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Army Benevolent Fund – Grants to Organisations

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support charities and organisations with projects and activities that directly benefit the Army community in six key areas: independent living, elderly care, education and employability, mental fitness, families and housing.

Who can apply? All registered charities and other organisations which support the Army community, which includes veterans, serving soldiers, their families and immediate dependants, may apply. 

Hinrichsen Foundation

Aims/priorities: The Hinrichsen Foundation offers grants to support organisations and individuals undertaking projects to promote music.

Who can apply? Individuals, organisations, and charities in the UK are eligible to apply.

Priority will be given to projects involving composers and activity based in the UK, though activity does not have to occur solely in the UK.

Projects that are composer or artist-led are encouraged.

Applications for small grants from large organisations may not be prioritised.

Funding Focus 2025: Strengthening the future for PAC

Prime Active Communities CIC (PAC) is a community interest company that specialises in youth and community engagement. They are based in Hattersley and are currently delivering activities locally and in St Peter’s and Hurst wards in Ashton. PAC have been involved in the local delivery of the VRU (Violence Reduction Unit) work known locally as ASPIRE.

PAC have recently lost local authority funding and were looking to source new funding opportunities in order to continue providing their much needed youth services which include: detached youth work, Jam Pot Music project and other creative media activities.

PAC began working with Action Together's Community Development Worker Dawn to develop a funding and sustainability plan. Initial support included linking PAC with the local National Lottery contact Kerri, who advised the group to apply for Awards for All and The Lottery’s Million Hours grant. Dawn supported PAC through the application process including costings, evidence gathering to ensuring all the governing documents were in order.

We were delighted to hear that with the support of Dawn both applications were successful. PAC received £19,000 Awards for All and a further £49,000 from the Million Hours Fund. We are also thrilled to announce that recently they have been awarded £139,000 over three years from Children in Need.

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In addition to supporting PAC to apply for funding, it was highlighted that they wanted support to build up their social enterprise offer to create a balance between grants and other available income, such as commissioning opportunities.

PAC’s Director, Mark Turton was able access our eight week Social Economy Accelerator offer and is now receiving one to one business mentoring support from Mantle to focus on growing their income generation as a Social Enterprise, increasing their and trade through commissioned activities and their wider workforce development offer for employment of youth workers.

Mark explains what a difference working with Action Together has made:

We were considering sending a member of staff on a paid training course to upskill them in bid writing, but we haven’t done this as Dawn has worked closely with this member of staff, who is now more confident and skilled in writing funding applications. We have found the one to one practical support has been far more useful than any training and now feel that we are able to apply this to the bids we are completing. 

We have also received a lot of support on how to manage our business moving forward. Being part of the Social Economy Accelerator work has been very helpful. What has worked well for us is being with other like minded businesses, hearing other people’s stories and challenges and the peer support we have been able to give and receive. 

The one to one support has been invaluable. Jody, from Mantell’s advice has been very useful. As the Director of a similar organisation, she has been able to help us look at our service delivery and start to plan for the future in a more strategic way.

The impact of this is that we feel back on track to deliver what we want to achieve, in particular, our school offer. We are also better able to focus on our main aims, and the social impact and value proposition elements of the support have been invaluable. We have become more engaged in partnership and networking meetings which is a positive. 

All of this has a positive impact for the children and young people that we support and work with, and their outcomes moving forward.

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Barchester Healthcare Foundation

Aims/priorities: The Foundation aims to make a difference to the lives of older people and other adults with a physical, learning or mental disability; supporting practical solutions that lead to increased personal independence, self-sufficiency and dignity.

The aim of this fund is on connecting or re-connecting people with others in their local community. Applications that combat loneliness and enable people to be active and engaged will receive highest priority.

Patagonia International Environmental Grants

Aims/priorities: Patagonia believes that “local battles to protect a specific stand of forest, a stretch of river, an indigenous wild species or a community from a polluting refinery are both effective at building public support and confronting larger, more complicated issues - like climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental justice” and accordingly provides grants for grassroot initiatives in the UK and the Republic of Ireland that are addressing these issues.

Tameside Communities Fund 2026 - TMBC

Aims/Priorities: Tameside Communities Fund gives local communities the opportunity to support and build community led activities or projects in their communities in Tameside which feed into the Community Safety and Greater Manchester Combined Authorities Strategic Priorities.  TMBC Community Safety are leading on this, and Greater Manchester Combined Authorities (GMCA) Funding has been allocated for each neighbourhood area: North, East, South and West and this year we will be running Participatory Budgeting events across Tameside in community venues. 

Tameside Social Economy Network | Live Great Adventures Case Study

Social Enterprise Accelerator Programme

As part of the Tameside Social Economy Network, we launched an eight-week Accelerator programme to empower social entrepreneurs who are leading organisations by enhancing sustainability, diversifying income streams, and developing robust business models. The Social Economy Organisations who took part in this programme across Tameside included: Live Great Adventures CIC, Foodbank Forklifts C.I.C, Prime Active Communities CIC, Leap Children and Family Centre, and Infinity Initiatives. Following on from this, some of these Social Enterprises accessed further 121 business mentoring to grow as leaders and enhance their offer.

To find out more about our offer to Social Economy organisations here

Live Great Adventures CIC Tameside

Live Great Adventures CIC is based in Stalybridge, provide support for people through a variety of indoor and outdoor events, groups and courses all focused around mental health, well-being and suicide education and awareness.

Their mission is to create a safe haven for anyone in need and they have one goal in mind, to educate the wider community and provide them with the tools required to help those struggling in a mental health crisis.

Live Great Adventures CIC founder, Jo Gray, shares her feedback on the impact of the Social Enterprise Accelerator Programme, and the 1-2-1 business mentoring delivered by Mantle Online Academy. 

How has this support impacted you as a leader and / or your organisation? 

“It's really helped us to reassess where we need to focus and make some big decisions around the sustainability and future of our organisation, it's challenged our thinking along with given us new ideas and alternate ways to do things to save us time, energy, but also ensure that we are aligned with our core values both professionally and personally. It's actually been REALLY transformational and we've still lot of coaching to go yet!” 

As a result of the specialist support, has your Social Economy Organisation achieved any of the below? 

“Created new jobs and engaged in new markets. We are currently working to employ admin support along with levelling up our volunteer training to provide relief for myself and Liam to focus where we needed as we can't do it all!” 

What is next for your organisation? 

“We are working on some large funding bids to hopefully secure more volunteers in order to be able to then free us up to have the time to generate that regular income and be more self-sufficient” 

Is there any other feedback you would like to share? 
 

“We loved the accelerator course, really good all-rounder. Coaching has been really good too. Action together is so supportive, we really appreciate ALL that you offer!”

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Our Network

As part of the Tameside Social Economy Network, we will hold quarterly network events. If you would like to know more about our work follow this link Tameside Social Economy Network | Action Together.

Patch Community Fund

Aims/priorities: We care deeply about the communities we operate in and that's why we've created our Local Community Fund, which shares small grants with local good causes. Grants of £200 to £500 are typically made and support projects from local schools and sports clubs, to community projects. This is a competitive process, and the winners are decided by our own customers and the public.

Our customers will also have the opportunity to shape and participate in community activities and campaigns supported by us.

Football Foundation - Facilities Grants

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to enhance the grassroots football experience by supporting projects ranging from the purchase of goalposts to improving changing pavilions. The Football Foundation provides comprehensive funding to improve football facilities for all participants.

Who can apply? Applications are accepted from football clubs and community sports organisations. This includes:

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