Looking for funding opportunities in the creative sector?
Explore the latest grants and support available on Rochdale Creates’ Funding & Grants page. Stay up to date with new opportunities to help your creative projects grow.
Looking for funding opportunities in the creative sector?
Explore the latest grants and support available on Rochdale Creates’ Funding & Grants page. Stay up to date with new opportunities to help your creative projects grow.

Creativity and culture are central to what it means to be human. Our vision is of a world where everyone has the right to create, participate, and belong. With everything happening in the world — both globally, nationally and locally — we can feel threatened, isolated and overwhelmed. We want

The Small Grants Fund in 2025/26 is aimed at: Criteria: We will assess applications ability to develop their creative practice through the following criteria: Please note, RBCN is committed to ensuring artists are paid fairly and adequately for their work. We are open to applications that support artists to be artists,

Live Well Make Art (LWMA) began in 2016 as a passionate, volunteer-led network of artists, health professionals, academics, and community activists who believed in the transformative power of creativity for health and wellbeing. What started as a grassroots movement, launching with the pioneering 100 Moments project, grew into a vibrant
In partnership with Rochdale Borough Council and Rochdale Development Agency, GM Arts is offering bursaries between £100 – £250 for freelance creative practitioners. These bursaries are here to support artists’ growth by making it easier to attend workshops, training, networking, or access other professional development opportunities. Round 3 (11th August

The Creative Health GM – A Place Partnership Conference took place on Thursday 12th December 2024. This event brought together leaders, practitioners, and creative professionals from across Greater Manchester to explore the role of creativity in supporting health and wellbeing. Key Highlights:

A Hopeful Day Storybook was produced as part of Organisations of Hope, a research project exploring creative health in Greater Manchester. The booklet is divided up into three sections and introduces the themes of the project in different ways. In section one (pages two – seven), there is an outline