In Season 9 of the Meet the Mancunian Podcast, host Deepa Thomas-Sutcliffe collaborates with the Spirit of Manchester Awards to feature interviews with award winners and nominees from the city's voluntary and community sector.
Feeling creative? Groundwork is running a series of free workshops to learn new skills around upcycling and repurposing of textile waste, turning unusable into new creations.
Manchester and Salford workshops starting in October 2024.
Open to residents 16+ no prior experience necessary.
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The Tree Council is offering grants of between £250 and £2,500 for schools, constituted community groups and charities, community interest companies, Tree Warden networks, and other organisations across the UK to deliver tree-planting projects during the 2024/25 Winter planting season (between the end of November 2024 and early February 2025).
Through the Branching Out Fund, groups can purchase:
The International Tree Foundation is offering grants for community-based organisations across the UK to deliver tree-planting projects that protect and restore indigenous trees and woodlands, support community engagement in tree planting, and increase awareness of the importance of trees and forests to environmental and human well-being.
The UK Community Tree Planting Programme will support projects that meet the following essential criteria:
As net zero approaches, understanding and managing your organisation’s carbon footprint is more critical than ever. UK business leaders are invited to join this free webinar where a panel of carbon experts will provide practical tips and actionable advice on accurately calculating your company's carbon emissions.
North West Net Zero Hub is administering our regional £2Million share of the Community Energy Fund (CEF) a £10Million grant programme open to community groups and eligible third sector organisations in England to develop projects from feasibility to commercialisation.
The funding will support eligible community groups to consider options, design schemes and overcome barriers to investment. It should be noted that it will not provide a grant for capital investment in the projects themselves.
Calling all community gardeners and growers, people working on food sovereignty, land rights and towards more resilient and just food systems! We face many intersecting crises that have the same root causes – and yet we often remain siloed in our social movements.
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.
The Greater Manchester Environment Fund (GMEF) is accepting applications from charities and other not-for-profit organisations across Greater Manchester for Round Five of the Greater Manchester Green Spaces Fund.
Grants of between £2,000 and £40,000 are available for local organisations to create or improve green spaces, including but not limited to: