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Here's to a great week!
Just quickly, last week we shared with you some information on how you can get involved with Volunteering in and around Manchester.
To follow that up, this week we’d like to share with you our 10 top tips (In no particular order) to help make your volunteering journey an enjoyable experience.
Early Help Hubs – you’ve probably heard about them! Do you want to understand them better? How they help families by working with them. Have you had experience of using the Early Help Assessment and working with the Hubs? 
These sessions are for voluntary sector colleagues and is being run by the voluntary sector in order to develop working relationships and understanding.
Volunteering with Home-Start is a great opportunity to gain skills and experience in dealing with families and children and to do something rewarding through helping local families. If you have a couple of hours spare a week to support a family with young children this could be for you. 
Fancy a challenge in 2017 whilst also helping Greater Manchester Youth Network (GMYN) support disadvantaged young people? 
Join Team GMYN and take part in either the Great Manchester 10k or Half Marathon run, on Sunday 28 May 2017 in Manchester City Centre.
There are two ways to get yourself signed up:
The Orange Club UK, along with Give2Gain Community and Raising the Value have been commissioned by NHS North Manchester Clinical Commissioning Group to design a Strength Based Community Investment Programme focusing on Health and Wellbeing. 
The University of Salford has partnered with Santander to offer internship opportunities to University of Salford students and graduates. The internships duration will be between 1 and 10 weeks with the intern working on a full-time or part-time basis. Full time positions are based on a 35 hour week. 
Funding
Each intern under the programme shall be paid a minimum of £300 per week based on a 35 hour week.
Design and deliver holistic and peer-led employment support with a Journey to Employment Job Club.
The Government’s Work, Health and Disability Green Paper publication announced the introduction of a new peer-led initiative for disabled people and those with a health condition who want to move closer or into employment known as the Journey to Employment(J2E) job clubs. 
Our Manchester: A stocktake of assets used by people with a Learning Disability survey is part of a partnership between Macc and Breakthrough UK. Recent conversations with people with a Learning Disability have highlighted the difficulties they can experience in finding out what services and activities are available in their local area.
In January a lot of people take the time to reflect and think about what the year ahead may look like for them, both professionally and/or personally and a lot of the time volunteering can find its way on to the list of ‘things to do’ this year.
Unfortunately though, it doesn’t always get crossed off the list and that isn’t because people can’t be bothered or have gone off the idea, a lot of the time it’s they don’t know how to get started.
Our latest data sets on our work with voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations and volunteers is now available on our website here: www.manchestercommunitycentral.org/policy-and-influence/open-data
We recently awarded grants to applicants to our Mental Health Grants Programme and will be realising the data on our Open data page soon.
The Mental Health Grants Programme is provided by NHS North, Central and South Manchester CCGs and administered by Macc.
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