Capacity Building

Young Manchester are delighted to partner with Manchester Community Safety Partnership to launch the Keeping Children and Young People Safe in Manchester grants. Grants of up to £25,000 are available for organisations in the VCSE sector who want to explore and evidence approaches to tackling violence which impacts on children and young people.

Manchester Health and Care Commissioning is investing £1.061m over 2 years into an Older People fund. The primary aim of the fund is to increase the health and well-being of older people in every one of the 12 neighbourhoods of Manchester. 

Apply for funding of up to £10,000 for community projects in the Granada region that promotes heart health.

Community organisations across England can now apply for grants of up to £35,000 to help young people have a say in how community spaces are managed. The Fund is expected to make up to eight grants, available for one year. Successful applicants will have the opportunity to re-apply for up to two years' further funding, to build on their learning and focus on sustaining their impact.

Virgin Money Foundation are on a mission to support community regeneration by backing people who can make big changes happen locally.

Virgin Money Foundation love helping local communities thrive – and they’d love to see applications from community organisations working at the heart of Manchester.

The VCSE Devolution Reference Group with support from colleagues at the GMCA have developed a VCSE Policy Position Paper which sets out a long term ambition for the VCSE sector in Greater Manchester.

Share your views on the draft Paper. Does it describe a way forward that is meaningful for all VCSE organisations?

This September, The Prince's Trust will be launching their Get Into Technology programme in Manchester - run in partnership with Amazon Web Services (part of their Re/Start initiative) and Generation.

This free 12-week programme will provide training to young people aged 18 - 29 to become Cloud Operations Engineers, with a guaranteed interview with a tech employer at the end of the programme.

Are you a local group that wants to set up a community business? Do you run a community business with plans to expand? Then this could be the fund for you.

Crowdfunder and Power To Change have partnered to make your crowdfunding go further. Whatever you raise for your community business project, Power To Change will match 50% (up to £6,000). 

Are you a Manchester voluntary, community and social enterprise sector organisation? Would you like to share a story of your activity to tackle the climate emergency, as part of the 2019 Spirit of Manchester Story Week in September?

We are looking for 20 VCSE organisations to share their stories during the week of 23-27 September.

People's Postcode Trust provides funding for projects in Great Britain for the following themes:
• Promoting human rights
• Combatting discrimination
• Poverty prevention

Funding is available for projects of up to 12 months in length ranging from £500 up to £20,000 in Scotland, England and Wales.