Connecting People

Growing Community

Supporting Giving

Step Up MCR is the new place-based giving scheme for Manchester, focussing on

the Ancoats & Beswick and Clayton & Openshaw wards in its pilot phase.

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WE ARE

STEP UP MCR

Step Up MCR is the charity unleashing the unlimited potential of people living and working in North Manchester.

Through the power of local giving, we grow community health and wellbeing projects making a real difference to people’s lives so that everybody feels happy, healthy and at home in our city.

Our aim is to build more sustainable and resilient community organisations by making the most of the people and resources in our places.

We recognise that anybody can step up to make a difference by investing their money, time, energy, resources or skills in their local community.

We can get the wheels turning on brilliant big ideas, offering the funding and fundraising support, volunteer links, access to opportunities, development and capacity building and promotion that community organisations need to thrive.

Step Up MCR ran our Crowdfunder campaign in 2022 which raised £39,236 and is the main reason we have been able to sustain our organisation to date. They secured all the match funding that got us to our target and it could not have been achieved without Step Up MCR.

We are eternally grateful for finding such a wonderfully proactive organisation. We would not be in the position we are without them.

Juanita Margerison

Director, The Resonance Centre

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ABOUT THE PROJECT

Step Up MCR is the place-based giving scheme for Manchester, focussing on the wards Ancoats & Beswick and Clayton & Openshaw in its pilot phase.

Step Up MCR brings people together from within the community to make the most of our combined resources, energy, and skills for the benefit of local people.

We look to connect people to enable ideas to flourish, grow the community and support giving- whether of time, funding, resources, skills, space or expertise.

Step Up MCR supports and develops new projects led by the community which improve the overall health and wellbeing of the place. We are looking to support projects which enable people to be happier and healthier through the five ways to wellbeing.