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Cost of Living Fund 2024

The Our Manchester Funds Programme Team are launching a £1 million Cost of Living Grant aimed at the Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) organisations which will be delivered via a small grant process.
 
Key Dates

Opening date 

 Wednesday 26 June 2024, 8am

Closing date

 Wednesday 24 July 2024, 5pm

Greater Manchester Systems Leadership: Active Lives – Focused Co-learning sessions (over a brew)

  • Are you involved in /interested in reducing inactivity and enabling active lives?
  • Do you find the systems you work in and the lives of the people you work with are increasingly complex?
  • Are you looking for solutions and ideas?

If you answer yes to these questions (or are simply curious) – Grab a brew and join us for online sessions (1.5 hours) every other month.

We are offering an informal, but guided space, to reflect, get curious, learn together and problem solve across traditional boundaries of sector, organisation and locality.

22 July, 2024 - 14:00 to 15:30
Online
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Greater Manchester Systems Leadership: Inclusive Leadership with Atif Choudhury, CEO of Diversity and Ability

Join us for a talk from Atif Choudhury, CEO of Diversity and Ability, all about inclusive leadership. Atif will talk about moving from awareness to practical action, covering topics such as intersectionality and anticipatory inclusion.

Diversity and Ability (D&A) is an award-winning social enterprise, led by and for disabled people. They support individuals, organisations and social justice projects to create inclusive cultures. 

18 July, 2024 - 13:00 to 15:00
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Greater Manchester Systems Leadership Approach

19 Jun 2024 - 11:47 by michelle.foster

If you work or volunteer to help people move more in Greater Manchester, you are invited to attend the workshops and events as part of the Greater Manchester Systems Leadership approach.   

Systems Leadership is all about amplifying a model of leadership that’s not about managing, but about how to make things happen, across sectors, in a collaborative way. It is designed to help you lead when you don't have positional power, levers to pull, or a large budget to wield.

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Charity Digital Academy: Master the fundamentals of Microsoft 365 administration

Microsoft 365 offers huge possibilities. But most charities simply use the most popular programmes – Word and Excel, mostly – and not particularly well. 365 has so many applications, so many hidden features, that every charity can benefit from learning its secrets. 

23 July, 2024 - 10:00 to 13:00
Online
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New advice service for asylum seeking and migrant women

13 Jun 2024 - 16:31 by michelle.foster

Do you work with asylum seeking or migrant women who are pregnant or new mothers?

Would you like to find out more about how to access specialist advice on the support and housing rights of this group?

Join Maternity Action’s online event to find out more about the new Migrant Women Housing and Support Advice Service for women and families across the Greater Manchester and Cheshire East region: 25 June 2024, 12pm - 1pm, Online via Zoom – link will be shared closer to the event

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Zuto Make A Difference Fund

12 Jun 2024 - 15:15 by michelle.foster

The Zuto Make A Difference Fund welcomes applications from grassroots community groups based in any of the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester.

The Zuto Make A Difference Fund aims to encourage and support grassroots community organisations. This means small, community-based and locally controlled groups that manage themselves, encourage people to get involved as volunteers and who just need a bit of financial help to be able to work with their community in the way they’d like.

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Movement for Good Children and Young People Special Draw

12 Jun 2024 - 15:12 by michelle.foster

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).

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The Phoenix Way Children and Youth Round 2

12 Jun 2024 - 15:11 by michelle.foster

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:

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Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales – Deaf and Disabled People's Organisations

12 Jun 2024 - 15:09 by michelle.foster

This programme is for small and local charities and CICs with an income between £25,000 to £500,000 that are led by and working with Deaf and Disabled people who are experiencing poverty. Organisations can apply for a three-year unrestricted grant of £75,000.

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