Tameside

Aims/Priorities: The Refugee Welcome Grant Programme is designed to strengthen and expand the provision of English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) within Ashton, and across Tameside, with a specific focus on supporting refugees and asylum seekers. The programme aims to improve access to informal, community-based conversational English classes while also creating clear and supported pathways into more formal education opportunities, such as college courses and vocational training.

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support innovative solutions that increase the recycling or reuse of on-the-go paper cups in the UK. Projects may include awareness campaigns, improvements to recycling infrastructure, or research tackling key challenges in paper cup recyclability and recovery.

Who can apply? Applications are accepted from a wide range of UK based organisations, including:

Aims/priorities: The fund, provided by Ofgem Energy Redress Scheme and piloted under the scheme’s Carbon Emissions Reductions priority, aims to build the capacity of the community energy sector and deliver impactful renewable energy projects. It seeks to demonstrate how a just transition to net zero can benefit everyone.

The funding is intended to enable greater community ownership and social benefit from the historic growth in renewable energy over the next few years as the UK transitions to net zero.

Aims/priorities: The Carbon Emissions Reduction Fund (CERF) supports initiatives principally aimed at reducing the climate change impact associated with energy use, which relate to Ofgem’s regulated areas of energy generation, distribution, supply and use.

The funding is for projects that demonstrate measurable and lasting reductions in the carbon intensity of energy use and accelerate the transition to net zero. Projects must also have a realistic prospect of delivering broadly replicable benefits to existing and future energy consumers.

Aims/priorities: Better Youth Spaces is £30.5m of capital grants funded by the UK Government and administered by Social Investment Business. The grant funding is to be used for small scale-capital projects of £5k-£100k, including capital equipment, small refurbishments and other capital projects to help youth organisations to better support the young people they work with. The project must meet at least one of the fund objectives:  

Aims/priorities: The Arnold Clark Community Fund offers the following support:

Aims/priorities: The Trust currently offers the following grant schemes:

• Community Grants are for constituted, not-for-profit organisations and local authorities to create or improve community buildings or outside spaces for the benefit of the community.
   
• Habitat and Biodiversity Grants are for constituted, not-for-profit organisations that are enrolled with ENTRUST to support structural improvements to a single habitat, such as a waterway, woodland, or nature reserve.

The funder is looking for projects that:

Aims/priorities: All projects must encourage people who are less active or inactive to walk or wheel regularly.

Aims/Priorities: The aim of this funding is to improve the health and wellbeing of unpaid carers from global majority ethnicities in GM.

Who can apply? GM-based VCSE organisations rooted in their community that already work with unpaid carers from global majority backgrounds and aim to deliver health and wellbeing projects are eligible to apply.

You must be based and operating in one or more of the ten localities of GM. We can only fund VCSE organisations and your organisation must have: 

Aims/Priorities: The provision of financial support and guidance to established charitable organisations:

• in the UK, supporting young people in the UK with a bias towards young people who are suffering from depression and mental health issues or who are confronting drug abuse issues; and 

• within the UK and Europe, supporting education and healthcare projects and programmes in the third world, with a bias towards education for young women.