Oldham

Aims/priorities:  Forever Manchester is helping community groups across Greater Manchester keep in touch and bring that Christmas spirit to life.  Forever Manchester has always believed that connected communities make stronger, happier communities and love any activity that brings people together.

Aims/priorities:  GMCVO are managing the grants process which is funded by Greater Manchester Moving (with money from Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership).  The grants will be awarded to ideas to get more people in Greater Manchester walking while adhering to government social distancing restrictions.  

All activities must encourage people who are usually less active to start or increase the amount they walk regularly whilst adhering to government social distancing guidelines​.

Aims/priorities: The Community Giving Fund is provided and administered by NFU Mutual, a UK registered mutual insurance composite. 

The Fund’s main areas of interest are:

• Connecting the community; reducing social isolation, providing opportunities, and encouraging resilience.
• Providing care and support to vulnerable members of the community.
• Relieving poverty; improving the health and wellbeing of communities.
• Advancing education and experiences for young people.

Priority will be given to:

Aims/priorities: The Fund aims to support the activities of local community or voluntary groups and projects that contribute positively to the quality of life, wellbeing and improved health of people and communities which address any or all of the priorities listed below:

Aims/priorities: The Near Neighbours Small Grants scheme aims to encourage stronger civil society in areas that are multi-religious and multi-ethnic by creating association, friendship and neighbourliness. It intends to bring together people of different faiths and of no faiths to transform local communities for the better.  Near Neighbours has two key objectives:

**'Meet The Funder' webinar on Monday 9th November, 3.30pm - 4.15pm on Zoom.

Here is the zoom link for the meeting (no prior registration link)

Meeting ID: 875 8265 2060

Passcode: 967742

Aims/priorities:  As part of its strategy, United Way UK invests in organisations that provide programmes and services that align with its strategic priorities. These priorities are long-term solutions addressing one of the following needs:

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to ensure or increase access to key services and activities for beneficiaries who have struggled with access due to COVID-19. The grants will support charities to digitally enable access to services, or to adapt their delivery of existing services to comply with social distancing or other COVID-response measures.

There are three separate streams of funding (please note you can only make one application to the Foundation for funding):

Aims/priorities: The Digital Skills for Heritage programme is provided with funding from the Department for Digital, Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) and administered by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The Digital Skills for Heritage initiative was launched by the National Lottery Heritage Fund in February 2020 as an ambitious two-year initiative designed to raise digital skills and confidence across the whole UK heritage sector.

This funding round is making £1 million available to support three different funding pots:

Aims/priorities: The funding is for sustainable food poverty programmes which tackle the following priorities: