Rochdale

Aims/Priorities: This fund aims to support a wide variety of projects and activities that improve outcomes for people with heart disease around Greater Manchester and reduce its impact on lives beyond current NHS provision.

Who can apply? Groups delivering projects and activities to support people with heart disease around Greater Manchester can apply, such as: 

Aims/Priorities: Impetus is seeking to partner with one non-profit organisation:

• Working to improve school attainment outcomes for students (age 7-18) from disadvantaged backgrounds in mainstream schools.
• Committed to supporting these young people to secure the expected standard in their SATs and/or GCSE Grade 4 in English and/or maths.
• With an ambition to grow their impact using meaningful, benchmarked data.

Who can apply? To be eligible, organisation must:

Aims/Priorities: Impetus is seeking to partner with two non-profit organisations that:

• Support young people (age 16-24) who are NEET and from disadvantaged backgrounds
• Deliver work-related skills (either vocational or essential)
• Aim for employment outcomes for those young people.

There is particular interest in organisations that:

Aims/priorities: The funding is for organisations who are led by the communities they serve and alongside providing immediate crisis support and working with people over the longer term to help them break free from poverty and achieve their potential.

Who can apply? Registered charities, charitable incorporated organisations (CIOs) and community interest companies (CICs) can apply.

To be eligible, all organisations must:

Aims/priorities: The Strengthening Civil Society (SCS) programme is a collaboration with the Legal Education Foundation and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

In 2021, the SCS programme began supporting work which uses legal action to address racial injustice in the criminal justice system (CJS) and bring about wider social change. The Foundation will be reviewing the CSC programme throughout 2025 and it is expected that a new strategy for the programme will be released in January 2026.

Aims/priorities: The funding aims to strengthen links between farms and charities to help solve the problem of food surplus on farms with the objective of helping  organisations fight hunger in communities.  

Proposals need to:

Aims/priorities: The aim is to provide households with the tools that they need to integrate into society and promote cohesion between households and their local communities so that they can participate fully in UK life.

The funding is for VCSE organisations to become 'Principal Sponsors' that recruit 'community Sponsor Groups' who come together to support a resettled household by sourcing accommodation for a period of three-years and providing integration support.

Aims/Priorities: The Pudsey Next Steps funding programme was established to help achieve greater equity, diversity and inclusion in BBC Children in Need grant-making.

The funding is intended to reach under-served and marginalised children and young people who may be affected by challenges including poverty, discrimination, and exclusion. For example, this could include care experienced or disabled children and young people. It may include racially minoritised children and young people.

Aims/Priorities: Cyber Local is a UK government scheme to deliver tailored support for the cyber security sector across the regions.

By tapping into local know-how, Cyber Local funds initiatives which support the growth of cyber security ecosystems, promote partnerships, and increase cyber security skills and careers opportunities.

Aims/Priorities: The Booster Fund supports new and existing community businesses in England that are at all stages of launching a community share issue.

This includes the very early stages of exploring whether it is the right choice, through planning a community share issue to being ready to launch, or in exceptional cases, recently launched

Who can apply? To be eligible for grant or equity funding, applicants must meet the following: