Children and Families

Through its Community Grants programme Warburtons provides a limited number of grants of up to £400 four times a year. The small grants are to benefit British families in need.

Applications will be considered from not-for-profit organisations with charitable purposes that are based and working in England, Scotland or Wales as long as their projects are addressing one of Warburtons' priority areas:
Health – supporting families to care for each other and lead healthier lives:

Are you struggling with your pregnancy?

Do you feel isolated?

Would you like extra support?

Volunteer Apis are fully trained to support you throughout your pregnancy and up to 28 days after birth. They can also:

The school holidays will soon be here. With (hopefully) warmer weather, the summer holidays can be a great opportunity to take a break and spend some time with the family. But don’t let an unexpected illness or injury spoil the summer fun. This toolkit includes information on how to keep kids safe and well this summer – as well as signposting for food banks and support if you’re feeling isolated, because we know summer can be tough.

NHS Greater Manchester want to make sure people are well prepared and know where to go to get the care they need as quickly as possible.

Macc is delighted to announce that, following an open tender process, we have once again been successful in securing the contract with Manchester City Council to deliver infrastructure support to the city's voluntary, community, and social enterprise (VCSE) sector. This work enables us to support charities, community groups (including the community work done by faith organisations), voluntary groups, and social enterprises to be healthy, sustainable, well-run and above all, impactful for our communities.

This six-day programme is filled with FREE, fun activities and events that are designed to support your child's development from conception to 2 years old. There's something for everyone, like workshops, play sessions, free swimming, and much more. The events were carefully designed to help your child learn, all whilst having a blast!

Baby Week is city-wide, with events taking place in Manchester’s cultural venues, leisure centres, your local Sure Start Children’s Centres and Family Hubs, finishing with Family Fun Days in parks on Saturday.

5 days, 10 charities, £5,000 each – nominations open for five days, from 17 – 21 June 2024. To support the incredible work that so many charities do to support children and young people, our third special draw of the year will award £5,000 to 10 charities working in this area.

This special draw is open to charities whose core charitable purpose is to support children and young people (aged 23 and under).

The latest £2.2 million funding round is now open dedicated to non-profit organisations working with Black and racially minoritised young people at risk of violence.

This second round of the Children and Youth grant offers individual project grants ranging from £50,000 to £75,000. Funding can be used to support a new project, an existing project, or the expansion of a project.

Eligible non-profit groups, organisations or charities must meet the following criteria:

The 10 Healthwatch in Greater Manchester are undertaking a Pathways to CAMHS project which is researching the mental health and wellbeing of young people and their experiences accessing or trying to access services.

Families across Greater Manchester speak about the challenges they experience trying to access CAMHS services for their child / children. As part of Pathways to CAMHS project, Healthwatch are coordinating discussion sessions in a focus group format to capture the experiences of families across the 10 boroughs of Greater Manchester.

Aims and priorities
The purpose of the grant scheme is to improve outcomes for children and families through:

Do you work with children and/or adults at risk in Manchester?

Manchester Safeguarding Partnership is currently conducting a workforce survey and is keen to hear from frontline staff and operational managers across statutory and wider partners who work with children and/or adults at risk in Manchester. This is an opportunity for staff to have their say on safeguarding in Manchester.