The Manchester Safeguarding Boards (MSB) comprises the Manchester Safeguarding Adults Board (MSAB) and the Manchester Safeguarding Children Boards (MSCB). The Boards share an Independent Chair, Julia Stephens-Row; and are supported by the MSB Business Unit. 
Caring people from across Greater Manchester are sleeping on the streets in Hulme showing their solidarity with homeless children. 
Transport for Sick Children (TFSC) requires a volunteer Treasurer to join their Board. 
TFSC overall aim is to improve the health of disadvantage children in the Greater Manchester area.
The role would require attending 11 meetings annually (10 x evenings) at their Stockport office including the AGM and occasional volunteer social events.
Manchester Safeguarding Children’s Board (MSCB) wants to know your views on how children and young people can keep safe in Manchester: 
What does being safe mean to you?
What makes young people feel unsafe or worried?
What are the most important things that Manchester Safeguarding Children Board should work on to help children and young people be safer?
Gaddum administers the Mynshull’s Educational Foundation which provides grants to children and young adults up to the age of 25 from disadvantaged backgrounds to purchase books, equipment and uniforms to enable them to continue their education or apprenticeship. The student must live in the City of Manchester or its immediate surroundings abutting the City.
The BBC Children in Need grant supports UK charities and not for profit organisations working with disadvantaged children and young people who are 18 years old and under. Small grants of £10,000 or less per year for up to three years and Main Grants over £10,000 per year for up to three years. 
You know that game where you have to pick the people, living or dead, you’d most like to have round a dinner table? Being a bit of an ideas geek, I have a similar thing about who I’d like to hear speak at my dream conference. I’m lucky that I occasionally get to hear some brilliant speakers from the world of charities and social enterprises.
Each year the trustees of the Woodward Charitable Trust set aside funds for summer playschemes for children between the ages of 5-16 years. 
Trustees only fund programmes that run for a minimum of 2 weeks or 10 days across the summer holidays.
Grants can only be paid to registered charities. Most grants awarded are in the range of £500 to £1,000. Around 35 grants are made each year.
Early Help Hubs – you’ve probably heard about them! Do you want to understand them better? How they help families by working with them. Have you had experience of using the Early Help Assessment and working with the Hubs? 
These sessions are for voluntary sector colleagues and is being run by the voluntary sector in order to develop working relationships and understanding.
Volunteering with Home-Start is a great opportunity to gain skills and experience in dealing with families and children and to do something rewarding through helping local families. If you have a couple of hours spare a week to support a family with young children this could be for you. 