The National Churches Trust has launched its new grants programme in line with the Trust's new strategy for 2019-2023.

The funding is for projects which can demonstrate how they meet the outcome in line with the new strategy:

Aims/priorities: Grants for cultural and heritage organisations in England to make the transition from lockdowns and social distancing to resume business activity and welcome visitors back to the country’s diverse heritage sites starting in April 2021. This round looks forward to the spring and early summer when it is expected that heritage organisations will be able to operate with fewer restrictions.