We are pleased to announce the winners of the GM Walking Medium Grants.
Funded by Greater Manchester Moving (with money from Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership), medium grants between £1,000 and £5,000 have been awarded to the following organisations to support activities that encourage people who are usually less active to start or increase the amount they walk regularly:
|
Organisation |
Area |
Target Group |
Activity to be Funded |
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Angels of Hope for Women |
Gorton, Manchester |
BAME Women |
Hold monthly workshops, talks and/or walks in the parks and local community for BAME women in Manchester. |
|
Back on Track |
Manchester |
Disadvantaged groups (including those with experience of mental health problems) |
Deliver 3 6 week projects, encouraging disadvantaged groups (including people who have experience mental health problems and who are not in employment) in Manchester to walk more. |
|
Blackrod Sports and Community Centre |
Bolton |
School children, older people, families, those with long term health conditions |
Deliver 4 small walking projects which will encourage residents of Blackrod, Bolton to walk more. Projects include walking for primary school children, older people and families. |
|
Bolton Lads and Girls Club |
Bolton |
Young people |
Inspire inactive young people in Bolton to walk more through a series of health and wellbeing sessions. |
|
Brandlesholme Residents Association |
Bury |
Those not in work |
Be making environmental changes and improvements around in Brandlesholme to encourage residents to walk between areas. |
|
Canal and River Trust |
Manchester |
Young People, veterans including people with long term health conditions and those not in work. |
To promote walking/active lifestyles to young people and veterans in Miles Platting and Newton Heath areas of Manchester, through a programme of increasingly physical volunteering activities. |
|
Collaborative Women UK CIC |
Trafford |
Women who have experienced domestic violence |
Community walking project to promote healthy activity for women who are victims/survivors of domestic abuse in Trafford. |
|
Friends of Victoria Park Stretford |
Trafford |
People with long term health conditions and disabilities |
Encouraging adults with long term illness and or disability to increase their walking activity in Trafford via a weekly walking group and new marked routes in Victoria Park, Stretford. |
|
Jigsaw (Bury) |
Bury |
Young disabled people |
Deliver walking activities for Jigsaw members who are young disabled people aged 13+ resident in the Bury area. |
|
Link4Life |
Rochdale |
People with long term health conditions |
Community-led walks throughout 4 townships of Rochdale Borough (Rochdale, Heywood, Middleton, Littleborough), for adults with long term health conditions. |
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Mahdlo (Oldham Youth Zone) |
Oldham |
Young People |
To increase the number of Oldham young people participating in, enjoying and leading walking activities. |
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Ramsbottom Access Volunteers Group |
Bury |
Local community, young people |
To make improvements to ‘The Rake’ public footpath in Ramsbottom to enable to path to be used safely by those that live in the area - particularly school children and their parents |
|
Starling |
Oldham and Tameside |
Neordiverse young people |
To provide sensory walks for neurodiverse young people (age 13-25) and their parents/carers in Oldham and Tameside. |
|
Start in Salford |
Salford |
People with mental ill health |
To host guided walking tours of over 60 parks and open spaces in Salford to increase walking activity for people living with mental ill health. |
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The Ability Co-Operative |
Salford |
People with learning disabilities and physical disabilities |
To hold a series of walking sport sessions to increase activity for adults with learning disabilities and co-existing physical disabilities in Salford. |
|
The Conservation Volunteers |
Trafford |
People with learning disabilities |
Empower two educational organisations to support people with learning disabilities to walk regularly in the Trafford area. |
We look forward to activities commencing once the Coronavirus pandemic has passed.
