Tameside

Aims/priorities: This fund aims to support community groups in delivering sustainable walking, wheeling, and cycling activities to people in their local area.

Successful applicants will receive a package of support including:

• Grant funding of up to £5,000.
• Training and development opportunities.
• Opportunities to participate in networking and knowledge sharing.
• General support and advice.
• Signposting to other opportunities. 

Who can apply? The following can apply:

Aims/priorities: The Voicescape Community Fund welcomes applications from grassroots community groups based in any of the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester. The Fund will focus on projects which support those most affected by the cost-of-living crisis, as well as projects that provide education and skills development.

Aims/priorities: The Bright Futures Fund welcomes applications from Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector community groups based in any of the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester. The Fund will focus on projects aiming to improve social mobility, develop skills and otherwise support people from a wide variety of backgrounds into or back into work and careers.

Aims/priorities: The funding can support:

• Autistic-specific activity programmes that run in the school holidays in the UK (including sessions for siblings), OR
• The costs to include autistic children and young people who require two-to-one or greater support to take part in other (non autistic specific) play and activity schemes.

Who can apply? Not-for-profit organisations in the UK can apply. In addition, organisations must:

Aims/priorities: The funding currently only supports charities serving people in the top 50% of the UK Index of Multiple Deprivation.

The funding is to help people experiencing hardship and/or underserved groups to:

Aims/priorities: Grow Wild Youth Project funding is a youth-led process for people aged 16-25 to deliver a creative project that celebrates and shares why UK native plants and/or fungi are so special.

Who can apply? Applications will be accepted from young people aged 16 to 25 years old who live in the UK.

To be eligible, applicants must:

Aims/priorities: The Fund's objective is that every individual in the UK living with a genetic condition and their family is able to access the appropriate support at the time they need it so that they feel supported, valued and included.

The funding is intended to support projects that:

Aims/priorities: The funding aims to support frontline genetic condition specific charities in the UK to:

Aims/Priorities: Based on the generous legacy Robin Estill left, The Robin Estill Fund has been established to promote the general wellbeing and therapeutic benefits of the arts in relation to supporting people with poor mental health, autism, and or learning disability needs who live in Tameside.   

Aims/priorities: Following the announcement from the Department for Education of the extension of the Holiday Activities and Food programme in England for this year, I am pleased to announce that Feeding Britain can offer additional funding to holiday clubs during the Easter and May half-term holidays to complement this programme in England, and to complement other statutory support in Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland.