Homelessness

An all-day event at Manchester's Freight Island and the perfect opportunity to bring your team together this festive season.

Another reason businesses and teams attend is for networking; this event is a great opportunity to connect with other teams and businesses in your area and form meaningful connections.

Cracking Good Food re bringing great free food, fantastic entertainment and electric energy to spare, as they set out to make 2,000 meals for Greater Manchester's homeless communities.

Advicenow will be running a free housing/homelessness rights course for community groups supporting refugees.

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

The course will be delivered online, You will be required to watch a 30 minute introductory video before each interactive session.

Week 1

Monday 15th September 10am-12pm Housing and Benefits

Manchester Homelessness Partnership would like to invite you to attend our next open meeting. The theme is lived experiences, health and homelessness.

There will be presentations from Shelter, Shared Health Foundation and others, along with Lived Experience speakers, networking and group discussions on calls to action.

We will be learning and sharing what is working well, what needs to be improved and what are the unmet health needs for Manchester and people experiencing homelessness.

A vegan and vegetarian lunch will be provided by Cracking Good Food.

Join the University of Manchester for a GM Policy Hub seminar which will explore how Manchester can solve the housing crisis.

In England, there are 1.3 million households on social housing waiting lists, and 109,000 households – including 150,000 children – living in temporary accommodation, the highest figures since records began in 1998.

Join Citizens A

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

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: