Tameside

Aims/priorities: The Trust wants to encourage three different types of change through its funding support: 

Aims/priorities: The funding is for organisations whose main aims and objectives fit with one of the following Fund's themes: 

• Contributing to nature recovery and responding to the climate emergency.
• Improving nature-rich spaces and access to them.

The grants can be used for a wider range of sustainable activities, including recycling, litter picking, beach cleans or sustainable transport. 

Who can apply? Not-for-profit groups based in England, Scotland and Wales can apply.

Aims/Priorities: The fund aims to support projects that help create or enhance indoor or outdoor community focused facilities. The fund aligns with key objectives of the TRU Sustainable Development Strategy, ‘Our Guiding Compass’. This aims to use TRU as a catalyst for regeneration, by enhancing and protecting community spaces and places along the Transpennine railway line.

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support hospice projects that create sustainable change in care delivery for people experiencing financial hardship or socio-economic deprivation.

Who can apply? Eligible applicants are independent charitable hospices that are members of Hospice UK and based in England, Wales, the Channel Islands, or the Isle of Man. Both adult and children’s hospices, as well as those providing care for all ages, may apply.

Aims/priorities: The Trust holds two grants rounds per year:

• The Spring round is for proposals wanting to work with young people who already have a criminal conviction.
• The Autumn round is for proposals focused on targeted work with high-risk young people on the edge of the criminal justice system.

The Trust’s funding in 2025 focuses on supporting work with young women and girls who are already in contact with the criminal justice system and those who are highly vulnerable to entering it.

Aims/priorities: The funding is specifically aimed at smaller community organisations that have often been started to address a local and unmet need and are rooted in lived experience.

The funding is for work that is currently taking place, work that builds on something that a group is currently doing or a pilot if they want to try something new.

There is particular interest in applications that work with:

Aims/priorities: Help the Homeless is a small grant maker with limited funds available for giving.

It provides funding for charitable organisations with the aim of helping homeless people return to the community and enabling them to rebuild their lives.

Funding is targeted at projects to find practical ways to help disadvantaged individuals return to the community through training or residential facility provision, rather than merely providing short term shelter.

Aims/Priorities: The funding is intended for the cataloguing of archives, to ensure that significant archive collections, representing the lives and perspectives of all people across the UK, are made accessible to the public for research and enjoyment. 

Who can apply? Applications will be accepted from organisations with archival collections in the UK including: public sector bodies, registered charities, and other not-for-profit organisations.

Aims/Priorities: Consortium Grants are designed to bring organisations together, to create projects that are greater than the sum of their parts. The funding is for large-scale consortium projects, bring together multiple archive, heritage and other organisations to deliver specific outcomes related to the goal of Archives Revealed, ensuring that significant archive collections, representing the lives and perspective of all people across the UK, are made accessible to the public for research and enjoyment.

Archives Reveals definition of an archive collection: