All Capacity Building

The Big Lottery’s new strategic framework sets out what people can expect from them as a funder over the next six years. Their vision is that people should be in the lead in improving their lives and communities.

Their approach will focus on the skills, assets and energy that people can draw upon and the potential in their ideas.

The Big Lottery have laid out in their strategy that they feel that strong, vibrant communities can be built and renewed by the people living in them – making them ready for anything in the face of future opportunities and challenges.

The Tesco Charity Trust Community Awards Scheme provides one-off donations of between £500 and £2,500 to organisations which have a turnover of under £5 million. The funding goes towards providing practical benefits, such as equipment and resources for projects that directly benefit health, environmental sustainability or opportunities for young people in the local communities around Tesco stores in the UK.

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.

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.