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A new grants fund focused on supporting VCS mental health providers in England to respond to an anticipated increase in need as a direct result of the coronavirus pandemic.
The funding is available for registered charities to either:
During the current outbreak of COVID-19, Manchester Refugee Support Network (MRSN) continue to support their clients remotely. MRSN have made some difficult and carefully considered decisions in order that the services they offer refugees, asylum seekers and other vulnerable migrants groups can continue operating for as long as possible in this time of uncertainty.
Cheetham Hill Advice Centre can provide free advice over the phone in Manchester including:
Cracking Good Food have been working tirelessly to cook up donated and surplus food into tasty and nutritious meals and distribute them to the most vulnerable. This week alone, Cracking Good Food have fed people experiencing homelessness, children in food poverty, isolated asylum seekers and refugees, families in emergency accommodation and women in crisis.
ABL Health are delighted to share this Lockdown Survival Guide with you, to help you, your colleagues, friends and family get through the strange experience of shielding, self-isolating or just social distancing. It focusses on the 5 Ways to Wellbeing as a basis to categorise activities, contacts and support options.
ACORN Manchester have so far mobilised over 500 volunteers and responded to over 100 requests for help from people across the city. Through ACORN people isolating in their homes can request deliveries of food, other household supplies, and prescriptions, or a phone call to combat loneliness while isolating.
It is reported that there are 1.2 million chronically lonely older people in the UK and that the number of over-50s experiencing loneliness is set to reach two million by 2025/6. This will undoubtedly be exacerbated by COVID-19 with people experiencing increased social isolation and loneliness due to the current pandemic.
Hundreds of community support groups have launched nationwide during the COVID-19 outbreak – offering shopping and more to vulnerable self-isolating people.
Some supermarkets are also putting together grocery boxes of handy essentials so that vulnerable people needn’t leave their homes at this time.
But a whopping 6.4 million people (10% of the total UK population) may have special dietary requirements.
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) have announced that the statutory consultation on the Greater Manchester Clean Air Plan will be delayed, due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The consultation had been planned for this summer. However, like other areas of the country, current circumstances have limited our ability to progress the delivery of the Clean Air Plan to previous timescales.
The Women and Equalities Committee is launching an inquiry and they want to hear about the different and disproportionate impact that the Coronavirus – and measures to tackle it – is having on people with protected characteristics under the Equality Act.
What are protected characteristics?
It is against the law to discriminate against someone because of:
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