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GM Poverty Action Newsletter: Early Years Poverty, Mind the Gender Pay Gap, Fuel Poverty assistance, Lifeline report, Holiday Hunger

This issue includes an invitation to join GM Poverty Action’s fourth special interest group focussing on Early Years Poverty, a report on Northwards Housing’s effective fuel poverty GMPA assistance, two members of their Work and Wages group write about the gender pay gap, there is a brief introduction to Lifeline’s report on Substance Misuse and Homelessness in Greater Manchester, an appeal for information about holiday hunger from the Food Poverty group, as well as the usual for

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Edge Fund

Edge Fund supports work run by and for communities facing discrimination and injustice. Edge Fund funds work carried out by individuals and grass-roots groups in Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England that find it difficult to get funding elsewhere. They do not fund traditional charity work, instead they support activity that challenges abuses of power and aims to change society by bringing an end to the systems that cause injustice.

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GM Poverty Action Newsletter – 1 March 2017

This issue includes a further article in the Work and Wages series looking at what the writer calls the Pension Time Bomb, information about a project centred on the garment industry and an appeal for contacts, a profile of Bolton Community Transport and Furniture Services as well as a job opportunity and the usual forthcoming local events. Greater Manchester Poverty Action

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Wonder Women 2017

Join the People’s History Museum and Wonder Women for a fabulous season of events celebrating the achievements of women.

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Final Greater Manchester Transport Strategy 2040

During summer 2016, Greater Manchester held a 12-week long public consultation on a draft 2040 Transport Strategy for the city region, which set out long-term proposals to create a cleaner, greener, more prosperous city region through better transport connections and simpler travel. What could travel look like in 25 years?

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Street parties planned to remember murdered MP Jo Cox

Thousands of street parties, picnics and baking competitions will be held on 17 and 18 June to remember MP Jo Cox, a year after she was murdered. The Greate Get Together

Her widower Brendan said the UK-wide event, called The Great Get Together, would be a "fitting tribute" to the mother-of-two who died on 16 June 2016.

Her murder was "designed to divide our country" so uniting in this way would be "a powerful statement", he added.

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Rewriting the DNA of Health and Care (Episode IV: A New Hope?)

You know that game where you have to pick the people, living or dead, you’d most like to have round a dinner table? Being a bit of an ideas geek, I have a similar thing about who I’d like to hear speak at my dream conference. I’m lucky that I occasionally get to hear some brilliant speakers from the world of charities and social enterprises.

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Children and Families

Listen to the Macc team host their own show on ALL FM

On Valentine’s Day members of the Macc team, took part in a pilot radio training course at ALL FM, in Levenshulme. It was a thoroughly enjoyable team building day, and was led by the wonderful Jason and Annie from ALL FM. All FM

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Older Peoples message to the Greater Manchester Mayoral Candidates

A group of older people across Greater Manchester have drafted up key messages to present to Mayoral Candidates. Today they’ve released two films documenting their questions, requests and ideas which focus on the big issues including health, transport, homes and democracy.

The short films made by and featuring members of the Greater Manchester Older Peoples Network talk about their views and hopes for an age friendly Greater Manchester. The scale of the task to unite the 10 districts of Greater Manchester was highlighted as a concern.

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