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Greater Manchester Victims Capacity and Capability Small Grant Fund 2026

Aims/Priorities: The next round of the Greater Manchester Victims Capability and Capacity Small Grant Fund has officially launched as of Wednesday, 13th May 2026.

This initiative is part of our ongoing 3-year small grants programme and is designed to prioritise supporting victims within Greater Manchester, specifically through VCSE victim support organisations. Our goal is to help victims cope and recover, regardless of whether the crime was reported.

Cellnex Community Fund

Aims/Priorities: Cellnex, Europe's leading operator of telecommunications infrastructure is launching the Cellnex UK Community Fund, a new grant programme that will invest directly in the communities where its digital infrastructure operates across the UK.

Art Fund

Aims/priorities: Art Fund is offering funding to help museums, galleries and visual arts organisations provide paid opportunities for full-time university students to gain meaningful, developmental work-experience that enables them to further explore their interest in the arts, and related future career options before they graduate. Student opportunities can benefit visual arts organisations in the following ways:

Dan Maskell Tennis Trust

Aims: priorities: The Dan Maskell Tennis Trust is a tennis charity that raises funds for people with disabilities. Grants are available to support people with all disabilities ( physical impairment, deaf, learning disability, visually impaired etc) to play tennis. Grants are available for organisations and individuals. The funding is intended to support people with disabilities in the UK to play tennis through the purchase of wheelchairs, tennis equipment and grants for coaching.

Healthy Hearts

Aims/Priorities: The Healthy Heart Grants programme supports community groups and projects across the UK that promote heart health and healthier lifestyles, helping communities reduce the risk of heart disease. The funding is for new projects being delivered in small local communities that work with adults and that actively promote heart health or reduce the risk of heart disease through primary or secondary prevention.

Five grants of £15,000 each will be awarded throughout the year as follows:

Oldham Summer HAF

Aims/priorities: The holiday activities and food (HAF) programme provides support to children from low-income families during school holiday periods. Research has shown that the school holidays can be pressure points for some families. For some children, that can lead to a holiday experience gap. Children from low-income households are more likely to experience food insecurity and social isolation, miss out on physical activity and enriching experiences, and fall behind in development and well-being. 

Cash For Kids - Holiday Hunger Grants

Aims/priorities: The aim of the Holiday Hunger Grants is to support organisations and service providers to give disadvantaged children and young people (up to and including 18 years old) access to food and activities during the school holidays. Projects must encourage children to eat more healthily and be more active during the school holidays.

Who can apply? Applications are accepted from the following organisations:

Cash For Kids - Impact Grant

Aims/priorities: The Cash for Kids Impact Grant supports community groups, schools and charities working with children and young people affected by and living with disadvantage.

Who can apply? Applications are accepted from registered charities (with an annual turnover less than £1 million), schools, community organisations and other grassroots groups based across the UK.

Eligible organisations include schools, community associations, youth groups, grassroots organisations and sports groups.

Better Futures Fund: Delivery Partner Round 1

Aims/priorities: The fund aims to improve outcomes for children, young people and families living in poverty in England, delivering measurable improvements such as better school attainment, improved youth employment and reduced youth offending.

It will support projects that address the structural and root causes of child poverty, reducing both the immediate and long-term impacts of poverty on children's life chances and outcomes.

Strategic Legal Fund

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.

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