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Awaaz Community Project in collaboration with SKT Welfare are collecting essential life saving food items for the refugees in Syria.

54.3 percent of the population lives in extreme poverty, without adequate access to food. Many citizens face hunger, malnutrition, and starvation. Your support is needed to make a difference to their lives.

SKT Welfare operates a 100% donation policy. In one of their recent projects SKT Welfare distributed over 16,648 food parcels in Damascus and Northern Syria. Your donations will benefit the children and poor people of Syria.

This year the BBC will be encouraging audiences to Do Something Great and discover their ‘inner volunteer’.

With a wealth of inspiring and heart-warming programmes across TV and radio, and a bespoke online quiz to help people discover their perfect volunteering match, the BBC will be putting people and charities in touch, to help each other.

"The Sunday Assembly was started by Sanderson Jones and Pippa Evans, two comedians who were on the way to a gig in Bath when they discovered they both wanted to do something that was like church but totally secular and inclusive of all - no matter what they believed.

The first ever Sunday Assembly meeting took place on 6 January 2013 at The Nave in Islington. Almost 200 people turned up at the first meeting, 300 at the second and soon people all over the world asked to start one.

The Care Leavers Association is a charity working with young people and adults who were in care as children. Their current office space is being redeveloped and they need to find alternative space. The Care Leavers Association are looking for something between 700 and 1000 sq foot in Manchester city centre and are flexible in terms of layout. If you have or know of a suitable space, contact 0161 637 5040, or email: [email protected].
 

Wythenshawe Games is Manchester’s largest community sports festival, taking in and around Wythenshawe and centering on the beautiful and historic Wythenshawe Park and Hall.

This year the Games will be over five days, Wednesday 27 July to Sunday 31 July), and will include:

VSG Installations a voluntary sector supplier are looking for an office/storage space to rent in the central/north Manchester area within a voluntary sector organisation, with easy links to motorways across the north west. Office space for up to six desks, with space around the room to have large boards on the walls for training purposes. Storage area. Ideally parking spaces for 2 – 4 vehicles.

If you have space available, email Jim Yelland, at: [email protected]

Macc and over 130 other voluntary sector organisations from across the country have signed a letter to the Prime Minister protesting at the Government's announcement of an anti-advocacy clause to be added into all voluntary sector grant agreements from central Government.

Natalie Lek, a full time student at Salford University studying law, is organising two sit down meals in the community for the elderly and vulnerable one is in Cheadle Hulme for 20 people on the 14 December at 5.30pm and the other meal is at the Alliance Inn in Harpurhey at 12.30pm, both meals are completely free and transport can be provided if required.