Tameside

Aims/priorities: The GM Walking and Wheeling Fund (GMWWF) Grants Programme is offering grants of up to £7,000 to VCSE organisations to deliver projects to get more people walking and wheeling in the chillier months.

The fund aims to improve the health and wellbeing of communities in Greater Manchester by encouraging people who are less active or inactive to walk or wheel regularly. By wheeling, we mean using a wheelchair, mobility aid or pushing a pram. Sorry, cycling is not included.

Aims/Priorities: The aim of this project is to create an official, digitised oral history collection documenting the lived experiences of women veterans. The project should capture experiences from recruitment and military service through to transition from the Armed Forces, including the impact on family life. The primary audience is the general public, with outputs also intended to inform policy officials, researchers, veterans and the wider armed forces community.

Aims/Priorities: This is a collaborative programme which requires that projects involve partnership between armed forces organisations and specialist non-armed forces organisations.

The focused is on improving access to appropriate mental health and wellbeing support for underrepresented groups within the armed forces community through tailored interventions that respond to identified barriers, needs and experiences. The funder is seeking projects that understand the barriers people face and have designed their support around those barriers, needs and experiences.

Aims/Priorities: The funding supports both mission and building projects, helping churches across the North Western Synod to develop their mission, respond to community needs and undertake essential building works. It also encourages churches to offer Warm and Welcome Spaces/Warm Hubs for people in their local communities during the winter and provides grants to support this work.

Who can apply: United Reformed Church churches and congregations within the North Western Synod can apply.

Aims/Priorities: Grants are available to registered blind or partially sighted people in the UK for useful technology that can help them live independently. The grant will support the cost of any item that is on the RNIB list of approved equipment.

Who can apply:  UK residents who are registered blind or partially sighted people and who have been refused funding from their local authority for the items they need. The grant will support the cost of any item that is on the RNIB list of approved equipment. To be eligible, applicants must:

Aims/Priorities: Big Issue Invest, UnLtd and Shift partnered to create the £25 million Growth Impact Fund, designed to address structural barriers that diverse-led social enterprises face in accessing investment. The fund supports social purpose organisations tackling inequality in the UK and was initially established with an ambition to invest in around 50-60 ventures. 

Aims/Priorities: Grants are available for not-for-profit organisations to support ex-Service men or women and their families as they make the transition to civilian life within the UK. The funding is intended to support vulnerable ex-serving members of the Armed Forces and their families in their transition to civilian life in the UK.

The funding is focused on supporting the following priority themes:

Aims/Priorities: CRASH, the construction industry's charity, assists homelessness charities and hospices with construction-related projects through the provision of grants and professional expertise and materials donated by the construction and property industry. The scheme aims to support homelessness charities and hospices with the practical aspects of refurbishment and construction projects, improving their experience of the construction process and helping them create better places for people to live, work and receive care.

Aims/Priorities: The funding is for grassroots sports clubs and organisations based in England and Wales which promote participation in sport and physical activity within their local communities - to help them grow, welcome more people and make a greater difference in their local community. The funding can be used towards a range of essential club costs, including: