Tameside

Aims/priorities: The initial phase of the programme focused on community businesses looking to learn how digital skills could help their business develop and grow.

The programme is now expanding to include support to help community businesses become more environmentally sustainable.

The second round will focus on community businesses that are looking to deliver changes within their business to:

Aims/priorities: The grant funding is for proposed services and activities that directly support victims and survivors of child sexual abuse at a national level in England and Wales and take place over a three-year period (2022/23 to 2024/25).

Who can apply? Only voluntary sector organisations, either as a single organisation or multi-organisation consortium, may apply for this funding.

Aims/priorities: Grants are available to local not-for-profit groups for projects which expand access to quality and affordable travel equipment and journeys, and ensure disabled people have the same opportunities to make decisions about how they travel in the UK.

Aims/priorities: The Community Business Trade Up Programme is provided by Power to Change, an independent charitable trust endowed by the National Lottery Community Fund. It aims to supports community businesses in England to create better places. The programme is administered by the School for Social Entrepreneurs (SSE), which helps people to develop the skills, strengths and networks they need to tackle society’s biggest problems.

Aims/priorities: Funding is intended to help meet the two goals of the Foundation:

• Equip less advantaged children and young people with improved skills, knowledge, and confidence to take action on sustainability issues and contribute to building sustainable communities.
• Ensure less advantaged children and young people live in a sustainable community with increased access to green spaces and opportunities.

Who can apply? Legally constituted not-for-profit groups in the UK may apply.

Aims/priorities: The Listening Fund is a joint initiative which aims to encourage organisations to be more accountable to young people. This is the second phase of the Fund, the design of which has been led by a panel of ten young people advisers. Funding is intended to:

Aims/priorities: 

Aims/priorities: Funding is intended for projects in the following key areas:

• Health.
• Education.
• Poverty.
• Environment.

Preference will be given to projects that are innovative and can be scaled up or replicated.

Who can apply? UK-registered charities operating both in the UK and internationally can apply. Priority will be given to small-and-medium-sized charities with an income of less than £2 million per annum.  

Aims/priorities: The fund is focused on three principles:

• To benefit communities in greatest need of quality green spaces
• To tackle our climate and biodiversity emergency
• To encourage and empower communities to get involved with nature

Who can apply? 

Green Spaces Fund

Green funding could help improve your community 

Following its announcement earlier this year, the £2.6m Greater Manchester Green Spaces Fund is now open to applications, seeking community projects that will make a real difference to their local area. 

The fund makes small and large grants available for community groups wanting to create new spaces or improve existing ones in their local area, particularly where there is currently poor local access to good quality green space.