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GM Poverty Action: GM Food Poverty Alliance update; Beyond Poverty newsletter: Darryl's story; GM Living Wage campaign; help with water bills

The newsletter includes an update on GMPA’s Greater Manchester Food Poverty Alliance which you can still join and GMPA share Darryl’s story with you as part of the GMPA Beyond Poverty series. The GM…
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Carers Federation Virtual Learning Environment

Carers Federation are a City and Guilds Approved Training Centre and are investing in new technologies to improve and increase their training portfolio and make learning much more flexible and…
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Co-op Foundation interest free loans for enterprising ideas to improve community spaces

The Co-op Foundation are offering interest-free loans for enterprising ideas to improve community spaces. Places and spaces for people to come together and enjoy shared interests are vitally…
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Bright Ideas Fund reopens on 26 June 2018

Are you a community with a bright idea for a business that could transform your local area? The Bright Ideas Fund supports new community business ideas through the start up and planning stages with…
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Community Development Initiative – Counselling Service

Are you experiencing? • Depression / anxiety • Family issues • Relationship difficulties • Bereavement • Feeling lonely • Cultural problems Would you like to talk to someone without being…
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Manchester Jobs Fair For All; Part 2 - Friday 27 July 2018

The first Manchester Job's Fair For All was held in February 2018, which was a success with over three hundred attendees, over twenty businesses present and countless of individuals gaining a job or…
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Office space available at the Wesley Centre

There is space available at the Wesley Centre, Royce Road, Hulme, Manchester M15 5BP. Units 4, 5 and 9 are on the ground floor. Unit 14 is on the upper floor Target rent £11.50 per sq ft (exc VAT)…
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Local Stockport Mums set up postnatal group to make new parents’ lives brighter

Two local mums have set up a new postnatal group to help families in Adswood and Bridgehall. Ellie Thouret and Donna Hawkyard of The Parenting Collective have designed the group in collaboration with…
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Call for volunteers - NHS70 and Windrush70 event - Saturday 23 June

The Caribbean and African Health Network (CAHN) are looking to recruit volunteers to provide support and assistance at the Greater Manchester NHS70 and Windrush70 Health Walk and Festival celebration…
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Manchester’s only LGBT+ Centre reaches halfway mark in £2.25m rebuild fundraising target

The Lord Lieutenant of Greater Manchester, Mr Warren J. Smith KStJ JP DLitt LLD, is a dedicated supporter of various charities and organisations in the area, and on 19 June he welcomed 50 people to…
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Manchester Community Development Practice Working Group – The Rise of Community Development in Manchester

This briefing is by the Community Development Practice Working Group, an informal group of skilled community development workers who are seeking to improve knowledge, understanding and practice of…
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Grants for Remembrance Day Installations – apply by 30 June 2018

Applications are now open for micro-grants of up to £500 for installations to support their Remembrance Day activities for the centenary of the First World War. This programme will allow…
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