Rochdale

Aims/priorities: The Football Winter Survival Package is a fund administered by the Football Foundation on behalf of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and Sport England.

Part of the UK Government's Sport Winter Survival Package, the fund aims to support clubs at Step 3 to 6 of the National League System that have been severely impacted by COVID-19 restrictions.

The funding is focused on supporting football clubs' immediate survival.

Aims/priorities: The MSE Charity, the charitable fund of financial advice website MoneySavingExpert.com, is dedicated to supporting UK voluntary groups deliver financial life skills, which make a lasting impact on the way people think, behave and manage their money.

The charity operates a themed approach for each funding round.  This grant round, Raising the Next Generation is targeting and supporting the younger generation (under 25) who in the current difficult economic climate need support to develop and learn personal financial life skills.

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to help tackle social issues by enabling sustainable enterprises to test new business models, with potential to scale in future. This is funding for an idea that may lead to an impact investment fund, not development funding for individual social enterprises. 

Priority will be given to the following:

Aims/priorities: The British Ecological Society (BES) is providing grants through its Outreach Grants programme to help promote ecological science to a wide audience.

Aims/priorities: Grants are available for regionally based organisations that can deliver support to people who are offline or on a low income in England, Scotland or Wales to ensure they understand how smart meters can benefit them. Smart Energy GB, the national campaign for the smart meter rollout, launched the five year Smart Energy GB in Communities Fund in May 2016 with the aim that every home in Britain would be offered a smart meter within five years at no additional cost.

**Online informational workshops will be held on 2 February and 11 February 2021. Further details can be obtained by emailing mwindrushprojects@communities.gov.uk. Please include ’bidder workshop’ in the subject line.**

Aims/priorities: The Resilience and Recovery Loan Fund (RRLF) is a new fund administered by Social Investment Business (SIB) with an initial investment of £25 million from Big Society Capital.

Aims/priorities: The Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust offers grants to UK based charitable organisations that work in the following areas of interest:

Aims/priorities: The funding is for charitable activities that seek to support children, young people and adults with mental illness and mental disability in north west England.  Applicants should be able to demonstrate how the work will be financed after the Trust's grant has ended. Priority is given to local organisations. National organisations will need to demonstrate that any spend can be restricted to the local area.

Who can apply? Charities or not-for-profit organisations working in north west England may apply. 

Aims/priorities: Grants for not-for-profit organisations to define, test and develop digital solutions, or re-purpose existing technology in order to meet a social need or challenge in one of Comic Relief's core issue areas. The COVID-19 crisis has since increased the need for organisations to explore how digital and design approaches can be used to create more impact for the people they work with. The funding is most suitable for organisations or partnerships that have undertaken a small amount of early stage discovery work.