Making a Difference Awards 2019
It’s time to recognise and celebrate the difference The University of Manchester’s staff, students and external partners are making. 
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GM Poverty Action research – The Poverty Premium in Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester Poverty Action (GMPA) have launched new research looking at the poverty premium in Greater Manchester. The poverty premium is the idea that low income households face higher costs for everyday goods and services compared to those on middle and higher incomes. 
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Greater Manchester Law Centre Christmas promotion: a unique way to give and to give again, in aid of work for homeless people in Greater Manchester
A secure home should be a right for everyone! And yet this Winter many people in Greater Manchester are homeless. 
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Centre for Welfare Reform – Closer to Home research
Amy-Grace Whillans-Welldrake a Masters student currently interning with the Centre for Welfare Reform is conducting a joint research project with the Centre researching the current challenges facing the welfare state such as ageing and austerity, and exploring government responses focusing specifically on recent devolution reforms. For further information, visit: www.centreforwelfarereform.org/our-work/closer-to-home.html
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Consultation – Preventing and tackling forced marriage
This consultation by the Government seeks views about whether it is necessary to introduce a new legal mandatory reporting duty relating to cases of forced marriage and, if it is, what such a reporting requirement would look like. It also seeks views on how the current guidance on forced marriage could be improved and strengthened. 
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Manchester Arena Memorial Grant Programme – apply by 9 February 2019
The Inter Faith Youth Trust is launching a new grant programme for young people’s organisations to hold inter faith events or activities in the Greater Manchester area. May 2019 will mark two years since the bombing at the Manchester Arena. The focus of the project is to highlight the good that can come from different communities working together in friendship. Grants are for between £200 to £1,000. 
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Nationwide Building Society Community Grants – apply by 7 December 2018
The Nationwide Building Society Community Grants programme is now open for applications. Charities, Community Land Trusts and housing co-operatives can apply for grants of between £10,000 and £50,000 to make a change in your local area. The applications will be reviewed and voted on by a regional Community Board, made up of Nationwide members, colleagues and local housing charities. And it’s more than just money, the funded projects will also get community and volunteering support.
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New Digital Leadership Fund now open for applications
The Office for Civil Society has launched a Digital Leadership Fund, with the goal of improving skills among charity Chief Executives, trustees and senior teams, by scaling a number of existing digital leadership training programmes that already support leaders in the social sector.
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Invitation to Tender – Anti-discrimination Project
We Stand Together has recently been awarded a grant from the Big Lottery Fund through the Awards for All grant programme for a ‘Advancing #WeStandTogether’ initiative. 
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Join the Manchester Mind Trustee Board
Manchester Mind are currently looking to recruit up to 3 new Trustees to their Board. 
There has never been a greater focus on mental health, which is clearly highlighting the demand for services that can effectively enable people to deal with their mental health issues. At least one in four people are affected by poor mental health and the wider economic cost in Greater Manchester (GM) is expected to reach £3.5bn by 2021.
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