To donate, please click the “donate” button. We are extremely grateful for any donations and the above suggestions are only examples. Feel free to surprise us with any donation amount… We love surprises!
Support Us
The Men’s Room currently delivers all it does on the equivalent of 4 Full Time staff per week.
We need to increase capacity of the organisation, but also we need to fund incentives to secure sustained involvement from the young men we support.
Your donations make a real difference…
Below are a few examples of how your donations can help:
How your donations help
£1.00
£1 may be the difference between a young man engaging with us because he gets a cup of tea.
£2.00
£2 is the cost per head of a young man receiving a hot meal, maybe the only hot meal he has had in days.
£5.00
£5 provides food for a drop in session.
£18.00
£18 supports a 1:1 session that can include a health check and social care advice.
£30.00
£30 is the cost of a half day session with young men exploring issues that help them protect themselves OR provides food for a group session.
£100.00
£100 is the cost of bringing in an arts worker for a session to allow the young men to experience new creative ways to express themselves and develop a voice that supports their own empowerment.
Different Scale
£1000.00
£1,000 will pay for four months food at the sessions for young men.
£3000.00
£3,000 will support a creative programme for young men to share something positive and raise awareness.
£5000.00
£5,000 will support an engagement worker to work with young men directly for 4 months
£10,000.00
£10,000 will run all our current core activities (Street Outreach, Drop-In, 1:1 and creative sessions for a month.
How to donate
Current funders
Arts Council England
Championing, developing and investing in the arts and culture in England, the Arts Council England funds arts activities that engage people in England, helping artists and art organisations carry out their work.
The Arts Council England supported us to create the Survivors project. We were able to support young men to tell stories about how they have survived on the streets of Manchester.
Comic Relief
Comic Relief is a major charity based in the UK, with a vision of a just world, free from poverty. They offer grants to charities working towards five themes; building better futures, healthier finances, safer lives, stronger communities and a fairer society.
Comic Relief enabled us to continue our support to sexually exploited young men.
The Tudor Trust
The Tudor Trust is an independent grant-making trust which supports voluntary and community groups working in any part of the UK. They direct their help towards smaller, community-led organisations which work directly with people who are at the margins of society.
The Tudor Trust have given substantial support to fund our group sessions, which means we can provide positive opportunities for young men who are homeless, involved in street based sex work or have experience of the criminal justice system.