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This fund offers grants and support to social ventures to understand and improve their social impact and demonstrate improvements to investors and commissioners.
Fourteen is a programme funded by Spirit of 2012, a charity set up by the Big Lottery Fund to connect events to communities across the country; tackling disadvantage by supporting opportunities in sport, physical activity, culture and the arts, volunteering and social action.
Forever Manchester is managing the Fourteen programme in Manchester, where it will support the communities of Harpurhey and Moston. As part of this work they are delivering a range of activity, which includes FM awards.
VYM is offering a series of free workshops for the voluntary youth sector, especially Youth and Play funded organisations. The purpose of these workshops is to offer you the support and training to use effective tools and resources that will help you demonstrate quality and outcomes, to manage and use data, to understand what it takes to submit effective tenders, and to aid your financial reporting.
Manchester wants to end hate crime by building on the City's reputation for celebrating diversity. You can help do this by holding an event or activity in your neighbourhood during Hate Crime Awareness Week 2016. Events should raise awareness of hate crime and encourage reporting.
Grow Wild is awarding funding of £1,000 to £4,000 to community groups that want to bring people together to transform a communal space by sowing and growing UK native plants.
Grow Wild are looking to fund at least 60 groups in 2016 across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. There’s a lot of support available from the team during the three month application window in autumn 2015.
BBC Children in Need’s vision is that children and young people in the UK have a safe, happy and secure childhood and the chance to reach their potential.
Their role in achieving this vision is by making grants to charities and other non-profit organisations that support and work with children and young people who are disadvantaged and face challenges in their lives.
The Department of Communities and Local Government is inviting local community groups in deprived urban areas across England (excluding London) to apply for one-time funding to create a pocket park.
The Pocket Parks Programme has been established with £1.5 million in funding from the Department of Communities and Local Government with the objective of delivering up to 100 pocket parks across deprived urban areas (excluding London) in England.
Do you have an enterprising idea? You might be able to get some funding to test it out.
If you have an idea for an enterprise that will benefit people in your community or you’ve just started a new social enterprise we may be able to help. GMCVO is looking to support potential social entrepreneurs in Greater Manchester to explore and test their ideas. Through UnLtd, a national Social Enterprise support organisation, GMCVO are offering a package of start-up funding and advice to enable people with enterprising ideas to make a positive social impact in local communities.
The Social Mobility Foundation supports ambitious young people from less-privileged backgrounds to access top universities and careers. They run completely free of charge programmes featuring mentoring, internships with top companies, university application support, as well as professional development and skills workshops for high achieving Year 12s across the UK. The charity provides support in 11 professional sectors, including Law, Medicine and Politics. Support continues throughout university to help young people obtain graduate jobs.
A leadership programme for women that aims to:
• Develop skills in resolving conflict
• Support Individuals to communicate effectively
• Facilitate community dialogue
• Strengthen leadership capacity in communities
• Become active peace builders
The sessions continue from 12 November, and every following Thursday.
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