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If the answer is yes, why not come along to the Manchester Carers Forum’s support group every second Tuesday of the month at Crossacres Resource Centre, 1 Peel Hall Road, Wythenshawe, M22 5DG.
Sessions are 12pm - 2pm and include:
• Free pamper treatments
• Guest speakers
• Hot lunch
For more information, contact Jackie on 0161 819 2226.
Nigel Rose, Strategic Lead (Commissioning) has published the second part of his two-part blog which proposes a solution to the thorny problem of including evidence of past performance in decision-making about funding. How can we ensure that organisations that perform well continue to be funded and those that are perform badly are decommissioned?
After 19 years based at Manchester Cathedral the Booth Centre has moved.
On 31 March The Booth Centre opened a new Advice and Skills Centre at Edward Holt House, on Pimblett Street, just behind Victoria Station in Manchester. (This is the old Glentop House building which has been gutted and remodled).
Each year Community Group Training use profits to give out as grants. As Community Group Training launched in September 2013, their first grants will be distributed in September 2014.
Community Group Training are committed to supporting small voluntary and community groups in the UK. They distribute grants through their Charitable Foundation which are then given out through grants.
The MSE Charity has grants of up to £5,000 available for self-help groups and innovative projects that will help educate people about money/debt/consumer issues. Projects must assist people to improve their quality of life through knowledge and understanding of how to manage and take control of their own financial situation. Projects must also provide outcomes that will benefit their wider communities.
Eligible Groups
Action for Children are looking for 8 people to join their team of full time and respite Foster Carers in the Manchester area as part of a new and exciting opportunity. Earn up to £640 per week.
Manchester City Council have money to invest in the Rusholme area to support projects that will benefit the local community.
Groups may only submit one application up to a maximum value of £2,000 and all project ideas must benefit the Rusholme Community.
Project ideas must be submitted by 23 May 2014.
Projects will be voted on by Rusholme residents at a U Decide Event, to be held on:
Date & Time: Monday 16 June 2014, 6pm
Venue: Trinity House Community Resource Centre, Grove Close, off Platt Lane, Rusholme M14 5AA
The Santander Social Enterprise Development Awards 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.
This new £2m fund that will support services that use social action to help older people stay well, manage their conditions or recover from illness or injury, and thereby reduce pressure on hospitals.
Grants are now available to help Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprises (VCSEs) and local NHS/social care organisations to develop innovative social action interventions that provide extra support to older people and help reduce pressure on hospitals this coming winter (2014/15).
The main purpose of the Neighbourhood Learning in Deprived Communities (NLDC) fund is to reach disadvantaged communities and individuals; to enable them to participate in learning, with progression towards further learning and/or sustainable employment as a key theme.
The City Council’s and Manchester Adult Education Service’s (MAES) priority is to tackle the issue of worklessness amongst key groups in the most deprived wards of the City, particularly those residents in receipt of out of work benefits. Therefore this is the target group for this funding.
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