STEP UP MCR — grant history

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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 (4 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (4 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (3 grantees)
Education/training (2 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (2 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (2 grantees)
Overseas Aid/famine Relief (1 grantee)
Recreation (1 grantee)
Religious Activities (1 grantee)
Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

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

What changed: FY2022 → FY2024

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings we have read. A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2022	FY2024
new	Drywave CIC	—	£5k
new	NEWLEAF FOUNDATION	—	£3k
new	The Halle	—	£3k
new	Beswick CFC	—	£2k
new	The Beacon Centre/ The Yard Boxing	—	£2k
new	Directions for Men	—	£2k
new	FungALL CIC	—	£2k
new	Ancoats Run Club	—	£2k
not listed	Max Trax CIC	£20k	—
not listed	Drywave Recovery CIC	£6k	—
not listed	THE BEACON CENTRE	£5k	—
not listed	Heaven on Earth: The Space	£4k	—
not listed	Malawi Heritage UK	£3k	—
not listed	Pd Coaching	£2k	—
not listed	The Resonance Centre	£2k	—
not listed	Friends of Medlock Valley	£2k	—

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.
Max Trax CIC	FY2022	£20k	Crowdfunder match funding to support a community-led cycle track.
Drywave Recovery CIC	FY2022	£6k	Two community soup grants awarded to support individuals who are in recovery from drugs and alcohol with music and podcast production and intensive holistic interventions.
The Beacon Centre	FY2022	£5k	Crowdfunder match funding of almost £5,000 in community donations to support a Centre Manager role.
Heaven on Earth: The Space	FY2022	£4k	Community Soup grant for family yoga and creative wellbeing sessions.
Malawi Heritage UK	FY2022	£3k	Community Soup grant for a Digital Skills and Media Project for over 18s in Openshaw. £1,000 grant to support community-led Covid-19 vaccine rollout initiative.
Pd Coaching	FY2022	£2k	Community Soup grant supporting the purchase of football equipment for boys and girls sessions, and Walking Football for over 50s.
The Resonance Centre	FY2022	£2k	Community Soup grant to support drumming workshops and equipment purchase
Friends of Medlock Valley	FY2022	£2k	Community Soup grant to purchase planters and other gardening equipment for growing project.
I Mind You	FY2022	£1k	Community grant for 15 weeks of calligraphy workshops and other summer holiday activities for young people.
Matter	FY2022	£1k	Community grant to support women's domestic violence project startup costs
The Art of Joy Project	FY2022	£500	Community grant to support six weeks of Crafting for Wellbeing sessions
New Leaf Foundation CIO	FY2022	£0	No amount listed in the table for this entry, though listed as a recipient.

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.