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In 2018 the Garfield Weston Foundation is 60 years old and to celebrate, they are launching a one-off grants scheme, the Weston Anniversary Fund. This Fund will provide Capital grants ranging from £30,000 to £150,000. 
The Wakeham Trust provides grants to help people rebuild their communities. They are particularly interested in neighbourhood projects, community arts projects, projects involving community service by young people, or projects set up by those who are socially excluded. 
Over the weekend of the 22 to 24 June, the Great Get Together aims to encourage communities to get together with their neighbours to share food and celebrate all that we have in common. The event marks the 44th birthday of the MP Jo Cox, who was killed in 2016. 
Continuous budget cuts to services mean more responsibility falls to charities to help their communities. whatCharity.com is a ground-breaking charity tech platform providing a smarter solution to charitable giving, helping individuals and companies find and support charities close to their hearts, homes and offices. To support the charities in the North East of England, whatCharity.com will be meeting with charities and companies to launch its Manchester base on 5 June 2018 as part of its national roll out strategy.
In NCVO’s latest Charity governance round-up they have included information about a new simple compliance checklist for trustees they have developed; the Charity Commission’s welcome pack for new trustees; and the Association of Chairs new Beacon programme for chairs leading smaller charities. 
Today our thoughts are with the families and friends of those who died and those whose lives will be forever affected by the horrific events of that night. We want you to know that you are not alone, we stand with you. 
Young Manchester is passionate about giving children and young people the opportunity to play. Open access playschemes are a fantastic way for children to make new friends, stay active and learn through doing over the school holidays. 
There is an opportunity for VCSE organisations to be involved with the development of a new VCSE School Readiness Task and Finish group linked to the work of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority around the Mayor’s priority on School Readiness.
The first meeting of this group is taking place at Longsight Community Primary School on Thursday 7 June from 12.30pm – 3.30pm. It will focus on the creation of a VCSE group to drive forward school readiness work in GM and to work through how this connects to the wider GM school readiness agenda to look at the development of the group.
When you give to charity this Ramadan, make sure your Zakat reaches the right people. 
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