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Step Up MCR Community Soup Winners
Step Up MCR recently supported One Manchester's Community Soups across Beswick and Clayton, matching a £4,000 funding pot to make an additional two grants of £2,000 available for community groups!
As well as creating an £8,000 total pot in each area, the partnership enabled Step Up to connect with new community projects to provide more support through our Community Offer.
The winners of community soups are always decided by the community, and usually hosted in person as an opportunity for groups making a difference to pitch to residents on the projects they'd like to see in their neighbourhoods.
Community Soups have been held online across the latest rounds to enable One Manchester to keep supporting the community through the Covid-19 pandemic across the city.
We received brilliant entries across both areas, and are delighted to be supporting four fantastic winners with £2,000 each.
Step Up's winners for Beswick are
Pd Coaching and
Malawi Heritage UK
And Clayton winners are Clayton Hall and DryWave.
Funding from One Manchester awarded grants to Keep Youth Work Alive in Beswick, and in Clayton supported The Resonance Centre and Odd Arts.
You can read about the projects Step Up has supported below!
Pd Coaching is a Beswick based football and coaching project run by Paul Downing, a Beswick resident with a dream to start Beswick's first football club.
Pd Coaching provides football, exercise and fitness classes to children from 4-14years old. With the right support, Paul would love to expand this target audience and offer exercise and sport coaching to all football lovers in the local community, including walking football for those looking to increase their fitness.
This project needs facilities in or near to Beswick to run activities from, as well as storage and funding support.
Can you Step Up for Pd Coaching?
Join Paul's coaching community by heading to @pdcoaching_ on Instagram, Facebook and Youtube through the links below.
Malawi Heritage UK is an Openshaw based organisation promoting integration and cultural awareness through creativity.
The Community Soup grant will support resident, Allan Mandindi, to run his media and digital technology skills sessions that train people to be creative and gain employment with the skills they learn.
Th digital and creative sessions involve video making, podcasting, how to create content to be used for social media marketing, video editing and photography.
Sessions are held every Saturday between 11am– 1pm at 21 Vincent Street, M11 2FU in Openshaw.
Can you Step Up for Malawi Heritage UK?
Find out more about Allan's work at Malawi Heritage UK on the Facebook and Twitter accounts below.
Clayton Hall Living History Museum will be working with student volunteers from The Manchester College to redevelop its garden pond area.
Leaners will special educational needs from The Manchester College (Openshaw Campus) will be supported to grow the space to increase confidence, pride, and build teamworking and communications skills.
The garden is part of the Clayton Hall Living History Museum and provides an educational resource for the community including local schools.
The current small ponds are already popular with visitors and often provide a setting for educational activities themed around nature and biodiversity.
Can you Step Up for Clayton Hall?
Find out more on their Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts below.
DryWave CIC is a creative events and digital organisation promoting empowerment and connectedness to those in recovery from alcohol and drug related issues.
DryWave mentors and guides those struggling with mental health and addiction issues in Manchester through motivational shows on peer empowerment, positive mental health tools, community engagement and much more.
As well as one to one and group support- DryWave engages audiences through podcasting, radio, music, art, and theatre. One such venture includes DryWave's sober raves. Drink and drug free, sober raves bring the club experience to anybody in recovery or choosing not to drink.
Funding will support DryWave to purchase the equipment needed for its brand new studio in Clayton. Launching as Club Resonance, DryWave will be opening at the The Resonance Centre at the end of July 2021.
Can you Step Up for DryWave?
Find out more on their Facebook and Instagram accounts below. You can also purchase tickets for the opening sober rave on Saturday 31st July
here.
