GM Moving are excited to launch the Tackling Inequalities network, offering renewed support for organisations providing community sport, physical activity and movement opportunities across Greater Manchester.
Based at North Manchester General Hospital you will work as part of a team escorting older and vulnerable people home from hospital. If you enjoy helping people and like driving this could be the job for you. The service runs Monday to Friday 11.30am-8pm and you will work to a shift pattern of 3 weeks on and one week on standby. The job involves helping people to get to the car, get in and out and get settled comfortably in their home.
A reasonable level of physical fitness is required as is patience and empathy and good communication skills.
Would you like to explore what working with businesses could look like for your organisation?
This is an introductory session is aimed at voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) groups who support people and causes in Manchester and are interested in developing meaningful relationships with local businesses.
You will:
The Volunteer Drivers’ Network is an initiative led by Macc to connect organisations across Manchester with individuals who are able to drive and can support with community tasks. Community tasks could involve delivering food packages, transporting a service user or picking up donations, as well as many other tasks which would involve an individual needing to drive.
Aims and priorities
The purpose of the grant scheme is to improve outcomes for children and families through:
GMCVO are offering grants between £1,000 and £10,000 to social enterprises and trading charities who provide services to people and communities that are experiencing acute cost of living pressures.
Funded by Access – The Foundation for Social Investment, the grants aim to sustain the provision of essential community services and boost the sustainability of grantee organisations. The grants will be accompanied by enterprising activity support delivered by GMCVO.
Apply here [17]
Have you been involved in, or are you aware of UK-based work between 2008 and 2024 that enabled those affected by the economic injustice of poverty to articulate the issues that they face and what they feel are the most important things to invest in?
GMCVO and Greater Manchester Poverty Action have been funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) to conduct an evidence review that collates and themes issues that are repeatedly deemed to be important to address.
Do you run peer support sessions? Do you have questions, such as: How do I attract attendees? What makes peer support successful? How do I prevent burn out?
Join Gaddum’s Peer Support Forum to discuss the challenges you face and share resources and tips. All sessions are online on Zoom and are free to attend.
Evening forum: Monday 8 April 2024, 6.30pm - 7.30pm
Daytime forum: Friday 19 April 2024, 12.30pm - 1.30pm
To join both, or either session, email: [email protected] [21]
This event offers a unique opportunity for the Voluntary, Community, and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector to engage with mayoral candidates as they lay out their visions, priorities and strategies for the future of Greater Manchester.
The hustings is an opportunity to hear how candidates intend to work with the VCSE sector to strengthen cross-sector partnerships and keep driving change for the people of Greater Manchester; to support this, a celebration of the achievements of the sector will take place before the candidates address attendees.
Links
[1] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/volunteer-centre-manchester/manchester-volunteer-drivers%E2%80%99-network
[2] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/event/gm-moving-tackling-inequalities-network/2024-04-22t083000-2024-04-22t123000
[3] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/category/shared-topic-areas/black-minority-and-ethnic
[4] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/job/discharge-support-assistant-manchester-care-and-repair-3
[5] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/category/shared-topic-areas/health-and-wellbeing
[6] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/training/introduction-working-business-your-vcse-organisation/2024-05-16t090000-2024-05-16t113000
[7] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/shared-topic-areas/business-citizenship
[8] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/category/shared-topic-areas/other
[9] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/news/manchester-volunteer-drivers%E2%80%99-network
[10] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/category/news-type/sector-news
[11] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/category/shared-topic-areas/volunteering
[12] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/news/gorton-sacred-heart-family-hub-funding
[13] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/category/shared-topic-areas/capacity-building
[14] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/category/shared-topic-areas/children-and-families
[15] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/shared-topic-areas/funding
[16] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/news/grant-funding-social-businesses-providing-cost-living-support
[17] https://www.gmcvo.org.uk/cost-living-support-grants
[18] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/news/call-evidence-about-priorities-people-lived-experience-poverty-uk
[19] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/shared-topic-areas/poverty
[20] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/news/peer-support-forum
[21] mailto:[email protected]
[22] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/event/vcse-greater-manchester-metro-mayor-hustings-2024/2024-04-23t093000-2024-04-23t123000
[23] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/shared-topic-areas/policy-and-influence
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