About the CSA

The Council for Social Aid is a charitable trust (Registered Charity Number 233814) dating back to the 1800s. It was registered with the Charity Commission in 1964. The CSA relieves poverty and the affects of poverty within the Diocese of Manchester, through making grants to local Anglican Church-owned or church-linked projects. Our understanding of poverty includes: ‘Want, Disease, Squalor, Ignorance, Idleness and Isolation’, based on the paper commissioned by the House of Bishops Thinking Afresh about Welfare; The Enemy Isolation, (March 2016), drawing on Beveridge’s Five Giant Evils.

The Trustee of the fund is the Manchester Diocesan Board of Finance; the Bishop of Manchester appoints seven managing trustees who oversee the distribution of the funds.

The Managing Trustees work closely with Diocesan Officers and with the Development Officer of Greater Together Manchester to promote the work of the CSA and to support projects that fulfil the CSA aims and objects.

The Trustees

The current Managing Trustees are:

• Rev’d Fayaz Adman
• Rev’d David Brae
• Dr Helen Gatenby
• Rev’d Graham Hollowood
• Richard Lewis
• Archdeacon Rev’d Karen Lund
• Rev’d Helen Scanlan

2019 Small Grant Recipients

• St Michael’s, Tonge-cum-Alkrington – ‘Remember Me’, Living Well with Dementia, training Parish Advocates to foster Dementia Friendly Parishes
• Christ with All Saints, Heaton Norris – Music School Community Outreach Project
• St Mary the Virgin, Eccles – Place of Welcome with Twiddleknits
• St George the Martyr, West Bolton – CAP Job Club in Project George March
• Church of the Epiphany, Droylsden – Place of Welcome

Large Grant Recipients 2016-19

• St Clements, Ordsall – Community Centre Money Advice
  
• Christchurch, Bacup – Community Cafe for Vulnerable Adults
  
• St Elisabeth’s, Reddish – ‘Community Champions’ Support Worker
  
• Christchurch, Brunswick – ‘Positive Steps’ Community Programme Manager
  
• Wythenshawe Team – Food for Thought & Credit Union
• Church of the Apostles, St Cuthberts & Church of the Resurrection – ‘Growing East Manchester’ Community Allotments
  
• St Aidan’s, Lower Kersal – Lower Kersal Young People’s Group, development & strengthening relationships with the Parish