Do you want to help make Manchester a fairer place to live?
The Making Manchester Fairer Programme Board looking for new volunteer members to join them. To apply, you must:
This is a chance to help tackle health inequalities in the city. Health inequalities mean that some people have poorer health and shorter lives than others.
Join Resolve Poverty for a free webinar session, exploring how to use poverty data effectively to inform local anti-poverty action.
In this webinar, Resolve Poverty will explore how to use data effectively to inform local anti-poverty action. Using the latest edition of the Resolve Poverty Poverty Monitor, the webinar will explore key poverty indicators across the North West and demonstrate how data can be used to support evidence-based decision-making, policy development and service design.
Are you passionate about making Manchester fairer? Manchester City Council are looking for four Manchester residents who care about tackling poverty to help shape and support the city’s new Anti-Poverty Strategy. Successful applicants will join the Anti-Poverty Insight Group to share their views and experiences and make sure the voices of people living on low incomes are heard.
Join Resolve Poverty for a free 1 hour and 30 minutes webinar exploring how to use poverty data effectively to inform local anti-poverty action.
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:
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:
This training is ideal for professionals involved in making Section 17 referrals, working with families who need Section 17 support, or challenging refusals. It provides you with the knowledge and tools to ensure families receive the support they are entitled to, and to effectively advocate when support is inadequate. Please note, there will be only a brief overview of Section 17, so it’s best suited for those already familiar with the topic.
The session will explore:
Advicenow is running a free housing rights course on private renting for migrant communities, aimed at frontline organisations. The course will be delivered online and is funded by A B Charitable Trust.
The course will give you the basic knowledge and skills you need to deal with key housing issues faced by people from migrant communities in privately rented accommodation. It has been updated to include the key changes introduced by the Renters Rights Act, ensuring you understand the new rules around tenancies, disrepair, and evictions.
The physical effects of living in a cold, damp home are well recognised and rightly emphasised, but the mental health impacts of fuel poverty also deserve attention.
This course is designed for frontline staff who support vulnerable or low‑income individuals at risk of living in cold and damp conditions. It explores how fuel poverty can influence both physical and mental health, and how these challenges may affect the way individuals engage with the energy market.
Changing habits and behaviours can be challenging, yet the small decisions people make every day have a significant effect on their household energy use. To support households effectively, energy advisers need to feel confident in providing practical, behaviour‑focused guidance.
This course explores key theories and insights from the field of decision‑making, with a particular focus on simple, actionable techniques that can help advisers encourage households to act on the energy‑saving advice they receive.