Funding for ‘Work for Smile’

Work for smile is a Longsight based organisation that provided food parcels & hot meals for local people during Covid-19

Benefit of funding local projects

Identifying funding empowers communities to deliver the solutions they have designed. Research has shown that staff who can offer mediation, guidance and support in the funding application and project process are as important to community groups as receiving the funding itself. Staff who have a good knowledge of the area and who needs support, enable funding to be accessed by more marginalised people and groups. Funding sometimes needs to come from multiple sources and Neighbourhood Health Workers save time being able to quickly identify multiple potential sources.

Location

Ardwick and Longsight

Project team

Buzz

Work for smile

Forever Manchester.

Aim

We realised that this project needed more funding to continue the great work that they were doing. We applied for the ‘Forever Manchester’ Community Fund of £5000 but the organization required some updating of its constitution, child protection policy, safeguarding adult’s policy and Covid-19 risk awareness policy. I supported Mohammad – work for smile - in updating these documents to then apply for the funding, which was successful.

Evaluation

The application for £5000 funding from Forever Manchester was successful. Forever Manchester were very supportive of this funding bid and asked us to submit and resubmit documents several times before the funding was granted. It was important to communicate well with the funder and with Work for smile and to have the patience to do the necessary work in updating the documents and to support and encourage Mohammad as he builds his organisation.

Strategic links to local/national policies

Benefit	Policy
Empowerment	NHS Five Year Forward View (Department of Health, 2014) Healthy Lives, Healthy People (MH Government, 2010) Our Manchester Strategy
Communities engaged in the design and delivery of local services	Healthy Lives, Healthy People (MH Government, 2010) The Manchester Prevention Programme
Addressing inequalities	Fair Society, Healthy Lives (Institute of Health Equity, 2010) NHS Five Year Forward View (Department of Health, 2014)