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Hong Kong British Nationals (Overseas) Welcome Programme - Regional VCSE Grant Scheme

**The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is running two events on 10 and 11 August to talk about the grant schemes in more detail. Register here**

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support British National (Overseas) status holders and their eligible family members with the opportunity to come to the UK to live, study and work, on a pathway to citizenship. 

The Welcome Programme aims to:

Food for Life Get Togethers – Small Grants

Aims/priorities: The Soil Association is the UK’s leading membership charity campaigning for healthy, humane and sustainable food, farming and land use. 

The Food for Life Get Togethers Small Grants scheme is provided with funding by the National Lottery Community Fund and administered by the Soil Association.

The funding is intended for gatherings and events that connect different age groups together and are representative of diverse communities.

GM Mental Wellbeing Grants

Aims/priorities: GMCVO are delivering a grants programme to support people from communities of identity or experience, based in Greater Manchester, that may struggle to achieve higher levels of mental wellbeing. Following the success of year 1 of the programme, a second year has been agreed which will build on the lessons learned and successful projects from the first year. You can find a full list of grants awarded in year 1 here.

The communities we want to reach in year 2 are:

Ragdoll Foundation

Aims/priorities: The Ragdoll Foundation is a small foundation which is dedicated to supporting the creation, appreciation and awareness of imaginative and innovative content that reflects the world from a child’s point of view.

The Foundation's primary purpose is to make grants for charitable purposes that:

Culture Recovery Fund: Emergency Resource Support

Aims/priorities: The Culture Recovery Fund: Emergency Resource Support programme has been established to provide emergency funding for culturally significant organisations in England. Those which were financially sustainable before coronavirus (COVID-19) but are now at imminent risk of failure, having exhausted all other options for increasing their resilience, are being supported.

Community Ownership Fund

Aims/priorities: The Community Ownership Fund is a £150 million fund over four years 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 purpose of the Fund is to support communities to purchase community assets and amenities and run them as sustainable community businesses. 

The Fund will support proposals to:

Greater Manchester Communities Addressing Gambling Harms Fund

Aims/priorities: The aim of the fund is to promote organisations and partnerships to focus on gambling-related harm in Greater Manchester whilst sharing knowledge and experiences as part of a community of practice.

Priority for funding includes projects which focus on the following:

  • Tackling inequalities
  • Reforming public services
  • Community-led activities and sports clubs
  • Children and young people

To be eligible, projects must:

ScottishPower Foundation - General Grants

Aims/priorities: The Foundation supports registered charities based and working in the UK for projects that enhance the quality of life in local communities and address themes set out by the Foundation. 

Application must address at least one of the ScottishPower Foundation's strategic aims:

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