Oldham

Aims/priorities: The Common Ground Award aims to:

• Identify and reward good practice in building bridging social capital.
• Invest in the physical spaces and equipment that enables good practice.
• Build a community of practice, for knowledge sharing across the voluntary and community sector and with government.

Who can apply? VCSE organisations with a base and operating in England, with charitable, benevolent or philanthropic purposes may apply.

This includes:

Aims/priorities: The Arnold Clark Community Fund offers the following support:

Aims/priorities: The Fund supports efforts to create long-term change in society by addressing the causes of injustice and inequality by achieving social, economic, and environmental justice, and ending imbalances in wealth and power. It also gives people a say in where the money goes and is an alternative fund for those who struggle to get funding elsewhere.

Aims/priorities: The holiday activities and food (HAF) programme provides healthy meals, enriching activities, and free childcare places to children from low-income families, benefiting their health, wellbeing and learning.

Since 2022, the HAF programme has provided 10.7 million HAF days to children and young people in this country. The expansion of the programme year-on-year has meant a total of 5.4 million HAF days provided between Christmas 2022, Easter and summer 2023.

Aims/priorities: The Local Innovation Partnerships Fund (LIPF) is designed to support the development and scaling of high-potential innovation clusters across the UK. It is designed to support both established clusters with a proven track record of innovation, and emerging clusters that are in earlier stages of development but have significant potential to generate economic value.

The primary objectives of the LIPF are to:

Aims/priorities: The fund aims to elevate the experience of women and girls in football by creating inclusive, welcoming, and high-quality environments that support female participation at every level. 

Who can apply? Eligible applicants include:

Aims/priorities: The funding is for 10 organisations to partner with the NLCF to work with:

• People in their communities to reduce inequities caused by structural racism and discrimination.
• NLCF and other partners to share learning, test new ideas, and shape future funding.

Partners will lead this work, bringing knowledge of health inequities and lived experience informed by their engagement with particular racialised communities.

Aims/priorities: The Strategic Legal Fund (SLF) for migrant groups in the UK is a fund to support legal work in the UK that goes beyond securing justice for an individual and makes a significant contribution to law, practice and procedures to uphold and promote the rights of asylum seekers, refugees and migrants more generally.

The SLF aims to tackle injustices and inconsistencies in law and practice that disadvantage or discriminate against asylum seekers, refugees and migrants as a result of their migration status.

Aims/priorities: The funding is for charitable work that meets one or more of the Foundation's current priorities: