Early Notice – Greater Manchester: ESF Community Grants

Greater Manchester: ESF Community Grants 2019 – 2021

A £4.9 million programme to tackle unemployment has been launched in April 2019 with backing from the European Social Fund.

The funds have been granted by the government’s Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) in partnership with Greater Manchester Local Enterprise Partnership to the Worker’s Educational Association (WEA), an adult education charity which provides training and learning opportunities for people at risk of exclusion.

Over the next two years, the charity will help thousands of people who face additional barriers in the workplace, such as lone parents, improve their employability and gain permanent employment.

The WEA will distribute small grants of £20,000 across Greater Manchester to eligible organisations in the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector between April 2019 and May 2021. Funded activities will target those aged 15 and over, from the hardest to reach communities.

The funding can help all who are out of work but especially those that:

  • are homeless or at risk of being homeless
  • have low or no qualifications
  • lack literacy and numeracy skills
  • are lone parents
  • have disabilities, learning difficulties or health conditions
  • are women
  • are from ethnic minorities
  • are aged over 50

Round 1 of ESF Community Grants for Greater Manchester will open on Wednesday 12th June 2019 – please check back here on this date for further information and how to apply.

(Source: Greater Manchester Centre for Voluntary Organisation)

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