Volunteering

They say you can’t judge a book by its cover and were diversity is concerned, nothing could be truer. We often talk about Manchester’s diverse communities as collective groups, but when you look inside there are thousands of individuals each with their own strengths, their own values and their own identities. Just like reading a book, the more you look into it, the more interesting it becomes.

Manchester City Council fund many voluntary and community sector organisations. They’re an important part of the city providing care, support and help to Manchester people.

Manchester City Council wants to make sure they get the best value for money, and provide that money in a way that helps organisations to do good work.

The Town Hall Extension provides a variety of skills workshop and training all available to Manchester residents. The following organisations provide workshops:

Citizens Advice Bureau
Advice and guidance on benefits, work, debt and money, housing, law and rights and discrimination
When: Every day in the Customer Service Centre

We have extended the deadline to complete our State of the Sector survey to 18 December 2016.

We would like to encourage your organisation to complete our important survey as we want to know how the government cuts and economic recession have affected our sector. We need to know how many groups have lost funding, how many have had to reduce services and how many have had to close or are facing closure. But also how we continue to work together providing valuable services and support to the people of Manchester.

Manchester City Council are looking for your views on a range of savings options that they must consider to balance the Council’s budget over the next three years.

Manchester City Council have already made some tough budget decisions in the last five years, with £100 million a year less to spend and a third fewer staff to deliver services.