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The Town Hall Extension provides a variety of skills workshop and training all available to Manchester residents. The following organisations provide workshops:
Citizens Advice Bureau
Advice and guidance on benefits, work, debt and money, housing, law and rights and discrimination
When: Every day in the Customer Service Centre
The Big Lottery Fund has awarded over £380,000 to an organisation working across Manchester and Liverpool City Regions to unite unpaid carers of people with dementia and give them a strong voice. The decision was made after discovering that the health and care services across the country save over £11bn a year by relying upon the tireless work of unpaid dementia carers, many of whom put their own wellbeing at risk every day. 
The Co-op Local Community Fund is the Co-op’s way of giving back to their members and their communities. Co-op members get 1% of everything they spend on Co-op products to give to a local cause that matters to them. 
We have extended the deadline to complete our State of the Sector survey to 18 December 2016.
We would like to encourage your organisation to complete our important survey as we want to know how the government cuts and economic recession have affected our sector. We need to know how many groups have lost funding, how many have had to reduce services and how many have had to close or are facing closure. But also how we continue to work together providing valuable services and support to the people of Manchester.
A free roadshow for social businesses across the North West will come to Manchester this month, geared towards helping community-driven organisations understand what funding is available to them to help them become more successful. 
Manchester City Council has £10,000 to deliver training in Honour Based Violence (HBV) awareness for Early Help Hub staff and Social Work teams. The full funding of £10,000 will be awarded to one successful applicant to provide a training programme for frontline workers. The programme will need to be delivered to all Early Help Hub staff and Social Work teams in venues arranged by the provider. The successful applicant will be expected to deliver the training programme between January 2017 and March 2017.
Manchester City Council has £10,000 to raise awareness in Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) to communities in Manchester. The full funding of £10,000 will be awarded to one successful applicant to provide an engagement programme for the community. The successful applicant will be expected to deliver the programme between January 2017 and March 2017. 
To celebrate #GivingTuesday on the 29 November and the newly announced Local Charities Day on the 16 December, Local Giving are running two festive #GiveMe5 campaigns to encourage everyone to support a local charity and give something back to their communities. 
Grants of between £1,000 and £5,000 are available for charities and community organisations working across the UK to support Affinity Sutton residents of all ages to get and stay online and to build the skills, motivation and confidence to use the internet safely as an everyday tool. 
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