The Hate Crime Awareness Summer-Autumn 2024 Grants Programme is offering twenty awards of £500 to help tackle hatred and discrimination. Only projects delivered in the city of Manchester between August and October 2024 can be funded.
Through Manchester City Council and Manchester Community Safety Partnership, Greater Manchester Combined Authority makes funding available annually to support projects across the city that promote awareness of hate crime and how to report it. Macc administers this grants programme on behalf of the Council.
Aims of the Hate Crime Awareness Grants Programme
The four key priorities of the GM Hate Crime plan are:
- Prevention – bringing people together to promote cohesion and celebrate diversity in our communities
- Raising awareness of hate crime
- Increasing reporting - ensuring people know how hate crimes can be reported
- Improving the victim experience from the point of reporting to a resolution of the crime
We want to continue funding local organisations to raise awareness of and challenge hate crimes and incidents in support of the priorities above.
However as well for this Summer/Autumn round of grant funding, we would like to see incorporated into your applications a focus on either:
1. The theme of intersectionality, which is about those people who experience more than one strand of hate crime/incidents
And/or:
2. The barriers that people face in reporting a hate crime or incident
Information on all aspects of the programme is in the guidance, including:
- Who can apply for this funding
- What is a hate crime or incident
- Intersectionality and barriers
- Third-Party Reporting Centres
- How to get free support to complete your application (for groups new to the programme or who were previously unsuccessful)
- What can and cannot be funded and how to complete the application
- How funding decisions will be made
- Due diligence checks on successful applicants
- End of project monitoring
To apply for Hate Crime Awareness Grant, please use the application form
The deadline for applications is 12pm midday on Thursday 27 June 2024. Applications should be emailed to [email protected]
Macc will notify all applicants as to whether their application is successful during the week commencing Monday 15 July. If successful, grants will be paid in one tranche of money, subject to completion of standard due diligence checks (see “Due diligence” section in the guidance).
If you have general questions about this funding, please contact Oliver at Macc via [email protected]
The following is a link to Macc’s Data Protection Policy, which contains information on how we will handle information you submit – Data Protection Policy