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Understanding Needs and Improving Services in Minority Communities Consultation

Faith Network for Manchester (FN4M) is carrying out research this year about what concerns people have for their communities and the city. FN4M are interested in the concerns of everyone, but especially those in the faith communities.

Could you help in the first stage of this research by promoting or joining one of two initial discussion groups taking place on:
Thursday 12 June 2014, at 12pm to 1.30pm and 7pm to 8.30pm at the Manchester Multifaith Centre is at Ada House, 77 Thompson Street, M4 5FY.

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Greater Manchester Faith Leaders Election Statement

This is a statement from the Greater Manchester Faith Community Leaders regarding the Local and European Parliamentary elections on Thursday 22 May 2014.

“We will vote on May 22nd. We urge all people in our communities to vote.

The elections – European and local – depend upon our involvement. Our communities' health depends upon every person within them expressing their view. If we abstain, can we complain? If we stay at home, we may be saying “Yes” to a political vision that will destroy our society.

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Policy and Influence

A Civil Economy for Manchester

Could Manchester be Europe’s answer to America’s hippest city - Portland, Oregon?

Manchester has enjoyed solid economic success, there is now an opportunity for a ‘new wave’ to Manchester’s future. A new report A Civil Economy for Manchester, prepared for Macc by the think-do tank the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) demonstrates how this new wave is about unleashing the power of citizens, social and voluntary group.

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Together in Service Fund

FaithAction will be administering a pot of £160,000 over 2 years. This is available as 1:1 match-funding for small grants of £2,000 and £5,000 to facilitate new multi-faith social action projects at a local level, where there is often a lack of confidence in undertaking volunteering work in a multi-faith way.

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Youth Social Action Project and launch of Faith Youth Manchester

Calling young people of faith, aged 13-19, who would like to meet and develop friendship with 13-19’s of other faiths.

Faith Network for Manchester is looking to form a small group of young people to decide, plan and run a social action activity around interfaith week 17-24 November.

The small group will then offer the social action project to a larger group to participate in, with everyone invited to a concluding celebration which will launch Faith Youth Manchester (FYM) on Sunday 24 November (afternoon or evening to be confirmed by the young people).

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Lobbying and Transparency Bill

At our Spirit of Manchester awards event last month one of the categories was for Most Successful Campaign. We wanted to acknowledge campaigning work because we’ve always believed that it’s the job of charities not just to meet needs but to drive change for the longer term. The history of social change in this country has been driven by the campaigning efforts of groups for centuries.

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Learning, Skills and Employment

Macc wins Council Infrastructure Contract

As you may be aware, earlier this year the City Council 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.

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Grants available for events for Inter Faith Week 2013

Small Grants Programme for events organised by and for young people focussed around Inter Faith Week 17-23 November 2013.

The Trust will be awarding small grants up to £500 for organisations running events or projects connected with Inter Faith Week 2013.

Grants are awarded for proposals for inter-faith activities by children and young people from Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh and other faiths and those of no formal faith in understanding and co-operation.

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Surviving the Recovery

During the recent bout of hot weather, I somehow managed to come down with a cold. I not only felt ill, I also felt ridiculous: I mean who gets a cold in the middle of a heatwave? As I write this, figures have just been released showing that the country’s economy is slowly starting to grow again after the recession. It’s a similar feeling: I’m being told it’s lovely out there but it feels dreadful. No matter what the economic analysis says, when I look around I see incomes reducing, prices rising, services closing and life generally becoming more difficult.

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Spirit of Manchester

I've mentioned previously that there's a danger that this blog becomes a series of rants about things I'm angry about. Well not today, at least!

Our State of the Voluntary Sector report shows there are over 3000 voluntary and community groups in Manchester. I don't know them all but I do know a lot of them and one of the great pleasures of my job is that I get to see some of the amazing things happening in groups across Manchester and meet some fantastic people.

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