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Paul Hamlyn Foundation Announces New Grants Strategy for UK

After a period of consultation, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, one of the UK's largest independent grant-making foundations, has launched a new strategy which focuses on six new priorities relating to…
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Manchester City Council Early Help update – June 2015

The purpose of this communication is to update colleagues and partners who work with families, children and young people on developments in relation to Early Help. The key developments this month…
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Nominations now open for Manchester Sports Awards 2015

Manchester has a thriving community sports scene, and Manchester City Council and its partners are keen to recognise the hard work of clubs, coaches, officials and volunteers who support the…
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UCLAN Research Project - Innovation in care pathway for people with long term conditions

The University of Central Lancashire and Zest Healthy Living Service are looking for people who are resident in Harpurhey and who are either living with or caring for someone with one or more long…
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Manchester Girls Can

From the tip of North Manchester to the bottom of Wythenshawe, Manchester women are jumping, jiving, running, swimming, cycling, and doing their thing – not caring how they look, how good they are or…
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Coaching Behind Bars: Facing Challenges and Creating Hope in a Women’s Prison

Coaching Behind Bars is an entertaining and enlightening read that takes you into the heart of local women’s prison, HMP Styal. It shows both the tragedy and the comedy of life inside, as well as the…
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Grant to help victims/survivors of domestic violence and abuse

The victim/survivor recovery programme is being funding in the context of two key programmes – the Freedom Programme and Moving On Programme – that are currently delivered to empower victims/…
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Lloyds Bank Foundation – Enable programme

Enable provides a great opportunity to strengthen your charity so it can deliver more effectively. It can reinvigorate the charity by funding; organisational improvements; development of areas such…
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Small grants from the Charity Service

Following a recent revision to its small grants programme, The Charity Service is inviting applications to two funds: Manchester and Salford Medical Charitable FundApplications for funding are…
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Friends of Greater Manchester Law Centre

Manchester needs a law centre. If people are committed then there will be a new law centre, owned by the community and providing high quality legal representation – for free. In Greater Manchester…
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Men’s Shed - A local community project for men of all ages

Men’s Shed is a local community project for men of all ages at St. Barnabas Rectory, South Street, Lower Openshaw, Manchester, M11 2EY. It is a place for men to:• Learn new skills • Meet new people•…
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Social responsibility across the University of Manchester

Social responsibility is one of the University of Manchester’s three core strategic goals in their Manchester 2020 strategy, sitting equally alongside their commitments to world-class research and…
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