Deadline: Ongoing
The Oldham Council is seeking applications for its Community Champions Fund with the purpose to support people shown to be most at risk from Coronavirus (COVID-19) including those from an ethnic minority background, disabled people and others to follow safer behaviours and reduce the impact of the virus on themselves and those around them.
Small grants will be awarded to enable community groups/organisations to support Team Oldham to deliver it’s Covid-19 community engagement strategy within communities most at risk from Covid-19.
The aims in Oldham for this funding are to support those communities most at risk from Coronavirus:
- South Asian communities,
- Roma community,
- African communities,
- people with learning disabilities and autism,
- people with sensory disabilities and any others identified through data and insight gathering during the course of this work.
Funding Information
- Grant amount: Up to £5,000
Additional Information
In agreeing to receive a Community Champions grant the group or organisation will agree to do at least one of the following activities:
- Give specific support to community engagement with your beneficiaries via your group or organisation’s engagement channels, this could be on your facebook page, in your facebook or WhatsApp groups.
- Undertake Covid Community Champions training with your staff and volunteers
- Provide Covid community conversations either by telephone/online or in person as your activities start to re-open with your beneficiaries,
- Support the capacity of Oldham Council’s doorstep engagement and testing teams with staff or volunteers,
- Support local testing sites with engagement staff or volunteers,
- Support local vaccination sites with engagement staff or volunteers,
- Provide a community base for the door-step engagement and testing teams,
- Promote the Oldham Council / CCG communications work by delivering flyers or sharing the suite of digital comms messages via your social media channels.
Who can apply?
You can apply for a grant of:
- up to £5,000 if you are:
- a voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) group working in the borough of Oldham with the communities most at risk (as described above) and
- a member or are becoming a member of Action Together CIO and
- you are formally constituted.
- up to £500 if you are:
- an informal social action or mutual aid activity (unconstituted).
- mutual aid is the term they use to describe people giving each other needed support in communities.
- social action is the term they use to describe people coming together (physically or remotely) to help solve the problems that are important in their communities.
For more information, visit https://www.actiontogether.org.uk/community-champions-fund-oldham
