Corporate Social Value programmes and contract (bid) commitments are effective models of business citizenship that put your business assets to work as a force for good. Depending on the nature of your firm, you can set up projects, volunteering and donations for:

Better community health equality, safety and wellbeing

Promotion of local skills and employment

Protecting and improving local environment and spaces

Promoting neighbourhood social innovation

(e.g a new Day Centre, literacy or running cub)

Step Up MCR is the North Manchester place-based charity with extensive local stakeholder intelligence to grow neighbourhoods and communities in Ancoats & Beswick and Claytomn & Openshaw; a hotspot for economic investment. Since 2019, we have been supporting residents to get the wheels turning on brilliant ideas, generating a bank of North Manchester community projects to tap into. Take a look at our latest impact report.

We provide end-to-end Social Value support with:

Design of a company Social Value programme / bid response

Delivery of targeted local activities residents need

Monitoring, evaluation and publication of your social value impact.

No, we’re a small charity and we need to cover our core costs to provide this in-demand service. Rest assured, our social value consultancy support fees are put back into the charity to keep us open for the people of North Manchester. By choosing to work with Step Up MCR you are:

Increasing your local supply chain spend with a VCSE

Connecting and promoting your business to people and communities

Contributing to improving some of Manchester’s most deprived areas.

What happens next?

Get in touch with us at hello@stepupmanchester.com

Tell us what you need, such as support for a planning application or bid stage, or to make a meaningful difference to your Social Value existing plans.