Business
Be part of positive change.
Make a real difference to people’s lives in Manchester through local giving. We put the power in the hands of Manchester residents, so that as our city grows, so do our communities. We will support you to grow community-led projects so that everybody feels happy, healthy and at home in our neighbourhoods.
The Step Up MCR teaming is working with over 50 community projects and in th epast 5 years we have leveraged over £500k into areas such as Ancoats & Beswick and Clayton & Openshaw.
Find out how you can be part of it by contacting our friendly team today!
Join Step Up MCR to unleash the unlimited potential of the people who make our city.
We can help your business invest its precious time, money, resources and skills in...
People like Kerrie
Thanks to our collaborative approach to local giving, we turned one resident’s dream to build a cycle track in memory of her four year old son Max into a Crowdfunder campaign raising over £85k for the community of Openshaw.
How can your business can step up to grow our local giving movement?
People like Paul
Paul started out training his nephew in the park in Beswick on lockdown. We started working with Paul to grow his dream to start Beswick’s first community football team, offering training, funding, space, resources, support and connections.
He’s now working with over 150 children every week after building Beswick Community Football Club.
We know that many businesses in Manchester want to give back and do more in their local communities.
However, how to approach and implement this is not always clear.
Step Up MCR is committed to supporting local grassroots charities, organisations and causes that have a real, lasting impact on their communities.
We want to bring together businesses across Manchester to help us to help others.
Our new Friends of Step Up MCR partnership is for organisations based or working in Manchester who want to engage with and support grassroots community activities.
We’re asking businesses to support us with an annual membership to the Friends of Step Up MCR network to create a collaborative funding pot that will nurture sustainable community projects.
We will work with you to develop your local giving, whether you want to give funding, time, expertise, skills or resources to improve the lives of people in North Manchester.
Business Benefits
Hit social value targets
We will work with you to support your social value targets to grow healthier, safer and more resilient local communities.
Our annual report will show the impact you make, and our quarterly newspaper will keep you updated on the projects you support.
Connect with local communities
We will work with you to support your social value targets to grow healthier, safer and more resilient local communities.
Our annual report will show the impact you make, and our quarterly newspaper will keep you updated on the projects you support.
Promote your work
Shout out about the positive impact you are making in our community newspaper delivered to 11,500 households, businesses and community spaces every quarter .
Share good news stories and have your logo feature in our newspaper, social media channels and website.
Improve the lives of people in North Manchester
100% of funding will support North Manchester health and wellbeing projects
Promote your work
- Local giving and volunteering is great for staff retention, wellbeing, and brand recognition!
- Have a voice in how funding is spent – you could have a seat at the decision-making table
- We’ll tell you about the projects you help us support in our newspaper and e-newsletter
- You’ll receive regular bulletins about forthcoming social, networking, sponsorship and fundraising opportunities for you and your colleagues
