Capacity Building

Youth Endowment Fund: Psychological Therapies

The Youth Endowment Fund was established in 2019 by children’s charity Impetus with a £200 million endowment and 10-year mandate from the Home Office. It is now half-way through its 10-year endowment, having funded hundreds of interventions for violence affecting young people across England and Wales and evaluated their impact ‘at a scale that’s never been done before’.

Women and Girls Match Fund

BigGive are passionate about empowering women and girls to dream freely, achieve proudly and live boldly.

Through their Women and Girls Match Fund, BigGive are committed to working with exceptional charities, dedicated to serving the women and girls in communities, fostering a future where every individual can thrive without limitations.

VCFSE Community Funding for Ukraine Support

North West Regional Strategic Migration Partnership (RSMP) is offering grants of between £1,000 and £2,000 for voluntary, community, faith, and social enterprise sector organisations to provide a variety of services for Ukrainians and their hosts living in Northwest of England.

The Community Funding for Ukraine Support Programme will support projects and activities such as:

Recycle for Greater Manchester Community Fund

The Recycle for Greater Manchester Community Fund (2024 – 2025) is a joint Recycle for Greater Manchester and SUEZ initiative to support the Greater Manchester Community and Voluntary Sector to deliver projects which prevent, reuse or recycle household waste, promote sustainable use of waste and resources and generate wider social benefits for the community of Greater Manchester.

A total of £220,000 grant funding is available for distribution in two grant sizes.

Lloyds Bank Foundation Racial equity programme

People from racially minoritised communities are 2.5 times more likely to be in poverty than white people. This programme is for small local charities and CICs which are led by and working with people who are experiencing economic inequity because of their race or ethnicity. This programme combines unrestricted funding of £75,000 over three years and a breadth of tailored support.

This programme is aimed at registered charities and CICs which are led by and working with people who are experiencing economic inequity because of their race or ethnicity.

Tesco Stronger Starts – Footie for All Fund

Tesco and the newspaper, The Sun, have joined together for a second year to provide a total of £150,000 to encourage more children and young people to take up football or improve access to the game.

The grants are part of The Sun’s Footie for All campaign to highlight how financial struggles are forcing young people to give up football.

The funding is designed to provide support to grassroots football organisations working with children under the age of 18 to enable them to continue to deliver activities that allow local young people to take part.

Grant funding for social businesses providing cost of living support

GMCVO are offering grants between £1,000 and £10,000 to social enterprises and trading charities who provide services to people and communities that are experiencing acute cost of living pressures.

Funded by Access – The Foundation for Social Investment, the grants aim to sustain the provision of essential community services and boost the sustainability of grantee organisations. The grants will be accompanied by enterprising activity support delivered by GMCVO.

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