The Gas Safe Charity is offering free carbon monoxide (CO) Zoom workshops this Autumn to help launch Carbon Monoxide Awareness Week on 22 November. As the days get colder and the heating is turned on, the potential risks of CO poisoning increase.
Emmeline's Pantry is more than a food bank. Emmeline’s Pantry is based in Chorlton, Manchester and they also offer support to women, their families and single dads that live in our catchment by referral from a professional. They offer:
buzz Library and Knowledge Service is delivering free training sessions for health, social care, community and voluntary sector staff on misinformation and health literacy as part of their Better Information Programme. There are two sessions: Introduction to Misinformation and Health Literacy Awareness. Book your place to find out how you can empower people to make more informed decisions about their health through health information.
Arnold Clark, the UK’s largest independently owned, family-run car retailer, has created the Arnold Clark Community Fund to support communities across the UK in which it operates. The fund currently aims to help UK charities and local community groups continue their important work which may be at risk due to the coronavirus pandemic.
GMCVO are delivering a grants programme to support people from communities of identity or experience, based in Greater Manchester that may struggle to achieve higher levels of mental wellbeing.
The communities the programme wants to reach in year 2 are:
In July, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee published data from Sport England which showed 100,000 fewer children met the recommended level of activity in 2020 than in 2019 and it was "of significant concern".
Does your club, one of your volunteers, a young achiever, your school or your project deserve recognition?
Has Covid given you the blues, has lockdown had an effect upon your mental health or do you just need a lift?
ALL FM want to hear from you. ALL FM are hosting a day on their radio station ALL FM 96.9 with all new presenters, are you interested.
ALL FM will train you to make a radio show, you’ll train in small groups and its load of fun. You don’t have to be technical, no experience is needed.
A new Integration in Action ‘quick read’ shows how linking practical housing help to patients being discharged from Manchester hospitals improves the safety and health of older and disabled residents.
‘Living Well with Sight Loss’ is a four week course ran by Joshua who is an enablement officer at Henshaws. The course helps participants to understand what services are available to them both locally and nationally but as Joshua explains, ‘the biggest part of the course is for our participants to be able to connect with other people with sight loss and to learn from each other’. He adds ‘the peer support of the network is invaluable to people. Quite often our participants have never spoken to another person with a visual impairment so connecting them through the group is massive for them.