PARTNERS
RE:generate
Action to Regenerate Community Trust developed from an organisation originally set up by two Social Entrepreneurs in 1990 to address poverty and to promote and support democratic action to tackle the root causes of poverty. Founders, staff and volunteers have been involved in deep, respectful listening to over 250,000 people from over 75 towns, cities and villages in the UK and Africa in the last 16 years. This "Listening Matters" process has resulted in projects, organisations, jobs, opportunities, income and outcomes for hundreds of the most excluded people in marginalised communities.
RE:generate is committed to positive, creative and enterprising action to change the way things are and the way things are done. We are working to tackle poverty and injustice at its root. Our approach is rooted in our beliefs that: Transformation demands dialogue, understanding and respect at every level of society if we are to ensure a safe, just and sustainable future.
Successful communities will build trust between diverse people, agencies, government and business. Those that don't will continue to suffer damage and cause damage.
We must develop a new mind set to tackle the complex issues that we are all facing in the 21st Century. Confronting the difficulties we will inevitably face in the coming 50 years is everybody's responsibility - including our own.
People United in Local Social Enterprise (PULSE) is RE:generate's local community partner in the Borough of Wigan and Leigh.
PULSE is bringing community entrepreneurs together to help each other to learn, support, grow and develop a range of social enterprises that can make a difference to the quality of life in the Wigan borough.
PULSE aims to:
(a) create an organisational team to engage with and create ideas for the community,
(b) create a reflective strategic body that can help to build the social enterprise network of the Wigan borough
(c) establish a network organisation that is financially self sustainable and able to raise funds and generate surplus income that can be distributed to support other social enterprises.
PULSE is committed to an inclusive, diverse and non-discriminative approach that focuses on team working and making forward progress happen. PULSE will engage in action and reflection and will not become a talking shop!
Wigan Borough Partnership
The Wigan Borough Partnership Board is made up of leaders from the Council, various agencies and communities. The Board builds links across the Borough, encouraging major new projects and initiatives and helping set priorities to ensure progress of the Community Plan.
Wigan Borough Partnership (WBP) is the responsible body that ensures the delivery of the borough's Community Plan and the Local Area Agreement (LAA). The Community Plan sets out the long term vision, ideas and aspirations for the borough towards 2020, whilst the LAA focuses on the action that needs to be taken now to convert the vision, ideas into reality.
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation is one of the largest independent grant-making foundations in the UK.
We aim to improve the quality of life throughout the UK. We do this by funding the charitable activities of organisations that have the ideas and ability to achieve change for the better. We take pride in supporting work that might otherwise be considered difficult to fund.
Our primary interests are in the UK's cultural life, education, the natural environment and enabling people who are disadvantaged to participate more fully in society.
The majority of our funding is channelled through the Main Fund, described in full in our Guidance for Applicants. We will also make a small number of grants through time-limited, specialist funding Strands.
The Tudor Trust
The Tudor Trust is an independent grant-making charitable trust which supports organisations working across the UK. We do not focus our funding on specific themes or programmes. Instead we want to fund a wide range of people and organisations working to achieve lasting change in their communities. Our role is to support and enable their visions, trusting the groups we fund to do the work that is needed.
Tudor aims to support work which addresses the social, emotional and financial needs of people at the margins of our society. We are interested in how organisations tackle these needs, and their root causes. We want to encourage growth, progression and development, not just keeping things as they are.