Rochdale
Aims/priorities: The funding supports community groups and grassroots sports organisations who are working within the most deprived areas of the UK and are making sport more accessible to women and girls, as well as engaging people from other under-represented groups, including people with disabilities, from racially diverse communities and from the LGBTQ+ community.
Currently, only the Female Coaches for Girls Fund is open for applications, with a deadline of 31 December 2025.
The Rochdale Social Value Learning Lab supports social enterprises to strengthen their understanding of social value, and gain practical skills in capturing and communicating their wider impact. The programme includes action learning sets, giving participants space to exchange experiences, explore challenges together and identify workable solutions.
Facilitated by Turn Up the Value and led by Karen Smith, the initiative responds to a growing need for social economy organisations to clearly evidence the social and economic difference they make to their communities.
Karen shared with us just how the programme has been going:
"It's been great to work with Action Together to deliver this training. The social enterprises who have participated have taken a lot from the sessions so far, not only learning from myself, but from each other."
This project is funded by UKSPF E26 Social Economy Programme, an initiative that supports individuals and organisations throughout Greater Manchester to design and develop their Social Economy offer, helping them to strengthen their capacity and increase their impact across communities.
You can discover more about the support offer for social enterprises and entrepreneurs in Rochdale on our dedicated page: Support for Social Economy Organisations in Rochdale | Action Together
Alternatively, if you would like to know how Action Together can support you directly with your enterprising idea, please don’t hesitate to get in contact with us: development@actiontogther.org.uk
Aims/priorities: Research and Development (R&D) for Individuals is a time-limited funding priority within the Developing your Creative Practice (DYCP) programme. It has been introduced while the Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) fund is paused until April 2026.
Aims/priorities: The grant programme will be delivered through four individually biddable thematic funding streams, referred to as ‘pillars’:
Aims/priorities: The Amazon Literary Partnership supports non-profit literary organisations from all communities in the UK and Republic of Ireland that empower writers to create, publish, learn, teach, experiment, and thrive. Offered once a year, the grants support innovative groups that amplify diverse voices and strive not only for a lasting impact on writers' lives, the literary and publishing communities but also the broader community.
Aims/priorities: GM=EqAl, as part of the Live Well Community Fund wants to put trust and decision-making where they belong: in communities. These micro grants are part of our wider pilot, supporting people across Greater Manchester to connect, create and care for one another.
This fund is designed for geographically dispersed and intersectional groups, especially those whose voices are often missed by locality-based funding. These are communities whose characteristics may include one or more of the following:
Aims/priorities: The funding is for projects that meet both of the following outcomes:
Aims/priorities: The fund, provided by Ofgem Energy Redress Scheme and piloted under the scheme’s Carbon Emissions Reductions priority, aims to build the capacity of the community energy sector and deliver impactful renewable energy projects. It seeks to demonstrate how a just transition to net zero can benefit everyone.
The funding is intended to enable greater community ownership and social benefit from the historic growth in renewable energy over the next few years as the UK transitions to net zero.