| 22/12/2023 |
£1,000 |
YDSA EVENTS |
Highlighting Queer Icons and their achievements. This represents individuals in all fields of profession such as Literature, Entertainment, Politics, Sports and Fashion. Everyone involved so far counts up to 8 dancers and this will contribute in paying them a fair fee for their rehearsal and performance time. Some will go towards costumes to really make the performance popping and result in educating the audience better. |
| 24/11/2023 |
£1,000 |
HOMOS AND HOUMOUS CIC |
Cabaret and performance evening.The evening will include a social dinner for people to get to know each other beforehand. Artists will be both artists from Manchester and from around the UK Funds from Manchester Pride will be allocated exclusively to paying artists and covering travel costs. |
| 24/11/2023 |
£742 |
TO BEE PRODUCTIONS LTD |
The grant will be used to support the development and rehearsal process for our upcoming show “Queen of the Desert a Queer Cabaret”, which will celebrate Manchester’s LGBTQIA+ community as part of LGBT+ History Month in February. The cabaret features drag, music, burlesque and poetry, with cabaret artists developing stories that are interwoven to songs to tackle intersectional topics that affect the wider LGBTQIA+ communities. |
| 27/10/2023 |
£1,000£85,335 |
PORTRAITS OF RECOVERY |
Portraits of Recovery (PORe) in partnership with Manchester Art Gallery (MAG) proudly announces the art commission "Let's Talk About Chemsex,”. This initiative aims to explore different perspectives and experiences of Chemsex, focusing on the role, intimacy, and consent in queer sex and relationships. |
| 27/10/2023 |
£1,000 |
QUEER FAMILY TEA |
We are thrilled to share that Queer Family Tea has been awarded a Community Grant to host three community meals for people who identify as LGBTQ+! These gatherings will provide a safe and welcoming space for the LGBTQ+ community to come together, socialise, and create community through food. |
| 27/10/2023 |
£1,000 |
TRANUARY CIC |
Tranuary is a not-for-profit events CIC run BY trans FOR trans. |
| 13/10/2023 |
£1,000 |
STOCKPORT ACTIVE CIC T/A LIFE LEISURE |
This organisation is working with a local Pupil Referral Unit for young people with social and emotional needs. The majority of the pupils are part of the LGBTQ+ community with limited or no access to physical activities or sports. This grant will also improve the library in the school and purchase books around identity, sexuality, and sexual health. Lastly, young people have requested some training for the LGBTQ+ lead in the school to help better equip teachers for the future, who will in turn help more young people, leaving a lasting legacy in the school. |
| 13/10/2023 |
£1,000 |
THE UNTOLD ORCHESTRA CIC |
The Superbia Grant will enable The Untold Orchestra to run four workshops for queer people. In these workshops, participants will discuss ideas, understand barriers to engaging with different creative spaces, and participate in drop-in choir sessions led by a queer facilitator who also performs with the orchestra. |
| 13/10/2023 |
£1,000 |
INK AND CURTAINS LTD |
The play imagines Orpheus and Eurydice as a lesbian couple trying to build a lasting love out of their respective trauma. Torn apart by a hate crime, Orpheus refuses to let death be the end. But in refusing to accept the inevitable, she loses so much more than her partner ;This play is a love letter to butch/femme relationships and queer friendships, exploring how love leaves us both uniquely fulfilled and uniquely vulnerable. |
| 15/09/2023 |
£910 |
MORTAR & PESTLE ARTS CIC |
‘Small Hour Stories’ is a trans new-writing anthology for the trans and non-binary community. Trans playwrights to tell stories that focus on folklore, fantasy and mythology stories through a trans lens. |
| 15/09/2023 |
£1,000£45,664 |
BLACK BEETLE HEALTH |
The H.E.A.T. Programme is a cultural safety development course, designed to support practitioners in engaging with LGBTQ+ Black and People of Colour within the realms of health, wellbeing, and equality in the UK. . |
| 15/09/2023 |
£1,000 |
BURY LGBTQI FORUM |
This exciting initiative offers a special experience to younger LGBTQ+ people and families. Through collaboration with the Proud Trust, the East Lancashire Rainbow Train promises an unforgettable journey of music, drag acts, and comedy on a vintage steam train. |
| 01/09/2023 |
£1,000 |
DIDSBURY PRIDE |
A pride celebration in Didsbury |
| 25/08/2023 |
£995 |
RAINBOW NOIR |
In celebration of their tenth anniversary, Rainbow Noir are making an impact in this years pride parade! Rainbow Noir aims to elevate their cultural heritage and lived experiences as carnival troupers, voguers, and performers to the forefront of the parade. |
| 25/08/2023 |
£1,000 |
DIBBY THEATRE LTD |
Toxic Community Outreach Programme - a community-led creative outreach project exploring LGBTQ+ relationships impacted by racism |
| 14/07/2023 |
£700 |
VILLAGE BAKERS |
Village Bakers is an inclusive social group that aims to use food to tackle social isolation within our LGBTQ+ community. Village Bakers Baking Masterclass Project will host an interactive cookery class, where the LGBTQ+ community can learn a range of cookery skills, whilst working in teams helping to form strong friendships. |
| 14/07/2023 |
£990 |
QUEER AS BOOKS LTD |
With this grant, our LGBTQ+ Free Books For Schools project enables us to send carefully curated book packs to 33 local schools across Greater Manchester. The goal is to promote LGBTQ+ literature and provide a valuable resource for students, educators, and the wider school community. |
| 14/07/2023 |
£1,000 |
VILLAGE MANCHESTER FOOTBALL CLUB |
VMFC has been running for over 20 years now, what is the core ethos of the club and has that changed at all over that time? Village Manchester Football Club was formed in February 1996 to give gay and bi guys the chance to play and support the sport they love in a safe, welcoming environment. Since then, we’ve grown massively, and now have four teams giving players of all abilities the chance to play football. These days, we’re delighted to welcome many straight allies whilst remaining Manchester’s gay-friendly football club. |
| 14/07/2023 |
£1,000£52,481 |
LEVENSHULME OLD LIBRARY |
Levy Rainbow Parade builds on a tradition of community creativity and a celebration of Pride in Levenshulme. |
| 14/07/2023 |
£1,000 |
TRANS PRIDE MANCHESTER CIC |
The project is a major event that brings together the trans and non-binary community. We are having a protest march, panel event and workshops, where we would also like to provide water and snacks due to the potential hot weather. |
| 14/07/2023 |
£1,000£1,455,426 |
THE FACTORY OF CREATIVITY |
Established in 2019, Turn On Fest is theatre and performance festival, with work produced by LGBTQIA+ people for LGBTQIA+ people. We will be able provide support across the festival including new emerging queer writers who without this vital financial support would leave their stories left untold. |
| 14/07/2023 |
£1,000£1,330,321 |
THE PROUD TRUST |
The young people of The Proud Trust's BeeYouth group have been awarded a grant to do a project over number of weeks that explores the topics contained within the musical Heathers. The young people will engage in workshops around: Positive and Healthy relationships, drug and alcohol use, sexual health, and wellbeing, see the musical and share ways to promote positive wellbeing amongst their peers. |
| 23/06/2023 |
£837 |
TO BEE PRODUCTIONS LTD |
This grant will be used to fundthe development of a new queer one-person cabaret show debuting at the Greater Manchester Fringe Festival 2023. This show that centres a trans, neurodiverse and global majority emerging artist and QTIPOC found family. There will be two performances over the festival, one week apart. |
| 16/06/2023 |
£998 |
PRIDE IN LEIGH |
We celebrate diversity amongst our community, race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, mobility, age and empower people to be proud of themselves, learn new skills and enjoy themselves here in Leigh. |
| 16/06/2023 |
£875 |
PRIDE ON THE RANGE |
Pride on the Range is a small, local community organisation in Whalley Range. |
| 16/06/2023 |
£1,000 |
FRESH GRASSROOTS RAINBOW COMMUNITY |
Our project aims to improve our members mental health and wellbeing, reducing loneliness, isolation the asylum system put you into. We create the opportunity for inclusion and integration with workshops and gatherings like evenings social as members need such events to evidence their cases. |
| 16/06/2023 |
£1,000£12,557,654 |
CHETHAM'S FOUNDATION |
The grant will fund the choral workshop. The choral workshop poses a strong and meaningful engagement opportunity for transitioning adults – helping them to maintain their identity as a singer and encourage them to ‘find their voice’ outside of gender binary. Beyond the skills and techniques participants will develop from the session, singing provides an inclusive and cost-effective means of combating social isolation. |
| 26/05/2023 |
£883£172,988 |
OUR ROOM MANCHESTER LIMITED |
For LGBTQ+ people we want to provide them with a safe space, where they can focus on wellbeing activities to boost their mental health sessions, we will have a hot meal together and mindfulness activities will take place, these will include crocheting and meditation practices. |
| 26/05/2023 |
£650 |
ICEBREAKERS |
Icebreakers is a self help, mutual support group in Manchester that helps gay, bisexual, and questioning men and trans-men aged 18 to 80 plus. They’ve been here since 1986 and thousands of men have used the group. The grant will be used to fund the printing of new resources to offer advice and signpost to support services. |
| 26/05/2023 |
£700 |
PRESTWICH PRIDE CIC |
Prestwich pride is a grassroots organisation in its infancy, with 2023 planned as the second year of celebration. First conceived by a group of LGBT, friends and allies from the Prestwich locality, its aims are to promote visibility, spread love, and provide a safe space for people from all reaches of both the LGBT community, and the local community to unite, collect, and express themselves freely. |
| 26/05/2023 |
£1,000 |
LGBTQ SALSA |
The LGBT queue salsa project is a community group that focuses on teaching salsa dancing in a gender neutral way with the goal of creating a safe and inclusive environment for people to learn and enjoy dancing. |
| 26/05/2023 |
£1,000 |
HOUSE OF RAINBOW |
This grant will support the training, coaching and pastoral care and support needs of LGBTQ people of faith, we will create, develop and produce training sessions and materials that will support and assist the importance of reconciling faith, sexuality and spirituality. This project will help provide the bridge for many LGBTQ to find the appropriate faith community, improved mental health and spiritual wellbeing. |
| 26/05/2023 |
£1,000 |
LGBTQ WELLNESS |
We deliver fitness and wellbeing classes, and pop-up socials, for the LGBTQ+ community. Additionally we employ LGBTQ+ writers to create web content on topics supporting LGBTQ+ mental health, sexual health, digital health and staying safe online, and overall wellbeing. |
| 28/04/2023 |
£1,000 |
MANCHESTER PRAIRIE DOGS LINE DANCING CLUB |
Everyone is welcome at Manchester, Prairie dogs! Many of our group members state that the support networks and friendships within the group are extremely beneficial to their mental health, and the weekly chance to socialise is sometimes more important than dancing! We hold a regular beginners night every September, following pride, I would like to use this as an opportunity to extend a special invite to members of the QTIPOC community. |
| 28/04/2023 |
£1,000 |
OUT IN THE CITY |
Out In The City is a social and support group for members of the LGBT+ community who are over 50 years of age. We currently have 104 members, 33 of whom are over 70 years of age, the oldest is 93. We have members from all walks of life, many of us having lived through a time where homosexuality was illegal. The community fund will be used to organise our weekly meetings and trips to reduce our social isolation improving our confidence and mental well-being. |
| 28/04/2023 |
£1,000 |
QUEER MUSLIMS OF MANCHESTER |
“Muslims of Manchester is the only organisation that was specifically founded to support LGBT Muslims in Greater Manchester. The group is dedicated to intersectional support across all communities and willing to work with other organisations and charities to further education on issues facing the LGBT Muslim community. The community fund will be used for their monthly meet up sessions for one year |
| 28/04/2023 |
£1,000 |
QUEER YOUTH ART COLLECTIVE |
Queer Youth Art Collective is the U.K.’s only national LGBT youth arts organisation. Each week they run free art workshops and are now looking to expand their engagement in the North. The community fund will be used to commission young artist to facilitate workshops. The project will introduce young LGBT people to them as a reliable, accessible, queer youth service and radical free education. |
| 28/04/2023 |
£1,000 |
FEEL GOOD CLUB |
The second edition of Feelgood fest! A daytime and all-ages community celebration featuring panel discussions and performances from notable and diverse members of the UK LGBT queue plus community. This event will be free to attend and there will be a charity collection point throughout. We will partner with varying corners of our community to offer a truly inclusive event. From speakers, divulging on topics from ‘Black Queer Joy’ to ‘Existing while Trans’ to clothes swaps to live music and Cabaret performances. And all day in the evening explosion of queer joy! |
| 08/03/2023 |
£1,000 |
HOUSE OF SPICE |
Celebratory event exploring how racism can be challenged in the LGBTQ+ community. |
| 22/02/2023 |
£1,000 |
PROUD 2B PARENTS |
Supporting LGBTQ+ parents providing children's book bags. |
| 22/02/2023 |
£1,000 |
GAYDIO ACADEMY |
Amplifing the voice of the gender diverse community, raising awareness of trans issues and concerns, challenging discrimination, and encouraging cohesion through a radio forum
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| 22/02/2023 |
£974 |
MYCO MANCHESTER CIC |
Community mushroom farm running workshops and taster days for trans people interested in urban farming, wild walk |
| 22/02/2023 |
£1,000 |
TRANS CREATIVE |
Supporting Trans Creative's application to become a registered charity. |
| 22/02/2023 |
£600 |
MANCHESTER PROUD CHORUS |
New piano for performances and rehearsals |
| 22/02/2023 |
£2,000 |
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN |
Facilitating an event to mark World AIDs Day |
| 22/02/2023 |
£1,000 |
TRANUARY |
Facilitating an event for up coming talent and an array or workshops for the trans community. |
| 22/02/2023 |
£1,000 |
BI - TOPIA |
Cross-arts show exploring impact of 1967-2000 ban on homosexuals in the military. |
| 22/02/2023 |
£1,000 |
YDSA EVENTS |
Facilitating future queer club events exclusively hiring QTIPoC, Trans and Non-Binary talent. |
| 22/02/2023 |
£1,000 |
PART FISH |
Film exploring the expereinces of LGBTQ+ people with autism |
| 22/02/2023 |
£500 |
BOX OF TRICKS THEATRE COMPANY |
Giving LGBTQ+ writers a space for collaboration and access to award winning writers for further skill development. |
| 22/02/2023 |
£500 |
STUDIO 25 |
Support for the ballroom community in GM, workshops. |
| 22/02/2023 |
£1,000 |
LADYFRIENDS |
Open rehearsal for young LGBTQ+ people looking for roles in the creative sector |
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