Rochdale

Rochdale

The Fore RAFT Transition Fund

Aims/priorities: Unrestricted grants to help small charities and social enterprises in the UK plan for the longer term and gain a stronger footing in the post-coronavirus world. 

Who can apply? Applications will be accepted from UK registered charities, community interest companies, charitable incorporated organisations and community benefit societies with annual incomes below £500,000.

Grant amount: Unrestricted grants of up to £15,000 are available.

Great Places Resilience Fund

Aims/priorities: The Resilience Fund has the following key themes:

  • Poverty reduction (fuel, furniture, food including Holiday Hunger initiatives)
  • Employment, training and volunteering opportunities
  • Financial and digital inclusion
  • Organisational resilience

The fund is intended to support core costs.

Who can apply? Applications must come from constituted community groups, charities and social enterprises providing services in or reasonably local to the following locations or wards:

Places of Worship/Multipurpose Community Building Reopening Fund

 

Aims/priorities: This funding is available for Rochdale Borough groups who are working towards reopening their place of worship/multipurpose community building and ensuring they can do so safely and following all of the recent government guidelines which have been released.

The fund is to help to ensure that places of worship are maintained to a level which is Covid-safe. This could help with additional cleaning, equipment, signage and collection of personal data.

Comic Relief Community Fund - Project Delivery Grant

Aims/priorities: The Community Fund is provided by Comic Relief and administered for organisations in England by community charity, Groundwork, which specialises in transforming communities and the local environment for the better.

The Fund aims to deliver long lasting community driven change by awarding Project Delivery grants to organisations whose work delivers on one of Comic Relief’s four strategic themes:

MSD’s UK COVID-19 Dedicated Grants Programme

Aims/priorities: Grants are available to help health charities recover from the negative effects of the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic and to support patients and their families who are vulnerable to infection. The funding is intended for UK-based organisations and will support a range of different projects designed to help meet the needs of vulnerable patients during the coronavirus/COVID-19 crisis. The funding aims to enable valuable projects to go ahead.

Youth Futures Foundation Inspiring Futures

Aims/priorities: Youth Futures Foundation have partnered with Children in Need to deliver Inspiring Futures, a £6 million programme to fund positive activities which support children and young people to achieve their potential on their journey towards employment.

Prior to the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, there were over 760,000 young people not in education or employment in the UK.  There are fears that the economic impact of the pandemic will lead to an additional 640,000 unemployed 18 to 24-year-olds this year alone.

Covid-19 response grant phase two

Aims/priorities: Funding is available for organisations who support people in prison, leaving prison, under license in the community, or serving a community sentence, to continue to work in the context of the Covid-19 crisis or to make adaptations for their long-term work that are necessary due to the effects of Covid-19.

This includes (but is not limited to):

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