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Grants for voluntary and community groups to improve services for young people with autism

20 Mar 2015 - 12:40 by michelle.foster

If you're a voluntary or community group, you can apply for a grant of between £500 and £18,500 to improve services for 14-25 year olds with autism.

Manchester City Council would like to see applications that maximise the impact of the grant by combining it with your own resources or using it to get external funding.

Manchester City Council are also keen to see services that will help young people in the transition into adulthood.

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The Triangle Trust 1949 Fund Development Grants for organisations working with carers

20 Mar 2015 - 12:34 by michelle.foster

The Triangle Trust 1949 Fund Development Grants for organisations working with carers provide funds towards your organisation’s core costs to support the development of a solid foundation for the long-term. The Trust would like to see applicants use these grants to develop sustainable income sources, so that when the grant comes to end your organisation’s income will not be reduced.

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Nominet Trust - Social Tech Seed Fund

20 Mar 2015 - 12:33 by michelle.foster

Social Tech Seed is an open grant-funding programme that offers early-stage investment to social entrepreneurs and charities that are looking to develop new projects using digital technology for social impact. This programme will provide funding and support to help entrepreneurs nurture, develop and test their ideas.

This programme will provide funding and support to help ventures in developing their ideas into a more robust digital product or service.

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Santander Social Enterprise Development Awards

13 Mar 2015 - 11:45 by michelle.foster

The Santander Social Enterprise Development Awards (SEDA) aim to support social enterprises and charities with trading activities looking to grow their business and improve their local community.

The Development Awards are targeted at established social ventures that have ambitions to develop their organisation but need a financial boost to help them realise their potential. SEDA is an annual competition with winners selected on the strength of their business plan for growth.

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Lloyds Bank and Bank of Scotland Social Entrepreneurs Programme

13 Mar 2015 - 11:39 by michelle.foster

The programme has three core elements: a 14 day course, one to one business mentoring and a grant. The programme is split into two categories:

Start Up - will help you get a new organisation up and running
Scale Up - will help you grow an existing social enterprise

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Grants for voluntary and community groups to help domestic abuse survivors/victims

9 Mar 2015 - 13:38 by michelle.foster

If you're a voluntary or community group, you can apply for a grant of £50,000 to provide a recovery programme for survivors/victims of domestic violence and abuse.

The full £50,000 will be awarded to one successful applicant. Half will be paid as soon as possible, and the other half in November 2015, after a review of what you've done.

You can apply on behalf of your organisation or, if you're working with another organisation, you can apply together.

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Manchester Community Central Funding Portal - recent changes

6 Mar 2015 - 11:06 by cheryl.mcalister

Manchester Community Central Funding Portal is our FREE funding search engine using information from IDOX Information Solutions that can help voluntary, charitable and community groups like yours to find suitable funding.

The funding portal has recently been upgraded and for those who currently use the funding search engine you may notice a few subtle changes with its appearance and conducting searches.

To visit the funding portal please click here

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Community Buildings and Housing - Grants and Support

6 Mar 2015 - 10:27 by michelle.foster

There are two types of grants available for Community Buildings and Housing:
• Community Buildings Pre-Feasibility Grant
• Community Buildings Project Grant

Community Buildings Pre-Feasibility Grant
Amount of grant available: Between £1,000 and £10,000

This grant will help you assess the feasibility of a community buildings project prior to submitting a Community Right to Build Order or (in the case of community-led housing projects only), a traditional planning application.

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Fund to empower women to tackle abuse

6 Mar 2015 - 10:26 by michelle.foster

The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has launched the Women’s Empowerment Fund. The Fund is £250k in total and voluntary and community groups whose primary objective is to work with women in the community are invited to apply for funding for local community engagement projects that empower women.

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Community Clear Up, 20 and 21 March 2015 - Get your free clear up kit

6 Mar 2015 - 10:19 by michelle.foster

Saturday 21 March is the start of spring, and it's also National Community Clear Up Day. Join in with thousands of others across Manchester and the rest of the country and get together, roll up your sleeves and spring clean your neighbourhood.

If you and your neighbours, friends, family, communities or colleagues want to take part Manchester City Council can help by giving you a Clear Up Kit with litter picking tools and equipment to get you started. Your clear up day can take place on Friday 20 March or Saturday 21 March.

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