Tameside

Aims/priorities: This fund aims to support organisations to help provide essential advocacy support for Windrush Compensation Scheme (WCS) claimants.

In Year One, the fund's purpose is to support established organisations experienced in providing Windrush Compensation advocacy support with the WCS process. Advocates will help WCS claimants articulate their stories and submit viable and eligible applications. 

Who can apply? The following can apply:

Aims/priorities: Innovate UK is running a competition to support the deployment of digital cognitive assessment (DCA) technologies in dementia diagnosis. The programme will act as a demonstrator to accelerate high-maturity DCA innovations and assess their real-world application as part of the READ-OUT (REAl-world Dementia OUTcomes) blood-based biomarker study. These efforts will also contribute to the Davos Alzheimer’s Collaborative System Preparedness project.

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support access to music for schools, students and teachers by facilitating the purchase of musical instruments and equipment.

Who can apply? Applications will be accepted from schools, teaching the national curriculum, which are based in the UK and Republic of Ireland.

Grant amount: Grants of up to £1,000 are available.

Application process: Trustees review applications and funding offers are made three times a year: January, April and September.

Aims/priorities: The Awards are intended to facilitate the work of small charities and organisations working to meet the needs of vulnerable communities and to conserve the natural environment.

Who can apply? In the first phase of the programme, applications will be accepted from the United Kingdom, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and South Africa.

Aims/priorities: This fund aims to support youth-led organisations that are fighting for climate justice in England to deliver projects that empower young people to take climate justice action in ways that are meaningful for them and their communities.

Funding will support existing youth-led organisations that are trialling new climate justice initiatives, ideas at an early stage, and organisations that want to add a climate justice lens to their existing work. 

Who can apply? To apply, groups must:

Aims/priorities: Funding is intended for work that supports vulnerable people to find a place to belong through housing and their community.

Who can apply? To be eligible, organisations must be a not-for-profit organisation based and delivering work in the UK, this includes but is not limited to:

• Registered charities.
• Charitable Incorporated Organisations.
• Community Benefit Societies.
• Community Interest Companies.

Organisations must have:

Aims/priorities: The fund aims to increase the amount of household items that are donated, shared, repaired, upcycled and redistributed to reduce the amount we throw away, by…

Aims/priorities: The fund is providing grants for businesses and organisations working in Greater Manchester’s foundational economy - including the health and social care, early education and childcare, and the local high street (retail, hospitality, culture, leisure and tourism) sectors - to trial new ideas and become more resilient. Initial grants of up to £11,000 are available.

Aims/Priorities: The Local Youth Transformation (LYT) Pilot is provided in England by the UK Government's Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). 

The fund aims to support 10 to 12 local authorities to start to rebuild a high-quality offer for young people and the transition back to local youth services leadership. The fund will test ways to best rebuild local authority capability to ensure a local youth offer which addresses the needs of young people and supports government priorities.

Aims/Priorities: The programme to organisations working to deliver activities, support and services aimed at preventing homelessness within the Greater Manchester area. In particular we would encourage applications from organisations that are directly addressing at least one of the following issues:
•  Safe Accommodation
•  No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF)
•  Growing a community of people accessing services – reducing social isolation and empowering people who attend