Oldham

Aims/priorities: Grants are available to voluntary and community organisations in England which work together with a shared set of goals and values to help their community thrive. The aim of the programme is to encourage organisations to work in partnership to help their communities thrive by focusing on the bigger picture, rather than just what their organisation can do on its own. “Communities” can be people living in the same area, or people with similar interests or life experiences.

The funding can support different types of partnership, including:

Aims/priorities: The Alec Dickson Trust supports individuals and groups of young people who are able to demonstrate that through volunteering or community service they can enhance the lives of others, particularly those most marginalised by society. The funding is intended to enable socially concerned young people to run projects that will benefit communities in the UK and make a positive difference to the lives of disadvantaged people.  The current call for applications comes in response to the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic.

Aims/priorities: Funding is available for UK registered charities working in the areas of music, especially chamber music, composition and music education, or in heritage and crafts. The Trust makes grants principally in two sectors: Music and Heritage & Crafts.

Music Grants

Aims/priorities: Grants to support angling clubs, fisheries, charities, schools and local authorities in England to deliver angling events and activities that will get more people into fishing and retain them within the sport. Following a period of lockdown in England, due to the coronavirus outbreak, an increase in the popularity of angling was observed, with nearly a million people buying or renewing a fishing licence since the spring.

Aims/priorities: The Feminist Review Trust has a small amount of funding that it offers to individuals and not-for-profit organisations for projects that transform the lives of women in the UK and internationally. 

The Trust will fund the following:

Aims/priorities: The COVID-19 Winter Support Grants scheme is administered by Clinks on behalf of Her Majesty's Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) and the Ministry of Justice. 

The funding is intended to support voluntary organisations in England and Wales who support people in prison, leaving prison, under license in the community, or serving a community sentence, to continue to work in the context of the COVID-19 crisis or to make adaptations for their long-term work that are necessary due to the effects of COVID-19.

We have seen an outpouring of generosity and kindness in our communities during covid-19, from neighbours setting up mutual aid groups to businesses stepping in to support families going hungry during the school holidays.

Aims/priorities: Funding is available for not-for-profit organisations that are current or previous recipients of a grant directly from National Heritage Lottery Fund to support activities and costs that will develop and restart their income generating potential. Heritage Recovery and Resilience Loans are long-term investment to support the actions needed to stabilise and modify operations, build organisational resilience, and adapt programmed projects as part of an organisation’s recovery from the impact of coronavirus/COVID-19.

Aims/priorities: The funding will continue to support a broad range of heritage projects and activities, such as industrial sites, castles and historic places of worship, to the stories and memories of communities, and through to public parks, natural landscapes and native wildlife.

Until the end of the 2022-23 financial year, the National Lottery Grants for Heritage will give priority to heritage projects that:

Aims/priorities: Grant funding and matched equity investment are available for existing community business, with charitable purpose, that are based in England to prepare a community share offer to support their recovery from coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic. The funding is intended to support community businesses to raise community shares capital that can support their recovery, pivot or expand the business in response to coronavirus/COVID-19.