Tameside

Aims/priorities: The Happy Days Charity is a national children's charity dedicated to providing holidays, days out, and theatre trips for disadvantaged young people with special needs. The Charity supports families with children aged 3-17 who have learning difficulties, physical or mental disabilities, acute, chronic or life limiting illnesses, been abused or neglected, witnessed domestic violence, been bereaved or act as carers for a parent or a sibling. 

Group Day Trips and Visiting Theatre

Aims/priorities: The Stalybridge Community Grant Fund is provided and administered by Tameside Council. It Is part of the Greater Manchester Town of Culture Programme, which aims to celebrate the distinctiveness of one town each year selected from the ten districts of Greater Manchester. This fund aims to support community groups to deliver activities and events as part of the Stalybridge Town of Culture bid.

Safer Roads Greater Manchester is pleased to announce their first FREE Safer Driver Seminar aimed at drivers aged 60+.

Older people are becoming increasingly over represented in casualty statistics as drivers’, passengers and pedestrians. The seminar is an opportunity for attendees to listen to presentations on a series of road safety and wellbeing related topics from various organisations such as Greater Manchester Police, National Highways, TfGM, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service and many more.

Aims/priorities: The theme of the 2022 to 2025 fund is women’s reproductive wellbeing in the workplace.This fund aims to support VCSE organisations who can provide a holistic support offer to assist women experiencing reproductive health issues (for example, menopause, fertility problems, miscarriage and pregnancy loss, menstrual health and gynaecological conditions) to remain in and return to the workplace. The fund aims to align with the Women’s Health Strategy aims for health in the workplace:

Aims/priorities: Originally set up by Reclaim These Streets as part of a wider movement encouraging thousands to speak out against male violence, Rosa has now opened its Stand With Us Fund, which will see grants of up to £25,000 given to organisations against gender-based violence in the UK.

Aims/priorities: The Money Saving Expert (MSE) Charity was established as a registered charity in October 2007. The Charity is designed to try and break the cycle of debt. The Charity aims to fight financial and consumer illiteracy and is dedicated to educating and informing adults and children about consumer and debt issues.

There are two rounds per year. Four themes rotate through a two year cycle.

Aims/priorities: Ofcom is offering grants for licensed community radio stations in the UK, broadcasting on AM, FM, or by a Community Digital Sound Programme (C-DSP) licence on a digital radio multiplex.

The Community Radio Fund, provided by the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), can be used to support the core costs of running Ofcom-licensed community radio stations, including:

Aims/priorities: The Carbon Emissions Reduction Fund, which opened in January 2021, will support initiatives principally aimed at reducing the climate change impact associated with energy use, which relate to Ofgem’s regulated areas of energy generation, distribution, supply and use.

Aims/priorities: The priority of the scheme is to:

• Support energy consumers in vulnerable situations.
• Deliver benefits to the types of consumers that were negatively impacted by the specific issues that triggered the redress payment.

In addition to this core priority, up to 15% of Energy Redress funds can support the development of innovative products and services related to energy. Innovation projects must:

Aims/priorities: Their current funding themes and some examples of the projects they fund are: