Rochdale

Aims/Priorities: The DF Capital Foundation in partnership with Forever Manchester, welcome applications from locally managed community groups based in any of the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester. Local groups understand how they can best work in their communities, so the funder does not want to limit the type of request made. Applicants aare asked to let the funder know what they want to do and what positive things the activity will provide for your community.

Aims/Priorities: The funding is for charitable and not-for-profit organisations who focus on family support. This may further include:

• Early intervention
• Families coping with addiction
• Prisoners' families

The work needs to address the challenges of local communities in areas of extreme deprivation within the UK. Preference is for frontline organisations working directly with people in need.

Who can apply: Applications are accepted from:

Aims/Priorities: Grants are available for small UK charities supporting education, the environment and international development, including organisations working in the UK and overseas.

Who can apply: Small UK charities working in the Trust's preferred areas of education, the environment and international development may apply. Charities will need to demonstrate annual income of at least £50,000.

Grant amount: Discretionary

Aims/Priorities: This fund aims to support communities to use heritage to shape the future of local places. Funding is for projects that use historic buildings, places, sites, and stories to help communities build confidence, strengthen local identity, create new relationships, and influence decisions about the places where they live. 

Aims/Priorities: LGBT+ Fund powered by Consortium, are providing grants for not-for-profit organisations across England working with LGBT+ youth between 11 and 25 years old to help them find moments of joy through youth work, community engagement, and local events. Funding is for projects that support LGBT+ young people to foster youth joy, belonging, and positivity-building through activities, trips, and other enriching experiences.

Aims/Priorities: Grants are available for charitable organisations actively involved in the support and care of refugees and asylum seekers within the UK, with special reference to those with mental health problems and young people. The current funding is focused upon smaller, often local organisations which work to alleviate the problems facing refugees and asylum seekers with particular emphasis on the mental health of young people within the UK. The aim is to support particular needs within the target organisations.

Aims/Priorities: 10GM, on behalf of Greater Manchester Live Well, will receive £16.5 million over four years from The National Lottery Community Fund. This investment in Live Well Spaces of Hope and Connection will create a network of inclusive, community-led and owned spaces across Greater Manchester where people can meet, belong and find everyday support.

Aims/priorities: Set up in 2008, Cash4Clubs is a grant programme funded by Flutter UK & Ireland, part of Flutter Entertainment, the global sports betting, gaming and entertainment provider. For this reason, groups must have adult members (18+) in order to be eligible for funding.

Cash4Clubs is working with Sported, the UK's largest network of community sports groups, to get the funds to the clubs who need it most.

Aims/priorities: The Fund is delivered by a partnership made up of Social Investment Business, Big Issue Invest, Charity Bank, Co-operative and Community Finance, Groundwork UK, Key Fund, Resonance Ltd, The Architectural Heritage Fund, and The Ubele Initiative. 

The Fund is the successor to the pilot Energy Resilience Fund managed by Key Fund. Also delivered in partnership with many of the above organisations.  

Aims/priorities: The Theatres Trust is the national advisory public body for theatres in the UK. Set up by the Government through an Act of Parliament in 1976, it works to promote the better protection of theatres for the benefit of the nation.

The Small Grants scheme is supported by the Linbury Trust as well as donations from Judy Craymer CBE and Charles Michael Holloway Charitable Trust. In autumn 2022, the Mackintosh Foundation committed to £150,000 over five years to the scheme.