Poverty

Ann Craft Trust: Improving Support, Safeguarding, and Outcomes with Dementia Carers Count

In this free online seminar for Safeguarding Adults Week, Dementia Carers Count will share the latest findings from their 2026 survey and explore how professional curiosity can improve support and outcomes for carers.

Dementia Carers Count is a UK charity providing information, advice, and support to thousands of dementia carers every year. They provide online information, a telephone support line, and they run frequent online support groups country.

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Debt Justice activist gathering

Join the movement to fight debt and transform our global financial system.

Whether you’re a seasoned campaigner or have never taken action before, you’ll leave with new skills, more knowledge about the debt crisis and new friends to organise alongside.

A full day of talks, workshops, and inspiring speakers:

Methodist Central Hall, Central Buildings, Oldham Street, Manchester, M1 1JQ
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United Kingdom Acumen Fellowship – For ambitious social entrepreneurs and leaders scaling solutions to poverty

Acumen Academy is a community for ambitious builders grounded in moral imagination, solving problems of poverty. Acumen Academy accompany founders, CEOs and senior leaders, strengthening the hard skills required to scale solutions to poverty and the harder skills required to lead the reimagining of a better world.

Advicenow: Housing Rights for Refugees - Homelessness & Temporary Accommodation course (5 days)

Advicenow is running a free housing rights course for frontline organisations supporting people with refugee status. The course will be delivered online and is funded by The Disrupt Foundation.

The course aims to give you the basic knowledge and skills needed to deal with key issues for people experiencing homelessness and living in temporary accommodation.

The course will be delivered online. You will be required to watch short introductory videos before each interactive session.

Week 1

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Local Anti-Poverty Strategy Development

Join Resolve Poverty for a free webinar session, exploring what makes an effective anti-poverty strategy, and how localities can turn ambition into action?

Join Resolve Poverty for an upcoming webinar exploring the development of effective anti-poverty strategies, with a focus on why they matter, and how they can support meaningful action to tackle poverty.

The webinar will explore:

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Join The Making Manchester Fairer Community Forum

Would you like a role in Making Manchester Fairer? Apply to Join the Making Manchester Fairer Community Forum. Do you care about your community and want to help shape Manchester's future?

Manchester City Council re looking for new members to join the Making Manchester Fairer (MMF) Community Forum. This is an opportunity for people from all backgrounds and experiences to share their views and help influence decisions that affect Manchester residents.

More Than Advice: Why community debt advice matters more than ever

As part of Talk Money Week, and taking place a year on from the publication of the Government's Financial Inclusion Strategy, Resolve Poverty, alongside their partners from the More Than Advice programme, will explore the role and potential of community-based debt advice and why it matters within the wider financial inclusion and policy landscape.

The webinar will introduce More Than Advice and how its community-based approach is being delivered across the programme, share early learning and reflections, and create space to consider the wider implications for policy and practice.

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GM Creative Health Champions programme: Creative Health and Health Inequalities

The GM Creative Health Champions programme is a free online training offer for people working across health, social care, local government, culture, heritage, the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCFSE) sector, academia and related fields who are interested in the role of creativity in supporting health and wellbeing in Greater Manchester. It is particularly suited to those who want to influence change within their organisation, community or wider system, build their knowledge of creative health, and develop the confidence to embed creative health approaches in practice

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GM Creative Health Champions programme: Introduction to Creative Health in Greater Manchester

The GM Creative Health Champions programme is a free online training offer for people working across health, social care, local government, culture, heritage, the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCFSE) sector, academia and related fields who are interested in the role of creativity in supporting health and wellbeing in Greater Manchester. It is particularly suited to those who want to influence change within their organisation, community or wider system, build their knowledge of creative health, and develop the confidence to embed creative health approaches in practice

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