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£300,000 is available for voluntary sector activity to support mental health and wellbeing and reduce social isolation in Manchester.
Manchester City Council are particularly interested in support for the following groups:
The Institute of Voluntary Action Research (IVAR) are running free 90 minute zoom sessions for up to 12 charity leaders at a time:
You’ll hear how others are adapting to Covid-19 and have a safe space to offload any challenges you face:
The peer support is for leaders of charities, community organisations and social enterprises.
The Local Connections Fund is a new £4 million fund to help charities and community groups in England that are working to reduce loneliness by helping them build connections across their communities.
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and The National Lottery Community Fund are investing £2 million each.
From Spring 2021, The Fore is returning to its standard offer of grants of up to £30,000, which can be spread over up to 3 years. The Fore make unrestricted grants which have the potential to have a transformational impact on an organisation. Transformational impact includes helping an organisations become more sustainable, more efficient, to grow significantly or enabling an organisation to take a major step forward of some kind.
Applications for funding are invited from registered charities, CICs and voluntary organisations which work with disadvantaged people for any reason, sick, infirm or living in poverty within the Greater Manchester area.
The second round of the Culture Recovery Fund looks forward to next spring and early summer when it is expected that cultural organisations will be able to operate with fewer restrictions.
Over £300million of grants will be available, covering the period April-June, to support cultural organisations with the costs they will face as they welcome back visitors.
Media Trust are offering 30 charities that support, campaign and advocate for women, girls and those who identify as female, the opportunity to work with their own team of media and creative industry volunteers. Each team will have the combined skills to help their charity build an effective, impactful and compelling communications action plan to take forward.
Virtual events are all the rage in the charity sector, but how can you make your stand out? Charity Digital have taken a look at ten of the best virtual event ideas. With lockdown extended, virtual fundraising events and campaigns need to temporarily replace in real life ones.
Information for the bulletin is compiled from a number of sources including Grantfinder, and direct from funders themselves. It showcases just a few of the hundreds of funding opportunities available for local community, voluntary and faith organisations.
This bulletin is produced by a partnership of local support and development agencies across Greater Manchester.
Great Places Housing Group is committed to supporting their customers and communities and have established a new fund to help rebuild neighbourhoods and create more resilience in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Purpose of fund and key Great Places principles
The fund is intended to provide financial support for community groups, charities and social enterprises to implement their Covid-19 recovery strategies and to become more resilient to future economic set-backs.
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