Below the Radar Understanding some of the UK's smallest charities
This new report sets out a process for discovering and analysing ‘below the radar’ organisations working in communities across the UK.
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Giving World – Free supplies for people you support
Giving World is a registered charity which redirects new business end-of-line and discontinued stock (e.g. warm clothing, food, toiletries) for free to the most deprived communities in the UK.
Giving World are here to provide free of charge clothing, food Items, toiletries, cleaning and household products so the most vulnerable people in our communities can stay safe and well.
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Catalyst and The National Lottery Community Fund COVID-19 Digital Response
Emergency funding of up to £60,000 available to nonprofits in England that are committed to proactively sharing learnings with other organisations in their networks.
This fund is aimed at organisations whose work has been affected by COVID-19 and who need emergency funding to continue to deliver essential services. It will support them to develop the digital, data and design capabilities that allow them to address urgent issues and serve the most vulnerable.
This funding is a combination of direct grants and payment for support from digital agencies.
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Associate Non-Executive Director at Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust are delighted that alongside their Non-Executive Directors they are creating an exciting new Associate Non-Executive role, to support someone into what may well be their first board level role in the NHS, and they would welcome applications from people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities to improve the diversity of the board and provide a different perspective, in addition lived experience as
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Community Tech Fellowship
The Fellowship are looking for 8 Fellows who are working in the Greater Manchester Community and Voluntary Sector. The programme is for people who may have very little experience in technology, but a lot of experience of working in communities, and curiosity about the ways in which technology is shaping everything that we do.
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6 new pilot mental health support services commissioned to support BAME communities, in response to Covid-19
Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership have commissioned six pilot mental health support services, in response to the impact of Covid-19 on BAME communities.
The six pilot services and their target beneficiaries are:
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The Institute for Voluntary Action Research are recruiting trustees
Are you interested in social change? Would you like to play a strategic and advisory role in a research charity? The Institute for Voluntary Action Research (IVAR) wants to hear from you.
IVAR is looking for four new trustees, who bring life experience and a passion for the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector. They are hoping to build a board that reflects the diversity of communities that they seek to serve.
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GM Poverty Action Newsletter 19 August 2020
In the newsletter GM Poverty Action provide an update on the food poverty programme and introduce a new team member, Sian Mullen, who comments on the National Food Strategy. The Trussell Trust’s area manager writes about the importance of local welfare assistance and there is news from the GM Living Wage campaign. There is information about the recent study into food support providers during the pandemic and there are a few short articles on the final
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OPeNS Fund Feedback – feedback welcomed
Towards the end of last year the Our Manchester Voluntary and Community Sector (OMVCS) Programme Team launched two new Manchester Health Care Commissioning (MHCC) Population Health Targeted funding rounds – the Older People Neighbourhood Support (OPeNS) and First 1000 Day Funds. Having gone through an application process, earlier this year funding was awarded to groups with projects commencing in April 2020.
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First 1000 Days of a Child's Life Fund – feedback welcomed
Towards the end of last year the Our Manchester Voluntary and Community Sector (OMVCS) Programme Team launched two new Manchester Health Care Commissioning (MHCC) Population Health Targeted funding rounds – the Older People Neighbourhood Support (OPeNS) and First 1000 Day Funds. Having gone through an application process, earlier this year funding was awarded to groups with projects commencing in April 2020.
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