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Join the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) at the Mechanics Institute for an insightful event focused on tackling illegal money lending in Greater Manchester. This session aimed at Frontline Workers will focus on the dangers of Loan Sharks, how to identify their victims and how to protect the communities you work with from falling victim to their schemes. This in-person event will feature expert speakers and interactive workshops to help you understand the impact of illegal money lending and how to prevent it.

The event will will include input from:

Understand what data tells us about poverty in the UK, how to find this data and how to use it to build effective responses to poverty.

What you’ll learn:

Understand our social security system and the financial support available to help people find and access what they're entitled to.

What you’ll learn:

Delivered by Guide Dogs UK, this session will cover:

The impact you generate deserves to be shared. This session looks at how to do this with different audiences and use your impact to build your organisation for the future. 

This session is less suitable for those with strong marketing backgrounds.

You can expect to gain:

• Confidence to change cold data to useful information
• Insight into the array of audiences available
• Understanding the importance of tailoring your messaging