Oldham
Aims/priorities: The Community Engagement Fund exists to engage communities and raise awareness of priority Home Office policy areas and the support available. The funding is provided by the Home Office.
Some nationality groups, including Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana and India, despite possibly having been impacted, are not coming forward for compensation to the Windrush Compensation Scheme.
Aims/priorities: Benefact Trust (previously Allchurches Trust), one of the UK’s largest grant-making trusts, is an independent charity, regulated by the Charity Commission, dedicated to supporting:
Aims/priorities: The Marsh Awards recognises community-led groups who come together for peer support both face-to-face and online, in England and Wales.
Peerfest are working with the Marsh Charitable Trust to reward 10 outstanding community-led groups across 5 categories:
Who can apply? Community-Led Groups
Grant amount: Awarding £1000 to 10 groups
Aims/priorities:
The funding is intended to support projects to improve the health, wellbeing and financial literacy of people who are experiencing homelessness.
Projects must meet the Foundation's purpose through one or more of its criteria themes. Examples of eligible projects include:
Aims/priorities: The scheme supports charitable theatre operators in the UK to carry out capital projects to improve their theatre buildings. Projects must fall within a specific theme each year.
The theme for the next three years - 2021, 2022 and 2023 - is Improving Environmental Sustainability.
Who can apply? To be eligible, applicants must meet the following requirements:
Aims/priorities:
The funding is intended for both national and local charities across the UK so that they can fix, repair, maintain and improve properties and community facilities specifically for those in need (by reason of financial hardship, sickness, disability or other disadvantage or distress) in the UK.
The funding is for projects which improve a physical building (or land attached to it) that is used by people in need.
The funding is to be used for the following types of projects:
We did it! Following months of hard work from our Volunteering Team, and colleague support from the wider Action Together team we are delighted to have achieved Volunteer Centre Quality Accreditation (VCQA). This is a re-accreditation of the award for us in Oldham and Tameside, but this is the first time we have been recognised for our work in Rochdale too.
We are delighted to share the news that our member organisation, Mahdlo Youth Zone, have successfully achieved Action Together's Quality in Action Award after demonstrating excellence in every category of the award.
The Volunteer Fair is a fantastic opportunity for organisations to promote volunteering roles to the community, and highlight the incredible contribution volunteers make. Anyone is welcome on the day to browse the stalls and find out about volunteer opportunities and activities in their local area.
We have been working with Gatherwell, an ethical Community Lottery provider, to develop a Community Lottery for Oldham.
Community organisations within the borough of Oldham have registered as Good Causes in the Oldham Community Lottery, in hopes to use this fantastic new channel as a fundraising opportunity, allowing you to give locally and with ease.
Tickets for the Oldham Community Lottery will be available from Tuesday 25th July 2023.