Oldham

Put your hands together and join us in congratulating our member organisation, Positive Steps, who have successfully achieved Action Together's Quality in Action Award!

On Tuesday 22 August 2023, our Volunteer Fair made it's grand return to Oldham Town Centre. This event gave local organisations the chance to shout about their fantastic volunteering opportunities and members of the public a chance to find out more about what is available to them.

Stalls from organisations with varied volunteer opportunities filled the streets of Oldham Town Centre, ranging from volunteering with the police, fire service, hospices, gardening, arts and crafts and even with us at Action Together! 

Aims/priorities:

The Cost of Living Emergency Fund is provided by donations from members of the public and run by Crowdfunder.

This is a match-funding initiative and thus not a traditional grant scheme (funds awarded are conditional upon applicants first securing crowdfunding via Crowdfunder’s platform).

Objectives of Fund:

Aims/priorities:

The KFC Youth Foundation (formerly known as KFC Foundation) provides grants to support grassroots organisations in the communities where KFC’s restaurants are located. The Foundation works with organisations who are empowering young people in the UK to fulfil their potential by providing safe social spaces, mentoring or work, and social skills.

The Foundation aims to fund work that helps young people create firm foundations, by addressing their needs through early intervention.

Aims/priorities: The funding is for voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations providing suicide prevention services, activities or interventions that are free of charge to their service users in England only.

Applicants must meet the strategic objectives of the fund which are to support:

Non-profit organisations to configure their suicide prevention services and activities to better meet the increased demand seen in recent years.

Aims/priorities: The LCF Primary Fund Programme supports capital improvement works to public amenity projects for community use.

Who can apply? To be eligible, applicants must:

Aims/priorities: The aim of the grants is to support new and innovative projects that achieve that support the delivery of positive outcomes for blind and partially sighted people in at least one of the priority areas of education, employment, engagement.

Who can apply? Registered charities based in the UK can apply as long as they have six months or less running costs in unrestricted reserves.

Aims/priorities: The scheme is part of the Government's Hate Crime Action Plan. The scheme is intended to reduce the risk and impact of hate crime at places of worship and associated faith community centres. Funding is available for protective security measures to places of worship that have been subject to, or are vulnerable to a hate crime attack.

Hate crimes are any crimes motivated by hostility on the grounds of race, religion, sexual orientation, disability or transgender identity. This scheme is focusing on religion.

Aims/priorities:

The purpose of the fund is to inspire community action across Greater Manchester that:

• promotes inclusion for LGBTQ+ people and communities.

and/or

• raises awareness of HIV.

We will fund any costs associated with the delivery of a project that improves the experience of LGBTQ+ people, promotes inclusion and awareness of LGBTQ+ people, communities and the issues that impact their lives or raises awareness and educates around HIV. The types of things that we will fund include:

Aims/priorities: This fund aims to support search and rescue (SAR) volunteering activities by providing support for the costs of volunteers’ operational training to help improve the safety and quality of SAR services in the UK.

Who can apply? UK charitable SAR organisations seeking support to train their volunteers can apply.

The following umbrella organisations can make global applications on behalf of their affiliated groups for core training: