STEP UP MCR — grant history

Registered charity 1191495 · filings on the Charity Commission register · its own accounts analysis · funder finder · deadlines

Latest income

£124k

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

—

Accounts grants total

£1.6m

extracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: You can tell us your idea using the online form, by email, video call, or a face-to-face conversation with a member of the team. After you submit your idea, the Step Up MCR team will be in touch to ask any questions.
Deadlines: Community Grants will close for new ideas when all funding has been awarded. We recommend applying three months before your project is due to start.

Summarised from www.stepupmcr.org · stepupmcr.org/funding/ on 17/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded

Disability (3 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (3 grantees)
Education/training (2 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (2 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (2 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (2 grantees)
Overseas Aid/famine Relief (1 grantee)
Religious Activities (1 grantee)
Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity (1 grantee)
Other Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (2 grantees)
Isle Of Man (1 grantee)
Jersey (1 grantee)
Guernsey (1 grantee)
Northern Ireland (1 grantee)
Scotland (1 grantee)
Manchester City (1 grantee)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Drywave CIC	FY2024	£5k	Music and wellbeing project for young people in recovery from drugs and alcohol in Clayton.
Newleaf Foundation	FY2024	£3k	Weekly healthy hot meals and community lounge in Beswick.
The Halle	FY2024	£3k	Singing for wellbeing workshops Ancoats & Beswick and Clayton & Openshaw.
Beswick CFC	FY2024	£2k	Equipment and training costs for Beswick football team.
The Beacon Centre/ The Yard Boxing	FY2024	£2k	Equipment and storage costs for The Yard boxing and fitness classes at The Beacon Centre.
Directions for Men	FY2024	£2k	Men’s mental health support sessions in Openshaw.
FungALL CIC	FY2024	£2k	Mushroom farming initiative to be based at BUG Garden in Beswick.
Ancoats Run Club	FY2024	£2k	Training accreditation for weekly run club leaders.
Salvation Army	FY2024	£1k	Fitness sessions for older people in Openshaw.
The Inspirational Women	FY2024	£1k	Women’s support group in Beswick.
Evermore	FY2024	£793	Environmental school project for Beswick.

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (no individually listed grants). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder and want a correction, contact us.