All Health and Wellbeing

Shaping Care Fund

Capturing the Voice of Cared for Children and Care Experienced Young People in Greater Manchester’s Regional Care Cooperative Pathfinder.

Grants to support Greater Manchester based VCSE organisations engage with Cared for Children and Care Experienced Young People to give voice to their needs and wants from the care system.
Are you a VCSE organisation working with Cared for Children and/or Care Experienced Young People in Greater Manchester? Are you interested in supporting young people give their voice to the shaping of the GM’s emerging Regional Care Cooperative (RCC)?

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Wellbeing workshops for charities in Trafford and East Manchester

BMS Wellbeing is offering free wellbeing workshops for staff in charities and individuals that access your organisation.

The workshops include:

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Join the Making Manchester Fairer Network

Manchester City Council want to hear from passionate people from all over Manchester whose experiences and ideas will shape how to provide opportunities for and improve the health of Manchester residents.

Manchester City Council want to create a community forum made up of people who reflect the diversity of Manchester’s population, and want to find new faces and new voices to join conversations, share opinions and influence decisions that affect you, your family, your friends and your community.

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Policy and Influence

GM Funders Forum briefing: Live Well

23 July, 2024 - 10:00 to 11:00

This briefing will give GM Funders Forum members the opportunity to connect to the work of Live Well, and explore the potential for collaboration and alignment with a Live Well Fund, to be launched as a prototype later this year.

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Applications for Cohort 2 of the Fairer Health for All Fellowship programme are now open

Do you work in Greater Manchester and are passionate about improving health inequalities? Do you want to ensure people have the best possible health and wellbeing, no matter who they are or where they live? Do you have an idea for how we can create fairer health?

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Health Scrutiny Committee - May 22nd, 2024

By Emily McKinnell

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Sharing local approaches to increasing take-up of healthy start

18 July, 2024 - 15:30 to 17:00

Hear from Feeding Britain partners who will share their good practice on local approaches to increasing take-up of Healthy Start.

You can sign up to attend or receive a copy of the recording here

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NHS Blood and Transplant’s Community Grants Programme

The Community Grants Programme is part of NHS Blood and Transplant’s commitment to build support for blood, organ, and living kidney donation among Black, Asian, mixed heritage, and minority ethnic communities.

The funding is for community, faith and belief organisations to drive awareness, understanding and behaviour change. Trusted local organisations can be effective at achieving these goals due to their specialist knowledge, understanding and footprint in the community.

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MCRactive European Capital of Cycling Small Grant Scheme

Manchester has been awarded the title of European Capital of Cycling (ECC) 2024. As part of this award Manchester Active is offering small grants to community groups to engage children and young people between the ages of 6-16 years in cycling, including putting on events and activities.

Manchester Active are offering grants of up to £500, however in exceptional circumstances or for multiple events, they will consider awarding grants of up to £1,000.

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Hubbub and Starbuck’s Eat it Up Fund

The Eat it Up Fund was created last year with funding provided by Starbucks (using the money coming from Starbucks 5p cup charge) in partnership with Hubbub Foundation UK, an environmental charity.

Now in its second year, the grant fund is offering six grants of £60,000 each to support innovative ideas to tackle food waste in the UK. The grant must be used within a year.

The fund will support UK registered organisations with an early-stage food waste project with potential for impact at scale.

The funding is for initiatives that do one or more of the following:

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