Oldham

Aims/priorities: A bike library is a simple concept. It’s a location where people can go to borrow a bike for free. Access to a bike is an issue in Greater Manchester (GM) with up to 75% of households not having one available. Therefore, even with the high-quality infrastructure being installed in many areas, if individuals do not have the ability to try it, maximum usage will not be achieved.

**Three Information Sessions will be held on Zoom where you can find out more. Click on the below dates to register and you will be sent a calendar invite.**

Monday 14 June 2pm – 3pm

Tuesday 15 June 10am – 11am

Aims/priorities: The Ernest Cook Trust is an educational charity with a vision for ‘an environmentally engaged society’.

The COVID pandemic has demonstrated how important being outdoors is to the mental and physical wellbeing of everyone. It has also highlighted inequalities in people’s abilities to access the outdoors. Research commissioned by The Ernest Cook Trust has identified that transport costs are a key barrier for schools to access Outdoor Learning.

Aims/priorities: The Healthy Heart Grants scheme is a result of a partnership between the Heart Research UK (HRUK) and the SUBWAY franchise. The money for the grants is raised by SUBWAY staff and customers through in-store fundraising and collection boxes. The funding rotates around the UK at different times of the year.

Aims/priorities: The funding is for charities whose activities involve all or most family members in initiatives that support and encourage the family to work as a cohesive unit in tackling problems that face one or more of its members. The overall objective is to reinforce the potential benefit and support that family members as a unit can give to each other.

The three principal areas that the charity wishes to support are:

Aims/priorities: The final funding round is taking place in 2021-22.

This year, the funding is for projects which focus on one of two categories:

• Violence against women and girls.
• General programme (for which the Government has identified a number of sub-themes).

There is particular interest in applications from specialist women's networks whose projects include making onward grants to other women's charitable organisations.

Aims/priorities: Charitable giving has been at the heart of our business for over 130 years and we’re building on that legacy with our Movement for Good awards. For the third successive year, we are giving £1million to support charity projects that are helping to make a real difference in their communities

Who can apply? Anyone can nominate a charity to receive one of the £1,000 awards as long as the charity:

Aims/priorities: The aim is to support areas to improve health and wellbeing and help connect people to the outdoors. Urban trees are said to offer a range of benefits, including temperature moderation, flood risk mitigation, and improved wellbeing – particularly when in close proximity to large populations.

Aims/priorities: The funding is for local housing projects that will strengthen local communities to support the most vulnerable by:

• Preventing people from losing their home.
• Helping people into a home.
• Supporting people to thrive within the home environment.

The Community Boards will favour projects that:

Aims/priorities: The object of the funding programme is to increase the wellbeing of communities of Black Caribbean and African people in Greater Manchester.  Priorities include: