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Get your favourite National Lottery funded project the recognition it deserves. 
Enter your chosen project into this year’s National Lottery Awards - the annual search to find the nation's favourite Lottery-funded projects.
Winners receive a £5,000 prize for their project and star in a television show on BBC One.
Community Comms are pioneering a unique approach to cause funding. They utilise commercial opportunities to help raise money in order to address the needs of communities in the UK.
Community Comms present their collective community to businesses that pay commissions for engaging their target customers. “Reverse Marketing for Causes.”
With their help and support communities are able to recognise the value of their collective and how it is significantly enhanced when joining Community Comms.
Manchester City Council recognises the important role Work Clubs play in providing flexible and informal employment support to workless Manchester residents. In recognition of the valuable role they play in delivering employment support services, Manchester City Council has made available grant funding for Manchester Work Clubs to apply for. 
Applications are currently open to the WREN Community Action Fund, which makes grants towards the provision, maintenance or improvement of: 
• Village Halls and Community Centres
• Public Play Areas
• Publicly available multi-use games areas, skate parks and BMX tracks
• Sport and recreation grounds including pavilions and clubhouses with full public access
• Churches – community spaces only
• Nature reserves
Would you like to help an independent charity that works with and for older people in Manchester to raise vital funds to support it's work?
Age UK Manchester would like to welcome some new volunteers to support their participation in the Fabulous Fan Fayre (F3) ‘Not For Profit Programme’ at Manchester City Football Club. Volunteers run a booth at the Etihad Stadium on match days and at events; dispensing food and drink (soft and alcoholic) – where a percentage of the profits generated are paid directly to Age UK Manchester.
What is Buengo?
Buengo is a new fundraising app that allows users to sell the things they no longer need and donate the proceeds to good causes - 
think digital charity shop! Buengo are aiming to raise more money for charities and community groups while bringing local people together. It launches on 1 March in Manchester.
The University of Manchester and its main construction partners – Balfour Beatty, Laing O’Rourke and Sir Robert McAlpine - have established a £20,000 fund to support neighbourhood initiatives in areas closest to the University’s construction sites around Oxford Road and near Owens Park, Wilmslow Road. 
The first round of funding from the Postcode Community Trust this year will be open for applications later this month. Stage one applications for this round will be accepted from 14 - 28 February. 
The Heritage Lottery Fund is making changes this year in preparation for its new Strategic Funding Framework, due to come in in 2019. The HLF have designated 2018 as a 'transition year', with several changes: 
• There will be no new rounds of targeted programmes (i.e. Landscape Partnerships, Parks for People or Townscape Heritage) in 2018
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