Tameside
Aims/Priorities: The aim of the Fund is to provide school children (up to Year 11) with improved access to summer holiday activity and food schemes. The programme will support organisations who already provide food and holiday activities to increase access and reach. It will also support organisations that currently do not provide such services but feel well-placed to deliver a summer food and activity scheme.
Aims/Priorities: Funding is intended to support activities related to:
Who can apply? Applicants for:
Aims/Priorities: As part of its Heritage 2033 strategy, the National Lottery Heritage Fund has launched three strategic initiatives offering targeted funding to address long-standing heritage issues across the UK.
These initiatives are:
Aims/priorities: The new priorities are projects that:
Projects must achieve one of the NLCF missions, which are to support communities to:
Aims/priorities: The programme aims to support early stage community businesses across England by helping them to develop skills to:
The Together Centre is charity located in Dukinfield. The Centre is a thriving community hub proving a range of community activities for the community including a food pantry, community café, inclusive activities and support groups for all ages.
As part of their development aims, the centre were keen to boost their income not only to ensure their future sustainability but to look at more opportunities to offer services for vulnerable families especially around food and healthy eating.
Action Together’s Community Development Worker, Jon King met with Karen, the manager to discuss potential ideas and how we could deliver in different areas of the Together Centre to support all ages of our community. Jon was able to work with the manager to apply for The National Lottery Awards for All grant. An application had been submitted in previous years but had not been successful. Jon provided support to complete the application and offered advice on where sections could be improved e.g. when applying for an Awards for All grant, it’s important to focus on how your project will benefit the community, address needs, and make a positive impact. Karen undertook consultation with the community to really drill down into what they wanted at the centre.
A second application was then submitted and was successful. An award of just under £20,000 was granted. The trustees and volunteers were delighted and Karen was now in a position to plan for the activities the community wanted which would make a huge difference to their lives. Part of this funding was to continue supporting vulnerable people and their families with food which helps up to 50 families per week via their food pantry.
Karen explains what a difference working with Action Together has made:
I can now start to focus on other projects. I have a lot more confidence now with funding than I did before and being awarded with the funding from The Lottery made such an impact to each and every one of us here at the centre.
Thank you to Jon from Action Together for the support in the process of applying!
Aims/priorities: Would you like to help Answer Cancer grow communities’ knowledge of cancer and increase the uptake of cancer screening across Greater Manchester?
The Answer Cancer fund is offering grants of up to £4,000 to GM based voluntary, community & social enterprise (VCSE) organisations to deliver projects that will:
Aims/priorities: The funding is for projects that address the following broad categories:
Who can apply? Applications are accepted from registered charities/CIOs/CICs in the UK that have an income of less than £30 million per annum.
Applications are also accepted from serving members of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines, for projects that benefit multiple serving personnel, and from uniformed youth groups (eg Sea Cadets, Scouts, Girl Guides).
Aims/priorities: The UK Small Grants programme supports local organisations and projects that work to improve the lives of disabled children and young people up to the age of 25, children and young people with life-limiting conditions, and their families.
Who can apply? Applications are accepted from UK registered charitable organisations and community interest companies that:
Aims/priorities: The aim of the Create Growth Programme is to provide a package of targeted support to high growth creative businesses, to scale, build investor networks and reach their potential. The funding is designed to help creative businesses explore new innovation projects as a stimulus for growth.
Support is targeted at businesses that are registered or operational in an appointed Create Growth Programme region: