Oldham

Aims/priorities: This fund aims to help unlock the potential of underprivileged 16- to 25-year-olds from historically marginalised communities, more specifically young people whose exclusion has hurt their levels of literacy and aspiration.

Funding will enable partnership organisations to use the power of storytelling and language to empower marginalised young people and create an environment where they can experience how language can be used to express and present themselves, open doors and create opportunities.

Aims/priorities: The Carbon Emissions Reduction Fund (CERF) supports initiatives principally aimed at reducing the climate change impact associated with energy use, which relate to Ofgem’s regulated areas of energy generation, distribution, supply and use.

The funding is for projects that demonstrate measurable and lasting reductions in the carbon intensity of energy use and accelerate the transition to net zero. Projects must also have a realistic prospect of delivering broadly replicable benefits to existing and future energy consumers.

Aims/priorities: The aim of the Cultural Development Fund is to level up through investment in culture across England. The fund will unlock local growth and productivity, increase access to excellent creativity and culture, and regenerate communities. It will achieve this through capital investment in transformative place-based creative and cultural initiatives.

Through implementing creative and cultural initiatives, Round Four of the programme will support places to achieve the following outcomes: 

Aims/priorities: The Foundation aims to benefit charitable causes in either the arts or learning:

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support the primary aim of this project which is to deliver recommendations 17-19 of the LGBT Veterans’ Independent Review.

The memorial should reflect the views of the LGBT serving and veteran community, which should be collected as part of the project, with efforts made to engage harder to reach cohorts.  

The project should be delivered by March 2025, culminating in the erection of the memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum.

Aims/priorities: The aim of this strand is to progress people into employment and is very much linked to wider UKSPF People & Skills activity, as well as wider work & skills activity e.g. Working Well.

This helps with re-engagement and engagement activity for residents who would benefit from these programmes but can’t access them at the moment. This could be linked to a range of barriers our residents are facing.

Who can apply? Local VCSE organisations and Housing Associations

Grant amount: Up to £100k

Aims/priorities: The month-long programme of activities is organised and shaped by local people and organisations to spread the joy of walking and connect people to each other and local places.

Anyone can join in or host a walk. In 2023, we had over 300 walks submitted by organisations, groups, and individuals, collectively providing a major boost to people’s physical and mental health and wellbeing.

Aims/priorities: The Foundation offers grants in the following categories:

Aims/priorities: This fund aims to provide charities and not-for-profit organisations with access to data protection consultancy advice and services that ensure they run efficiently, remain compliant with the law, and achieve the following outcomes: