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Do you live in or have connection to Moston, Harpurhey and Charlestown? Are you currently struggling with your mental health and well-being?
SMASH! offers you a range of different creative activities that suit your own experiences and interests. You don't need to know anything about art!
With regular artist talks, cultural visits to sites across Manchester,, and creative art workshops (with a Mental Health Practitioner to support at all sessions too) SMASH! can;
Aged 16-30 in North Manchester? Join Sick! for an intro to games design.
If you're not in education, training or employment, join us for Mindgames. Learn new skills from coding to story writing, character and sound design. Hear from creative industry experts for tips and career advice. Relax and play video games, make new connections and explore your own mental health in a creative and supportive space.
Free lunch provided, plus travel costs.
For more info or to get involved, contact Danielle or Grace:
Mandem Meetup offers space at the miners to explore how we can support each other as a community and learn what true brotherhood feels like.
Join us (Mandem Meetup) for a talking circle and a brew. Mandem talk!
UK registered charities and charitable incorporated organisations based and working in the UK that can demonstrate impact with ex-offenders, young offenders or young people at risk of offending, either within a local area or nationally can apply for small grants of up to £5,000 or larger grants with no set limit.
The funding is intended for registered charities working to:
Barclays Bank in partnership with the Sported Foundation is offering grants of up to £1,000 to not-for-profit organisations operating in an area of high deprivation to support delivery of their football activities to engage with young people (under the age of 25 years) from underrepresented groups.
'Active Connection' aims to improve understanding of children’s behaviour as communication and to enhance knowledge of the hidden and expressed need. It will cultivate a greater understanding of neurodiversity and can help to shape an inclusive approach. Active connection will provide an opportunity to develop skills; with the aim of equipping each individual with greater potential to self-regulate and co-regulate tricky behaviour.’
Youth Futures Foundation is providing grants of up £75,000 per year for up to three years for voluntary and community sector organisations to co-develop and implement youth employment activities that are targeted at young people aged between 16 and 24 from minoritised ethnic communities who are not in education, employment, or training (NEET), or at risk of becoming NEET, across selected areas of London, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Yorkshire, and the West Midlands.
The Evidence into Action Grants Programme will support organisations across two key phases:
Do you work with young people aged 11-25 in Manchester? Would like to learn how to support young people and their mental health through the use of creativity?
Join our (42nd Street) free training to explore using creative approaches with a trauma-informed lens to better support youth with their Mental Health and emotional wellbeing.
The training is brought to you through a partnership with Making Manchester Fairer scheme, to deliver training to individuals who work for VSCE organisations to help reduce inequalities throughout Manchester.
Do you work with young people aged 11-25 in Manchester? Would like to learn how to support young people and their mental health through the use of creativity?
Join our (42nd Street) free training to explore using creative approaches with a trauma-informed lens to better support youth with their Mental Health and emotional wellbeing.
The training is brought to you through a partnership with Making Manchester Fairer scheme, to deliver training to individuals who work for VSCE organisations to help reduce inequalities throughout Manchester.