Rochdale

Aims/priorities: The Media Literacy Taskforce Fund is providing funding to organisations piloting new methods of engaging ‘hard to reach’ citizens with media literacy initiatives. Media literacy is described as the ability to apply critical thinking skills to the messages transmitted through mass media, from print, video and the internet.

The scheme will fund pilot projects that will work through communities to engage citizens in ways that are tailored to their needs and relevant to their daily lives, delivering media literacy interventions at a local level.

Aims/priorities: The Night Shelter Transformation Fund is provided and administered by Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, in partnership with Homeless Link and Housing Justice.  

Funding is intended to:

This free webinar is for professionals to discover more about both our Kooth and Qwell services, and to gain resources to support you when signposting young people and adults to these services. 

Action Together are delighted to announce that Rochdale AFC Community Trust are the latest charity to have received their Quality in Action Award (QIAA). 

QIAA is an independent framework for voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) organisations working across Rochdale, to demonstrate their impact. By achieving the award, groups are able to demonstrate to local commissioners, funders, beneficiaries and other stakeholders the quality activities and services being delivered.

Tameside Council have 30+ testing booths which were previously used at Tameside COVID testing sites. They have been cleaned down and have not been used since July 2021, so there will be no risk of COVID from the booths. The Council want to donate the booths to groups to recycle/re-use.

They are light weight and fit together by interlocking therefore, do not need screws or nails. They are light weight, but a van would be needed for transporting them.

Aims/priorities: Grants are available to local not-for-profit groups for projects which expand access to quality and affordable travel equipment and journeys, and ensure disabled people have the same opportunities to make decisions about how they travel in the UK.

Who can apply? Medium to large charities and organisations with established ways of working may apply. Groups must:

Aims/priorities: Grants are available for not-for-profit groups to undertake research to help better understand the problems that disabled people face in the transport system and to how they can be solved.

Who can apply? 

Medium to large charities and organisations with established ways of working may apply. This includes academic organisations which are charitable in nature. Groups must:

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.

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, and collaboration and sustainability.

Who can apply? Registered charities based in the UK can apply.

Grant amount: Most grants will be around £10,000 or less. However, larger amounts will be considered in exceptional circumstances.

Aims/priorities: Funding is intended to build innovation capacity within, across and between different parts of heritage around a shared priority challenge area: the workforce, skills and ways of working needed for the future. Funding should allow organisations to explore, test and grow new ways of working needed to support the future of heritage.

Challenges which may be addressed include:

• Ways of working.
• Who is part of the heritage workforce.
• What skills are needed.

Who can apply?