Cost of Living Crisis Partnership Grants

THIS PROGRAMME IS NOW CLOSED TO APPLICATIONS

Three £4,000 development grants are available to established partnerships of voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations that are working to relieve the effect of the cost of living crisis for people in Manchester.

There is one £4,000 grant each for north, central and south areas of the city, £12,000 in total. Grant holders must have spent their funding no later than March 2025, though preferably sooner.

Who do we want to hear from?
We are inviting expressions of interest from partnerships already delivering anti-poverty measures to people struggling the most during the cost of living crisis. Unfortunately, newly established partnerships – those that have existed for less than 12 months – will not be eligible.

Please read the guidance and the form in full. Deadline: 12 noon on Thursday 4 July 2024.

A single registered, fully constituted VCSE organisation can submit an expression of interest on behalf of the partnership, for which you must have the consent of all the member organisations.

What are we trying to achieve?
We aim to help sustain, encourage, develop and strengthen partnerships that have experience of successfully working together.

This funding seeks to support existing organisational costs, not necessarily new activity, and we want to find out from established local partnerships what kinds of cost are involved.

Please submit an expression of interest if yours is a partnership that:

• Consists of two or more VCSE organisations
• Has been working together and delivering any kind of cost of living crisis-related activities for at least 12 months (and could provide evidence of this if asked at a later date)
• Works within the north or central or south areas of Manchester city (due to funding limitations monies are available only within those areas, unfortunately there can be no overlap)

We are particularly keen to hear from:

• Partnerships led (at least in part) by representatives of marginalised communities supported by the partnership
• Culturally relevant and diverse community partnerships serving marginalised communities
• Partnerships that include the involvement of smaller-sized VCSE organisations

Queries about this process
For general queries about this expression of interest process, please email Oliver Cranfield at Macc via [email protected]

What happens after the deadline closes?
Macc will assess the information received and then get in touch with all partnerships that have expressed interest. We will offer the three funding awards to one partnership in each area of Manchester.

Subsequent to standard basic due diligence checks on the successful applicants, we aim for chosen partnerships to have received their money by summer 2024. They must spend it by no later than March 2025.