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The latest newsletter GMPA reflects on the first Parliamentary event after taking the report ‘Local anti-poverty strategies: Good practice and effective approaches’ to London. There is information about the new cost-of-living payments, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Trussell Trusts’ Guarantee our Essentials campaign and the Samaritans' new report on Inequality and Suicide.

North West Regional Strategic Migration Partnership (RSMP) are currently completing a mapping project of all relevant VSCE organisations that support refugees and asylum seekers across the North West.

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The latest newsletter GM Poverty Action share the launch of Manchester City Council’s anti-poverty strategy ‘Making Manchester Fairer’. A recording of their webinar launching their Local anti-poverty strategies: good practice and effective approaches report. Articles about their Warm this Winter event on 30 March and a call for the expansion of free school meals.

The latest GM Poverty Action newsletter launches their new major report ‘Local anti-poverty strategies: Good practice and effective approaches’. There is an article about the Greater Manchester Consortium of Community Credit Unions, known as SoundPound who are offering a new loan and an update on GMPA’s Money Advice Referral Tools (MART) that are now providing support in 6 local authority areas.