Big Change

One strand of the city’s new co-ordinated approach is the Big Change Fund, Manchester’s alternative giving strategy, which aims to ensure that public donations to people who are homeless are used in the most effective way possible to help individuals build a new future.

Although giving money to people begging on the street seems supportive, it doesn’t help individuals get away from sleeping rough, or address the complicated range of reasons which made them homeless.

By working in partnership with charities and organisations providing frontline services for homeless people, the Big Change Fund pools together opportunities to make long-term positive changes towards ending homelessness.