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If so, apply to be a Volunteer Community Researcher to take part in some research in your own area! 
Do you live in Harpurhey? buzz Manchester Health and Wellbeing service need local residents to help with some exciting new work
This questionnaire is part of a National Clinical Audit which aims to improve the quality of care that hospitals provide to people who have confusion or memory problems.
The Royal College of Psychiatrists would like this questionnaire to be completed by family carers or key worker carers who visited the person with memory problems during their 
admission to a general hospital.
The awards are designed to recognise and reward charities that are doing excellent work to improve people’s health. The awards are open to registered charities that are at least three years old, working in a health-related field in the UK, with a total annual income of between £25,000 and £2 million. 
They are funded by GlaxoSmithKline and managed in partnership with The King’s Fund.
A free breakfast of cereal and toast will be on offer for anyone who may need it, families and individuals alike.
A chance for people to get something to eat and get out of the house.
Open for breakfast 10am every Thursday in August St Luke’s Benchill.
NHS England is committed to involving patients and public in their work. As part of its commitment they want to share and learn from good practice. NHS England is seeking to make a number of grant awards to enable the showcasing of good practice around patient and public involvement.
Has your community group done some amazing patient, service user or carer engagement work? Has this work improved healthcare services? 
Home-Start is a well-known and highly respected national charity providing early help and support from trained volunteers to young families, through 300 locally managed projects in the UK. Each project is self-supporting financially and most are funded from a variety of sources including charitable trusts, statutory funding, donations and sponsorships. The Big Lottery is one of the significant funders of a large number of Home-Start projects.
Over 10,000 people took part in Taking Charge Together, the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership survey, which provided an insight into why people feel they cannot lead a healthier lifestyle. Most people surveyed were aware of the importance of a healthy diet and regular exercise but the survey asked why this might be difficult to achieve.
The research identified three main factors which were barriers to making healthy choices:
Manchester City Council is inviting voluntary and community sector groups in the city to one of a series of three workshops to start discussions on a new approach to supporting the voluntary sector in Manchester. An approach tied to the Our Manchester strategy and which supports ambitious plans to radically improve the 
health and wellbeing of Manchester residents.
Manchester Local Pharmaceutical Committee (LPC) have announced that as of the 1 October 2016 they will be merging with LPC’s across Greater Manchester to form one Greater Manchester wide LPC.
This Greater Manchester LPC (name to be agreed) will include the following localities:
• Manchester
• Ashton, Leigh and Wigan
• Tameside, Oldham and Glossop
• Stockport
• Salford and Trafford
• Bury and Rochdale
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