Rochdale

Stories of Strength is a podcast sharing 100 stories told by women from across Rochdale Borough. These tales of overcoming adversity will include stories about friends and family, migration, motherhood, relationships, work and women’s health and wellbeing.

Each episode is designed around the important notion that ‘you are not alone’. Like sitting down for a brew with a friend, the aim is for listeners to feel more confident, inspired, empowered, and find strength after each listen.

Aims/priorities: The programme is focused on social enterprises supporting people facing increased social and economic challenges as a result of the pandemic. Funding is intended to support them in evolving and growing sustainable community services, in the face of ongoing disruption.

Priorities of the fund include:

Aims/priorities: The scheme aims to fund small capital improvements to theatres run by charities and not-for-profit groups that will make a big impact to a theatre's resilience, sustainability or accessibility. This can include works to make theatres COVID-secure and ready to reopen. 

Grants are available for small capital projects that will make a big impact to a theatre's resilience, sustainability or accessibility.

Eligible projects include:

Aims/priorities: The Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership has established a unique and innovative fund, which aims to address health inequalities faced by marginalised ethnic communities when trying to get help from mental health services.

Aims/priorities: The aim of the Supporting Rural Communities programme is to support innovative projects that will create a long-term difference in remote rural areas of the UK.

The outcomes PCF seeks to achieve through the programme include:

Aims/priorities: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) is providing this grant programme over the next three years to support the work of the voluntary and community sector in tackling homelessness across England.

The Programme is divided into four individually biddable lots, each with a different objective:

Lot 1 - Increase the capacity and capability of the sector to prevent and relieve rough sleeping and homelessness.

Aims/priorities: The purpose of the programme is to support projects and activities which are important to a community which benefit local people.

Eligible costs and projects under each theme supported by the programme include the following:

Building Resilient Communities

Supporting community groups with the equipment, essentials and facilities to enable activity to take place. This might be enhancing what is already available, providing core items or enabling an activity to continue.

Active Lives

The Zuto Make a Difference Fund welcomes applications from grassroots community groups based in any of the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester.

Who can apply?

The Zuto Make a Difference Fund aims to encourage and support grassroots community organisations. This means small, community-based and locally controlled groups that manage themselves, encourage people to get involved as volunteers and who just need a bit of financial help to be able to work with their community in the way they’d like.

Aims/priorities: The Foundation aims to transform communities and change lives across the UK by making grants to charities and grass-roots community organisations.

Who can apply: Grants are available for local charities, community interest companies and unregistered community organisations across the UK.

It's that time again where they are planning Elections to the Council of Governors which will run from April to June 2022.

At Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, their governors play a key role in representing the views of our patient, public and staff members, ensuring that services meet the needs of our communities.

If you have an interest in their Trust and in helping them to continue to deliver the best possible care to patients, then please consider standing for election as a governor.