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In May 2017 the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) Sector. The MoU contains a set of principles to enable the VCSE sector to play an important role in Health and Social Care devolution in Greater Manchester (GM). Some of these principles are aimed at encouraging public sector commissioners to increase the level of funding into the VCSE sector across GM.
In the latest newsletter from the Greater Manchester Poverty Action (GMPA) they share CPAG’s Cost of a Child 2018 report and their request for your help. GMPA are asking you to submit your views on Greater Manchester’s draft Good Employment Charter.
Young working class people are leading change and they want you to get involved!
RECLAIM need Mentors to support a young person to achieve a personal goal whilst on our ground breaking social change and leadership programme.
RECLAIM enable young people to believe in themselves, allow them to step on to national stages with confidence in their authentic leadership. Be part of their Journey!
RECLAIM want mentors from all walks of life to support a young person over 6 sessions to set and achieve a personal goal whilst on their programme.
The Government’s Independent advisors will be in attendance to hear your views:
Wendy Williams for the Lessons Learned Review
Martin FordeQC for the Compensation Scheme
If you are part of the ‘Windrush generation’ or a long-term Commonwealth citizen settled in the UK, and you have concerns about your status come along to the event on Tuesday 9 October 2018, 10am-1pm at West Indian Sports and Social Club, Westwood Street, Moss Side, Manchester, M14 5SW.
You are invited to take part in a short survey of charity leaders for the Weston Charity Awards – which Pilotlight run in partnership with the Garfield Weston Foundation. Your answers will help the organisations to better understand the needs of the sector.
The survey will take approximately 5 minutes to complete and all of your responses will be analysed anonymously. As a small incentive, a donor has provided a 32GB Apple IPad, which will be won by one person picked at random from those who choose to enter.
The University of Manchester are investigating the health and well-being benefits of green space in cities for older people. (‘Green space' means trees, parks, woodland, ponds, rivers, canals, allotments, and so on.) 
The research team are looking for people who are 65 or over who might be interested in taking part in a study that surveys reasons for valuing green space.
The latest newsletter from Greater Manchester Poverty Action comments on the new poverty measure and they invite you to their ‘Filling the Vacuum’ event next month.
The newsletter looks ahead at an Autumn packed with activities and events. GM Poverty Action also have an article about Stockport Homes’ very successful Your Local Pantry model with details about the help that is available if you would like to set one up.
The Mayoral Communities Challenge consists of two phases. 
Phase one focuses on communities and neighbourhoods and will concentrate on looking at age-friendly places across Greater Manchester that are making a difference to older people’s everyday lives. The deadline for all phase one submissions is midnight, Saturday 1 December 2018.
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