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Free For Arts Festival 2018

21 Nov 2017 - 14:55 by michelle.foster

Free For Arts Festival (FFAF) is an idea that has been handed over to different Manchester collectives and welcoming local audience to experience arts for free since 2009. Art Vanguard (AV) has been offered to be the host for FFAF 2018 and would like to transform 3 central Manchester venues into the worlds of Fairytale, Dream, and Fantasy. Art Vanguard are encouraging community groups to take part and collaborate in the festival and they would like to build awareness about the festival.

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Charity Commission report: Taken on Trust: awareness and effectiveness of charity trustees in England and Wales

21 Nov 2017 - 14:53 by michelle.foster

The Charity Commission has published a major new report into trusteeship which calls for changes in the way boards are recruited and supported. Charity Commission

The report, Taken on Trust: the Awareness and Effectiveness of Charity Trustees in England and Wales, finds that there are 150,000 fewer trustees in the UK than previously believed. Trustee payment remains relatively rare, with only 2,000 charities – 1.6 per cent – paying trustees.

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Home Office consultation on the criteria for designating bodies in the police super-complaints system

21 Nov 2017 - 14:48 by michelle.foster

The Policing and Crime Act 2017 includes provisions for the introduction of a new policing super-complaints system. The Home Office knows that systems have, in the past, sometimes been too slow in capturing major issues, such as widespread child sexual abuse or the misuse of stop and search. Complementing wider reforms to the individual complaints system, the Government committed to bring in a ground-breaking system of police super-complaints. Home Office

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University Construction Community Fund

17 Nov 2017 - 11:06 by michelle.foster

The University of Manchester and its main construction partners – Balfour Beatty, Laing O’Rourke and Sir Robert McAlpine – have established a £20,000 fund to support neighbourhood initiatives in areas closest to the University’s construction sites around Oxford Road and near Owens Park, Wilmslow Road. The University of Manchester

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Plant a Seed for Gender Equality – The Pankhurst Centre and Manchester Women’s Aid Crowdfunding campaign

17 Nov 2017 - 10:58 by michelle.foster

In 2018 it will be 100 years since the first women secured the right to vote in the UK. Yet 100 years on, we are still fighting for gender equality. The Pankhurst Centre sees the social injustice still faced by women every single day and are calling you to action to help them to do something special for women and children in 2018: to build a Suffragette Garden to commemorate the work of Emmeline Pankhurst and the incredible Suffragette Women 100 years on, and foster the well-being of women still experiencing social injustice today.

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Campaign Against Charging Charities

17 Nov 2017 - 10:54 by michelle.foster

In recent years the Charity Commission has seen its budget slashed from £40m to around £21m – and further cuts could well be on the horizon. As a result, there is a debate about charging charities to plug the gap – which DSC opposes. Directory of Social Change

A well-resourced Charity Commission is vital for the work of charities, but the Directory of Social Change believes that diverting charitable resources to fund the regulator is wrong, on many levels.

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GM Poverty Action newsletter: a view from Salford City's Mayor; Mike Kane MP on debt and its impact; Living Wage week write up, Trafford Housing

17 Nov 2017 - 10:52 by michelle.foster

In the latest newsletter from Greater Manchester Poverty Action: Salford City’s Mayor Paul Dennett writes about tackling poverty in the city; Wythenshawe and Sale East MP Mike Kane shares his views on debt and the impact it has on his constituency’s families. There is a brief write-up about Living Wage week and information about Trafford Housing Trust’s grant funding to improve the lives of people living in Trafford. There is also information about forthcoming meetings.

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Macmillan Information Bus is in Manchester 14-17 November

14 Nov 2017 - 14:14 by michelle.foster

Macmillan Information Bus is stopping in your town… Macmillan Bus

Tuesday 14 November - Middleton Gardens M24 4DB, 9.30am-3.30pm
Wednesday 15 November - Manchester Hospitals site by M&S, 8.30am-3pm
Thursday 16 November - Longsight Market, M13 0WG, 9am-4pm
Friday 17 November - Hyde Market, 9am-3pm

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Need support in any areas?

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