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Funding Focus 2025: All Nations Church

This week, we are delighted to share a wonderful video case study created by our Oldham member organisation, All Nations Church.

They have successfully been awarding funding from the Oldham Household Support Fund, Cost-of-Living-Crisis grant for the past 3 years, which they have used to drive their core pathways; community support and community engagement.  

Click the video to view All Nations’ Community Projects 2024 - 2025

Pink Ribbon Foundation

Aims/priorities: The Foundation's mission is to fund projects and provide financial support to UK charities which relieve the needs of people who are suffering from, or who have been affected by breast cancer or who work to advance the understanding of breast cancer, its early detection and treatment.

Who can apply? Registered charities working in the field of breast cancer in the UK may apply.

Skelton Charity

Aims/priorities: Grants are only made to legally constituted registered charities established in the historical county of Lancashire.

Who can apply? The Fund supports registered charities from within Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside, including the unitary authorities of Blackpool, Blackburn, Warrington, and Halton.

Eligible organisations must:

Greater Manchester - Foundational Economy Innovation Fund

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support innovative projects that address key challenges in Greater Manchester's foundational economy sectors, specifically health and social care, early education and childcare, and the local high street. It aims to encourage the use of technology in care, expand early education provision and workforce capacity, and boost sustainability, financial management, and use of space in hospitality and retail.

Who can apply? Organisations operating in the following sectors in Greater Manchester can apply:

Windrush Compensation Advocacy Support Fund 2026-2027

Aims/priorities: This fund aims to support organisations to help provide essential advocacy support for Windrush Compensation Scheme (WCS) claimants.

In Year two, the funding will support established organisations with experience in delivering Windrush Compensation Scheme advocacy support, enabling support to potential claimants within an awarded region and throughout the WCS claim process.

Contracts for Innovation: READ-OUT Digital Cognitive Dementia Assessments

Aims/priorities: Innovate UK is running a competition to support the deployment of digital cognitive assessment (DCA) technologies in dementia diagnosis. The programme will act as a demonstrator to accelerate high-maturity DCA innovations and assess their real-world application as part of the READ-OUT (REAl-world Dementia OUTcomes) blood-based biomarker study. These efforts will also contribute to the Davos Alzheimer’s Collaborative System Preparedness project.

Universal Music UK Sound Foundation - School Funding

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support access to music for schools, students and teachers by facilitating the purchase of musical instruments and equipment.

Who can apply? Applications will be accepted from schools, teaching the national curriculum, which are based in the UK and Republic of Ireland.

Grant amount: Grants of up to £1,000 are available.

Application process: Trustees review applications and funding offers are made three times a year: January, April and September.

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