Project Description
Sir Robert McAlpine: Strong Foundations Grant
The Strong Foundations Grant supports grassroots initiatives around central Manchester and Salford that work on increasing community cohesion and boosting community wellbeing in the area. It offers up to £3,000 as well as corporate volunteers to successful applicants.
Sir Robert McAlpine is the UK’s largest building and civil engineering company and is strongly committed to making a meaningful contribution to society.
We are very excited to announce the groups that have been funded – read all about the awardees below.
Campaign updates
Here you’ll find the latest news from the Sir Robert McAlpine Strong Foundations Grant.
Strong Foundations Grant 2020: Awardees Announced
We are very excited to announce the first round of awardees for the Strong Foundations Grant. Back at the beginning of 2020, almost 100 community groups in Manchester and Salford applied to the Sir [...]
Strong Foundations Grant now closed for judging
Thank you so much to all the community projects in the area of Manchester and Salford that have applied for the fund. We appreciate you taking the time to describe your amazing project and [...]
Stories from supported projects
Outdoors and active in our...
Since our last update we’ve been preparing our grounds for the development of our community garden. The land surrounding our Emmaus Salford community building has lots of potential and we’ve [...]
ODD ARTS: Knife Crime Prevention...
Odd Arts Volunteer Lauren’s blog in response to ‘Knife Crime’ Workshop During this week, I was fortunate enough to watch the interactive performance and workshops by Odd Arts on knife [...]
ODD ARTS: Knife Crime Prevention...
Curtis, Project Worker at Odd Arts describes the processes used to research and develop our Knife Crime Theatre Workshop: Odd Arts successfully obtained funding to create a Knife Crime theatre [...]
ODD ARTS: Knife Crime Prevention...
Jai, Project Worker from Odd Arts reflects on the issues and themes raised in our recently developed knife crime theatre performance and workshop. Jai has been involved in the development [...]
Exciting planting plans take root...
We’ve just had the news that we’ve been hoping for. Emmaus Salford has been awarded a Sir Robert McAlpine Strong Foundations Grant to help with the development of our community [...]
Just doing our bit
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As funding has only just been awarded, watch this space for more updates soon…
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