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Walk for Women
Manchester’s Walk for Women is back on Saturday 9 March 2024. The walk will begin at Mount Street, behind Central Library, at 12pm and walking through Albert Square and down Deansgate to Manchester Cathedral.
The Youth-Led Creativity programme builds on young people's power to make change, use creativity to enhance their lives, develop their careers, and influence the world around them.
The funding is focused on work led by and for young people (aged 14 to 30) who have less access to creative programmes or who are underrepresented in arts and culture. 
This includes young people who:
Centre for Ageing Better are looking for up to 10 people to work with them over 18 months as part of an advisory group overseeing a new piece of research about the experience of Disabled older people. 
I helped host and attended an event made for upcoming systems leaders in Greater Manchester. You might ask - ‘what and who is a systems leader?’. A systems leader is collaborative, part of a network of people in different places and at different levels, with a shared purpose, co-operating to make significant change.
So that means you and me and the person next to you in the line at a coffee shop on our shared purpose to get coffee before the 9 am rush... well, kind of! We just need to define a few things like shared purpose and collaborative bahaviours.
Movement for Good’s first £5,000 draw of 2024 opens for five days only on 19-23 February 2024.
To support the incredible work that so many charities do to support Animals and Wildlife, the first special draw of the year will award £5,000 to 10 charities working in this area. 
5 days, 10 charities, £5,000 each.
Leading Greater Manchester based male sexual abuse charity, We Are Survivors (formally Survivors Manchester) has announced the award of an NHS England contract to deliver trauma-informed talking therapy to survivors in custody across the fifteen North West prisons. 
The Barclays Community Football Fund is helping to reduce inequalities in football by supporting community groups that need it most. The 2024 grant programme focuses on groups operating in areas of high deprivation and supporting young people from underrepresented groups. 
This funding is for organisations working together in partnership to help their community. By community this fund means people living in the same area, or people with similar interests or life experiences. Grants of £20,001 or more, for up to five years are available.
The National Lottery Community Fund can fund projects or partnerships that’ll do at least one of these things:
Nisa’s Making a Difference Locally charity has announced the launch of its first Heart of the Community Awards for 2024.
The awards will be supporting food pantries across the UK with an overall £50,000 fund available for Nisa retailers to nominate local causes. The donations of up to £1,000 per store will help food pantries provide essential food and other supplies to people in need. 
Do you work with children and/or adults at risk in Manchester?
Manchester Safeguarding Partnership is currently conducting a workforce survey and is keen to hear from frontline staff and operational managers across statutory and wider partners who work with children and/or adults at risk in Manchester. This is an opportunity for staff to have their say on safeguarding in Manchester.
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