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Spirit of Manchester Awards launched!

Does your community group or a volunteer you know deserve recognition for all their hard work? Macc has launched a series of awards for the voluntary and community sector in Manchester supported by the Voluntary Sector Assembly. We want to celebrate and highlight all the excellent work being carried out in Manchester’s voluntary and community sector. The awards will be presented at a special ceremony at the end of September which will include short films of the shortlisted nominees made by the Manchester Community Reporters.

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'A Day in the Life' Work Shadow Scheme 2013

What is it?
'A Day in the Life' is a free work shadowing initiative that provides a unique opportunity for staff in government and Civil Society to step into each other's shoes for a day and learn about how the 'other side' operates.

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Greater Manchester state of the sector launch

This short film includes presentations and interviews at the Launch of the Greater Manchester state of the sector report in May 2013. The report was compiled from the findings of the first survey of Greater Manchester's voluntary and community sector and includes key statistics on the impact of the sector.

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Public Health England Voluntary and Community Sector Engagement Strategy

Public Health England (PHE) are developing a voluntary and community sector (VCS) engagement strategy and are welcoming input from voluntary organisations.

They are currently building on comments already provided about VCS as advocates and mediators for public involvement, but would like some more specific and general information to get a feel for the best framework within which PHE can engage with voluntary organisations.

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Health and Wellbeing

Wythenshawe Community Housing Group Regeneration Strategy Consultation for youth organisations

Can you help with a consultation 10 question survey as part of the Wythenshawe Community Housing Group Regeneration strategy review.

Wythenshawe Community Housing Group are in the process of reviewing the Regeneration strategy as they begin to look at Regeneration across the whole of Wythenshawe as Wythenshawe Community Housing Group.

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Campaign to change people's negative perception of Young People

The Manchester Youth Council is running a campaign to change people's negative perception of Young People.

To promote this campaign and get young people involved they have decided to run a competition to promote their campaign, and have designed a poster to promote it.

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Young People

Community Life Survey

The second set of findings from the Community Life Survey – a valuable new survey set up to provide Official Statistics on issues that are key to encouraging social action and empowering communities, including volunteering, charitable giving, community engagement and well-being - have been released.

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Survey on sustainability education at MMU

The Environment Team at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) is currently carrying out a research project around attitudes towards Education for Sustainable Development in relation to employability.

The results from the survey will inform the university's actions on embedding Education for Sustainable Development into the curriculum. It could impact on 30,000 students per year.

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Learning, Skills and Employment

Help Compact Voice understand what’s happening locally

The third annual survey of Local Compacts is now open. Compact Voice are encouraging anyone with a knowledge of Compact working or government policy to take 10 minutes to fill in the survey. They are offering everyone who completes the survey the chance to win an Amazon Kindle Paperwhite.

It is really important that Compact Voice are able to gain an understanding of the issues, challenges and successes experienced by local Compacts across the country, and the survey provides a vital way of doing this.

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