Our Partners.

Collaboration.

We place a premium on partnerships, whether within our fundraising, our grant making, our advocacy, or our outreach. Each plays a vital role in our mission to end homelessness.

Collaboration is the key, and we are proud to collaborate with so many organisations across the city region who share in our vision that homelessness has no place here in Greater Manchester.

Charity and Community Partners.

There is a wealth of expertise regionally and nationally on what works to tackle homelessness. As a place-based funder, we depend on our charity and community partnerships to ensure we are effective in our grant making strategy, can maximise opportunities for the charities who receive our grants, and are at the forefront of championing innovative and pioneering initiatives.

Joining national campaigns, co-funding grant programmes, spotlighting best practice, and learning from what works, our charity partnerships are fundamental to what we do.  

  • Centre for Homelessness Impact

    Centre for Homelessness Impact champion evidence-based change to tackle homelessness. Their insights ensure our grant-making strategy is informed by cutting-edge research and practice.

  • Greater Manchester Homelessness Action Network (GMHAN)

    The GMHAN bring together everyone across Greater Manchester working to end homelessness. We play an active role in the network, increasing capacity in the sector by funding the Network Manager post.

  • LandAid

    LandAid is the national property industry charity working to end youth homelessness in the UK. Through our unique position as a place-based funder, we collaborated to deliver a winter relief fund for young people in the region during the cost of living crisis.

  • Centrepoint

    Centrepoint are a leading national charity for youth homelessness. We stand with Centrepoint on a national campaign calling for a strategy to end youth homelessness, and collaborate on sharing ideas for best practice and intervention in the system.

Supporters.

We are proud of our corporate partnerships, Charity of the Year organisations and professional supporters. The support from all of these different organisations brings critical funds, strong advocates, essential expertise, and additional resources that collectively bring about real impact.

Find out how to become one of our professional or corporate supporters and get inspired by exploring some of our current relationships and how we work together in the case studies below.

  • Suez

    Suez are one of our lead partners, providing funding for Greater Manchester Mayor’s Charity from the proceeds of their second-hand shops. 



    Established in the UK in 1988 as part of the global SUEZ group, SUEZ Recycling and Recovery UK employs more than 5,000 people. Suez manage the waste sites on behalf of Greater Manchester Combined Authority, managing 1.1 tonnes of waste from nearly 2.3 million residents.

  • JCDecaux

    Funding from JCDecaux UK allows us to fund a Network Manager for Greater Manchester Homelessness Action Network, providing greater impact and influence across the city region.

    JCDecaux won Manchester City Council’s digital Out-of-Home advertising contract and committed to providing a community fund to support key social activities in the city.

  • Artorius

    Artorius Wealth Management are supporting Greater Manchester Mayor’s Charity through a year of staff fundraising.

    They kickstarted fundraising with a team bake off, raising a phenomenal £1,880! This paid for 62 nights in A Bed Every Night, providing food, shelter and full wrap-around support for people who would otherwise be rough sleeping.

    Artorius were also the lead sponsors of our first ever annual dinner.

  • Together

    Together have generously topped up funding for our 2022 and 2023 winter campaigns, ‘1000 Beds for Christmas’. Through their support, every pound donated by the public is matched for the first £20,000. Because of their generosity, we were able to beat our 2022 and 2023 target!

    Together are an award-winning specialist mortgage and secured loan provider.

  • FACT3

    FACT3 dedicate a substantial amount of their staff fundraising time to Greater Manchester Mayor’s Charity and have raised over £4,000 to date!

  • GC Business Growth Hub

    The GC Business Growth Hub are a community of specalists supporting businesses across Greater Manchester. They offer one-to-one and peer-to-peer support, as well as a range of other activities, workshops and networking opportunities to maximise business development and growth.

    We joined their partner network in July 2023, and have benefitted from the training opportunities available, and networking events to grow the reach and visibility of Greater Manchester Mayor’s Charity. We are currently joining their BGH Match sessions in the boroughs across the city region, and look forward to meeting you at one soon!

  • Capital&Centric

    Capital&Centric provide marketing, design and website support to Greater Manchester Mayor’s Charity.

    The team have got involved in fundraising by taking part in the Bus Pull and the Manchester 24 Hour Run Against Homelessness. Capital&Centric has also raised money for the charity through its own events like Sunday Social in Stockport.

  • Cornerstone Design and Marketing

    Cornerstone welcomed the full Greater Manchester Mayor’s Charity team to a day at their office, hosting a full strategy day as we refreshed our marketing strategy. Their insights and support have been our guiding star as we worked through a rebrand.

  • Adam Richardson

    Adam Richardson provided bro-bono support to the 2022 Winter Campaign – ‘1000 Beds for Christmas’. The festive jumper motif underpinning the campaign artwork made a lasting impression and even inspired our 2023 ‘Deck The Halls’ campaign. Adam Richardson not only created the artwork for the 2022 campaign, but also supported the development of the campaign copy. The impactful narrative behind the campaign continues to inform our messaging.

  • Fuzzy Duck

    Fuzzy Duck is a Creative Studio based in MediaCityUK and has a tradition of producing a Christmas film every year to share with their clients. In 2022, they decided to use their creative skills for good and offered production services out to a local charity instead.

    This led to support for the "1000 beds for Christmas" campaign, where Fuzzy Duck produced a short advert to be used across social media channels, to bring the message to life, add some emotion to the campaign, and ultimately achieve greater success of funding 1,000 beds for Christmas.

    The advert will continue to give life to our Winter Campaigns.

  • Next Level Networking UK

    Next Level Networking UK are a networking organisation, with a broad range of Professional, relaxed Premium, Networking and Social Events available across the UK.

    Next Level Networking UK have designated Greater Manchester Mayor’s Charity as their charity partner for Next Level Networking UK events in the North West.

    Find out about their upcoming events here.

  • MountDigital

    MountDigital are data-driven digital marketing company.

    MountDigital have supported our winter campaigns, ‘1000 Beds for Christmas’, helping to maximise our reach and fundraising capacity. In 2022, we raised nearly £50,000, and look forward to seeing what we can achieve in 2023!

  • Ollie & Fred

    Ollie & Fred’s lomax scarf is an eye-catching yellow and black bee striped creation, crafted from warm, breathable 100% pure new wool. 20% of the profit form all sales of the lomax scarf are donated to Greater Manchester Mayor’s Charity and the A Bed Every Night scheme.

  • Tap to Donate Champions!

    Across the city, you can find our ‘tap to donate’ points hosted in different bars, transport locations, hotels, and coffee shops.

    These locations not only give visibility of the collective effort to tackle homelessness in Greater Manchester, they are an easy way to make a donation of just £3!

    10 taps in one day is all that is needed to cover a night in the pioneering A Bed Every Night scheme.

  • Font Comms.

    Font Comms have supported our fundraising efforts, giving exposure and coverage of anything from our award-winning DJ battle powered by The Warehouse Project in 2022 to the incredible feat of strength and unity in our charity Bus Pull at Manchester Central in 2023.

    They will continue to provide PR support to our fundraising events and help raise the profile of our Ambassadors.

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