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This Christmas, Cracking Good Food are teaming up with Lifeshare, Niamos Centre and Brunswick Church to cook and distribute 250 festive meals to Manchester residents experiencing homelessness, poverty and social isolation. In addition, they will be providing a range of wellbeing services including a winter clothes bank.
Church Action on Poverty is launching a brand new Speaking Truth to Power programme kicks off in January and are looking to recruit 24 individuals with lived experience of poverty (or a close ally working with people who have lived experience) to speak truth to power locally and nationally.
The government used to operate a crisis support scheme called the Discretionary Social Fund. This supported vulnerable people to live independently in their homes, and people facing a sudden financial crisis. It was an important and necessary part of the social security safety net, preventing people from falling into hardship and alleviating pressure on other parts of the welfare system.
Last year, Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) held a consultation on a proposed franchising scheme. This would bring buses under local control as part of an integrated transport network. In June, GMCA received the results of the consultation but decided, before a final decision could be made, that the impact of Covid-19 on the bus market and the proposed franchising scheme should be considered.
Have you experienced challenges as a tenant in the private rental sector?
Do you have ideas to improve tenant-landlord relations, or to protect tenants' rights?
Want to make a change?
Led by theatre facilitator Katy Rubin, these drop-in workshops will lead to an opportunity to participate in a community theatre project to support and strengthen tenants' rights.
The National Lottery Heritage Fund want to kick off 2021 by celebrating the great work done by the heritage sector during the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.
On Monday 11 January, The National Lottery Heritage Fund will be running their annual Heritage Treasures day, and they’d like you to join in the celebrations.
The final preparations are being made in anticipation of Manchester’s first cohort of patients being given the Covid-19 vaccine.
From Wednesday 16 December, Manchester residents aged 80 and above who are able to travel will be invited to receive the vaccine at the Active Lifestyle Centre in Wythenshawe.
This site was identified as the best initial location to roll out community-based vaccination in Manchester, with additional Primary Care Network sites to be announced in the coming weeks.
One Manchester want to hear from organisations in their area helping to meet community needs affected by Covid-19, particularly those most vulnerable, and to help organisations adapt and survive.
The current investment priorities are:
£80,000 is available to bring together an alliance of community organisations who can offer the following interventions in Moss Side, Rusholme and Hulme:
The aim of the Thriving Communities Fund is to bring together place-based partnerships that strengthen local infrastructure for social prescribing. Furthermore, the fund aims to plan and deliver a range of community-level activities and support by addressing community well-being. In delivering this, the fund seeks to make these partnerships and funding of delivery sustainable over a long-term perspective.
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