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EnglishArabicBengaliBosnianBulgarianCatalanChinese (Simplified)Chinese (Traditional)CroatianCzechDanishDutchEstonianFilipinoFinnishFrenchGermanGreekHindiHungarianIgboItalianJapaneseKoreanKurdish (Kurmanji)LatvianLithuanianLuxembourgishMacedonianMalayMalteseNepaliNorwegianPersianPolishPortuguesePunjabiRomanianRussianSerbianSlovakSlovenianSomaliSpanishSudaneseSwahiliSwedishThaiTurkishUkrainianUrduVietnameseWelshYorubaThe Greater Manchester Poverty Action have launched the Greater Manchester Poverty Monitor 2022. The Poverty Monitor reveals the scale of poverty across Greater Manchester and covers ten 
themes: Child poverty, debt, deprivation, educational attainment, fuel and food insecurity, health, homelessness, housing, social security and the labour market.
Key findings for the whole of Greater Manchester include:
This match fund of up to £20,000 per project has been launched by the National Emergencies Trust as part of its Coronavirus Appeal. It offers support to voluntary and community organisations in 
the UK by helping them to counter financial challenges created by the pandemic, including the inability to fundraise in the usual ways, reductions in staff and volunteers, and increased demand on their services.
Eligible organisations
To mark Small Charity Week and Refugee Week, Media Trust are partnering with Bloomberg to offer small refugee and migrant charities comms coaching on 21 June between 10am-12pm.
Successful charities will meet online with five to six fellow charities for small group coaching sessions on Using Data in Storytelling and Pitching Stories, led by expert volunteers from Bloomberg.
As part of Small Charity Week Media Trust are hosting a drop-in clinic for small charities on 20 June from 2pm-3pm. Come along to find out how Media Trust can support you with your most pressing 
media, marketing and comms challenges. Media Trust will be sharing information about their wide array of programmes, training opportunities, resources and volunteer matching services.
The Growth Company together with Citizens Advice Manchester, Citizens Advice Bury and Bolton and a network of legal partners, have set up Employment Legal Advice – a new service to help 
individuals across Greater Manchester to access free employment-related legal support.
Has your organisation or group helped its local community to take control of something that matters to people in their neighbourhood/area? For example, a shop, pub, creative hub, faith building or 
community garden.
The Shoosmiths Foundation is a grant-making body working to help address societal issues, to empower sustainable change and to improve the lives of the people and the environment in the UK.
The Shoosmiths Foundation is now inviting applications for funding.
Key criteria
£25,000 to £50,000 grants are available for UK registered charities undertaking work in the UK.
The Stand With Us fund has been set up to support the many organisations run by and for women who stand up and take action every single day to address violence against women and girls 
(VAWG).
The Trust will consider applications from organisations that can deliver debt and financial capability projects but are keen to encourage applications from:
Grants from £100 - £750 are available for VCSE organisations to run activities that will support people from the communities of identity or experience below that may struggle to achieve higher levels of mental wellbeing.
The communities the fund wants to reach are:
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