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GMCVO, on behalf of the Greater Manchester VCSE Devolution Reference Group, is leading on a Health and Social Care Engagement project to implement the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care and the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector in Greater Manchester. The Memorandum of Understanding sets out a way for the VCSE sector in Greater Manchester to be better engaged and linked in with the Health and Social Care devolution agenda in GM.
Salford CVS is working with the University of Salford to map social prescribing provision across Greater Manchester. 
This May sees Greater Manchester welcome its annual month long festival of walking and Transport for Greater Manchester is inviting everyone to walk with them. 
Salford CVS is working with the University of Salford to map social prescribing provision across Greater Manchester. This is an important piece of work as it will help to determine the extent of social prescribing provision as we move forward across GM to develop social prescribing models as part of our Person and Community-Centred Approaches programme. The aim is to create a 'map' of social prescribing for the whole of GM so that we can understand the great work that's already happening, lift out the beacons of good practice and help share information and ideas across GM.
In the latest of a series of stories from the Mental Health Grants Programme, Barlow Moor Community Association have provided us with Mary's story.
Over 55? Would you like to learn skills to help you thrive in later life? Are you approaching retirement with worries about the future? Or perhaps you’ve retired a while ago and would like to meet new people and learn something new? 
• Are you a Manchester community group, charity or network that wants to help reduce smoking in the city?
• Do you want to shape a Greater Manchester-wide project with an aim of ‘Making Smoking History’?
• Could you help to identify the factors that lead people to smoke, especially those within certain ‘priority groups’?
• Would you like to generate income towards your work?
Manchester City Council is leading the city’s arrangements to mark the anniversary of the Manchester Arena attack on Tuesday 22 May 2018. 
Those affected by those terrible events will want to mark the date in different ways, so the programme is varied and takes different forms, to make sure that people can feel connected to it.
Manchester Health and Care Commissioning have a new opportunity to work with the Manchester Food Board. The Provider will deliver a programme of work which, in due course, is intended to transition the Manchester Food Board and its food work into an effective and independent programme. 
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