This March we launched our first ever funding scheme with a pot of £15,000 that was shared between nine projects from Levenshulme residents who were chomping at the bit to do something new that coincided with our social aims – exploring new ideas for our high street or creating or growing their own retail enterprises. All our winners have now received their funding and have been beavering away getting their projects off the ground over the last six months and have agreed to share their progress with us…and you! So over the last few weeks we have been sharing updates from each of our winning projects on what they have been up to since March and how they have spent their funding so far.
Our next update comes from Levenshulme institution Thairish Café (previously Isis), who applied for funds to make their business an even more desirable destination on the high street – owner Bernadette Fallon gave us this update: