Rochdale
Empowering Local Communities Grant.
Empowering Local Communities is an Asda Foundation grant for local groups aimed at supporting a broad range of activities which contribute towards transforming communities and improving lives. Groups supporting refugees arriving to the UK are welcome to apply under this grant.
Aims/priorities: The Fore fund small charities that make a big impact.
They offer unrestricted funding to help applicants grow, strengthen, become more efficient or resilient. They believe that by asking you and your charity what you need, their grants will create a transformational impact on your organisation.
They see applicants as experts in your own fields. They also know that many of the best people who run small charities don’t have lots of fundraising experience. Their approach is designed to level the playing field.
Aims/priorities: This programme will support collaborations led by small charities seeking to influence and achieve local or regional change around improving the social security system, improving access to suitable accommodation, and support for asylum seekers and refugees.
The two key objectives for this programme are:
Themes we’re funding under this programme:
Aims/priorities: The Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust makes grants that deliver real change to Armed Forces communities.
Funding is intended to ensure that veterans have access to high quality disability support, and that proposed mobility equipment solutions enable them to engage in activities that are important to them.
Who can apply? The fund is open to registered charities.
Applicants must:
Aims/priorities:
The funding is intended to support projects that aim to prevent e-waste by extending the life of small electrical items; that increase the recycling of e-waste; or that increase understanding of e-waste and reach new audiences.
The fund will focus on digital inclusion projects utilising smartphones, tablets and laptops.
The funding may be used for projects costs only - not organisational core costs.
Who can apply:
Applications will be accepted from the following types of UK organisations:
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:
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.
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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.
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.
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: