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Revive helps people establish safe new lives in Manchester after the trauma of fleeing their homelands. They offer immigration, housing, benefits and social care casework and an enrichment programme to reduce social isolation and support language skills. Their service users are disproportionately affected by the cost of living crisis - often having no recourse to public funds and being prevented from working. Those who can work tend to be in low paid employment because their qualifications and experience aren’t transferrable.
Caritas Aspire Business offers two distinct services for refugees. The first service is called Up Collective, which is a 12-week course designed for early-stage refugee entrepreneurs. It provides them with foundational knowledge in business and offers a testing event where they can interact with real customers to receive feedback on their business prototypes. Additionally, participants receive personalised support from a business coach and mentor to refine their ideas and adapt their business offerings for the UK market.
Manchester City of Sanctuary offer a varied and dynamic programme of activities to refugees and asylum seekers that are engaging, fun and promote positive mental health and wellbeing. Their mission is to make Manchester a welcoming place for these individuals. The North West has the second highest number of asylum seekers of any UK region with 16 per 10,000 people. Volunteering is known to be beneficial for both individuals and the wider community.
Yaran Northwest was set up in 2014. They are a bilingual team of community health workers, psychologists, therapists, and community connectors who are specialists in working with BAME communities. They have a well-established reach into the BAME community, deep cultural understanding, and a wide variety of skills in languages other than English, such as Farsi, Dari, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish and Kurdish. They have personal experience of immigration, dealing with mental health issues and being resilient.
Bike libraries are local hubs that will allow people to borrow a bicycle, like a book, to try out. They aim to boost access to cycles and give people a chance to give cycling a go.
Bike libraries are generally based in the heart of a community, within easy reach by foot, in places such as community centres, schools, village halls or local business premises.
The Sport England Small Grants programme provides funding to remove barriers to participation in physical activity and improve community sport provision. Grants of £300 to £15,000 are available to projects across England.
The aim of the fund is to bring communities together and provide sport and physical activities for people who may be less physically active.
The Great Big Green Week is the UK’s biggest ever celebration of community action to tackle climate change and protect nature.
Every year, people come together to unleash a wave of support for action to protect the planet. Tens of thousands of people in every corner of the country celebrate the heartfelt, brave, everyday actions being taken to stand up for nature and fight climate change.
The People’s Powerhouse want an interconnected North – a place where Northern communities, campaigning organisations, individuals, civic bodies, and people-powered businesses can support 
each other to maximise social impact. Whether you’re a movement of change-makers, a company working for the social good, or have an ongoing project that deserves to be heard about, the Community Map is the platform to shout about it.
Voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations across the UK and Isle of Man can now apply for grants from the Co-op Local Community Fund, which allows Co-op members to support the projects they care most about.
The grants will be awarded for projects around Co-op food stores and funeral homes that:
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