One Manchester want to hear from organisations in their area helping to meet community needs affected by Covid-19, particularly those most vulnerable, and to help organisations adapt and survive.
The current investment priorities are:
- Food – ensuring residents have access to safe, healthy and sustainable supply of food
- Financial resilience – supporting local provision that assists our customers facing financial crises. Helping people make ends meet, get back on their feet, and where appropriate find suitable employment
- Social isolation and wellbeing – ensuring residents have access to a friendly ear to support them and opportunities for meaningful contact and activity that promote good mental health during the Covid crisis (within constraints of social distancing and self-isolation).
Emergency response and survival grants of up to £5,000 are available to cover costs of delivering services relevant to our investment priorities above, or to support locally based organisations that are facing a significant and immediate threat a result of loss of income from Covid-19. Applications will be considered on a weekly basis with decisions on funding expected to take no more than 4 weeks.
Sustainability and Transformation grants of up to £20,000 are available to support locally based organisations, including community hubs, to plan, adapt, develop and implement services relevant to our investment priorities. They are intended to help ensure existing local organisations can meet changing community needs in new ways throughout and beyond the Covid-19 crisis. Expressions of interest will be considered weekly on a rolling basis. Applicants will receive an initial response within 4 weeks and a funding decision within 8 weeks.
Both funds will be open for applications until 16 December 2020.
For more information and to apply click here