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Do you have an idea you’d like to develop to apply for heritage lottery funding? Are you unsure of how ‘heritage’ is defined by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF)?

Did you know that BME led groups are a national priority for Heritage Lottery funding?

Manchester and Liverpool have launched a joint bid, called A Tale of Two Cities, to win £120,000 of funding from Kew Gardens for wildflower planting.

One community will receive the Grow Wild funding to create an inspiring wild flower haven for everyone to enjoy – and you can help decide who wins.

This is a fantastic opportunity to bring a splash of colour to the city - in the words of the council's biodiversity officer Dave Barlow, "we've gone from grey to green, now let's go from drab to fab!" - and will also be a great boost for the cities bees and other pollinators.

This is a key strategy for Manchester – the UK’s first Age Friendly City. It sets out how housing for older people will develop over the coming years and what action is needed to be taken now. It links to how care and health services will be provided for the older population. It describes how Manchester can build to make the city an attractive place for people to grow older, living as independently as possible.

All of the documents relating to the consultation are available on the website to be read or printed.

Big Lunch Extras is designed to help people interested in bringing about small, positive changes in their neighbourhoods. It builds on the success of the Big Lunch which you might have heard of, and which this year saw 4.8M neighbours sit down and have lunch together.