COMMUNITY-LED ACTION AND SAVINGS SUPPORT

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Postcode Neighbourhood Trust - Unrestricted Funding
£25,000	01/11/2023	We worked with 700 women living in deprived neighbourhoods to create community savings clubs – reducing debt and supporting mental health.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£8,000	13/10/2023	Community Led Action and Savings Support - Core Costs
Smallwood Trust - Funding to support a place-based network working with and for women to bring about systems change and reduce gendered poverty.
£10,000	27/07/2023 12	A one-off payment (Uplift Grant) to support the partners' operations and overheads, to keep core services running and to meet increased demand during the cost-of -living crisis
Smallwood Trust - Funding to support a place-based network working with and for women to bring about systems change and reduce gendered poverty.
£500,000	12/10/2022 36	The Women of Wythenshawe (WoW) network, a partnership of 12 organisations and community groups, with members differing by age, ethnic background, and different experiences. This network brings low-income women into dialogue with each other to ....more The Women of Wythenshawe (WoW) network, a partnership of 12 organisations and community groups, with members differing by age, ethnic background, and different experiences. This network brings low-income women into dialogue with each other to identify critical challenges that are holding them in poverty, prioritise issues and co-produce solutions with professionals. The lead strategic partner is Community Led Action and Savings Support (CLASS), and the financial lead is Wythenshawe Community Housing Group (WCHG) and they distribute the grants to all the partners namely, CLASS, WCHG, Caritas Shrewsbury, Lifted, Better Things, Woodhouse Park Family Centre, Know Africa, Safespots and The Dandelion Community.
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Savers
£209,500	04/01/2022	This project sets out to explore the potential for women-led savings-based organising to achieve transformational change in deprived communities. It aims to build up structures and networks within and across communities overcoming the fragmentation ....more This project sets out to explore the potential for women-led savings-based organising to achieve transformational change in deprived communities. It aims to build up structures and networks within and across communities overcoming the fragmentation and isolation which inhibits community-led action. This evolving ecosystem draws in partners politicians and policy-makers changing their relationships with low-income communities and creating long-term change for the people and places where change is needed most.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Community-Led Action and Savings Support (CLASS)
£120,000	01/12/2021 36	over three years as unrestricted funding for a Manchester-based charity providing infrastructure and development/technical support for a network of Community Savers groups
Smallwood Trust - Improving the financial resilience, mental health and wellbeing of women 18+.
£18,750	28/06/2021	£18,750 has been awarded to Community Led Action and Savings Support to empower 6 women's led savings groups in Yorkshire and establish 3 new savings groups for 200 low-income women from a range of disadvantaged backgrounds.
Rosa UK - WTF-COMMLASS-2021
£18,750	28/06/2021	£18,750 has been awarded to Community Led Action and Savings Support to empower 6 women's led savings groups in Yorkshire and establish 3 new savings groups for 200 low-income women from a range of disadvantaged backgrounds.
National Lottery Community Fund - Inner City Exchange and GM Savers Go Digital
£9,350	13/10/2020 6	The funding will be used to support vulnerable older people; BAME communities people with anxiety and depression; and single parents on low incomes through peer support and social welfare groups The project aims to create online community-led ....more The funding will be used to support vulnerable older people; BAME communities people with anxiety and depression; and single parents on low incomes through peer support and social welfare groups The project aims to create online community-led neighbourhood forums and promote digital-community leaders to drive community welfare to reduce financial hardship and loneliness exacerbated by COVID-19

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Trustees (6)

Legal constitution

• Charity registered in England & Wales on 11/03/2020, number: 1188480

Gift Aid

• Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Filing Record

Main office

c/o MACC
Swan Buildings
20 Swan Buildings
Manchester M4 5JW
M4 5JW

Objectives

1. TO RELIEVE POVERTY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED NEIGHBOURHOODS IN ENGLAND AND WALES BY: A. SUPPORTING PEOPLE TO LEARN ABOUT AND ESTABLISH COMMUNITY-LED SAVINGS INITIATIVES; ANDB. SUPPORTING COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS TO WORK TOGETHER, AND TO DEVELOP PARTNERSHIPS, IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO REALISE COMMUNITY LED SOLUTIONS FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.2. TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE RESIDENTS OF SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED NEIGHBOURHOODS IN ENGLAND AND WALES IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELP MEET, THEIR NEEDS, AND WORK TOGETHER TO REDUCE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE.