Rochdale

Rochdale

7stars Foundation

Aims/priorities:

The foundation makes grants to projects which support young people (16 years and under) who are challenged by abuse or addiction, who are young carers, or who are homeless/without a safe place to call home.

The grant funding is intended to support young people (aged 16 and under) challenged by abuse and addiction, those who are young carers, and those who are homeless or without a safe space to call home.

Funding is offered across the following streams:

Project grants to cover the costs of projects which:

GSK Health Inequalities Programme 2024

Aims/priorities:

The funding is aimed at very small charities working in their communities to address health inequalities and who find it hard to access unrestricted funding and support for their leaders. This is particularly true for organisations who themselves may experience disadvantage, such as those led by people from ethnic minority communities, people with disabilities, people from the LGBTQ+ community and others.

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) IMPACT Awards

Aims/priorities:

The GSK IMPACT Awards are an annual programme, funded by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) as part of the company’s commitment to promote community health and wellbeing. The awards have been running since 1997, and are organised and managed in partnership with The King’s Fund, a leading independent health charity working to improve health and social care.

The IMPACT Awards recognise and reward small to medium-sized charities in the UK that are doing excellent work to improve people's health and wellbeing.

Places of Worship Protective Security Funding Scheme

Aims/priorities: The scheme is part of the Government's Hate Crime Action Plan. The scheme is intended to reduce the risk and impact of hate crime at places of worship and associated faith community centres. Funding is available for protective security measures to places of worship that have been subject to, or are vulnerable to a hate crime attack.

Hate crimes are any crimes motivated by hostility on the grounds of race, religion, sexual orientation, disability or transgender identity. This scheme is focusing on religion.

Eat it Up Fund

Aims/priorities: This new grant fund is aimed at finding and supporting creative approaches to reducing food waste.

The fund will support UK registered organisations with an early-stage food waste project with potential for impact at scale.

The funding is for initiatives that do one or more of the following:

Dynamic moves and new appointments at Action Together Rochdale

Published date: 
Monday, 26th June 2023

We have some exciting news to share with you all regarding recent colleague changes within our Rochdale team.

Firstly, we are thrilled to welcome Fi Oakes as the newest member of our team. Fi joined us at the start of June as a Community Development Worker in Rochdale and brings a wealth of experience and a diverse skill set to our team.

Creative Health and Wellbeing Ltd achieve Quality in Action Award

Published date: 
Friday, 23rd June 2023

A huge congratulations to our member organisation, Creative Health and Wellbeing Ltd, who have successfully been awarded Action Together's Quality in Action Award

Creative Health and Welling Ltd are a Rochdale based, Community Interest Company who uses art, crafts and creativity to encourage people to experience well-being and reduce feelings of social isolation. 

Erica Matthews from Creative Health said;

National Archives - Engagement Grants

Aims/priorities: Funding is intended to allow organisations to connect archives with their communities and the wider public in alignment with key moments of national significance.

Who can apply? Applications are accepted from public sector bodies, not-for-profit organisations including registered charities, and for-profit organisations including business archives.

Archives are encouraged to propose partnership projects and submit consortium applications.

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