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Connected communities
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Connected communities
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Connected communities
External Funding Strategy
External Funding gained at year end (target £500,000)
You Said, We Did: External Funding
In summer 2023, we chatted to you about external funding themes and principles for our strategy. Through face-to-face consultations in various neighbourhoods, and online sessions, 76 customers shared their perspectives.
The key themes from these discussions showed the significance of giving support to customers to help people with their health and wellbeing; cost of living increases; and employment and skills support.
Based on this feedback, we’ve developed our new External Funding Strategy in line with customer priorities. We’ve already seen the impact and managed to secure:
£10,000 to help customers with Cost of Living support (as well as our Thrive Fund)
Funding for employment and skills for customers
Funding for supporting the wellbeing of Independent Living Scheme residents
Funding for supporting the wellbeing of Manchester Care Leavers
We also secured:
About £10k in donations directly for community groups
Over 80 expert hours supporting community groups from installing new heaters to architects’ drawings for a community hub
More than 30 apprenticeship weeks on developments: Oldham Road Phase 1 and Moston Campus
Several placements and work experience roles on Oldham Road Phase 1 and Moston Campus.
CASE STUDY:
Powerhouse Community Garden - Moss Side
Powerhouse was donated £1,000 towards helping improve their community garden and the money was spent on plants, tools, and wood for planters.
The garden has made a difference to the 500+ visitors of all ages - including local residents, staff and volunteers. Doing up the garden involved two local primary schools and volunteers from organisations who gave up their time. The children were able to make bird boxes, build a tipi, and do some planting.
Thank you for helping put a smile on children’s faces and providing us with a calm space to sit when the weather is good.
Lisa
Reviewing, mapping and updating key stakeholders
In March 2024, we began an exercise to map our external stakeholders through a stakeholder mapping exercise.
We created a new Corporate Affairs team and recruited to these roles in January 2024. This team will oversee our strategic communications with our stakeholders to make sure we have strong relationships with community
partners and government figures, to improve the services we provide for our customers.
After mapping our stakeholders in 2023/24, we’ll continue our work in this area to improve our community
connections and communication in 2024/25.