This new fund is for local community groups in Greater Manchester who want to run their own projects.

Strand 1 - Essential Life Skills

This strand brings together funding from GM Multiply and the GM Devolved Adult Education Budget to enable outreach and engagement activities relating to skills, in particular essential life skills such as maths/numeracy, English (excluding ESOL) and digital (ICT for users).

Community grant activity in this space will allow the test and learn opportunity of new and different approaches to engaging with residents, who would benefit the most from skills training but are currently not engaging to identify and overcome the key barriers.

Come along and find out more from Richard Evans of the Workers Educational Association about the Community Grants Programme; including the timeline, how it will be managed and how your organisation can bid for funding.

RSVP by emailing mark.rogers@stockporthomes.org