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From Monday 6 September Electricity North West (ENW) have launched a new telephone number (105) for customers to call should they need to report or get information about a power cut in their area. 105 is a free service and you can call the number from most landlines and mobile phones.

The Place at Platt Lane has been nominated for the National Housing Federation’s Community Impact Awards. It is one of only three projects nominated nationally in the ‘Better Neighbourhood’ category.

Winners are decided through an online vote taking place throughout Community Impact Awards, vote here: http://ciw.housing.org.uk/polls/better-neighbourhoods by Sunday 4 September 2016.

National Energy Action, the National Fuel Poverty Charity, has some funding to deliver free awareness raising sessions for residents across the north west, to spread the message of the importance of staying warm over winter, with practical ideas of what to do and where to go to get help.

Independent Choices is a Manchester based charity that has been working for almost forty years with women and their dependents who have been effected by domestic abuse. Independent Choices offer two helplines that serve Greater Manchester: a Women’s Domestic Abuse Helpline and a Community Helpline Language Service which is sensitive to the needs of South Asian Women. Independent Choices take around 5,000 calls per year on their helplines that offer advice, signposting, emotional support and referrals to a network of refuges across the UK.