COMMUNITY groups can secure up to £2,000 worth of funding after a new body was launched.
The Tameside Community Recovery Fund sees local communities have a say in what organisations can get a financial boost.
The Greater Manchester Combined Authority is funding £40,000 across Tameside communities – £10,000 has been allocated for each neighbourhood area: North, East, South and West – as the world recovers from the Covid-19 pandemic.
And organisers, Tameside Council’s community safety team with support from Action Together, are really keen to hear from people that support local values and want to improve existing projects or new initiatives that develop activities and grow new ideas that support their local community.
However, all applications must be made by 4pm on May 2.
Four events have been organised for each of the borough’s neighbourhoods. Those in the north can attend the 4C Community Centre on Ashton’s Taunton Road on Saturday, May 7.
In the West area, St George’s Church on Windmill Lane, Denton hosts one on Saturday, May 21, Dukinfield’s Together Centre on Birch Lane hosts the East on Thursday, June 9 and group based South can congregate at The Meeting Point at Hattersley’s St Barnabas’s Church on Hattersley Road East on Saturday, June 18.
“The idea being that after the effects of Covid-19, communities can rebuild and recover and come together to develop greener, safer, stronger communities,” say those behind the scheme.
“It’s about recognising that everyone has something to give without exception and by giving people the tools to use their skills, great things can happen for them and for the community.”
If projects are to be successful, those behind them will need to explain how it contributes to one or more of a number of themes set out.
These include Clean and Attractive – any activity that makes the environment and area look attractive and clean, safe neighbourhoods – one that raises awareness and makes the area in which you live safe or feel safer.
Health and Wellbeing sees any activity that helps improve health, promoting a green diet, physical, emotional and mental wellbeing and encouraging people to take part in new activities that makes them feel better about themselves improving confidence and reducing illness eligible.
Staying Connected sees any project that involves young people and the community getting on well together.
Applications can be made by voluntary, community or faith groups/organisations and projects must be completed and monies spent by March 2023.
After applications are received, local people are invited to the public events to speak to the groups that submitted an application form and vote for which groups they want to receive funding.
Activities to replace funding from a statutory source such as Tameside Council, schools or health services, money for business start-ups, holidays, trips and social outings outside Tameside and which cannot be evidenced as improving one of the themes for the grant and retrospective costs re among things that cannot be funded.
To put your group forward, complete the simple application form and email it to funding@actiontogether.org.uk.