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Tameside

GM Walking Fund

Aims/priorities: The aim of the fund is to empower and facilitate community groups to embed more walking in Greater Manchester this autumn and winter, so that it becomes a normal part of everyday life in all communities. It also hopes to increase awareness of, and engagement with, the GM Walking campaign across the city region in recognition of the important role walking can play in increasing physical activity levels.

Youth Music Catalyser Fund

Aims/priorities: Youth Music is the UK's largest children's music charity, set up in 1999 to promote and support music-making opportunities for children with the least access. It is supported by National Lottery funding through the Arts Council for England. Youth Music's vision is that 'life-changing' music making is available to all children and young people.

The funding is intended to support organisations by providing larger grants to support the scaling-up of music projects for young people over a longer-term period of two to four years.

Hubbub - Community Fridge Food Hub Fund

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to increase the social and environmental impact of community fridges by allowing them to deliver their own activities that will bring local people together and provide access to healthy, affordable and sustainable food. 

Funded activities must fit within one of the following themes:

Skills - providing access to training and knowledge-building activities, including:

Masonic Charitable Foundation - Bursaries for Hospice Staff

Aims/priorities: Funding is intended to improve the quality of care given to patients, their carers and families through offering hospice staff the opportunity to participate in additional learning and training.  Bursaries are offered towards the costs of course fees for accredited courses. A table of eligible courses can be found on the Hospice UK website. Applications can be made for individual modules or a particular year of multi-year courses. The fund is provided by Masonic Charitable Foundation and administered by Hospice UK.

Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Teacher Development Fund

The Teacher Development Fund is provided and administered by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation (PHF).

The purpose of the Fund is to support delivery of effective arts-based teaching and learning opportunities in the primary classroom, and to embed learning through the arts in the curriculum. It aims to do this through supporting teachers and school leaders to develop the necessary skills, knowledge, confidence and experience.

Aims/priorities:

The Fund is focused on:

Friends Provident Foundation – Building a 4D Economy Grants Programme

Friends Provident Foundation is a registered charity founded in 2001 that aims to create a fair and sustainable economic system through grant-making and investment in local community assets.

Aims/priorities:

The aim of this fund is to support projects that aim to create a fair and sustainable economy that is characterised by the four D's:

  • Diversified.
  • Decarbonised.
  • Democratised.
  • Decentralised.

Amount: Grants of up to £100,000 are available

Three types of funding are available:

Road Safety Trust

The Road Safety Trust is an independent charitable trust dedicated to supporting projects and research aimed at making roads across the UK safer for all road users.

Aims/priorities: 

The overall aims of the Road Safety Trust are to reduce death and injury on the UK roads through providing independent funding for research and the development of innovative approaches.

The objectives of the grant programme are to:

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