Rochdale

Aims/priorities: Does your organisation or group need support to grow your peer support activities? The Greater Manchester Peer Support Innovation Grant is designed to support new or smaller peer support groups with innovative ways of introducing peer support to the community. Applicants can apply for a grant of up to £250 towards their project or event (from a total available funding pot of £2500).

Who can apply? New or smaller VCFSE peer support groups.

Grant amount: Up to £250

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.

Who can apply? VCSE organisation base in Greater Manchester with a turnover of less than £100,000.

Grant amount: Up to £1,000

Application process: Download the application from the website.

Deadline: 5 October 2021

Aims/priorities: The Cinderella Fund can be used by groups or individuals to support the cost of a short respite holiday, day trip or activity for disabled, sick, convalescent or disadvantaged children whose family are unable to afford the cost. Grants are available to residents who live within the geographical areas of Greater Manchester, East Lancashire, North East Cheshire and North West Derbyshire. 

Note:

Aims/priorities: The Fund aims to support people to create a world in which power is more equally shared, and in which powerful institutions are responsive and accountable to wider society and aligned with the long-term public interest. 

Funding is available for work in the following areas:

Strengthening corporate accountability - the Trust is interested in funding work which:

Aims/priorities: The Trust aims to promote racial justice and equality of opportunity as a basis for a harmonious multi-racial, multi-ethnic society in the UK. 

Funding is available for work in the following areas:

Protection and promotion of equality and human rights and their enforcement in the UK - the Trust welcomes applications for:

Aims/priorities: The Fund aims to support a transition towards:

• The use of 'soft', rather than 'hard' power as a first line of response to conflict within society and around the world.
• The de-legitimisation of violence as a tool for responding to conflict, securing interests or projecting power.
• A culture of human rights and non-violent problem-solving, promoted at all levels of society.

Funding is available for charitable work in the following areas:

Aims/priorities: #WeStandTogether is the Greater Manchester brand for cohesion and, as the charity established to take this agenda forward, they are delighted to give your organisation the opportunity to receive a grant to help achieve their goals.

The process is slightly different from other grants:

Aims/priorities: The Open Fund for Organisations supports high-quality new music projects and not programmes. Projects must involve the creation, performance and promotion of new music and enable songwriters, composers, artists, bands and performers of all backgrounds to develop creatively and professionally. The Foundation will prioritise expenditure that will have a direct and obvious impact on music creator development.

Projects must fit with all three of the Foundation's funding priorities:

Aims/priorities: The purpose of this open access programme is to support cultural organisations to adjust buildings and equipment so that they can operate safely post-pandemic and improve access, seize on technological opportunities, and reduce environmental impact.

The longer-term impacts Arts Council England expects to see from this programme are: