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Office of the Children’s Commissioner Report - ‘If it’s not better, it’s not the end’ Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation

18 Mar 2015 - 11:24 by michelle.foster

‘If it’s not better, it’s not the end’ Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE)
in Gangs and Groups: one year on report by the Office of the Children’s Commissioner is a follow up to the ‘If only someone had listened’ inquiry into CSE in groups and gangs, in which the OCC recommended the implementation of the See Me, Hear Me framework.

This report documents the progress made by government, LSCBs and police forces in tackling CSE in the last year.
 

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Santander Social Enterprise Development Awards

13 Mar 2015 - 11:45 by michelle.foster

The Santander Social Enterprise Development Awards (SEDA) aim to support social enterprises and charities with trading activities looking to grow their business and improve their local community.

The Development Awards are targeted at established social ventures that have ambitions to develop their organisation but need a financial boost to help them realise their potential. SEDA is an annual competition with winners selected on the strength of their business plan for growth.

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Lifeshare are looking for Trustees

13 Mar 2015 - 11:43 by michelle.foster

Lifeshare was established in Manchester in 1985, and was originally set up to meet the needs of Manchester’s homeless. Lifeshare pioneered schemes for resettlement and rent guarantee to ensure stable accommodation for those in need, and initiated the sale of ‘The Big Issue’ in Manchester with a local supplement (now ‘The Big Issue in the North’).

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One Team – Delivering the best outcomes for people in Manchester

13 Mar 2015 - 11:41 by michelle.foster

Living Longer, Living Better describes the ambitious programme of work aimed at ensuring local people receive high quality, personalised services which support them to manage their own health and wellbeing and live long healthy lives.

This integrated care will be delivered by health and social care professionals organised around 10 to 12 hubs across the city, each serving 40-50,000 people. This arrangement, and the organisational changes needed to make it happen, is being called One Team.

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Invitation to tender for a time-limited evaluation of the Manchester Volunteer Advice Partnership

13 Mar 2015 - 11:40 by michelle.foster

Manchester Mind is the lead partner in this strong partnership project and is working with 4 other Manchester-based partners (Cheetham Hill Advice Centre, Manchester Refugee Support Network, Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit and Young Peoples Support Foundation) to deliver an exciting, two-year project providing excellent-quality volunteering opportunities in advice activities across all the organisations.

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Lloyds Bank and Bank of Scotland Social Entrepreneurs Programme

13 Mar 2015 - 11:39 by michelle.foster

The programme has three core elements: a 14 day course, one to one business mentoring and a grant. The programme is split into two categories:

Start Up - will help you get a new organisation up and running
Scale Up - will help you grow an existing social enterprise

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Youth on Solid Ground (YSG) Press Club creative writing sessions

13 Mar 2015 - 11:38 by michelle.foster

Youth on Solid Ground (YSG) Press Club creative writing sessions are being run in partnership with Invisible Inc every Saturday 2:30am-4:30pm at Manley Park Centre, York Avenue, Whalley Range, M16 0AS.

Activities Include: creative writing, group work, discussions, problem solving activities and having fun.

The sessions are free and are for all young girls (ages 11-19).

The sessions are delivered by Qualified Youth Workers, Mentors and Artists.

You can simply turn up, register on the day.

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Love our Bike survey - Cycling on the wrong side of the tracks?

13 Mar 2015 - 11:37 by michelle.foster

Love Your Bike, the cycling advocacy campaign co-ordinated by Manchester Friends of the Earth, has launched a survey to gather the experiences of people who have cycled alongside, close to or across Metrolink tram tracks.

In December 2014, Love Your Bike again raised concerns regarding the designs of Metrolink tram routes at road junctions such as Southmoor Road in Wythenshawe.

In 2012, Sean Sutton (the British Cycling Head Coach at the time) described the new tram lines near to the Velodrome as ‘death traps’.

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Grants for voluntary and community groups to help domestic abuse survivors/victims

9 Mar 2015 - 13:38 by michelle.foster

If you're a voluntary or community group, you can apply for a grant of £50,000 to provide a recovery programme for survivors/victims of domestic violence and abuse.

The full £50,000 will be awarded to one successful applicant. Half will be paid as soon as possible, and the other half in November 2015, after a review of what you've done.

You can apply on behalf of your organisation or, if you're working with another organisation, you can apply together.

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Beautiful Manchester

6 Mar 2015 - 11:09 by michelle.foster

Open Culture Project in partnership with Way Yin invite you to take a part in ‘Beautiful Manchester’ Exhibition. Take a photo of this part of Manchester that you love and email it to:[email protected] by 28 March 2015.

Please choose only one photo that you will be sending with the description explaining what good memories it brings you.

Your photo will be on display in the Welcome Center and other locations in Manchester in early April.

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