By Anna Tate
The cost of living crisis is now well underway and has now impacting all communities across Greater Manchester. Unfortunately, the longer a crisis exists the more normalized it becomes. However, the recent headlines that some families have been forced to access loans to pay for baby formula and baby milk for their very young children is and continues to be shocking.
The Cost of Living Resilience Fund supports social sector organisations in areas of deprivation providing services to support people struggling with the rising cost of living. The fund aims to 
increase sustainability in these organisations by supporting them to deliver projects which build organisational stability and resilience to deliver.
As we come into colder winter months – it is important that we all do what we can to give our residents the information they need to stay warm and well. This includes messages about how to access cost of living support and find free warm welcome spaces near you.
This toolkit from Manchester City Council gives you the social media messages and assets to share across your own channels to support people in your own networks.
Affordable Food Clubs can include social supermarkets, pantries, larders, mobile community shops and other community-led initiatives which provide access to nutritious food for a fraction of what 
these items would cost in a regular supermarket.
In the latest newsletter, GM Poverty Action to share that their Money Matters programme has surpassed £200,000 in gains for local families. Debt Justice share new messaging guide, ‘How to talk 
about debt’, and reflections on Living Wage Week and its recurring themes.
This study, the fourth in the Destitution in the UK series, reveals approximately 3.8 million people experienced destitution in 2022, including around one million children. This is
almost two-and-a-half times the number of people in 2017, and nearly triple the number of children. There is an urgent need for action to tackle destitution in the UK.
In the latest newsletter GM Poverty Action share full details of their newly-launched training offer, including all their different courses and bespoke training option.
In the latest newsletter, GM Poverty Action share the impact their Money Matters programme has had in its first year, and why they are now urging for a nationwide rollout of the scheme. There is an invite to the Challenge Poverty Week event on 16 October, as we come together to identify how we can tackle poverty locally.
This winter, Manchester City Council's libraries will be free, warm, safe, comfortable and welcoming places where people can stay as long as they like and access free hot drinks, internet and 
information and advice. All Council libraries will be registered venues on the Warm Welcome Spaces Campaign's website.
Manchester Central Food Bank, a lifeline for the communities of Central, North, and East Manchester, is facing a crisis that threatens its vital services. Manchester Central Food Bank urgently 
appeal to the generous hearts of the Manchester community to rally behind them as they face the looming threat of homelessness.