Volunteering

This past week, Volunteer Centre Manchester was pleased to learn that it has been successful in upholding its Volunteer Centre Quality Accreditation (VCQA). 

In honour of Their Majesties’ service to the country, Royal Voluntary Service has launched the Coronation Champions Awards for volunteers, an official Coronation project. The Coronation Champions Awards will recognise a diverse group of volunteers from different backgrounds and communities across the UK from a range of causes.

You can apply to be members of either the Making Manchester Fairer Programme Board or Communities and Power Forum and have an important role in helping to tackle the injustice that sees some Mancunians have worse health than others and die earlier than they should.

The Vision for Volunteering is looking for a learning and evaluation partner to understand the effectiveness and impact of phase two in the implementation of the Vision and inform decisions about future strategy. Phase two is starting now and will run to 31 March 2024.

Manchester Volunteer Advice Partnership run 9-week training courses (sessions every Tuesday) teaching you how to give good quality advice on welfare benefits and housing, as well as assertiveness and communication skills.

The University of Manchester’s Careers Service are looking for Manchester-based charities to partner with to deliver their 2023 Student Experience Internships (SEI).

The purpose of the SEI scheme is to provide the penultimate-year undergraduates with an insight into the world of work before they begin their graduate journey.

Greater Manchester Environment Fund (GMEF) have been managing the Green Spaces Fund since its launch in June 2022. Round 1 applications proved that the Green Spaces Fund is in demand, and GMEF selected 21 excellent projects out of 71 applications received. GMEF’s work promoting Round 2 is already indicating that they are likely to receive 200 applications and they have doubled the funding available.

The Young Trustees Movement are running free 1 hour workshops in November to February that will leave you equipped to champion diversity on boards.

When 1/12 trustees are named either John or David and fewer than 3% of trustees are under 30. It’s no secret that board diversity is an issue.

By the end of the 1 hour workshop you will:

Step Up MCR is the new place-based giving scheme for Manchester primarily focusing on the neighbourhoods of Ancoats and Beswick and Clayton and Openshaw.

Step Up MCR brings people together from within the community to maximise on our human potential, energy, skills, and resilience for the benefit of local people.

Now in its 12th year, Trustees’ Week (7-11 November 2022) is a chance for the sector to come together and mark the amazing achievements of the 700,000 volunteer trustees who run charities in England and Wales.

This year, NCVO are running a series of webinars to help you learn how to lead through changing times.

Trustees' Week webinar series