Tameside

**'Meet The Funder' webinar on Monday 9th November, 3.30pm - 4.15pm on Zoom.

Here is the zoom link for the meeting (no prior registration link)

Meeting ID: 875 8265 2060

Passcode: 967742

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to ensure or increase access to key services and activities for beneficiaries who have struggled with access due to COVID-19. The grants will support charities to digitally enable access to services, or to adapt their delivery of existing services to comply with social distancing or other COVID-response measures.

There are three separate streams of funding (please note you can only make one application to the Foundation for funding):

Aims/priorities: The Digital Skills for Heritage programme is provided with funding from the Department for Digital, Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) and administered by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The Digital Skills for Heritage initiative was launched by the National Lottery Heritage Fund in February 2020 as an ambitious two-year initiative designed to raise digital skills and confidence across the whole UK heritage sector.

This funding round is making £1 million available to support three different funding pots:

Aims/priorities: The funding is for sustainable food poverty programmes which tackle the following priorities:

Aims/priorities: The Fund aims to support the activities of local community or voluntary groups and projects that contribute positively to the quality of life, wellbeing and improved health of people and communities which address any or all of the priorities listed below:

Aims/priorities: 

The Fund aims to ensure that faith and community groups who provide winter accommodation can this year provide single room COVID-19 secure accommodation, and will also support services that prevent rough sleeping and work with people sleeping rough in innovative ways. These will build on proven approaches such as hosting, shared houses, support working and accessing the private rented sector.

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended for projects with the following aims:

• Improving the natural world.
• Securing a fairer future.
• Strengthening the bonds in communities in the UK.

Our Natural World: Ensuring that the natural world is restored and protected, and that people benefit from that recovery.The Foundation aims to contribute to the following key impact goals by 2030:

Aims/priorities: Funding is available for revenue costs including core costs, salaries, running and projects costs.  The Trust no longer offers capital grants.

The Trust's preference is to support front line projects working directly with people in need. It will consider new projects which are a logical extension of existing work, but does not support work which represents a significant shift away from an organisation's existing core aims and experience.

Aims/priorities: Grants for equipment is available to youth clubs in the UK that provide opportunities for improving social skills, team spirit and self esteem for young people aged from 8 to 18 years.

Occassionally, applications for improvement of youth club premises, equipment and facilities will also be considered including, but not limited to, the following:

Aims/priorities: The funding is for intergenerational linking projects that are bringing together in a meaningful way older people who live in care homes with young people aged 5 to 14 years in schools or youth groups.

Projects do not need to work with the full breadth of the 5 to 14 age range, although projects may choose to work across the age spectrum if they wish.

The focus is on reaching young people who are located in less socio economically advantaged areas.

Eligible projects should aim to enable young and older people to: