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Community Business Trade Up Programme

Aims/priorities: The programme aims to support early stage community businesses across England by helping them to:

  • Grow a stronger, more sustainable community business or project.
  • Recover and rebuild income from trading and sales.
  • Benefit from time to reflect and map out next steps.
  • Improve leadership and business skills.
  • Build a local support network of other people running similar organisations.

Who can apply? Community businesses in England are eligible to apply, including:

Greater Manchester Green Spaces Fund

Aims/priorities: 

This fund will support projects that take place within Greater Manchester and make the city-region greener, whilst tackling inequalities in access to green spaces and improving accessible spaces through physical improvements to make them better places for nature and people. These projects can take place in parks, community gardens, streets, schools, housing estates, canals/streams/rivers, and existing nature reserves.

The fund is focused on three principles:

Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) – Project Viability Grants for England

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to help not-for-profit organisations establish whether their project is feasible, ie, how does the proposed particular piece of work or activity help move the project forward and contribute towards revitalising a historic building. At the end of the funded work, organisations should be able to decide whether to commit to further costs, risk and effort in developing their project and have a clear idea of the next steps to be taken.

Applications are welcome from across England, but priority will be given to projects that:

Scops Arts Trust

Aims/priorities: The aim of the Trust is to give people of all ages a better quality of life by enabling them to understand, participate in and enjoy the arts, particularly the performing arts (music, drama, opera and dance).

Who can apply? The Trust mostly supports registered charities.

Applications will also be considered from social enterprises, community groups, and other third sector organisations, as long as they are formally constituted and have clear charitable purposes.

Triangle Trust 1949 Fund

Aims/priorities: As of April 2023, the Trust focuses exclusively on young offenders and young people who are at risk of offending. There are two rounds per year:

  • Spring - young people with criminal convictions.
  • Autumn - young people who are at high risk of committing a first offence.

Who can apply? Registered charities, not-for-profit social enterprises and community interest companies that are working within the UK and have a UK office are eligible to apply.

To be eligible for round one, applicants must:

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