Oldham

Aims/priorities:  Community groups across the UK are being invited to apply for funding for local projects that matter to them.

The Tesco Community Grant scheme will award grants to charities and community organisations to fund local good causes whose focus is on supporting children and families.

Originally launched in 2016 as Bags of Help the scheme has supported over 36,000 community groups with more than £86million in grants since 2016, including 2,000 sports teams and 1,400 groups supporting vulnerable older people.  

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Aims/priorities: The Fund will award grants to help peer support groups to connect remotely, prepare to move their activities to face-to-face, or make their group more sustainable. The peer support, mutual aid or self-help group must benefit people or communities who live with mental ill-health, trauma and distress. 

Aims/priorities: The UK Community Renewal Fund (UKCRF) is a UK Government programme for 2021/22.

The fund aims to support people and communities most in need across the UK to pilot programmes and new approaches to prepare for the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. It invests in skills, community and place, local business, and supporting people into employment.

The UK Government has designated 100 areas as ‘Priority Places’, of which four are in Greater Manchester: Bolton, Manchester, Oldham and Rochdale.

Aims/priorities: The People through Pets scheme provides funding to organisations whose main activity is:

• the provision of temporary or ongoing assistance to ensure pets can remain with their owners, where rehoming takes place only when it is not possible to reunite the pet with their owner

and/or:

Aims/priorities: Funding is available to support groups delivering projects and activities for the benefit of people in their local communities. This may include:

Aims/priorities: Failsworth and Chadderton’s Rotary is interested in funding activities that bring people together and making a difference in your community.

Who can apply? Voluntary and community groups across the Oldham borough.

Grant amount: Up to £1,000

Application process: Application form available on Action Together’s website

Deadline: 12 noon, 30 March, 30 June, 30 September and 30 November  

Aims/priorities: Funding is available for organisations operating mostly in disadvantaged communities, often working collaboratively with other partners to meet local need and may offer cross-sector activities.

Specifically, they will fund clubs and organisations which can demonstrate that they are using sport to work towards one or more of the following outcomes:

Aims/priorities: The Cruach Trust is a small Scottish charity, which likes to make a difference with its donations. Firstly, the trust provides financial support for gardeners, retired gardeners and for preserving gardens throughout the United Kingdom.  Then the trustees also have discretion to make donations to a wide range of organisations in the UK and abroad, with charitable objectives of whatever nature.

Who can apply? Registered or recognised charities, societies, trusts or other bodies.

Aims/priorities: Applications are assessed on the following principles: