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Working together - To share knowledge, ideas, experience and resources ensures buzz gets the best value for money and the opportunity for development and innovation.
To celebrate World Aids Day BHA are holding a Market Place event and workshops that promote the health and wellbeing of BME individuals and communities in Manchester. 
The event will take place on Saturday 3 December 2016, 11am-4pm at St. Thomas Centre, Ardwick Green North, Manchester, M12 6FZ.
Manchester Carers Network is a group of 20 voluntary organisations providing information, advice and support to unpaid or family carers. Manchester Carers Network are keen to make contact with other groups and organisations who also work with or support carers.
If that sounds like your group, email Janeth Nare, at: [email protected]
Home-Start Greater Manchester's short film ‘Telling Their Stories’ has been nominated for a brand new national charity film award. 
The Charity Film Awards have been created to celebrate the success of film in fundraising, to increase exposure of charity films and to encourage donations for good causes. To find out more visit: www.charityfilmawards.com
A new report from the Local Government Association (LGA) estimates that adult social care services face a potential funding gap of at least £2.6 billion.
Neighbourhood profiles for the 12 One Team Localities across Manchester have been developed and published by Manchester City Council.
The main purpose of the profiles is to to support the development of out of hospital and urgent care services at a local level and to help the 12 integrated neighbourhood teams in Manchester (and other people delivering services at a local level) to determine their priorities, agree the outcomes they want to achieve and think through the ‘how, what and where’ of service delivery.
To date, two sets of profiles have been produced:
The latest monthly ebulletin from the Manchester Cares Network contains: Fund-raising events, the Manchester Carers Network Calendar and the latest news from Dementia Carers – peer mentoring, CAB project with GPs, Age Friendly Manchester, Young Carers Conference, Accessible events at HOME and the Manchester Carers Network.
Macc’s purpose is to encourage, support and develop voluntary and community groups and individuals to have a real influence over the places and communities in which they live. So for that reason alone, we’re supporting the People’s Plan as a non-partisan, citizen-led movement bringing new and seldom-heard voices into the conversation about the future of Greater Manchester.
This Manchester City Council report marks the end of their Community Strategy approved in 2006. It details the 'period of transformational change' seen in the city over the last ten years. It also sets out a number of issues still to be resolved and states that some inequalities and challenges have been made worse by the impact of welfare reform and cuts to public services. 
A recent report by the King's Fund and Nuffield Trust highlights the pressures that the current social care system is under. Six consecutive years of cuts to local authority budgets have seen 26% fewer people get help. Of particular concern is the finding that no one has a full picture of what has happened to older people who are no longer entitled to publicly funded care. 
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