The Castlefield Charitable Fund supports positive social and environmental impact

The Fund will support charities in the Greater Manchester area providing a positive impact to the local community and environment in the following key focus areas:

• - Preventing homelessness
• - Support for vulnerable families and children (immediate need & education)
• - Health and wellbeing
• - Environment and sustainability

The Fund will aim to focus its support on organisations that are working within the listed priority areas set out above and:

• - are embedded within the local community;
• - encourage community participation;
• - involve volunteers;
• - have been registered or active for a period of at least 3 years;
• - have a track record of delivery; and,
• - have an annual expenditure of no more than £1m.

To receive funding from CCF, an organisation must be structured as a not-for-profit organisation, in the form of a registered charity or voluntary community group.

Funding will not be considered for Community Interest Companies (CICs).

The Castlefield Charitable Fund will not provide donations to charities or charitable organisations with significant campaigning or lobbying activities. Charitable activities linked to specific groups, such as religious organisations, must not be exclusionary and must provide benefits to the wider community.

Charities or charitable organisations which are the beneficiaries of grants or donations made by CCF will be asked to provide a brief feedback statement regarding the uses and impact of the donation to their organisation in order to aid CCF’s reporting to its donors and stakeholders.

Requests will be accepted from the 1st of April until the 30th of September each calendar year. Typically, recipient charities will be assessed during the final quarter each year, with a shortlist presented to Castlefield Co-owners for a vote in January.

Apply online further down or click this link to download the word doc version:

Request Form .docx

The Booth Centre is a community centre run with people affected by homelessness. The Booth Centre provides a warm welcome, an opportunity to belong, to gain a purpose and rebuild lives. Its programme includes activities such as volunteering, creative projects and sports, as well as training and help to gain employment. The Booth Centre also supports people to improve health and wellbeing, to access emergency accommodation, and to secure and maintain a permanent home. 

https://www.boothcentre.org.uk/

For many young people, the transition to adulthood is not easy. In the UK, one third of young people are lonely, half feel unready for work and half feel like they do not belong to their community. Greater Manchester Youth Network's vision is #YoungPeopleCan and the Network helps young people in Greater Manchester overcome this. GMYN deliver a range of development programmes and drop-in activities to help young people transition to adulthood feeling skilled, supported and positive.

https://gmyn.co.uk/

Walthew House is an independent charity in Stockport which works with people and organisations in the community to provide practical and emotional support for people with a sight or hearing loss. It provides counselling services and training sessions as well as a Hospital Information Service based in the Low Vision Clinic at Stepping Hill Hospital.

https://walthewhouse.org.uk/

EMERGE's vision is a world where Reduce, Reuse and Recycle are second nature. A world where people don't go hungry. A world where people cherish and innately value natural resources. EMERGE has been at the front line of sustainability and 3Rs practice in Greater Manchester for over two decades, improving people's lives and upskilling our wider community in the process. Its charitable activities include running the Greater Manchester operations of FareShare GM in partnership with the national food surplus charity, and a successful Volunteering and Employability Programme. The charity is supported by sister social enterprise EMERGE Recycling which also runs innovative reclaimed timber workshop Touch Wood.

https://www.emergerecycling.co.uk/

Burdens Charitable Foundation

Practical Action

The Wellspring

Wood Street Mission

Microloan Foundation

Home-Start

Manchester Camerata

The Rotary Club of Manchester

The Rotary Club of Preston

Rhodes Foundation Scholarship Trust

Manchester Cathedral – Dig the City

Research Autism

Chetham’s School of Music – The Humphrey Chetham Club

Reubens Retreat