Tameside

Aims/priorities: The Community Grants Programme (previously the Community Investment Scheme) is part of NHS Blood and Transplant’s commitment to build support for donation amongst Black, Asian, mixed heritage and minority ethnic communities.

The funding is for community and faith/beliefs organisations to drive awareness, understanding and behaviour change. Trusted local organisations can be effective at achieving these goals due to their specialist knowledge, understanding and footprint in the community.

Aims/priorities: The Auto Trader Community Fund aims to encourage and support grassroots community organisations. This means small, community-based and locally controlled groups that manage themselves, encourage people to get involved as volunteers and who just need a bit of financial help to be able to work with their community in the way they’d like.

Applicants must be based in one of the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester and have an annual income of less than £50,000.

Aims/priorities: Amazon Literary Partnership aims to champion the voices of underrepresented writers with an eye to encourage writing and reading about a greater variety of perspectives on the world in which we live today.

Who can apply? Applicants must be a registered not-for-profit literary organisation in the UK, whose core mission is to develop emerging writers, support diversity, celebrate storytelling, and/or build authors’ careers.

Aims/priorities: Funding is intended to support collective care, as well as campaigning and other change-making activities, among communities experiencing discrimination and marginalisation.

Who can apply? Applications are open to not-for-profit groups that are:

The Tameside Helping Hand Team want to make sure that Tameside residents know about cost of living support what is available to them. They can attend events, places of worship, community centres that are busy with local people to offer signposting to local services and organisations that can support them with advice and support with finances, mental health, housing, employment and energy efficiency.  

For more information about The Helping Hand offer, please see here: https://www.tameside.gov.uk/helpinghand

Aims/priorities: Provided by the Eric Wright Charitable Trust, this funding will support the existing activities of medium-sized VCSE organisations in Greater Manchester. In these difficult times, we want to help sustain organisations that support vulnerable communities of people that are struggling to cope with the worst of the cost of living crisis. 

TfGM and partners are working to develop and deliver a transport network which is truly inclusive, addresses inequality and supports the Greater Manchester Strategy vision to make Greater Manchester one of the best places in the world for people to grow up, get on and grow old.  

Aims/priorities: The Julia and Hans Rausing Trust is a charitable fund supporting organisations and initiatives that provide benefit to society in the UK. 

Funding is intended to help ensure that foodbanks can continue to deliver their services and support beneficiaries despite the challenges of the cost-of-living crisis. 

Grants can be used to cover:

Aims/priorities: This is the first fund launching from Co-op Foundation's new strategy, 'Building Communities of the Future Together'. 

Funding is intended to support organisations to build communities that:

• Are diverse, equitable and inclusive.
• Prioritise youth activism, shared power and transparent governance.

Grants are unrestricted for organisations working in the fields of youth social action and community development.

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support older people who are of, or over, state pension age (66 years) and living on low incomes in England or Wales. There are four grant streams: