As part of its 10-year commitment to Moston, Harpurhey and Charlestown SICK! are continuing the delivery of the SICK! Mental Health Arts Programme (SMASH), a creative social prescribing 
project that offers participants a range of innovative experiences designed to:
Self Help are offering free, one-off wellbeing workshops to local organisations, businesses and community groups.
The sessions explore how thoughts, behaviours, physical sensations and our environment can affect how we feel.
The sessions will look at what you can do to improve your wellbeing and outline the support we provide.
The fund is opening on 4 January 2023 and will be provide grants of £2,000 - £3,000 to non-profit groups led by Black people and people of colour with lived experience of mental ill-health, 
distress or trauma, to take action on mental health and racial justice across England. The funding is to support collective care, campaigning and capacity building activities.
Community spaces across Manchester known as ‘Listening Lounges’ are offering a safe, comfortable, and confidential environment for anyone over the age of 18 who is struggling with their mental 
health, or just wants to talk to someone during evenings or weekends during the winter months.
Forever Manchester is offering 30 awards of up to £1,000 to community groups in Greater Manchester whose activities alleviate the impact of the cost of living crisis.
Applications are invited from locally managed community groups based in any of the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester.
Street Soccer Academy offers FA accredited football coaching environments known as Regional Centres. At these centres individuals will receive coaching sessions delivered by FA qualified coaches 
with the opportunity to get hands-on involved in the delivery of the sessions or just simply to participate in the sessions. Each session includes a warm-up, technical session and small-sided game.
Last night BBC’s Panorama aired their undercover investigation into the treatment of patients at the Edenfield Secure Mental Health Centre and we know this will have brought up painful memories and impacted people who have experienced these kinds of services, people who have supported their loved ones and for professionals that work hard to support vulnerable people with mental health issues. It was hard for us all to watch.
Providing a co-ordinating and supporting role to ensure that lived experience is fully embedded within living well (a process of improving community mental health support).
Living Well Manchester is looking to commission an organisation to support the development of mental health lived experience in the development of their Living Well Model/Community Mental Health Transformation.
British Red Cross are delivering free workshops for community groups. The free educational sessions will help you learn practical skills and ways to cope in emergencies, connect with others and 
build your confidence. The workshops are available online, by telephone, and in face-to-face sessions.
