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The Proud Trust, the LGBT+ Youth Organisation for Greater Manchester (with North West and national projects) is seeking a trustee to join their wonderful Trustee Team. The Proud Trust are especially looking for BAME and trans people.
The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) is working with the Mayor’s Business Advisory Panel and the Business Growth Hub to deliver the 6th annual GM-wide business survey, to improve their understanding of the strengths and opportunities local businesses have, as well as the challenges and issues they face.
The Macc offices will be closed from 1pm on 24 December and will open in the New Year on 2 January.
Manchester Community Central / Capacity Building Team opening times
Monday 23 December – open 10am-4pm
Tuesday 24 December – Thursday 2 January closed
Please note: there will be no drop-in on 24 December or 31 December
Skill Givers opening times
Monday 23 December – Friday 10 January closed
Monday 13 January – open from 10am
This new Nesta guide looks at how mass involvement in shaping the future can solve complex problems. Moving beyond citizen assemblies and traditional public engagement, participatory futures techniques help people to develop a collective image of the future they want, so that we can make better, more informed decisions.
Their guide contains practical suggestions for how to do this. Examples include:
As long-standing supporters of gender equality Manchester City Council support activities every March to promote and celebrate International Women’s Day. The third annual Walk for Women takes place on Saturday 7 March 2020, and Manchester City Council want as many people and organisations as possible to join in.
Voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) groups and organisations in each of the local authority areas of Greater Manchester are being sought to provide peer support opportunities for parents, carers and families of children with suspected or diagnosed Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD).
Between November 2019 and June 2020 GMCVO will be giving out a total of £225,000 in grants to VCSE organisations to get Greater Manchester Walking.
Core funding grants are now available for small and local charities through a new simplified, more flexible and transparent approach.
Lloyds Bank Foundation have refined and improved their approach to funding to better help you be stronger and more effective.
This new approach involves:
The Human Lending Library®, which matches charity and social enterprise leaders with successful entrepreneurs as mentors, has opened in Manchester.
Launched by the charity Expert Impact, the initiative has seen more than 200 leaders of social enterprises and charities ‘borrow’ an Expert for advice on improving their organisations and increasing their social impact.
Funded by the Co-op Foundation’s Building Connections fund, The Children’s Society are delivering a year-long programme of work which aims to reduce loneliness and isolation amongst young carers.
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