Oldham

Aims/priorities: This funding is for communities in England to make artistic or aesthetic improvements to traffic-free paths on the National Cycle Network route in England, and ultimately encourage more active travel on the network by walking or cycling.

Communities need to manage the project and shapes the outcome. Engaging and delivering locally is essential to a successful project. Communities play a crucial role in encouraging active travel by making areas more enjoyable or interesting to travel through. 

Who can apply? 

Aims/priorities: The Voicescape Community Fund welcomes applications from grassroots community groups based in any of the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester. The Fund will focus on projects which support those most affected by the cost-of-living crisis, as well as projects that provide education and skills development.

Local groups understand how they can best work in their communities, so we don’t want to limit the type of request you can make as long as they meet one of the following fund priorities:

Aims/priorities: Grants are available for the conservation of historically, artistically and culturally significant buildings and objects dating from before 1837 that are in urgent need of remedial treatment.

This funding is for projects which meet the Trust's current priorities:

Aims/priorities: The Leche Trust is a grant-making charity founded and endowed by the late Angus Acworth CBE in 1950. It was constituted as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation in 2024.

This funding is for projects which meet the Trust's current priorities:

Aims/priorities: The funding supports community groups and grassroots sports organisations who are working within the most deprived and/or rural areas of the UK and are making sport more accessible to women and girls, as well as engaging people from other under-represented groups including people with disabilities, from racially diverse communities and from the LGBTQ+ community. 

Funding stream available:

Aims/priorities: Grants are available to partnerships of arts/cultural organisations and up to ten schools to support delivery of effective arts-based teaching and learning opportunities in the primary classroom.

The purpose of the Teacher Development Fund is to support teachers to develop arts-based approaches which create equitable classrooms where all children learn and thrive. It aims to do this through supporting teachers and school leaders to develop the necessary skills, knowledge, confidence and experience.

The Fund is focused on:

Aims/priorities: Green Allotments, a registered charity, creates new, not-for-profit, private allotment sites for local communities in England at an affordable rent. 

Aims/priorities: This fund aims to help seed-fund volunteer projects that will support historic designed landscapes in the UK.

Who can apply? Applications will be accepted from:

• Volunteer groups across the UK can apply, preference will be given to smaller charities. 

Grant amounts: Grants of up to £10,000 are available.

Application process: 

Aims/priorities: This fund aims to improve the health and well-being of communities across Greater Manchester by encouraging people who are usually less active to start or increase the amount they regularly walk or wheel during the colder months. 

Priority will be given to projects targeting the following groups: