Poverty

The Open Doors Project (free room booking)   

The Open Doors Project, established by The University of Manchester's Office for Social Responsibility in partnership with Manchester Museum, Alliance Manchester Business School and the Christabel Pankhurst Building, provides free meeting room space on the Oxford Road campus for community organisations. Bookings are available to voluntary and charity organisations, CICs and social enterprises, community groups, and residents’ associations.

Resolve Poverty – Interactive online Money Advice Referral Tool (MART)

Money Advice Referral Tool (MART) is now available as an online, interactive support finder for your borough.

If you regularly work with or support people who live in Manchester and who are struggling financially, you can use the MART to find appropriate advice and services for them. You’ll be prompted to answer just three questions before being shown tailored information on local support available.  

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Caritas Salford & Resolve Poverty: Parishes tackling poverty - hope through action

This Jubilee year do you want to become a more visible presence to help reduce poverty in your local community?

This training session will support you to understand how you can practically help people who are living in poverty in your parish.

Our Lady's RC Church, 63 Raby Street, Moss Side, Manchester, M16 7DJ
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Our Manchester Strategy 2025-35 launched

To develop the new Our Manchester strategy, Manchester City Council listened to over 10,000 voices across Manchester to shape a future we can all be proud of.

Over the next 10 years, they will be focusing on the 12 key priorities residents said mattered most – Our People, Our Neighbourhoods, Our City.

Resolve Poverty: Maximising Household Income

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

Who's it for?

Local government, public sector and VCFSE organisations looking to better understand the types of financial support available in the UK, including the social security system.

What you'll learn

Online

Resolve Poverty: Tackling Poverty With Data

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.

Who's it for?

Local government, public sector and VCFSE organisations interested in better understanding and using data which tells us how poverty affects people and communities

What you'll learn:

Online

Mission critical: The role of English regions and localities in a whole-system approach to tackling poverty

Resolve Poverty invites you to join their webinar which will launch their new research examining how English regions and localities can take a whole-system approach to reducing and preventing poverty. This research was undertaken with stakeholders across local and regional governments, thinktanks, and the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector, in partnership with the Local Authorities and the Cost of Living Emergency (LOCALE) project at the University of York.

Online
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