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Community Foundations operating across the North West have endowment match funding available for voluntary sector organisations wishing to endowment build.

The match is available via the Government’s Community First Endowment Challenge until March 2015.

Examples of types of scenarios that may qualify for the Community First Endowment Challenge include:
- A charity selling off land or wishing to maintain a building
- A voluntary and community organisation that is seeking to modernise the way it operates

The government recently introduced changes to the Council Tax Benefit system to start in April 2013. They are changing the rules on how money is paid, and changing the name to Council Tax Support.

In Manchester around £50 million is spent on council tax benefit. Initial figures showed that funding for a local scheme would reduce by 10 per cent, leaving a funding gap of £5 million.

It means that, from April 2013, there will be less money to go round for people who claim the support.

Red Rose Forest is planning a winter of tree planting – and need your help to create whole new swathes of woodland across Greater Manchester.

With funding secured from the government’s Big Tree Plant initiative and environmental charity Trees for Cities they’re aiming to plant thousands of trees during the next two months.