Children and Families

Funding is available for groups across the UK working with children and young people aged under 16 to address issues such as abuse, addiction, young carers, and homelessness.

The Manchester Promoting Positive Relationships approach, sponsored by the Department of Work and Pensions, aims to increase awareness, and provide support and training for practitioners.

Family Hubs are looking for families, parents and carers to help decide on how the new website and brand for the Family Hubs should look.

Family Hubs are a new initiative being developed nationally to ensure services and support for families is better connected. The hubs will be based within communities – ensuring families can easily access the support they need locally.  

Family Hubs are inviting parents, carers and family members to tell them more about how they access information for families online, and how this can be improved.  

Do you run a Food Bank? Are you noting the same families requiring this help? Do you offer Early Help support?

So many of Manchester’s children, young people and families would have been lost without the amazing provisions through Food Banks.

Proud 2 b Parents exist to improve the health and wellbeing of LGBT+ parents/carers and their children, whilst reducing health inequalities. Proud 2 b Parents do this by providing effective social and support services, whilst championing social change and advocating for the community's needs locally and nationally.

Cycling UK is offering grants of up to £2,000 for voluntary and community cycle groups and other not-for-profit organisations across England to deliver projects and activities that achieve the following objectives:

Wood Street Mission have launched their 8th year of SmartStart, their free School Uniform Project. Last year they helped 2,463 children from 1,166 families in Manchester and Salford.

Their free uniform packs include:

Black and minority community-led charities and organisations working with children and young people at risk of becoming involved in violence can apply for emergency funding to mitigate the effects of the inflation and cost of living crises.

The Family Hubs programme is focused on delivering on the government’s commitments as part of the ‘The Best Start for Life: A Vision for the 1,001 Critical Days’ and building on delivery of the Healthy Child Programme 0-19 public health services. Part of this programme will be to champion family hubs service across Manchester. There are two funding tendering opportunities.

Quilter Cheviot have office furniture available from 20 March until 5 April. The office furniture includes: office chairs, storage cupboards, meeting room chairs and tables. Preferably items need to be collected, but delivery can be arranged if necessary.

To express an interest in the furniture email Theresa Murphy-Randles at: [email protected]