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Commuter Cycle Project - Free Adult Cycle Training

20 May 2014 - 15:24 by michelle.foster

Whatever your level, Transport for Greater Manchester can help you get the best from your bike.

The expert instructors offer a choice of two free courses:

Learn to Ride
If it’s been a while since you’ve ridden a bike, or maybe you’ve never had the chance to try, Learn to Ride is the course for you.

Held in friendly, accessible venues across Greater Manchester, Learn to Ride group courses are led by a qualified instructor.

Bikes and helmets are provided, but you can bring your own if you’d prefer.

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MMU Didsbury campus contents disposal

9 May 2014 - 10:13 by michelle.foster

The Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) campus at Didsbury is closing and is moving to Birley fields in Hulme this summer. As a result the university will have many items including generic ones such as desks, filing cabinets, sofas and flip-boards, to specialist equipment such as kilns, football goal nets, plan chests, band-saws and pianos which are surplus to requirements

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A Civil Economy for Manchester

6 May 2014 - 10:32 by Mike Wild

Could Manchester be Europe’s answer to America’s hippest city - Portland, Oregon?

Manchester has enjoyed solid economic success, there is now an opportunity for a ‘new wave’ to Manchester’s future. A new report A Civil Economy for Manchester, prepared for Macc by the think-do tank the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) demonstrates how this new wave is about unleashing the power of citizens, social and voluntary group.

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BARC Welfare Fusion Community Cafe

1 May 2014 - 10:41 by michelle.foster

The BARC Welfare Fusion café in St Lukes Church and Neighbourhood Centre, Longsight, was established following the closure of the Elderly Day Care Service during the summer of July 2013 whom many of the Elders, Trustees and Executive Committee were saddened to see close.

The Broad African Representative Council (BARC) put their ideas together and Fusion Community Cafe was born!

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Supporting the Manchester Midnight Walk

24 Apr 2014 - 13:48 by michelle.foster

Community Transport can be many things for many people, flexible, accessible, a life line. But Manchester Community Transport (MCT) is a going the extra mile for St Ann’s Hospice this year.

St Ann’s Hospice, a local charity, is looking for people to take part in their annual 10km sponsored midnight walk on 20 June 2014 to raise vital funds, and MCT offered to advertise the walk free of charge on their buses.

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Office space for hire, suitable for voluntary and community groups

15 Apr 2014 - 09:46 by michelle.foster

Church Action on Poverty have space available for hire in their central Manchester office.

Church Action on Poverty are looking to sub-let some of their office space to other Manchester-based charities and community groups.

There is room for up to six desks at a rate of £2,500 per desk per year (a lower price can be negotiated if you do not need all of the services listed below).

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Arcon Housing Association specialist housing scheme inviting expressions of interest

31 Mar 2014 - 14:46 by michelle.foster

Arcon Housing Association is a well established Housing Association based in the centre of Manchester with 1,200 properties in management.

Whilst the majority of their properties are general needs homes, one of their values and objectives is to provide housing to specialist care providers. At present they have 6 schemes of this type in Manchester (including Marillac House) and these are leased to 5 different charities who provide care and support to adults with learning difficulties as well as people with drug and alcohol problems.

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Students sleep rough in bid to end to destitution of asylum seekers

14 Mar 2014 - 09:21 by michelle.foster

Manchester STAR and Amnesty will tonight hold a Sleep-out on Oxford Road to campaign against the destitution of asylum seekers.

Thousands of asylum seekers are living in extreme poverty or destitute in Britain. Some are supported by the government, but simply do not receive enough to meet their basic needs, and others have been refused asylum and receive no support at all.

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