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RECOOP is opening a Community Support Café service this month, at The Mustard Tree in Ancoats, Manchester. The Café, offering a rolling six week programme, will be open to male and female offenders…
O2 Think Big aims to find young people with great ideas and help them turn their ideas into reality. This is done by awarding funding and delivering training and support. Projects have to help the…
Arts Council England is offering grants through its new Research Grants Programme 2015-18 to provide opportunities for collaborative work to develop the evidence base around the impact of arts and…
The MigRom project in partnership with Manchester City Council is working toward setting up the ‘Roma Consultation Forum for Manchester’. The MigRom project (‘The immigration of Romanian Roma to…
The Real Junk Food Project Manchester are looking to help take over the running of a substantial city centre building, through community asset transfer, to run Manchester’s first Waste Food Café. The…
Manchester City Council in partnership with Greater Manchester Police and Wythenshawe Community Housing Group together with local community organisations are supporting a 2015 Wythenshawe One World…
Comic Relief, Manchester Evening News and Forever Manchester bring Red Nose Day Community Cash to Greater Manchester. Once again they are distributing a £100,000 Red Nose Day Community Cash fund to…
Many people have great ideas to make better places and spaces in Manchester but they don’t always know how to find the help and funding they need to get things done. Equally, there are lots of…
The Commission on Civil Society and Democratic Engagement have published their third report, setting out the first evidence of the impact of the Lobbying Act on charities and campaign groups. The…
This is a press release from the National Coalition for Independent Action (NCIA)In a blistering critique of the threats posed to the values and work of the voluntary sector, voluntary groups are…
A new blog by Nigel Rose, Macc's Strategic Lead on Commissioning, explores the role of the voluntary and community sector (VCS) in Manchester's flagship integration programme, "Living Longer, Living…
Manchester Day: Game On! will celebrate leisure, play and Manchester's place in a global gaming world - Sunday 14 June will be playtime in the city. From contemporary games technology to traditional…