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Rough sleeping is one of the most visible types of homelessness. Rough sleeping includes sleeping outside or in places that aren't designed for people to live in, including cars, doorways and abandoned buildings.
If you are worried about someone who is rough sleeping, you can help connect them to local support by using Streetlink.
Enjoy a fundraising evening of authentic Gujarati food, with take home lunch for the next day included.
On Sunday 19 May Cracking Good Food are taking over Disorder MCR to raise funds to support their mission to create a fairer food system across Greater Manchester and to directly help Barnabus who provide a lifeline to the homeless in Manchester. For every ticket sold we will provide a nourishing hot meal to support the Barnabus community. Cracking Good Food delighted to be partnering with Disorder for the evening.
akt is the UK’s national LGBTQ Youth Homelessness charity. akt provide safe homes, mentoring, and support to ensure that no young person needs to choose between a safe home and being who they are. 24% of young people facing homelessness in the UK identify as LGBT (National Scoping of LGBT Youth Homelessness, akt, 2015) and 78% of LGBTQ+ young people cited an absence of family support (The LGBTQ+ Youth Homelessness Report, akt, 2021).
Comic Relief’s new funding opportunity is for UK based not-for-profit organisations that specialise in providing holistic support to young people aged 16-25 in the UK, who are at risk of, or experiencing homelessness.
Comic Relief is offering flexible, core funding in the way of grants of up to £200,000 over a three to five year period to organisations which do both of the following:
Manchester’s homelessness strategy sets out how the Council and its partners will work together towards ending homelessness. The new three-year Homelessness and Rough Sleeping strategy which covers the period 2024 to 2027 sets out how the Council will work with the voluntary, community and faith sector plus schools, health services and early help services. 
This winter, Street Support Network are partnering with Greater Manchester Homelessness Action Network (GMHAN) to launch a campaign to educate the public and businesses about how to 
volunteer effectively with homelessness organisations in Greater Manchester.
Are you a Manchester voluntary, community and social enterprise sector organisation?
Would you like to share a story of your everyday activity supporting people experiencing homelessness, as part of the second 2023 Spirit of Manchester Story Week in November?
We are looking for 20 VCSE organisations to provide stories which we will share during the week of 27 November - 1 December.
Swap your warm bed for just one night to raise vital funds to support Booth Centre's homelessness prevention work.
Macc recently managed the latest Spirit of Manchester Fund round of grants which focused on organisations that support people with the cost of living crisis. We will be sharing stories in August to show the impact of these grants and the wide range of projects that they supported. Today, we have the story from Barnabus:
This programme will support collaborations led by small charities seeking to influence and achieve local or regional change around improving the social security system, improving access to 
suitable accommodation, and support for asylum seekers and refugees. Collaborations can apply for grants of £100,000 over two years.
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