Capacity Building

As long-standing supporters of gender equality Manchester City Council support activities every March to promote and celebrate International Women’s Day. The third annual Walk for Women takes place on Saturday 7 March 2020, and Manchester City Council want as many people and organisations as possible to join in.

Voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) groups and organisations in each of the local authority areas of Greater Manchester are being sought to provide peer support opportunities for parents, carers and families of children with suspected or diagnosed Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD).

Between November 2019 and June 2020 GMCVO will be giving out a total of £225,000 in grants to VCSE organisations to get Greater Manchester Walking.

Core funding grants are now available for small and local charities through a new simplified, more flexible and transparent approach.

Lloyds Bank Foundation have refined and improved their approach to funding to better help you be stronger and more effective.

This new approach involves:

The Human Lending Library®, which matches charity and social enterprise leaders with successful entrepreneurs as mentors, has opened in Manchester.

Launched by the charity Expert Impact, the initiative has seen more than 200 leaders of social enterprises and charities ‘borrow’ an Expert for advice on improving their organisations and increasing their social impact.

Funded by the Co-op Foundation’s Building Connections fund, The Children’s Society are delivering a year-long programme of work which aims to reduce loneliness and isolation amongst young carers.

Information for the bulletin is compiled from a number of sources including Grantfinder, and direct from funders themselves. It showcases just a few of the hundreds of funding opportunities available for local community, voluntary and faith organisations.

This bulletin is produced by a partnership of local support and development agencies across Greater Manchester.

Established to celebrate and support ambitious charities working in the fields of Youth, Welfare and Community, the Garfield Weston Foundation are calling for charity leaders in the North West who would benefit from mentoring and coaching support to steer their organisation to the next stage in its development.

From October 2019 The Woodward Charitable Trust Trustees will only make grants towards core costs rather than specific projects as they recognise that smaller charities can find these hard to fund.

Funding Priorities
Trustees will consider applications for core costs, which will achieve a positive impact in at least one of the following areas:

The Community Volunteering Charity (TCV) have 350,000 carbon busting trees to give away to community groups and volunteers for free.

Throughout the bare-root planting season of 2019/20, TCV are aiming to plant even more trees – another 350,000+ trees in over 800 green spaces across the UK which will be achieved with approximately 37,000 hours of community volunteering for everyone to grow.