Children and Families

Every Wednesday 2pm-4pm
Manchester Mind, Children and Young People’s Services, 709 Stockport Road, Levenshulme, M19 3AG

The weekly Sorted advice drop-in is for young people age 15-25. The drop-in provides advice on benefits, work, housing, studies, and money worries.

The drop-ins can give advice on all of the above plus appealing benefit decisions and maximising income.

Young people are invited to come and talk things through with an advisers who can try and help get things sorted.

No appointment necessary.

Every Wednesday and Friday 1pm-3pm
Manchester Mind, Children and Young People’s Services, 709 Stockport Road, Levenshulme, M19 3AG

This an opportunity for young people age 15-25 to come along and find out more about Manchester Mind’s services in their relaxed and welcoming wellbeing cafe.

Find out about Manchester Mind’s offer including their mentoring service, volunteer opportunities, and advice services.

Young people can take part in wellbeing activities and meet new people.

No referral necessary.

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.

BBC Children in Need give grants for projects working with children and young people of 18 years and under experiencing disadvantage through:

Reuben's Retreat hold a range of regular support groups for parents:

Connect Coffee Morning
For parents of life-limited children and young people
Date: 29 November 2019
Time: 10am-12pm
Venue: The Lodge at Reuben’s (Park Crescent, Glossop, SK13 7BQ)

Exploring the mental health support needs of single black women living in Manchester.

• Are you a black single mother with experience of mental health or as a carer?
• Are you interested in 2 hour peer support group
• Do you live in Manchester

Weekly session (during school time) for 3 months starting November 2019.

Refreshments and reasonable travel and childcare expenses provided.

For further information and to express an interested contact 0785 355 6591, or email: info@cahn.org.uk

Young Manchester have launched the new Youth and Play Fund for Manchester, in partnership with Manchester City Council, the #iwill Fund and Curious Minds.

The fund seeks to build on work to date to build a strong, vibrant sustainable Youth and Play sector, which enables every child and young person in Manchester to thrive and to realise their full potential through outstanding opportunities.

This funding will:

Funding is available for projects that aim to improve the health and wellbeing of children in their first 1,000 days of life (from conception to the age of two), as it is crucial to their long-term health and wellbeing.

Objectives
To support women, fathers and families:

As you may be aware, earlier this year Manchester City Council and Manchester Health and Care Commissioning launched a competitive tendering process for the contract to provide support to the city's voluntary and community sector for the next three years. We are delighted to announce that Macc has been awarded this contract.

The Our Manchester Funds Programme Management Team would like to thank everyone who provided comments as part of the consultation on the First 1000 Days of a Child's Life Fund - either through the on-line survey, public events or through other channels.