Help your service users access the extra support available from their water company United Utilities. This session gives your team the key information they need to confidently signpost people to United Utilities Priority Services Scheme
The session covers:
South Manchester Credit Union offers ethical financial advice to anyone who lives or works in South and Central Manchester and Trafford. They work to support those in the community to borrow and save, including those with low credit scores, and they help people to develop a good saving habit. Their mission is to empower people to achieve financial goals.
Their 'Green Loans' have been designed to support people to buy things such as bicycles, garden tools, greenhouses, electric cars and upgrade doors and heating systems.
Do you want to strengthen your organisation’s environmental and social impact?
Sow the City is hosting a unique development programme for 20 community green leaders in the VCSE sector – delivered at Manchester Museum.
This is a free, five-day programme (spread over three months) designed for 20 community green leaders in the VCSE sector. It brings together leadership development, practical skills training, peer learning, and opportunities to connect with key experts and partners across the city.
The course will cover:
A range of recent migration and asylum policy and proposals, including earned settlement and the family returns consultation, risk undermining migrant children and care leavers' rights and safety, and exposing them to poverty, destitution and/or homelessness.
This public letter is intended to highlight concerns about the cumulative threat to children's rights from these policies and call on Government to put the welfare and rights of children at the heart of all migration and asylum policy.
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) is committed to making walking, wheeling and cycling more accessible to the people of Greater Manchester. To support this, TfGM have launched a new e bike subsidy scheme, designed to help remove financial barriers to cycling to purchase and own an e bike. Cost is one of the biggest barriers to e bike ownership, and this scheme aims to remove this for people who would benefit the most.
The latest findings from the Greater Manchester #BeeWell survey has revealed a welcome boost in wellbeing among young people. 57,000 young people in years 7, 8 and 10 were surveyed, and The #BeeWell programme at The University of Manchester has now heard from more than 143,000 young people in Greater Manchester since it began, making it one of the largest studies of young people’s wellbeing of its kind anywhere in the world. It provides a powerful insight into how teenagers feel about their lives, schools and communities.
Bananas, milk, washing powder, cereal and a free donation for your organisation!
All the leading supermarkets will give a free cashback donation when you and your network order online from them, at no extra cost. As long as your organisation is registered with easyfundraising.
The likes of Tesco, Morrisons, Waitrose and Sainsbury’s will offer a flat donation amount per online order and others offer a percentage based on how much is spent.
The Booth Centre is delivering free collaborative workshops for VCFSE organisations in Greater Manchester to provide tools and insight for effective data collection.
The workshops will focus on how to:
The Singing for the Brain® group is run by Alzheimer’s Society for people living with dementia, carers and families.
Enjoy this year with music and song.
Feel good and meet new friends.
Get advice and support from friendly trained staff.
Join Alzheimer’s Society every month on the last Monday of the month, 1.30pm-3pm.
A renewed Greater Manchester VCFSE Accord for 2026 - 2035 was signed by leaders across Greater Manchester’s public sector, including the health and care system, and the Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise sector (VCFSE).
Greater Manchester stands on a proud legacy of partnership-working between the public sector and our diverse VCFSE sector.