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They play a vital role, volunteering their time and working together to make important decisions about the charity’s work.
Trustees’ Week is an annual event to showcase the great work that trustees do and highlight opportunities for people from all walks of life to get involved and make a difference.
Forever Manchester will once again be offering £200 to those who wish to bring local people together over the festive season. 
Connected communities make stronger, happier communities and grants are for any event that brings people together.
Examples of events that will be supported include:
The Kings Fund’s Cascading Leadership programme is now open for new applications. 
The programme, now in its third year, offers free support, advice and training to the leaders of health and wellbeing charities based on a ground-breaking model of peer-to-peer support. To date, it has supported 120 voluntary and community sector (VCS) leaders and is now offering a further 64 places on this year’s programme.
This year's Giving Tuesday is on 27 November. This is a great opportunity to get your supporters involved in fundraising for your charity - whether it's simply by Tweeting about you using the #GivingTuesday hashtag, organising an event or taking on a sponsored challenge. 
Giving Tuesday is all about supporting and celebrating Britain’s charities.
The Alec Dickson Trust supports volunteering or community service projects in the UK only that are organised and run by people under 30 years old. 
EU citizens living in the UK and their family members will need to apply under the EU Scheme (EUSS) to obtain their new UK immigration status as the UK exits the EU. 
Information for the bulletin is compiled from a number of sources including Grantfinder, and direct from funders themselves. It showcases just a few of the hundreds of funding opportunities available for local community, voluntary and faith organisations. 
This bulletin is produced by a partnership of local support and development agencies across Greater Manchester.
Whether you’re a group, individual, a community or organisation, you can apply for a grant between £100 to £1000 to cover the costs of arranging an event, big or small, fun or formal, city-wide or community-led to mark International Women’s Day in March 2019. 
Relate is launching a new service in Greater Manchester for people experiencing problems in their relationships, and relationship counselling is now available at new locations in central Manchester, Sale, Stockport, and Wigan. The leading relationship charity experienced a peak in calls last month (a 51% increase on a typical month) from people whose relationships reached crisis point over the summer, and this half-term is encouraging anyone facing difficulties in their relationships to seek support .
The FSI is always looking for ways to support their members as effectively as possible and ensure that the learning options are varied, so that all small charities are able to choose from a menu of services that best meets their needs. 
Building on their successful webinar series, the FSI are now launching their first ever fully-online training course in Developing Your Fundraising Strategy, supported by the Garfield Weston Foundation.
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