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needs through early intervention, and empowering young people to fulfil their potential through the provision of safe social spaces, mentoring, work, and social skills development.
Starting this year, National Citizens Service Trust (NCST) has announced it will be awarding two different types of grants to local organisations delivering community-based experiences at a grassroots level, for the first time.
Funding is for not-for-profit organisations delivering community-based experiences at a grassroots level for young people (16- to 17-year-olds) in England.
Manchester City Council’s Digital Inclusion team have 100 laptops to award to VCSE groups and organisations working to support Manchester residents to be more digitally connected. VCSE 
groups and organisation are invited to apply for up to five free Geobooks laptops.
Asda Foundation is offering large grants of up to £25,000 for local groups across the UK who are working to improve spaces in the heart of their local community.
In 2023, there is a total funding pot of £500,000.
Grants of between £10,000 and £25,000 are available to cover between 25% and 75% of the total project costs for projects that address at least one of the following categories:
The cost-of-living crisis is having a profound and devastating effect on young people and the youth organisations they depend on as they struggle to keep up with the rising cost of inflation.
National Lottery Community Fund is supporting the five-year TRANSforming Futures project to provide solutions to the issues in healthcare and justice for transgender people across England.
The focus of the Fund is communities-led, grassroots organisations that are led by and for trans people. Broader LGBTQ+ organisations undertaking trans-specific activity that is being run by trans people will also be considered.
Formal applications are now open for the GMCA’s new Foundational Economy Innovation Fund. The fund will provide grants and support for businesses and organisations in Greater Manchester’s “foundational” or “everyday” economy to trial innovative new ideas and improved ways of working.
Manchester’s Work and Skills Strategy is a strategy for the city. It sets out how Manchester City Council will use learning and employment to meet the Our Manchester Strategy vision of being a more highly skilled city, and how Manchester City Council will help create a more inclusive and zero-carbon economy in Manchester where more residents are connected to the city’s success
Are you part of a Manchester-based community group? Has your group got an innovative project idea to help your community come together around nature to take positive action on the environment? Want to be part of one of the biggest community climate campaigns in Manchester?
The CSJ has doubled the prize fund for its prestigious small charity awards which honour the best grassroots poverty-fighting charities and social enterprises across Britain. Award winners in 2023 
will each receive £20,000, together with a national platform to showcase their work to senior politicians, journalists and philanthropists.
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