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encourage people to get involved as volunteers and who just need a bit of financial help to be able to work with their community in the way they’d like.
The Auto Trader Community Fund is offering awards of up to £1,000.
The Fore’s Spring 2023 Funding Round offers unrestricted grants of up to £30,000 across 1 to 3 years to small charities and social enterprises. The Fore’s grants are intended to create a step change for your organisation. For example, the grant may help your organisation grow, increase your staff capacity, serve a new beneficiary group, become more sustainable or make your systems more efficient.
Grantees of The Fore Receive:
The grants programme will support small organisations addressing complex social issues. Charities and Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs) with a turnover of £25,000 to £500,000 can apply for an unrestricted grant of up to £75,000 over three years, provided they are carrying out work which fits in with one of the fund’s priorities:
Need information on local support in Manchester this Winter? To help local people, Manchester Local Care Organisation’s Integrated Neighbourhood Teams across the city have worked with 
colleagues at Manchester City Council and the voluntary sector to produce a series of neighbourhood winter service booklets which you can now download.
Researchers from the Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group at the University of Manchester are conducting a study into how different religious spaces in Greater Manchester in the UK and 
Akita in Japan support older people in their communities.
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) is the largest NHS Trust in the UK with over 28,000 staff and manages 10 hospitals.
MFT are developing a new diagnostics model where more Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC’s) are created in free standing locations away from main hospital sites. Diagnostics means when you have tests to find out if something is wrong with your health.
In the latest GM Poverty Action newsletter is an article about Tameside Council’s voluntary adoption of Socioeconomic Duty. There is also a write up on Living Wage Week in Greater Manchester, regular policy and research updates and more. 
In the next issue GMPA will be including a report on the recommendations made by the Tameside Poverty Truth Commission.
Funding for organisations helping to build strong and inclusive communities and engaging meaningfully with young people across the UK.
As part of its ‘Building Communities of the Future Together’ Strategy 2022-27, Co-op Foundation is preparing to launch the Future Communities Fund to support charitable organisations building communities that:
Applications for the Weston Charity Awards 2023 are open to environmental charities for the first time thanks to a collaboration between The Garfield Weston Foundation and charity partner, Pilotlight.
Zurich Insurance have provided a very important article about safer recruitment.
Safer recruitment is an integral part of safeguarding. If your charity or community organisation carries out any kind of work involving children or adults-at-risk, then you will have a safeguarding exposure. You will therefore need to have appropriate arrangements in place to ensure you are practising safer recruitment.
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