Postcode Community Trust Community Sports programme
The Community Sports programme allows not-for-profit sports groups to apply for set packages of goods, which are then distributed to successful applicants.
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The Community Sports programme allows not-for-profit sports groups to apply for set packages of goods, which are then distributed to successful applicants.
The Hedley Foundation's principal aim is 'to effect change for the better in the lives of young people'. The Foundation makes grants to UK registered charities working with young people in the areas of Recreation, Sport, Training, Health and Welfare, Support and outdoor Education of young people between the ages of 11 and 25.
Each year the trustees of the Woodward Charitable Trust set aside funds for summer playschemes for children between the ages of 5-16 years.
Trustees only fund programmes that run for a minimum of 2 weeks or 10 days across the summer holidays.
Grants can only be paid to registered charities. Most grants awarded are in the range of £500 to £1,000. Around 35 grants are made each year.
The Galaxy Hot Chocolate Fund helps small, local community groups and charities by donating cash awards to support warm hearted people and projects. The Galaxy Hot Chocolate Fund is now in its sixth year and has helped to support more than 150,000 people through its campaigns.
The Co-operative Foundation is looking for up to 5 new partners to help them tackle loneliness among disadvantaged young people.
In 2011 Manchester took the decision to address the fragmented VCSE infrastructure in the city by combining it into a single body. Effectively this arrangement has only been in place since 2012 and has already been re-tendered once (where Macc was the successful bidder).
The Postcode Local Trust has changed its funding themes and application process, and is currently open for its first funding round of 2017. In 2017, the Trust is looking to fund projects that are of local importance, with a particular focus on projects that improve the environment for the benefit of local communities and encourage conservation action at a local level.
The Vegetarian Society is making grants of up to £2,000 for activities or events to celebrate National Vegetarian Week. The Week runs from 15-21 May this year, and activities that take place in that period or the two weeks before are eligible for funding. Activities and events must promote National Vegetarian Week, and must be exclusively vegetarian or vegan - events serving non-vegetarian food will not be funded.
Do you have a short-term project that enterprise-minded students could help with?
The University of Manchester are currently sourcing community projects for their Manchester Enterprise Challenge, a programme that combines an academic unit on enterprise with a project working with a locally based not-for-profit organisation or social enterprise.
The Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner are currently delivering a programme, funded by the Home Office Police Innovation Fund, known as ACCORD. This is a whole-system approach to sex offender management through an accurate assessment of risk and delivery of: partnership working; innovation in technology and practices; increased efficiency; public engagement and; re-designing interventions.