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New Funding Opportunity to Improve Health Outcomes for Marginalised Communities (Manchester)
Manchester Council has announced that it will be launching a new fund for voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise organisations that are working to address health inequalities amongst marginalised and underrepresented communities.
The aim of the Community Health Equity Manchester Grant Programme 2024 is to improve the health outcomes of communities who already experience discrimination and disadvantage such as:
- Disabled people including people with learning disabilities
- LGBTQIA+ Communities that experience racial inequality
- Men experiencing poor mental wellbeing
- Migrants / asylum seekers and refugees
- Older people experiencing poor mental wellbeing
- People or groups that experience multiple forms of discrimination (intersectionality) related to the 2010 Equality Act
- Peri-natal women
- Racially minoritised people and communities that experience and are impacted by racial inequality
- Roma / Gypsies and Travellers
- Sex workers
- Women (including trans women) experiencing domestic abuse
- Younger people experiencing poor mental wellbeing
Further details will be made available when the programme is launched on the 5th February 2024.
Organisations can register their interest via email: OMFunds@manchester.gov.uk or on Twitter @OMVCS
31st January 2024