Funding
Looking for funding? If you are a local sport partner, health partner, NGB, community organisation, school, club or independent provider, we can help.
How we can help
Here we will identify and share relevant links and opportunities for all on this one page as a central resource.
Alternatively, if you have money you would like to invest in the community and are looking to find your perfect match in Manchester, please let us know and we will make sure you’re included on here, or we will introduce you to your match.
Any additional contributions welcome, and any questions, please contact info@mcractive.com
Get in Touch
Social Prescribing Development Fund
Contact the Social Prescribing Development Fund Grants Officer, at socialprescribing@thebiglifegroup.com to express your interest in the funding.
If your project meets an identified need, you will be invited to meet with a Grants Officer to discuss your project in more detail.
The Grants Officer will outline the next steps, timescales and discuss expected monitoring of outcomes. If you wish to proceed, you will be invited to complete an application form.
Manchester Local Care Organisation
Manchester Local Care Organisation is a pioneering public sector organisation that provides your NHS community health services and adult social care services in Manchester.
Part NHS and part local authority, they work as one team across traditional organisational boundaries to this.
WLM Rising Stars Fund
We Love Manchester’s unique new Fund gives young Mancunians a helping hand to take opportunities which would otherwise be out of their reach.
With 40% of young people growing up in households classified as “in poverty” in Manchester, far too many ambitions are snuffed out before young people even get to start to fulfil them.
For people who have identified their next steps to success in work, qualifications or entrepreneurship, we can provide vital funds to support these ambitions!
If you’re a young, ambitious Mancunian who needs some help, or you work with young people and want to guide them to future success, click here to discover how the Rising Stars Fund could help.
Our Manchester Funds
The Our Manchester funds team delivers grants programmes and projects in support of Manchester’s Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) organisations and the people they work with.
The purpose of this grant programme is to support and invest in a healthy and thriving local voluntary sector, so that it can continue to support Manchester’s residents and focus on what the sector excels at in addressing some of the city’s highest priorities.
The fund is primarily aimed at supporting groups that work with adults and that address one or more of the following aims:
- Addressing inequalities and building inclusion
- Promoting communities’ health and wellbeing
- Tackling poverty
MACC Fund
Find the funding that you need
Manchester Community Central (Macc) have developed a new funding search engine that acts as a straight forward free service using information that can help voluntary, community, social enterprise sector organisations like yours to find suitable funding.
By becoming a member of Macc you will gain access to their free funding portal of funding opportunities
NIF Fund
Manchester City Council are supporting local people by encouraging groups to apply to the Neighbourhood Investment Fund (NIF). These are funds available to communities to make their neighbourhoods better places to live.
NIF is available to every ward in Manchester each year to help groups carry out events and initiatives that benefit local people and are environmentally sustainable.
The fund is open to established groups, voluntary groups and other community groups, as well as groups of residents working together for the first time. School Parent Teacher Associations can also apply if they have the support of local residents, parents and the project benefits the wider community as well as the school.
GLL Sports Foundation
Calling all Manchester athletes!
The Foundation is the largest independent support programme for talented young athletes in the UK. Last year 83 Manchester based athletes aged between 8 and 56 years old were successful in their application, with representation from a great range of sports including Taekwondo, Para Swimming, Athletics, Triathlon, Water Polo, Boxing, Cycling and Basketball.
This year’s (2026) applications have now closed and will re-open on 20th December 2026. For any enquiries, please email GLL.SportFoundation@GLL.ORG
EA Sporting Champions Scheme
The Sporting Champions scheme from Everyone Active gives talented athletes the opportunity to make use of training support and mentoring sessions to further their burgeoning careers.
Launched in 2016, the Sporting Champions scheme has been responsible for more than £1 million worth of support to over 1,000 athletes across a huge variety of disciplines; from wheelchair basketballers and swimmers to artistic gymnasts and figure skaters.
From a total of 30 Sporting Champions competing at the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, our athletes achieved a combined five gold, two silver and three bronze medals.
The programme has been designed to assist this country’s next generation of superstar athletes in making the most of their natural talents.
As an Everyone Active Sporting Champion, you’ll benefit from access to free training facilities at any of our 200-plus sports centres located all over the country, as well as to mentoring days throughout the year.
GM Moving Fund
Funding opportunities provided by Greater Manchester Moving are available to support getting people across Greater Manchester moving.
Visit their website below to find a number of local, national and self-funding opportunities to support you.
Sport England Funding
Each year Sport England invest more than £250 million of National Lottery and public money to help people play sport and take part in physical activity.
We know that applying to funding for the first time can seem a little daunting, but Sport England have provided a detailed page to guide you to the appropriate fund and explain exactly what you need to do.
Skipton Charitable Foundation
The Skipton Building Society Charitable Foundation provides grants for charities and good causes located within 25 miles of a Skipton Building Society branch.
They support projects that benefit local communities in areas such as health, homes, skills development, and employment. The maximum grant request is up to £6000 and application are reviewed quarterly.
Applications for 2026 are now open!
Access Group
The Access Group Foundation are providing grants for organisations who work to mitigate the digital divide by offering support by way of data, devices, or learning to disadvantaged and vulnerable people.
Grant amount ranges from £25,000 to £100,000.
Warm Spaces Fund
Warm Spaces Campaign in partnership with the Good Things Foundation aims to turn poverty and isolation into a sense of warmth and local connection by creating spaces crafted by and for the community.
Warm Welcome supports thousands of local groups across the UK to become and run a warm space.
Any space that is warm, welcoming and safe can register to become one on the Warm Spaces website and they can receive support in order to be able to do so.
Friends Provident Foundation
Warm Spaces Campaign in partnership with the Good Things Foundation aims to turn poverty and isolation into a sense of warmth and local connection by creating spaces crafted by and for the community.
Warm Welcome supports thousands of local groups across the UK to become and run a warm space.
Any space that is warm, welcoming and safe can register to become one on the Warm Spaces website and they can receive support in order to be able to do so.
Miller Homes Community Fund
The Miller Homes Community Fund gives you the chance to apply for a grant towards improving your community.
Grants from the fund can be used in a variety of ways to meet the needs and aspirations of people in the area where you live.
Groups can apply for a grant ranging between a minimum of £250 up to a maximum of £2,000 to help enhance the lives of individuals and the areas in which they live.
The fund will focus on causes that:
- are linked to education
- promote wellbeing
- promote the environment
- encourage participation in sport
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