Homelessness

Manchester Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy 2024 to 2027

Manchester’s homelessness strategy sets out how the Council and its partners will work together towards ending homelessness. The new three-year Homelessness and Rough Sleeping strategy which covers the period 2024 to 2027 sets out how the Council will work with the voluntary, community and faith sector plus schools, health services and early help services. Manchester Homelessness Patnership

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Volunteer for Good

This winter, Street Support Network are partnering with Greater Manchester Homelessness Action Network (GMHAN) to launch a campaign to educate the public and businesses about how to volunteer for goodvolunteer effectively with homelessness organisations in Greater Manchester.

Spirit of Manchester Story Week November 2023 – Coming Home Stories

Are you a Manchester voluntary, community and social enterprise sector organisation?

Would you like to share a story of your everyday activity supporting people experiencing homelessness, as part of the second 2023 Spirit of Manchester Story Week in November?

We are looking for 20 VCSE organisations to provide stories which we will share during the week of 27 November - 1 December.  

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Barnabus - Spiralling costs leading to homelessness

Macc recently managed the latest Spirit of Manchester Fund round of grants which focused on organisations that support people with the cost of living crisis. We will be sharing stories in August to show the impact of these grants and the wide range of projects that they supported. Today, we have the story from Barnabus:

Lloyd’s Bank Foundation Local collaborations programme

This programme will support collaborations led by small charities seeking to influence and achieve local or regional change around improving the social security system, improving access to a blue bag with a yellow ribbon around the top and white pound sign on the frontsuitable accommodation, and support for asylum seekers and refugees. Collaborations can apply for grants of £100,000 over two years.

Feedback on the GM Homelessness Prevention Strategy

In 2021 the Greater Manchester Homelessness Action Network (GMHAN) worked with the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) to coproduce the first ever Greater Manchester gm homless prevention strategyHomelessness Prevention Strategy. Two years on from this GMCA want to understand how well the Prevention strategy and accompanying Action Plan are being delivered across the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester.

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Northern Quarter Charitable Art Exhibition Benefiting Manchester’s Homeless

This month in Manchester’s Northern Quarter holds the first solo exhibition, THEY COME IN THREES, of Manchester based artist FNTSYWRLD. Featured at the buzzing new three floor exhibition space, Saan1, FNTSYWRLD’s artwork will take over from 17 - 31 October 2022. THEY COME IN THREES will feature ‘On The Streets – Painting for Homelessness’, a project raising money for Manchester’s most prominent homeless helpers.