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Tameside Community Wellbeing Alliance - Microgrants

Aims/priorities: The Community Wellbeing Alliance aims to bring together people who live in Tameside with people who deliver services here. It will act as a central point for people to learn from each other. We will develop and share a simple message to champion the role people have in their own health and wellbeing. The priorities of the grant are:

Action Together COVID-19 Community Response Fund

At Action Together we recognise community action is taking place across the boroughs of Oldham, Rochdale and Tameside & Glossop, and we want to encourage and support this action. 

We are delighted to let you know that we are launching a Community Response Fund that is available for Oldham, Rochdale and Tameside & Glossop groups from the voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) sector working on a COVID-19 Community Response and meet either of these priorities:

Rosa - Voices from the Frontline

Aims/priorities: Now in its ninth year, the funding is for women's and girls' organisations to deliver activism and campaigning to raise awareness of the issues women and girls face.

The campaigns could be targeted at local communities, the general public, local or national government, media, service providers or businesses.

Rosa will fund organisations which:

Angus Irvine Playing Fields Fund

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to improve the lives of children and young people, enabling them to access the transformative benefits of inclusive community sport.

Activities must focus on including young people (age 5 years to 18 years old) who otherwise be excluded from sport such as:

Henry Smith Foundation - Enterprise Gateway Fund

Aims/priorities: This funding opportunity is for organisations that want to become Intermediary Partners for the Enterprise Gateway Fund, which is a £6 million, three-year fund designed to help small voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations and social entrepreneurs develop new sources of earned income and strengthen long‑term financial resilience.

The key aims of the Fund are to:

Routes Home Fund

Aims/priorities:  Routes Home Fund, powered by Greater Manchester Mayor's Charity, working in partnership with The Charity Service and the Booth Centre. Funding decisions made by people with first-hand experience of homelessness and those accessing homelessness services. Together, we’re putting resources and decision-making in the hands of the people and communities who understand what is needed to prevent and tackle homelessness.

Priorities identified by the Grant Committee include: 

Community Winter Support Grants 2026/2027

Aims/priorities: Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council has been allocated funding from Central Government to support the Wellbeing of the local population. Two funding streams the Better Care Fund and the Crisis and Resilience Fund will support the Community Winter Support Grant Scheme this year.  

Powering Local Businesses

Aims/priorities: The Powering Local Businesses programme is delivered through a partnership between Enterprise Nation and EDF Small Business and supported by Square. The Powering Local Businesses Business Resilience Grant provides £25,000 in funding to support 25 small businesses, with each successful applicant receiving a grant to invest in practical improvements that strengthen business resilience.

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