All Volunteering

Last year Southway Housing Trust organised their first Volunteer Fair, which was a great success with almost fifty organisations attending to promote their volunteering opportunities. This time they want to make it even bigger and celebrate everything that is being delivered by volunteers and voluntary and community sector organisations within the Southway area.

Southway Housing Trust are sponsoring the Volunteer Involving Organisation of the Year Award at this year’s Spirit of Manchester Awards and will be making this event part of the Spirit of Manchester Festival.

Manchester Adult Education Service are looking for enthusiastic, committed volunteers who want to make a real difference to people’s lives and teach English. To be a volunteer ESOL teacher you will need to be able to demonstrate excellent skills in spoken and written English at Level 2 (GCSE equivalent) and good computer skills at Level 1.

Like many other local voluntary and community groups, Macc is currently faced with a situation where the demand on our services is increasing at a time when key funders have significantly cut our funding whilst also advising that there are more and deeper cuts to come.

The Spirit of Manchester Awards is a series of awards celebrating and highlighting all the excellent work being carried out in Manchester’s voluntary and community sector. As well as providing recognition to the sector in these hard times, we want to raise the profile of the sector amongst the general public and encourage local giving and active citizenship.