Tameside

Aims/priorities: The Empowering Local Communities Grant programme is provided and administered by Asda Foundation.

The scheme helps to transform communities and improve lives, plus help those with the rising cost of living rise and to support refugees.

The purpose of the programme is to support projects and activities which are important to a community which benefit local people.

The programme is designed to support projects under four themes:

Aims/priorities: The Together Fund is provided with funding from Sport England through National Lottery funding and is administered by Versus Arthritis.

The fund has a specific focus on people with musculo-skeletal conditions, including arthritis. The fund has been set up to support projects which:

Community Southwark in collaboration with Lewisham Local are excited to be working again with The Ethical Property Foundation one of the leading charities that provide property advice to charities and community organisations. 

Everyday Property Management in a COVID World is our final webinar of our 4 property matters webinar series. 

Join us for a 1-hour online session split into a 20-minute presentation followed by a discussion of points raised.

The webinar will help you:

Art Pen Pals is a new free creative project for isolated, house-bound individuals in Oldham and Tameside, which can include people with caring responsibilities, mental or physical ill-health.

The project will pair up people who are unable to join Arc's face to face or online groups for any reason with a volunteer buddy, with whom they can exchange creative works by post ( e.g. poetry/collage/watercolour/embroidery/sketching...)

Aims/priorities: Funding is intended to create, expand and improve local youth facilities and their services, with the goal of driving positive outcomes for young people, such as:

• Improved health and wellbeing.
• Skills for work, employment and life.

In advance of Phase 2 of the Fund, there will be pilot funding to build up to four youth facilities across England which will enable DCMS to test the Youth Investment Fund (YIF) approach and facility requirements.

Expected outcomes of the pilot are:

Aims/priorities: The Community Ownership Fund is a £150 million fund over four years (2021 to 2024/25) to support community groups across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to take ownership of assets which are at risk of being lost to the community.

The fund forms part of a package of UK wide levelling-up interventions, helping to support recovery, build opportunity and empower communities to improve their local places.

The Community Ownership Fund has four strategic objectives:

Aims/priorities: 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.

Who can apply? The following are some examples of places of worship buildings that are eligible to apply for the funding (this is not an exhaustive list):

Aims/priorities: The annual funding is intended for charitable work which addresses the ShooSmiths Foundation's funding priorities, which are to:

Aims/priorities: The Enterprise Development Programme aims to provide business and financial support to charities and social enterprises in England that are thinking of exploring new enterprise models and require financial or business support to make the transition, with the ultimate aim of taking on social investment in the future. The programme is open to organisations working across a range of sectors, which will vary as the programme runs its course.

Currently applications are invited from organisations working in the following sectors:

Aims/priorities: Set up in 2016, the Home Office’s Places of Worship Security Scheme offers grants to places of worship in England and Wales for the provision and installation of up to three security measures from the following list: