Rochdale

Aims/Priorities: The annual Electricals Recycling Fund is provided and administered by Material Focus, an independent not-for-profit organisation whose mission is to stop electricals from being hoarded and thrown away and ensure they are reused and recycled instead.

Since its launch in 2020, Material Focus has worked with over 100 local authorities, businesses and local communities to get people across the UK recycling their electricals.

The purpose of this funding is to increase the recycling of small household electrical items across the UK. 

Aims/Priorities: The Community Grants Programme is provided by Warburtons, a family run bakery business, and is administered on their behalf by Charities Aid Foundation (CAF). The principle aim of this funding is to focus on supporting families that need help the most, in a way which adheres to their principles of transparency, trust and transformation.

The aim of these small community grants is to support projects, activities and organisations that will be of real direct benefit to families and have a direct and tangible social impact on people’s lives.

Aims/priorities: The Community Based Debt Advice (CBDA) Grant scheme is provided by the Money & Pensions Service (MAPS) to reduce the impact of problem debt on individuals and communities, improve financial resilience and wellbeing, and strengthen local support networks. The funding is intended to ensure services reflect and address local need across England and will thus be broken down into 15 geographical lots, across the nine English regions.

The aim is to enable:

Aims/priorities: A small number of grants are available for UK homelessness organisations to become safer and more inclusive for LGBT+ young people. These are long-term development grants to generalist UK homelessness organisations to embed safe, culturally competent and affirming practice for LGBT+ young people. (Generalist is defined here as 'services that are not exclusively specialist LGBT+ provision but support a broader group of young people experiencing or at risk of homelessness'.)

The key aims of the Fund are to:

Aims/priorities: The Green Spaces Fund provides grants to community groups across Greater Manchester who want to increase the amount of accessible, nature-rich green space where people need it most.

The fund is focused on three principles: 

Aims/Priorities: Are you a voluntary, community or social enterprise (VCSE) organisation with an annual income between £50,000 and £250,000 and based and working within one of the ten localities of Greater Manchester?

Does your organisation support people most affected by social inequalities who are struggling to cope with the worst of the cost-of-living crisis?

If your answers to the above questions are YES, then you could be eligible for one of thirty-six £5000 grants available across the ten localities.

Aims/priorities: The funding is for tree and hedge planting projects taking place during the 2026/27 winter planting season. Each November, the Tree Council organises National Tree Week at the start of the tree planting season.  National Tree Week is the UK's largest annual tree planting campaign and a nationwide festival of trees. Its purpose is to raise public awareness of trees and to encourage tree planting and good management. The Tree Council's aims are to:

Aims/Priorities: ChurchCare is the Church of England's Cathedral and Church Buildings Division. It works in partnership with various grant-giving bodies to provide funding for the conservation of historic church interiors and churchyard structures, to ensure that conservation projects in Anglican churches across England are carried out to a high standard.