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Holiday Activity Grants are intended to enable groups to provide additional weekend or weekday activities over the summer and /or October half-term holidays.  

Grants of up to £2,000 are available for community and voluntary groups working with young people (aged 8-19, or up to 25 if disabled) in Tameside.

Closing date: Thursday 14 June 2012.  

Application forms and guidance notes:

 Application form 

 Application guidelines 

 Monitoring form 

 Holiday Activity Grants 2012 poster

 

 

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Nine ‘You Recycle – You Choose’ events will take place from May to October accross Tameside. The revised and updated 'You Choose' pages on the Tameside Council website are now live. They contain a schedule and full details of this year’s You Choose. Sign up for our Funding Bulletin to get the most up to date details straight to your email: http://t3sc.org/uM-register.asp

 

For details of You Choose events and an application form, see out events page.

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We also produce a monthly Funding bulletin with a list of grants currently available.
Here is the latest  Funding Bulletin - May 2012

 

 

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A new government fund will provide small grants to community groups and local social action projects up to March 2015. Community First consists of two parts, a thirty million pound Neighbourhood Matched Fund programme for some of the most deprived areas in the country and a national fifty million pound Endowment Match Challenge.

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You can apply for a Youth Opportunity grant of up to £2,000.
Available for groups, projects and organisations involving young people 10-19yrs in Tameside.

Application pack:

  YOF application criteria
  YOF application form
  YOF volunteering opportunities
  YOF poster

 

For more information: www.tameside-sid.org.uk Tel: 0161 336 6615.

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If you are a voluntary organisation, charity or community group in Tameside, GMFunding.net is a new, free service to help you search for sources of funding for your organisation, venture or project.

GMFunding.net includes an online database containing details of over 5,000 funding schemes that are available in the UK from European and national sources, directed at the public, private, charitable, and voluntary and community sectors. This information is continuously researched and updated by staff at GrantFinder. It has a number of useful features for the local fundraiser. These include:

 

 

GMFunding.net has been set up as a partnership project between voluntary sector support organisations in Greater Manchester, including T3SC and is funded through ChangeUp, the government initiative to improve the quality of support that frontline voluntary and community groups can access.

 

 

 

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The Big Lottery Fund has produced some  new information on applications for its

Reaching Communities grants. With an increase in competition for the grants, they would like to focus on supporting projects that actively involve the people who benefit and projects that have the biggest impact on communities most in need.

Topics covered include:

Is Reaching Communities right for you?
Guidance for Arts, Sports and Heritage projects.
Advice for those who Reaching Communities cannot fund.
For more information, Tel: 0845 410 2030 Visit: www.biglotteryfund.org.uk

 

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BIG is investing £75 million specifically for rural and urban community-use buildings through their Reaching Communities programme. From early December, voluntary and community sector organisations and parish and town councils across England will be able to apply for capital funding of between £100,000 to £500,000.

In the North West we have a very diverse geography with 80% being rural but with a number of significant urban areas where the majority of the population live and work. Whatever the location we know that community buildings play an important role in the lives of people. They can provide access to a range of community activities which enhance community cohesion.

The funding will be available for all types of multi-purpose buildings used by communities including memorial halls, community centres and village halls. The funding stream has been designed with a view to transforming current buildings into community buildings which can offer a wide range of activities benefitting a wide range of citizens.

£75million isn’t enough to fund every community building in the country. The funding will be targeted at those most in need using the Index of Multiple Deprivation to identify these areas. However, they recognise that a single approach to deprivation could ‘miss’ rural deprivation. They have therefore weighted the targeting so that half of the most deprived isolated rural communities are eligible, compared to 15% of the most deprived urban areas.

They have developed a postcode checker on their website so that applicants can check whether their building is in one of the eligible areas. This, and further information about how to apply for funding will be available on the website from December.

 

For more information visit their website.

To keep people informed about the progress of the Big Local Programme, which will distribute £1 million per area to 150 local areas over the next 10 years, CDF are producing a Big Local newsletter.

To subscribe email Biglocal@cdf.org.uk 

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Priorities/details: GMPTE provide grants to help meet the needs of older or disabled people who have serious
mobility difficulties and find it difficult to use ordinary public transport.

Grant amount: Each grant is worth up to £150 (any one year from April to March) and must be used to pay
for transport, for example, commercial coach or minibus hire, community transport or taxis.
Please note: we are unable to provide grants for
trips on Ring and Ride services.
Who for? Small travel grants are for voluntary organisations of older or disabled people or for voluntary organisations who stage events which are likely to attract significant numbers of older or disabled people. The trip or event must be a special one-off occasion and not a regular meeting. It must take place in Greater Manchester or within ten miles of the county boundary and the people involved must live in Greater Manchester. All organisations must have a bank account. We are unable to accept personal bank details.
Applying: Fill in both sides of the  Small Grants for older and disabled people application form send it to: Customised Services, GMPTE, 2 Piccadilly Place, Manchester M1 3BG. This application form is also available to download at www.gmpte.com
Further information or advice about small travel grants telephone Customised Services on: Tel: 0161 244 1266
Textphone: 18001 244 1266 Email: flexibletransport@gmpte.gov.uk
You can request this leaflet in Braille, on tape or in other languages.

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Priorities/details: If you can think of a way to make it easier for disabled people to use public transport, we would like to hear from you. GMPTE provides public transport access grants to voluntary organisations who wish to develop projects designed to improve travel opportunities for disabled people by helping
them to make better use of public transport.
Who for? If your organisation is a voluntary organisation or charity and is based in Greater Manchester; your proposal will enable disabled people to make better use of public transport; your proposal is for new work rather than a core
activity of your organisation; and you can demonstrate that your project is feasible, cost-effective and can be completed within a specified time-frame. Your project could be designed to improve the accessibility of public transport for disabled people in general or be for the benefit of certain disabled individuals. Revenue funding only is available and it is a condition of the funding that you provide regular progress reports and financial statements which show project costs.
Grant amount: Subject to budget, we will consider all applications be they for a few hundred or several thousand pounds.
Depending on the amount of money you apply for, it could take up to three months before you hear the outcome of
your application so please bear this in mind when you think about the start date for your project.
Applying: Fill in both sides of the  application form and send it to: Access Officer, Community Resources Department, GMPTE, 9 Portland Street, Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester, M60 1HX
We will also accept applications by letter provided they are on letter headed paper and include all the information requested on the application form. This application form is also available to download at www.gmpte.com
Further information or advice about public transport access grants telephone the Access Officer on:
Tel: 0161–242 6243 (Textphone also available on this number) Email: community.resources@gmpte.gov.uk
This leaflet is available on request in Braille, on tape or in an alternative language from the Community Resources Department.

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The Rotary Club has recently given around £5,000 to local Tameside charities. The Rotary Club of Ashton-under-Lyne organises a Father Christmas Float each year, which goes around the streets of Ashton for two weeks. The money raised is given to worthy local charities. Charities we donated to last year include: Tameside Talking Newspapers, Friends of Tameside Young Carers, Tameside HospitalLeague of Friends and Convey of Happiness.

If you are looking for funding – up to £500 write to Michael Craig giving details of the amount of money needed and the reason for applying. Rotary Club of Ashton-under-Lyne, c/o Hotel Smokies, Ashton Road, Bardsley, Oldham OL8 3HX.

Closing date: 1 April every year and applications are welcome at anytime.

Albert Haigh Trophy

Do you know a young person who has done something for the local community? Why not nominate them for the Albert Haigh Trophy. Write to Michael on the above address.

For more information on the Rotary Club contact Ron Fletcher on fletcher.ronald@tiscali.co.uk

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