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More information can be found on the attached booking form.
Through the Safeguarding VCS Grant Programme The Department for Education want to help develop and further their strategic aims to safeguard and protect children. The Department for England are making available up to a maximum of £2.25 million in safeguarding grant funding to VCS organisations for an 18-month period (October 2016- March 
2018) to help deliver on three safeguarding priorities:
• Female Genital Mutilation (FGM);
Voting is now open to vote for the Best Community Space Spirit of Manchester Award 2016. 
Award criteria
A community space can be a piece of land or a building available for use by the community. Organisations needed to show:
• Best use of a community space
• How the space is seen as central within the community
• The impact it has within the local community
The Summer Reading Challenge takes place every year during the summer holidays. This year, the Summer Reading Challenge is celebrating 100 years of the world’s greatest storyteller, Roald Dahl.
Sign up at your local library, and then read at least six library books of your choice to collect special collector cards and other incentives – all for free.
For further information, visit: www.manchester.gov.uk/summerreadingchallenge
Wellbeing Our Way’s POW WOWs (shared learning workshops) bring together people working in charities, wider health and care organisations, and those with lived experience from across Greater Manchester to develop approaches which enable people to live well. They are a great opportunity for shared learning between staff working directly with people with long term health needs, as well as those who are commissioning and developing these approaches.
Boundless Books encourages looked after young people to get excited about reading and writing through the giving of a personalised gift. The gift contains a book chosen especially for the participant based on their general interests, a personal letter and a bespoke correspondence pack containing fun stationary, stickers, pens and stamps. Participants are twinned with another participant according to their interests and are encouraged to share their experience of the book using the correspondence pack.
The main purpose of the Neighbourhood Learning in Deprived Communities (NLDC) fund is to reach disadvantaged communities and individuals, to enable them to participate in learning and to progress towards further learning and/or sustainable employment.
Recognising the inter-dependent and mutually-beneficial relationship between the University and its neighbouring communities, The University of Manchester is currently developing a new strategic framework for community engagement to better focus, target and measure its activities.
These activities range from research partnerships, teaching programmes, culture and the arts, student volunteering, schools-liaison, sustainability, employment and skills support through to engagement with charities, businesses and the public sector.
Could your Organisation offer a student Social Worker the opportunity of a valuable placement?
Do you provide any training that would be considered as CPD for Social Workers?
Are you interested in taking part in a pilot which will shape future Social Work training and integrate the VCSE sector at a critical time in terms of Health and Social Devolution?
If so, we have an exciting opportunity that needs your input.
Macc is looking to host a seminar tailored specifically for the sector delivered by representatives from HMRC themselves. We are asking groups to let us know what they would like to see delivered in this session.
It may be questions about gift aid, tax returns or VAT or you simply would like to learn more about registering a charity with HMRC, tax exemption. Anything relevant to HMRC can be covered.
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