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The Charity Commission has updated:
The essential trustee: what you need to know, what you need to do (CC3)

Sell It For MCR celebrates the launch of Buengo, a brand new fundraising app which allows users to sell the things they no longer need and donate the proceeds to good causes - think virtual charity shop!

Are you an existing community business in England? Looking for funding and support to make your business more sustainable? The Community Business Fund provides grants between £50,000 and £300,000 to help you progress towards self-sufficiency.

Voices from the Frontline supports women’s organisations to shine a light on their fight for gender equality in the UK. It resources advocacy, campaigning and activists with lived experience of injustice and inequality – giving voice especially to women facing intersecting disadvantages including race, class, sexuality, disability, poverty or migration status.

Comic Relief’s Tackling Violence against Women and Girls fund will support organisations that are working to end violence and abuse experienced by women and girls across the UK.

The charity The Proud Trust, has been awarded £800,000 from The Big Lottery Fund towards a £2mn project to re-develop the LGBT+ Centre on Sidney Street, with work planned to commence in early 2019.

Manchester Refugee Support Network have recently launched a Young Refugee Employment Support project aimed at tackling the unacceptably high levels of unemployment amongst Manchester’s refugee community.

Are you between 16 and 25? Looking for work?

The Manchester Safeguarding Boards (MSB) comprises the Manchester Safeguarding Adults Board (MSAB) and the Manchester Safeguarding Children Boards (MSCB). The Boards share an Independent Chair, Julia Stephens-Row; and are supported by the MSB Business Unit.

The Festival of Ageing will take place from the 2 July to 15 July. The celebratory event will portray a more positive view of ageing, as well as encouraging policy-makers to take the action needed to improve the lives of Greater Manchester’s 907,000 older people – a figure set to rise to 1.1million in the next twenty years.

In the latest Greater Manchester Poverty Action (GMPA) newsletter GMPA launch their Beyond Poverty Report which shares the stories of people from across Greater Manchester who have recent or current first-hand experience of poverty. In this issue there are also some snippets of information about food poverty projects both National and local and provided a brief introduction to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s report on Universal Basic Income. The Living Wage has its usual regular column and details about forthcoming events are included, as usual, on the final page.